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by bearl 1y ago
National television news will always be what it is. The business model is ad sales, from that all else inevitably follows. A news corporation is a corporation first and foremost. That said, there wasn’t anything anomalous about the 2020 ele
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by bearl 1y ago
If the left were really the left they wouldn’t be the left though. The NBC left is the problem, the Democracy Now left is not. The left doesn’t want Bernie, Chomsky or Amy Goodman they want The View. Turns out young men don’t want The View,
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by bearl 1y ago
But we are not limited by our biology. With tools and technology we can change our limits. From pharmaceutical tools like adderal to neurolink style brain implants to ai assistants to genetic engineering, the limitations in our cognitive ca
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by bearl 1y ago
Specifically, as well stated by [23] there is no such thing as “race.” The premise of racial group differences is not possible; we can’t have racial differences if race is not real. Sadly, a lot of people very much believe in race, especial
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by bearl 1y ago
It seems like a lot then I think about how California’s EDD department gave 50 billion to criminals in 2020/2021 and then it feels less ginormous. My answer because I don’t see it: climate change research. A billion isn’t much but if i
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by bearl 1y ago
It’s not being unaware (naive) but rather a lack of cynicism. I think that’s an important distinction to make. It takes an extra dose of intelligence to avoid cynicism when you are at that level. Cynicism isn’t wisdom, and its absence isn’t
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by bearl 1y ago
Not sure if you’re joking. The parent mentioned Clinton’s surplus so I referenced Clinton’s famous welfare queen reforms. If I wanted to attack the character of William Jefferson Clinton, I would have plenty of facts to draw from there as w
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by bearl 1y ago
The trick is, or was, demographics. The boomers outvoted other groups, because they have larger numbers. Why build housing that diminishes the boomers (ie voters) property values? Also, why limit demand for the hoarded housing by enforcing
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by bearl 1y ago
The boomers got old. They were flawed but the heavy anti-authoritarian vibe of the old left was largely carried over from the 60s. Imagine a zoomer lefty burning their covid card the way hippies burned their draft cards. Nope! The thing tha
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by bearl 1y ago
Chris Hitchens used to like to remind people that Clinton was actually a conservative whose political success was due largely to the longevity of the appeal of the “southern democrat” to certain segments of society. His granting of MFN tra
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by bearl 1y ago
And “always invert”! A related mungerism.
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by bearl 1y ago
Notice peeing. That’s my hack. It can be used as a dehydration monitor, not just frequency and volume but color especially is informative.
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by bearl 1y ago
I’ve known criminals, and a lot of people with huge debts, even known a few people who have had to declare bankruptcy. I assure you nobody is robbing or stealing or raping or killing people over medical debt. Student loans on the other hand
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by bearl 1y ago
It’s sexist too. Arguably even more sexist than racist.
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by bearl 1y ago
“With newer social services and things like the ACA, there's less reason to committ crime.” Crime was certainly never driven by the cost of private health insurance. Rather, crime is driven by things like alcohol and demographics, pol
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by bearl 1y ago
Property taxes are very high thanks to prop 13. 250k in California is like 30k in states like Texas or Illinois, enough to make it a great year but not life changing.
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by bearl 1y ago
Security experts.
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by bearl 1y ago
Directionally correct. But not better in terms of security or privacy. Life expectancy has decreased for American born persons. Housing is now impossibly unaffordable, and to find a mate you need to use tech products that increasingly only
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by bearl 1y ago
So you actually disagree, it’s not the prices, it’s the tech. I agree. The person you responded to claimed it was prices not tech.
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by bearl 1y ago
The EA folk have thought about this and the answer is that you make money with bitcoin and then give the proceeds to medicine sans frontier or some similar organization. I don’t know the best “anti-genocide” orgs, but if you can’t find one
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by bearl 1y ago
Two steps short of legal prostitution. Maybe the worst idea from the administration so far. Time to build the app…
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by bearl 1y ago
Right anti-monopolistic policy: tariffs Left anti-monopolistic policy: destroy Musk via the press/court system. It can just be an empirical question, right?
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by bearl 1y ago
This is exactly what the developers say. Low income housing, which is unaffordable even on middle class income, is only viable if heavily subsidized. So the tax payers have to pay the developer to take the guaranteed loss. And even then, 30
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by bearl 1y ago
My contention is that links to pii are themselves pii. A name, Jon Smith, is technically PII but not very specific. If I have a link to a specific Jon Smith’s facebook page or his HN profile, it’s even more personally identifiable than know
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by bearl 1y ago
Their usage.
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by bearl 1y ago
We microsleep whenever we blink. Or at least that was the old science, maybe there’s a new explanation.
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by bearl 1y ago
Internet commerce requires databases with pii that will be breached. Who is to blame for internet commerce? Our legislators. Maybe specifically we can blame Al Gore, the man who invented the internet. If we had put warning labels on the int
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by bearl 1y ago
Links to pii are by far the worst sort of pii, yes. “It’s not his actual money, it’s just his bank account and routing number.”
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by bearl 1y ago
No, the average person has no idea what “ai training” even is. Should the average person have an above average iq? Yes. Could they? No. Don’t be average yourself.
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by bearl 1y ago
Coins discourage if not undermine rule of law and weaken strong institutions. It’s the cat chasing it’s tail.

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