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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>drug: a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Perhaps it is superstition, perhaps not, but I try to avoid TV dinners or meals which involve microwaving plastics.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts. The book is a historical analysis of the culmination of zen buddhism from its roots in hindu, buddhist, and toaist philosophies. Watts presents a perspective on how to approach your everyday life (relationships
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The nature of human relationships has indeed changed though. We now have virtual omnipresence and omniscience.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Why do you assume that if we did away with advertising supported content that every website would be locked behind a paywall?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>did not change them in any substantial way. They did, however, make many things cheaper, faster, easier, more accessible and more affordable. These last 2 sentences seem contradictory. While they may not have created the exploitation of
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>If you regulate away advertising supported sites/services, you're discriminating against lower socioeconomic groups. It seems to be the opposite to me. Such massive influence by advertisers means only those with the most money
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>We know that Russia and China will continue to use paid trolls to drive wedge issues right to the heart of the culture warriors. US based corporations are definitely guilty of astroturfing as well.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>it's bizarre to me to see them take positions that don't even appear to be logically consistent. Ever consider that maybe they are more beholden to those who give them money than those who give them votes?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>its ultimately up to you to decide what you do with your time and money and if you cannot do this yourself, then you need to seek help. It seems like you implying people are 100% free agents independent of external influences and subcon
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and e
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Watching missiles fly down air vents, pretty unbelievable. But couldn't we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people? Know what I mean? Fly over Ethiopia, "There's a guy that needs a banana!" S
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Are those who exploit an addiction for profit complicit in that addiction? When it comes to drug law, precedent would show that they are far more culpable than the user/addict.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>A break-up would be highly disruptive and slow down innovation. Innovation is not a panacea, especially when it's primary goal is to sell you advertising.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
You might also find the work of Marshall McLuhan to be interesting: >Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as an infantile piece of science fiction. And as our
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It seems whales, dolphins, and octopuses are among the most intelligent sea creatures, from what I've seen.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>you aren't dealing with economic issues such as inflation. For example, read about Mansa Musa, who gave away so much gold in his pilgrimage to Mecca in the 1300s that he caused devaluation of money This is why a UBI should be resou
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Why do we want or even trust government to decide for us that a company is too big and needs to be smaller or that a company should conducts it business in the way that the government wants it to. As long as a company isn't somehow
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I don’t understand why the media obsess that much about who spreads which propaganda where. Maybe because they're part of the problem?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Yes, they have a history or doing it at home, too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What about Gobekli Tepe indicates otherwise? It is supposed that it was constructed by hunter-gatherers, which typically worshipped the animals they hunted as idols. Such animals have been found engraved into the ruins.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>There is definitely no afterlife For the sake of argument, how do you definitely know this?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It's funny how the people of Russia and the US are framed as being such great enemies when in reality many of the rulers of both countries have more common interests with each other than they do with the citizens of their own nations.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The author implicitly advocates censorship ("curb online harassment or hate speech") and then transitions into speaking about inherent bias in data sets and algos, but does not mention the risk of bias in censorship algos. Reminds
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Ask HN: What would you do with the data sets of Google, FB, et al?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>con-men like this guy that are so far off the scale it is hard to identify with them as human We should be very careful when labeling humans as subhuman. Not only is it a psychoanalytical cop out but it is the age old excuse for some of
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand how the PODS would keep your data from becoming centralized. If you allow a service to read data from your PODS, they could simply save it in their own database.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>in order for this service to be profitable, they need to train model to extract the part of your conversation that hints a shopping intention So basically just listen for any time someone says a variant of "I need/want x"
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
> I'd love to see examples of these 'bots' and paid trolls that everyone is so privy to... Here is a study with some examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_soc
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
-Astroturfing can be done for free via botnet using other peoples machines -If the truth dominates in the climate change debate, why is it still being debated while the problem continues to get worse? -It remains that the majority of people

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