ab5tract

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by ab5tract 23d ago
What is the alternative that you are proposing? When I read something like this all that comes across is a strident desire for totalitarianism.
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by ab5tract 24d ago
What specifically does jailbreaking a Kindle get you these days? I remember the old audio player hack but once I had it unlocked the only interesting thing to do was to select my own wallpaper.
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by ab5tract 25d ago
Are you seriously wondering why a government would want to underreport unemployment? Edit: it must just be a happy coincidence that U6 has never been lower than U3.
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by ab5tract 26d ago
They use U3 because it makes them look better and since no one is using the more accurate U6, there is no pressure to stop cooking their books. Edit: only people who are homeless for less than six months would be on unemployment benefits. T
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by ab5tract 26d ago
Are you seriously implying that removing people from “unemployed” status after 4 weeks of not submitting a job application is not a deliberate gaming of the statistic in favor of having better job reports? It’s not on me to invent a new sta
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by ab5tract 26d ago
Since there are zero devices that are released that don’t indicate recording, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to outlaw modification of recording equipment to hide recording. You know, the same way we would be rightfully outraged if Apple was
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by ab5tract 29d ago
Ah yes. A great example is how much cheaper and more efficiently our military support is since we fired all the military cooks and gave all the contracts to KBR and Haliburton. People don’t work hard for crap wages unless you beat them with
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by ab5tract 29d ago
That metric is so gamed it doesn’t even make sense. If you’ve been out of work for 6 months (or is it 12) you just fall off the metric. So the entire homeless population of the US is not counted as unemployed. That’s been baked into the met
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by ab5tract 1mo ago
Respectfully, I would like to see a source or at least the math for that.
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by ab5tract 1mo ago
This is absolutely untrue. The rational actor model is no longer supported by evidence. In fact, it’s supported by no evidence.
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by ab5tract 1mo ago
Property tax revenue seem highly unlikely when the DC operators have been given enormous tax cuts.
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by ab5tract 1mo ago
You’re doing a lot of heavy lifting with this word colonist. The mass graves are either “imported criminal” (being in debt was a crime) or slave populations. And it was much more about the horrid working conditions that these forced laborer
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by ab5tract 3mo ago
And? It’s not like those of us on lifetime-prescriptions have any real choice in the matter. Oh, there’s consequences? One of those is an almost universal weight gain measured in the dozens of kilos? You want help with that? Sorry, it’s aga
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by ab5tract 3mo ago
Ah yes, because famously no one has a modem in their pants pocket these days. Internet built into a car is just another unnecessary subscription.
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by ab5tract 3mo ago
You would think that such a terrible, untenable, broken economy as I hear the Japanese economy described (oh no, it’s not growing fast! The horrors of checks notes equilibrium) would precipitate a very dirty landscape, vast swathes of nat
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by ab5tract 3mo ago
What? Noam Chomsky has been labeled a self hating anti-Semite by AIPAC. For decades.
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by ab5tract 3mo ago
And that approach famously hurt investors, the economy, and/or Amazon in what specific ways, exactly?
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by ab5tract 4mo ago
Making art for no obvious reason is the norm for making art. KLF burned down a million pounds. Has anyone else in history done anything like this? Even if so, KLF’s in rarefied company because it’s not something that happens even remotely c
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by ab5tract 4mo ago
There were so many contributing factors to those famines but my understanding is that it was far and away the broken incentives for reporting failures as successes to avoid immediate head chopping. There has yet to be an attempt at a centra
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by ab5tract 5mo ago
Which is why fining the owners of the wallets should be a huge deal: they can crash bitcoin whenever is most convenient for them. It always baffles me that people have near religious faith in a Holy Satoshi that walks away from billions of
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by ab5tract 6mo ago
In a better world, disparagement would not legally refer to the dissemination of factual accounts. In such a world it would only add to penalties for proven libel. It’s a pretty simple concept: if the truth hurts, you’ve got no one but your
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by ab5tract 6mo ago
Can you clarify what you mean? The linked website makes it seem that the majority MEPs of the supporting countries are on board. Are all of the (listed as) supporting countries currently under conservative governments?
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by ab5tract 6mo ago
Considering that Steve Jobs came with NeXT, the general consensus has been that their recovery would not have been nearly as significant. The real what-if for me is pondering what might have been had HP and other vendors not caved to the Wi
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by ab5tract 6mo ago
It may be interesting to note: according to the prices on Amazon for books that are out of print in mass market format, there is a significant demand among fans of the form factor. I used to prefer trades but have gone all in on mass market
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by ab5tract 7mo ago
The Saturn was the bestselling Sega console in the Japanese market by a wide margin, so I’m not convinced that SoJ was the party pushing for a new console.
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by ab5tract 7mo ago
Fair points and thank you for expanding.
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by ab5tract 7mo ago
To state it a different way: yes, of course and without doubt their very presence affected biodiversity. But you were talking about their practices , which tended towards custodial over exploitative. And overall these practices clearly sup
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by ab5tract 7mo ago
You said certainty but now you say probably. Which is it? I never claimed that they had no impact, but it is clear that the impact tended towards neutral to positive because: a) the forest was still there; and b) it had the higher rate of b
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by ab5tract 7mo ago
> The forest itself, paleo-scientists of all stripes say, is much more domesticated than previously thought. This implies that the biodiversity is a result of (or, at the very least, supported by) the indigenous practices, which is a far
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by ab5tract 7mo ago
Where can I read this certainty of destroyed biodiversity? That sounds like an extremely unsupported position, considering that the Amazon has the highest rates of biodiversity today. The continued belittling of indigenous forestry practice

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