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by zarkov99 6y ago
By and large this country is very lucky with the billionaires it continues to produce: Bezos, Cuba, Buffet, Gates, Paul Allen, Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Musk, etc, all seem to be incredible people who are committed to do good. I think it has some
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That was a great explanation, thank you.
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Why would you think poor whites are to blame? If anything they are getting even more shafted than minorities: there is 0 sympathy if not outright hatred for poor whites, males in particular. Witness the opioid holocaust. I would instead bla
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by zarkov99 6y ago
How do you define front running?
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Forget what I find agreeable or not, that is not the point. The point is that this movie, which in all likelihood would have done quite well, was supressed from netflix for political reasons. This supression will have a huge impact on the
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Yes of course, though I wish they would stop donating completely, but that isn't how the game is played. Hopefully Google will at least contribute to both parties.
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No, no, they will keep paying, of course, but only to those in the mainstream.
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Oh yes, everything is fine, because HN is not censoring some anonymous reader. Come on. Control over information might be the defining issue of this century. The danger is real and existencial and as a society we are completely unprepared t
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by zarkov99 6y ago
To be fair, the author mocks the left as well, right after: "while to some on the Left, it’s a bastion of xenophobia and isolationism" He is obviously parodying two extremes: the right's "racism is fine" and the lef
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You know Andreessen wrote the first browser, right?
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To motivate you further, I have been doing for 30 days or so, and I love it. More energy, better workouts, deeper meditation sessions and improved mood. Hope it works for you as well.
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The Wim Hof method rests on the assumption that peaks of stress are good for you, thus we benefit from artificially generating these peaks through exposure to cold and breath holding. Anecdotally this seem to work rather well and there is g
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I don't think that is right in the short term, which is the time horizon the article discusses. Eventually, baring an actual physical resource constraint, the market will take care of it but in the short term something will have to giv
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Reproducible build environment.
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I can see the abstract logic in there, but it is a really hard to believe that could be Trump's reasoning.
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Does anyone have some honest insight on why?
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This is amazing. I did not realize there were any European bison left at all for thousands of years, where were they hiding them?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
They do not need their own innovation, that would require pesky freedoms, they can just steal it from freer societies. China has been been very good at keeping their cake and eating it for 30 years.
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What would you call the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone if not an attempt at insurrection? Come on, can we have some intellectual honesty here? Both situations sucked, the people involved sucked, their reasoning sucked and they should all go t
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Its going to get worse: https://youtu.be/-wThP4i80Tw?t=25
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Really? And who exactly is qualified to divine the faith of Zuckerberg vs that of the Parler CEO?
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Can you substantiate that a little? Parler promoted itself as a champion of free speech which is not the same as saying "little to no moderation". They did have a moderation system in place. I do not know how many users they have
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think you are mis-informed here, or perhaps your definition of hate speech is different from mine. Parler was created because there was a perception that the moderation at Twitter was heavily slanted against conservatives. Many respectabl
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The equivalence is not in the persecution but on the validity of an heuristic that that dictates you are an asshole if a powerful majority says you are.
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Unfortunately they do represent an overwhelming majority of the power in this particular domain.
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Yeah, that is a great mental heuristic: the majority is always fair and right. I am sure the Jews thought that back in 1930’s Germany. And the Christians in Rome, the Kolacks in Russia, the intellectuals in Mao's China, the wealthy
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Hindsight and all that. Parler has hosted content no worse than Twitter or Facebook or thousands of other sites. Their banning from AWS could not have been reasonably anticipated. It was an unprecedented act of censorship in response to an
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That is roughly how I use it, except is ssh'd into an Emacs session. Even though I am not a fan of MacOS, I love the M1 air. Great keyboard, always cool, battery runs for days.
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Hilarious. I guess some types of mis-information warrant corporate attention more than others.
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No, I think it was pretty much a Freudian slip. They caught themselves in the next paragraph: " This case is the result of our ongoing international efforts to detect and enforce against those who scrape Facebook users’ data"

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