whybroke

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by whybroke 10y ago
This is completely incorrect. Every unregulated monopoly catastrophically chokes an economy over time and those that are regulated are almost as disastrous. Your own example, Bell System, is an example of an sub-optimal but obviously adequa
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>And Bitly links ain't it. And why aren't they? Too damning I presume.
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by whybroke 10y ago
>That might provoke something like the Bork Video Privacy Protection Act. Which oddly has be weakened by subsequent decisions and legislation to allow tracking of consumers while still keeping politician's records off limits to repo
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by whybroke 10y ago
One can certainly see how insincere the free speech claim really is from the light gray color of the preceding post. But perhaps criticizing someone who hounded Gawker out of existence for its expression is just too oppressive.
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The line being the answer to the questions: to what degree should you tolerate intolerance, to vote for voter intimidation, to call incitement to violence a mere difference of opinion and to be inclusive of exclusivity. And do be aware that
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by whybroke 10y ago
Because he leaves his supporters to assume his agenda is theirs by never explicitly stating it: Against backdoor crypto? so is Trump. For a backdoor crypto, so is Trump.
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Actually it explains why everyone has innate racial profiling, even members of the target group. It's also why, even if a policy against it is adopted, it is immensely hard to actually change.
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by whybroke 10y ago
When there is an emergency humans look for an explanation of the events. Even when there is no possibility of finding one, they will still choose a fictional one derived from their existing world views. Putting huge effort into explaining a
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by whybroke 10y ago
>If Peter said some of the things Trump says himself, he would no longer be part of Y Combinator. If it is only reasonable to spouse Thiel's supports Trump is in every particular. Not just the least damaging but also the most. So th
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by whybroke 10y ago
Is criticizing someone who plans to jail his political opponent also suppressing him too? Why should we suppose there is any other agenda than what he says it is? >he represents a group of people who haven't been represented for the
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by whybroke 10y ago
Strangely, you're now implying that he is trying to buy influence but figured the other party was harder to pay off. >..There seems to be a very small amount of dirt that has been dug up.. I am unfamiliar with that definition of &qu
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by whybroke 10y ago
>...Hyperbole and conspiracy aside... good luck with that.
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>The vast majority of possible careers involve moving to the city, and around every city is now a hundred-foot wall called "Cost of Living." It's impossible to over emphasize how core to the problem this is. From social mo
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by whybroke 10y ago
For that to be, Trump would have to win (or have post election influence) and Thiel would have to believe Trump's low education, semi-ludite supporters could be convinced the tech that displaced many of them is good. It's hard to
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by whybroke 10y ago
Peter Thiel is not clueless but knows exactly what he is doing. Thiel opposes democracy [1] and Trump has done an extraordinary amount to damage it. Indeed, even knowing that defeat is all but certain, he concentrates even more on doing so.
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by whybroke 10y ago
Because the greatest threat to a hegemony of the wealthy is democracy. And a candidacy that threatens opponents with prison, encourages voter intimidation, enlists foreign powers for cyberwarfare, intimates that any result will be rigged, d
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by whybroke 10y ago
Twice that rate of Germans (16%) and Americans (18%) think the Sun goes around the earth.[1] So does 9% really indicate a key culturally defining characteristic? [1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/3742/new-poll-gauges-
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by whybroke 10y ago
>It's promoting behavior that is different from real life as they stand to gain from stoking outrages and heated discussions: more active user engagement! This undoubtedly has very serious consequences beyond merely being annoying.
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by whybroke 10y ago
The Tohono O'odham people lived happily straddling the border drawn as a straight line in Washington. That is until 1980. Strange that "progress" makes a human system that worked happily for 10,000 years suddenly an unthinkab
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by whybroke 10y ago
If you do _not_ believe humans possess "identical statistical distribution of [academic performance] genes across all subpopulations" why hide such insight? It'd be interesting to hear where in the gnome the "academic pe
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by whybroke 10y ago
Ironically, yummyfajitas definition of "intinsic" to mean "not teachers, curriculum, nor facilities" would thus include life circumstance. For example, the kid's quality of life outside of school. Which is demonstra
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by whybroke 10y ago
Not only that but you will find some people in the US go though ridiculous mental gymnastics to claim that money makes no difference to education. While at the same to they put huge effort into moving into a neighbor with high spending on s
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by whybroke 10y ago
No doubt the vast majority of police departments have good intentions. But when the group protesting police malfeasance is then monitored by those same police in order to keep what those police consider to be the peace over them. And then t
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by whybroke 10y ago
There is no "p-hacking", you can see the original study here [1]. And $500 seems like allot to privileged people but even shopping at a bottom level chain such as Ross, you could get 50 pairs of pants for that price. Or a loaf of
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by whybroke 10y ago
You may as well argue Columbus out of crossing the Atlantic or the Polynesians out of crossing the Pacific. Humans will fill every island and every frozen coast. Indeed every species does this. Mammals act out of curiosity not just safety a
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Certainly considering the uncountable victims, quibbling over semantics might seem absurd. But I think it is very productive to look very closely at the exact rhetoric that caused murderous excesses of WWII with a view toward prevention. Af
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It was part of a Nazi plan called "Lebensraum" where people of the wrong ethnic group would be killed, those of slightly wrong groups would be enslaved and those of the correct group would be indoctrinated into Nazi values. All v
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by whybroke 10y ago
The line you drew is utterly arbitrary and could just as easily include sleeping with staff and justify that as great salesmanship. What about hacking a company server to put his resume on the top of the queue? Offering the data in exchange
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by whybroke 10y ago
>Do you really equate sleeping with HR to getting noticed by delivering donuts to executives? No, there is a huge difference. But why does the line lay at donuts? Who decides which rules matter? How about cash instead of donuts? How abou
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by whybroke 10y ago
Of course. After all he is seriously suggesting that: There are genes that are present in every rich person across the planet but absent in every poor one. That the human genome is so poorly understood, there's plenty room for that hid

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