StopTheWorld

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by StopTheWorld 7mo ago
In July 1992 five MoD members were charged with hacking, and they were basically defunct as an active hacking group after that. LoD was mostly defunct even before that, although the movie used the Mentor's manifesto. New York LoD mem
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by StopTheWorld 7mo ago
The writer of Hackers, Rafael Moreu, went to New York 2600 meetings and talked to various members of MoD (a hacker group which had a book written about them by a local New York reporter, Joshua Quittner, who later worked for Wired and then
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by StopTheWorld 1y ago
Should point out this is not the first time the BLS came under serious fire, politically. When the Republicans regained control of the Senate in 1995, they set up a commission (Boskin commission) that said inflation had been overstated, an
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by StopTheWorld 1y ago
In 2015, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was won by Tu Youyou. During the Vietnamese resistance war, Vietnamese moving down the Ho Chi Minh rail were contracting malaria in the jungle. The Chinese were asked for aid, and Tu Youyou was tasked w
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by StopTheWorld 1y ago
Can't forget his appearance at the beginning of the classic hacker movie, WarGames.
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by StopTheWorld 1y ago
> flipping quantum coins...Newsflash: neurons and digital computers both have to play by the universe's stubbornly deterministic rules I don't really understand what this means - you obviously know at the smallest level things
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by StopTheWorld 2y ago
> Hunter gatherer tribes Hunter gatherer bands. There's no evidence of any tribes 20,000 years ago. > Unless you are arguing semantics, yes there were. Tribes and tribal violence. There is no evidence of any tribes existing 47,0
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by StopTheWorld 2y ago
> What kind of world do you live in that has denied you access to evidence of early human existence? I didn't say humans didn't exist 20,000 years ago, I said there was no tribal violence. There's no evidence the Jaburara
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by StopTheWorld 2y ago
Professor Michael Rosenfeld at Stanford does research on how heterosexual couples in the US meet ( https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/ ). In 1940, over 50% met via friends or family. About 36% met at school. In 2021,
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by StopTheWorld 2y ago
> What about simple tribal violence? Is there any evidence of any tribes whatsoever existing over 20,000 years ago? All the evidence points against it. There was no tribal violence 47,000 years ago because there were no tribes!
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by StopTheWorld 2y ago
That is a statistic on one chart on that. For only those who are 65 and up, total spending of the top 1% drops to 17%. In the charts posted, from the ages of 19 to 44, the amount spent on women is much larger than on men (not sure why - o
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by StopTheWorld 2y ago
I worked with a guy who went to a public university - not a top 25 public university but in the ballpark. He was hard-working, smart and "got it", but he wasn't at the level of some super-geniuses I met coming out of school.
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by StopTheWorld 2y ago
There is a push, which has been around for decades, to measure how effective teaching is for a school system taking in taxpayer dollars. This is measured via standardized tests. The tests are generally passed via testing and repetition.
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by StopTheWorld 2y ago
Madoff took in other people's money. The Medallion Fund stopped taking new outside money in 1993, and in 2005 it got rid of all outside money. The people making (or potentially losing) money are the people making the trades.
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by StopTheWorld 2y ago
Right. The current world population growth rate is about where it was at the time of World War II, and that growth rate was the highest it had been in about 8000 years. The baby boom in the 1950s and 1960s was a world-wide phenomena, and
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by StopTheWorld 2y ago
> population doomerism In 1927 world population was 2 billion - now, less than a century later it is 8 billion. In the 1960s world population grew by 2.1%. For most of history until about 1700 or so that rate was about 0.04%. The world
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
Didn't expect to learn about Sahlins posthumous book via HN's front page. Stone-Age Economics and The Original Affluent Society (the title a pun on a book well-known by 1960s intelligentsia, Galbraith's "The Affluent S
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
Reading this article and other things, I don't see it declining so much. It was the most downloaded app worldwide in 2023 and had the largest consumer spending in 2023 ( https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10&#x2F
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
I demand to know why "Men are going to brutal boot camps to reclaim their masculinity" was removed from the front page!</s>
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
> "Believe that people can change the world", or caring for and investing in employees... Can you point to any industry that was sustainably disrupted by a company following such a mindset? The company with the largest market c
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
From my knowledge of and participation in hacker spaces - I would say this is it. My understanding is hackerspaces like the L0pht were not paying exorbitant real estate prices, and had a core of founders making decent enough money to pay f
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy gave a speech 13 years ago saying Kashmir was never an integral part of India, and New Delhi just announced she is going to be prosecuted for her speech https://www.straitstimes.com/asia&#x2
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
I just listened to the beginning of one of these books. The book text starts out "I." as in, roman numeral for chapter 1. The audio book read this as "eye" (or "I", but not 1). Then the third sentence in the t
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
> Rule 7: Don’t use leverage. > Using margin accounts or mortgages (for other than your home) puts you at risk to lose more than your original investment. As this says, margin accounts used in a certain way can put you at risk to lose
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
> Dawn of everything ... one specific (anarchist) viewpoint in his work Anarchism means without a ruler, and there is scarce if any evidence that migratory hunter-gather bands at the dawn of history had rulers in one class expropriating
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
> You'd have to uproot how the western world works to get us back to how we evolved to be healthy and survive on this planet. To take it literally, it is impossible for eight billion humans (current world population estimate) to liv
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
I'll ask ChatGPT 4 Q: 'Does the idea that "given that all decisions are a form of action, and that votes, when made conscientiously, represent our values, then every choice is a reaffirmation of our values" sound nothing
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
Congratulations, another member of the professional-managerial class has rediscovered existentialism.
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
> If stock market always goes up in the long run The DJIA was 381.17 on September 3rd, 1929. It then went down and did not return to that level until over 25 years later - November 23rd, 1954. Factoring in inflation it would be losing
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by StopTheWorld 3y ago
Bart Ehrman has written a number of good books on the history of Christianity. Max Weber's book on Protestantism is good.

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