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by zarkov99 6y ago
You are exactly right but in a way the election is as good as an outcome as one could hope. Regardless of his policies and how slandered he was, Trump was way too divisive and ego-centric for the country. It is a good thing he is going away
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Chrichton has Neanderthals as the monsters Beowulf fights. Cool movie as well.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Yes they have. But can you blame them? The media, academia, scientists, WHO, CDC, the government, all lied purposefully and continuously during the pandemic. Social media is infused top to bottom with disinformation from all sorts of nefari
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Everything, of course, starting with the assumptions. The alternative is war and ultimately subjugation of one of the parties.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Did not realize I was being controversial, it was just a random personal insight. Fewer crowds, fewer diseases. Of course its obvious but one thing is to read it in a book and the other is to live it.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Perhaps keeping humans in packed conditions should also be reevaluated. My whole family hasn't had as much as a cold since the lockdown began. Many others seem to be experiencing the same benefits.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
How did you get your impression of what the US is?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Not every problem can be solved by the free market. You need to be driven by something more than greed to become the eyes and ears of the nation.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
There is a market, but probably not as good as the market for selling influence and peddling outrage.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
sqlite is a wonderful, amazing, file manipulation API. If single-threaded file manipulation is what you need, its great. But is not an application backend in the way PG can be.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I have looked, many times, and I have not been able to find a single institution I would trust to keep me broadly informed. I do not think the problem is lazyness. What would you recommend for US coverage?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I agree there is a huge opportunity for a trusted institution to do journalism. But who would anyone trust? The incentives in the media point towards pandering and outraging. Left to the shareholders a news organization is mandated to maxim
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by zarkov99 6y ago
It won't work, we will simply just have a collection of disparate, narrowly focused and financially limited sources, from which anyone can draw to reinforce whatever view of the world they already have. You need an instution with the r
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The vast majority of rules are implicit and to make them explicit you have to put in place the machinery of the law or something like it. This CoC nonsense is a childish and incompetent attempt at solving a complex problem which arguably is
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by zarkov99 6y ago
It's worse than that, these are deeply authoritarian and self-righteous mediocrities, only tangentially invested in a field where they would be rightfully irrelevant otherwise. What other kind of person would want to be part of such a
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The difference is while few people would claim social media companies are in any way a credible source of truth, there is still a residual notion that the main stream media's role is to be the eyes and ears of society, a role that it o
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Its not the need for advertising. Its the unreasonable effectivness and devastating side-effects of the attention sequestration techniques developed in the last 10 years. Its not only that years of our of lives are being directly stollen by
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by zarkov99 6y ago
All robust HFT shops? What do you mean by robust and how did you come to that (to me) surprising conclusion?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The F1 comparison is not bad, but its not great either. F1's tech innovations are much more publicly visible (HFT shops are extremely secretive) and F1 has the added benefit of providing entertainment value to millions.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
That is not un an entirely unfair characterization. However in my mind HFT practicioners are model citizens when compared to so many of the bright young minds working in the worlds largest tech companies. HFT is a neutral force in the world
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I am surprised by this article. Obviously laptops are vastly inferior as desktop machines. The trouble now is that laptops are becoming crap as laptops as well. The thermals on my new XPS 15 are garbage and looking around there doesn't
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Bluetooth sucks for keyboards. Logitech has a proprietary wireless standard for their high end wireless keyboards and the difference is massive.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Maybe that makes a little sense for live media. Maybe. But you cannot tell me the nyt or wpost do not have the resources for thoughtful editorialization.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
All right, but these are intelligent adults, not children, why wouldn’t they see the exact issues you mention? Isn’t it a more natural explanation that they of course see it, but believe their misinformation is justified because Trump in th
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by zarkov99 6y ago
That is interesting. You do not think the people at CNN, NYT, WPro and Foxnews are aware of their biases? It seems so hard to believe.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Really? Even if you do not accept his intelectual firepower which is demonstrated by his credentials and even more so, obvious in any of the public long form conversations he has had, you cannot honestly say he is not a contrarian or a pa
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by zarkov99 6y ago
On the contrary, Weinsten is a genius, a contrarian and a patriot who is not afraid to call a spade a spade. Thank the deity that there are still people like that and they can reach the rest of us with little mediation by establishment type
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I keep reading this complaint and I do not understand it at all. For me Lex's delivery is refreshing. He is sincere, naive, full of wonder and never interjects himself as a subject. His obvious decency is for sure part of the reason he
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I am not sure admiting that there is a bias would make any difference. Its plain to see. I think the fundamental problem is that the bias is the main thing now. It trumps everything, including decency, respect for your fellow citizen or the
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The fact that something cannot be done perfectly is not a valid excuse to do it poolry.

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