DataWorker

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by DataWorker 6y ago
They fund the universities through debt in the form of student loans. The schools then funnel indebted graduates desperate for financial security into various industries where their human capital is securitized. You can call that laissez-fa
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Homelessness is obviously increasing though it’s difficult to measure with precision. Homelessness is worse than poverty and homeless aren’t even counted in official poverty calculations. The census can’t sample them.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Many live in daily terror of becoming homeless or worse. I feel like social isolation matters more than wealth in making people feel secure. Many homeless people had money, good jobs, education, but most lacked community. Some say they find
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Your point is that everyone who buys or sells assets is implicitly amoral? That seems a bit extreme though you are not the first to say it. One wonders how you can escape such condemnation yourself. Everything is a marketplace in some sense
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Anybody that doesn’t know the code their device is running is a fool to trust it by default. Even knowing the code well, devices are compromised all the time. Yours seems like the lone sane opinion here.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Packs behave as packs.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Nobody else said Wikipedia or yahoo finance, so I will.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Like stocks, you can buy ideas “low” and sell them “high.” Some ideas are cyclical too, AI, mainframes/cloud, etc... And this extends beyond tech for instance “equity” is currently hot but that may be short lived which is unfortunate.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
False flag down votes are real too.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
“ At least it goes back into the economy. ” Actually no, at least 40 billion went to a Nigerian scammer group. That’s a national security issue and overrides concerns about charity and equity. It’s an existential threat.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
“carbon-taxation bloc” This will be labeled imperialism with shades of white supremacy.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Billions in unemployment fraud last year means billions in government services that will not b we going to help people that really desperately need help.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Reddit is a net negative for the internet. Facebook isn’t wonderful but at least it’s better for society, and less dishonest to its users than Reddit.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Or it could make them less cautious about taking on large debt.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Aaron Schwartz comes to mind. Move beyond anecdotes. There are libraries full of books on this very subject, the experiences of all the people you know not withstanding. Consider there once were witch trials, not so long ago.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Education isn’t an answer. It’s good and we should as a society optimize for it, but it’s vastly overrated. There will always be cognitive differentials. Educated people are easily duped by uneducated conmen and putting people in a classroo
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Masks yes. Or “travel bans don’t work.” The official response from the ministry of truth appears to depend on who it is that institutes them. If it’s a president that happens to increase WHO funding, as Biden has, there’s not much of any di
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Yes, I was banned “for spreading disinformation”from a popular online forum for suggesting mask wearing could be helpful. The authorities at the time were fighting “disinformation” that masks work. A few weeks later I’m sure the same mods w
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Tina. Real estate, bonds, cash. Buying companies while state run capitalism in the east cold wars against American mega corporations like apple, with a neoliberal pro-trade administration, it should be easy to see why equities are a popular
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by DataWorker 6y ago
And if that stops being true, it probably won’t happen suddenly. Sp500 with a trailing stop seems like easy mode, until ww3 or some other sudden drop but there are circuit breakers for that. What could do more damage than global sars pandem
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by DataWorker 6y ago
And trying to stop bad stock tips on the internet is the ultimate fools errand.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
I think it is but help me understand the counter argument. Why and how would they lie about the death toll?
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by DataWorker 6y ago
I hope you never experience America’s “due process.” You thinking highlights your own inexperience. The system idd as heavily flawed and often makes mistakes. Many convictions are eventually thrown out. And that’s the very imperfect justice
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by DataWorker 6y ago
I’m more interested in why. Internet vigilantism isn’t a surprise, but when it’s done to defend the establishment against populism it seems wholly unprecedented.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
This is simply false reporting. The play had a everything to do with Ryan Cohen. Arstechnica is long since being credible. They’re owned by conde naste and it shows.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
When someone tells you not to believe what you read on the internet, on the internet.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
I’d argue that we are the polluters and we are the people who pay the medical costs. It’s up to us. And lobbying for more regulation is mostly cope; feels good but at most achieves maybe second order effects. The frog boil continues.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Legal precedent is a hell of a drug.
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by DataWorker 6y ago
Game theory comes into play. If we have to compete with China then we can predict both nations copy each other. State level intervention in corporations, censorship in the name of public safety, maybe even re-education camps if some of the
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Yellen warns of crypto currency for terrorism(fortune.com)
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