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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Your electronic documents have to be in your home or in your direct control to be protected. Which is funny, because paper correspondance does not have to be in your home or in your direct control to be protected.
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Doesn't seem to be the case for the POTUS
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I'm having a hard time finding the link, but there was an article posted here on HN a while back (which the author deleted because of the underhanded nature of the endeavor) about a marketer whose ad campaign for getting a government i
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I'm not sure why anyone would need to feel guilty or worry about that fact though They shouldn't feel guilty , but perhaps they should worry because of the known problems of groupthink.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I wish people would realize how much they have dodged a bullet by growing up in western nations The odds of catching a bullet are much higher in the US than China. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>what you seen to be saying is that the well-known images of rows of USA police/soldiers protecting citizens from racists is false China is of course different --apples to oranges--, but the images you mention are cherry picked. The
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Facilitating mass consumerism in the face of ecological self-destruction by manipulating billions of people's emotions and consciousness using the most powerful advertising machine in history, is a little bit like the self-destructio
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The housing market itself. All the people who lost their houses, jobs and the lost life savings and pensions which were invested in said market.
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>A guy on Wall Street didn't own the houses that were being bought, nor was he directly lending the money for them. Right, it wasn't "a guy", it was banks like Goldman Sachs. My question remains: if a pump and dump sc
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>best numbers show about 15% of prisoners are in with drug charges. That's incorrect. The source says ~16% had, as their most serious offence , a drug charge. So in reality more than 16% are serving time for drug crimes. It seems a
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Investopedia defines pump and dump as: >a scheme that attempts to boost the price of a stock through recommendations based on false, misleading or greatly exaggerated statements. Is that not exactly what the ratings agencies and co were
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
So if a pump and dump gets big enough and goes on long enough, it can't be described as such? Even though the price was artificially inflated and investors were fed false information?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>feels like the most democratic media I’ve ever seen. The Democrats thought the same thing too, before Trump won the election. Perhaps you are falling victim to a filter bubble confirmation bias? A democracy implies independent national
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The regulators were so successful that pump and dumps are largely unheard of in large-cap U.S. equities. Wasn't the 2008 stock market crash caused by the housing market being "pumped and dumped"?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>To call it 'worst' is a value judgment and not an objective statement Why does that matter here? The very laws which a large % of them broke (drug laws) are not based on objective statements.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>No IP, no new drugs Maximizing profits for shareholders is not the only motivation that we as humans have for creating life saving medicines. There are countless examples throughout history of new drugs being invented without IP laws. T
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Under hyperinflation, money no longer works. It doesn’t store value. It just stops doing the basic things people expect money to do. This is a funny way of looking at the problem because it frames money as if it were some sort of robot
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What do you mean by "absolute poverty"? While the proportion of people living in poverty may have been getting lower, the absolute number of people living in poverty has never been higher. 3 billion people live in poverty. Thi
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
He talks about it in his speeches, and it's also worth noting that his base was not only composed of black people >I remember so well when I first took a stand against the war in Vietnam. The critics took me on and they had their sa
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Central banks have their issues, to be sure, but I'm pretty sure they're better than the huge boom & bust cycles they replaced. Are you implying central banks are not cyclically prone to "booms and busts"?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Also worth noting that the US is 1 of only 2 countries in the world which allows direct advertising of drugs and also is the #1 per capita spender on drugs.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
A word cloud of the most commonly flagged/removed comments, as a way to frame the Overton Window of HN https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
That seems interesting. Such a site would be prone to fake entries/astroturfing though. I wonder how that could be avoided?
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Pharmaceuticals
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
> If humans aren't exceptional, do we acknowledge some sort of responsibility to provide for ants? Can they draw on welfare? This is a funny statement, because it is prefaced with a pretense of abandoning human exceptionalism, and t
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Power is very different from influence Influence is a function of power, it's in the very definition of the word: 1. the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality. 2. the capacity or ab
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>False fakes--and a wisely designed system would probably say "probably fake" in the first place, not outright "fake"--are less damaging than false truths overall. That depends on what your goal is: to discover ground
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Facebook has zero real power over your life >ALL THEY DO IS HOST YOUR FRIENDS' PHOTOS. These two obviously false statements completely undermine your otherwise valid point about personal responsibility.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Just because someone is wrong most of the time doesn't mean they're wrong all the time. It's ad hominem
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The answer is "not fascism." And yet they are continually giving birth to it. The clone army becomes the storm troopers of the empire. The senator of the republic becomes the emperor. Anakin becomes Vader. Luke trains Kylo. It

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