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by _siis 3y ago
I read the article, and while it touches on a common issue, I don't think it goes far enough. When looking at these problematic incentives that are mentioned, notably the author doesn't really address the incentives like for examp
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by _siis 3y ago
As in what happened with Ajit Pai, Corporate Sponsors, and the FCC/Net Neutrality?
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by _siis 3y ago
In other words, its malign influence and deceit intended for some outcome or goal.
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by _siis 3y ago
Its because politician's have allowed the methods for receiving signals from the people they're supposed to be representating to be jammed. Look at social media, if there's a narrative that's unflattering someone will cr
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by _siis 3y ago
Ask yourself what happens when people with guns go up against people without guns. Its pretty clear, if you are in the latter group and you are confronting the former, you are choosing to die, and you are failing your ancestors and descenda
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by _siis 3y ago
Unfortunately, until congress passes legislation requiring companies that operate as a place of public discourse to follow certain conventions this will keep happening because technically they own you (or rather they own the words that you
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by _siis 3y ago
Kelnos, there are a few things you seem to not understand about these things in general. Fundamental things. I've heard your point before, many years ago with regard to Blu-ray protections. From a security/threat perspective, that
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by _siis 3y ago
Its immoral and horrific. My grandpa's wife (remarried) passed not too long ago. She passed because they kept juggling her back and forth between skilled nursing, hospital, and hospice. She couldn't speak or communicate effectivel
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by _siis 3y ago
Of course they are, all the money the boomers were planning to leave to their kids are now going to pay for quality not quantity of life in the remaining time they have.
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by _siis 3y ago
I never said fiat, I said usury (interest), and that goes on any underlying asset. I see where this is going though. Its not a new idea, it runs very close to similar lines of thought put forth by the authoritarian socialists. It all sounds
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by _siis 3y ago
While nothing is without risks, generally speaking investing in private business that produce actual goods where the supply chain is stable, or real estate so long as it continues to enjoy its advantageous tax loopholes. Those are the only
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by _siis 3y ago
> Have other people observed the sentiment the author observes around hackers being less common? I've seen it as well. I don't agree with what the author says are reasons for it. They just don't fit. From what I've se
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by _siis 3y ago
There's some interesting reading about how the taxes should and should not work in the 5th book of the Wealth of Nations. Most copies only include the first 4 volumes. While its not complete, you are somewhat limited in what you can do
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by _siis 3y ago
> Human language always drifts in terms of word definition. While that is true of general day-to-day speech or vernacular (vocal), that fails with regards to anything that is reasonably technical, or written, and making a comparison betw
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by _siis 3y ago
While I agree with some of what you say, with respect, that latter part I think you've fallen into a flawed association trap through the use of corrupted language. Anyone that's educated in this area knows just because someone say
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by _siis 3y ago
I deploy VOIP solutions professionally as a System Admin/Engineer, I happen to see all the problems that you haven't yet noticed. Reliability wise, I'm talking about messaging improperly handling timestamps, not sending messa
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by _siis 3y ago
They aren't there yet though. Reminds me of the 2001 movie 'conspiracy' with how that all played out. First you follow the vision, then when its untenable, and left you in a inescapable position, you redefine words and talk a
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by _siis 3y ago
While an interesting read, there were a few problems I had with it. Specifically, it appears they didn't really do any research into what caused the Penn Railroad collapse, which was not caused by high interest rates but instead by a c
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by _siis 3y ago
People haven't done it recently because it simply doesn't work for many of the same reasons that nonmarket socialism doesn't work. You inevitably have people with notions that everyone should work as hard as they can and only
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by _siis 3y ago
Well, almost all fathers mean well and by that point I mean, you can mean well, and still have poor outcomes (i.e. be bad at parenting). Mine certainly did, but he still ended up using the money set aside for my college education to buy a P
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by _siis 3y ago
If you know anyone that's worked in the industry, you know there have been issues well before 2014. Since the company merged with its competitor they had a complete management shift which incentivizes many of the failures we've se
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by _siis 3y ago
Its David Graeber, and the book is good. I had similar epiphany's with The Wealth of Nations, and Wealth and Poverty of Nations. These things should be taught in public education but aren't, likely because of ideological indoctrin
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by _siis 3y ago
I agree they are too old. Unfortunately the boomer generation has and will likely hold onto their political power until their dying gasp as old age takes them. Normally you would have a generational transition of power about every 20 years.
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by _siis 3y ago
Mostly Economics Recommendations here. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations by Landes are both pivotal works related to economics. The first book describes the fundamental underpinnings of the requireme
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by _siis 3y ago
This is such an amazingly shortsighted, naive, and flawed way of thinking I'm having a really hard time not sniping. A large number of people are very concerned about this, and rightfully so because so many people don't get the ri
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by _siis 3y ago
This seems like your going down the rabbit hole into an area where only the bigs can compete, its also a fools errand in my opinion. There's a growing sentiment that the stock market is rigged, and I've seen several instances wher
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by _siis 3y ago
For those who are always paywalled by Wired even though you never read their articles. https://archive.ph/W3pwu
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by _siis 3y ago
If you are paywalled, try here https://archive.ph/X3Zf3
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by _siis 3y ago
Honestly, the entire isekai genre shows a disturbing trend towards fatalism. The fact that no matter how hard you work, or how good you are, you have to die or go to another world before you'll see anything you might want to do because
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by _siis 3y ago
Bloomberg thinks if your attention is divided enough, and if they can cause enough disunity, they can continue business as usual. Food security is at the top of a short list on what causes unrest, historically speaking. Its beyond being jus

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