zarkov99

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by zarkov99 6y ago
Trust science, but, unfortunately, not scientists, many of who have shown to be just as capable of letting their biases override their reason as the rest of the unwashed masses.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
How about joining the American tribe? Wouldn't that be something?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Just being a decent human being with no agenda but trying to ask interesting questions. It is shocking how rare and precious simply being genuine is these days.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think you are being overly charitable. The NYT staff is far from unemployable elsewhere. They just made a calculus that their conscience, and the nation's soul, are not worth the loss of personal status that a departure from what use
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by zarkov99 6y ago
How can you absolve the people working there from their responsibility? They are not grasshoppers, they have, I assume, a functioning prefrontal cortex and can see the corruption as plainly as anyone else. Anyone left at the NYT is there by
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Pity party? What are you talking about? Whatever you think of Scott, what was done to him was disgraceful and an abuse of power and the vengeful hit piece is utterly dishonest. For anyone who cares, it is beyond dispute that the NYT is a
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The NYT just published a hit piece on him, exactly as he predicted. Whatever faith you might still have on the NYT is misplaced. They have become nothing but a band of vengeful, dishonest crooks, bent on secreting poison and fomenting hat
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I suggest that perhaps you just have not had as much knowledge about previous hit pieces as you had about this one. The NYT did this to Jordan Peterson and no doubt others. They are completely morally bankrupt and do not deserve anyone&#x27
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Yes, I do believe it, even the 30% of Trump loyalist, which I do not think are any less patriotic than the elite. But only if their leaders were trustworthy and frank and not patronizing, cynical assholes, transparently lying all the time.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Are you being intentionally obtuse just to get a fight going, or you really do not understand what "I truly believe most Americans would not hoard masks if they were asked to" means? In case of the later, it means that I truly bel
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Perhaps you should read what I wrote. It is not the same thing you seem to be objecting to.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Or perhaps it is your estimation that is overly pessimistic, we will never know. Either way, if you ask me, right now the country would be better off with more idealism and less cynicism from its leaders.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Exactly. It was incredibly stupid and turned what could have been a moment of realized civic spirit, as I truly believe most Americans would not hoard masks if they were asked to, into yet more evidence that institutions are rotten and cann
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by zarkov99 6y ago
This is an amazing book, the engineering, bottom-up counterpart to the equally marvelous, but top-down, mathematical SICP. Between these two a serious student can get a wonderful foundation in CS and a deep and hopefully enduring connection
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The world has lost its collective mind.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
One of us is misinformed . Parler is not around as a working social media website as of a few minutes ago.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I agree, its an open problem. One one hand no one elected these companies as arbiters of what is good but on the other society at large is not equipped to handle the tsunami of speech that the internet enabled. Something has to be done.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I am all for the free market, but when companies grow too dominant it no longer works, and we should not pretend otherwise. Just look at what happened to Parler.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think you central questions it the most important one, but the dichotomy between private and public is forced. A phone company is not forced to moderate the communication of its clients.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I take it then that you think this is nonsense: https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1354853920762253315 ?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I am sorry, can you explain again why MM's would only pull out of selling GME? Because RH only stopped people from buying GME.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
How come they only had trouble executing buy GME orders? Honestly I hope RH is burned to the ground after giving up whoever coerced them into doing this.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
You know, one day this sort of thing will happen to you or someone or something you care about, and you will instantly be enlightened on the dangers of unchecked power.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
How could that possibly work, ever? If RH can stop me from making a trade they deem bad, why don't they just trade on my behalf? This is nonsense. Any pretense of caring for their users could be faked by simply putting a banner up on
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by zarkov99 6y ago
If I had a source I would be reporting it to the SEC, the FBI and any newspaper that would print it, though of course that would likely be none. This is all speculation, obviously.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Sure. Robinhood got a call from someone very powerful in their circle, politely asking them to stop the amateur plebes from interfering with their professional market manipulation. We are taking about people commanding titanic amounts of ca
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by zarkov99 6y ago
This is unbelievable. If there ever was a time to be outraged. This is naked corruption as usual hiding under the shabbiest veil of virtue. RobinHood traders can bankrupt and kill themselves, and that is fine, we will continue prodding the
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The 100 million children alive today because of the work of the Gates foundation would not though.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I am conflicted about Zuckerberg, I think I understand where you are coming from, but Zuckerberg contributes heavily to charity and perhaps might not have realized the monster he was creating in Facebook. Similarly Dorsey. I do not get the

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