bimr

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by bimr 7y ago
Trump is not directly enriched. The last 2 decades of war have directly enriched a connected few.
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by bimr 7y ago
You mean the Iran flare up? Modern wars are not political, they are theatre to distract from the real goal, pillaging by the crony capitalists. Just look at how many times they've tried to trick Trump into war. 1) The White Helmets fak
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by bimr 7y ago
You're right sorry for the harshness
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by bimr 7y ago
Amidst the disruption of war, a lot can be accomplished without scrutiny.
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by bimr 7y ago
It's not a matter of state. It's a market like any other. Think how common usurpation is in the financial sector -- LIBOR scandal, Bank of England audio leaks, Flash Trading Arbitrage, Goldman Sachs's ABACUS scam. Then, apply
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by bimr 7y ago
It's not for the benefit of the US
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by bimr 7y ago
See Timber Sycamore https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-coun... https://www.voanews.com/africa/somalia-readies-oil-explorati... https://www.mintpressnews.com/migrant
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by bimr 7y ago
Whenever you hear about military tensions, retrace the news in that region and you will find newly discovered oil fields or pipeline plans.
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by bimr 8y ago
On the contrary, this falls within Nassim Taleb's Minority Rule. Prions, being nearly indestructable, are an intransigent minority that will eventually hold sway over the rest of us. Many on this board point to the inelasticity of thei
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by bimr 8y ago
So, in other words, only regulate to prevent challengers. This is precisely what Facebook and the political establishment hope to achieve.
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by bimr 9y ago
Interesting how much comment hype was on these boards when everyone felt safe to jump on the Red Scare Bandwagon, but now that the story falls apart those same commenters are crickets ... I would have expected better from Hacker News. But a
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by bimr 9y ago
If T-mobile has a weakness, it is not signal strength. Coverage maps are a red herring. If you look at AT&T coverage in SoCal, you would think that they have it on lock. However in Downtown LA, AT&T is atrocious, and T-Mobile is st
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by bimr 10y ago
The original service was called Farecast before Microsoft bought them. It used to be very good, but the prediction info gradually became marginalized. We may never know the truth, but it feels as if Microsoft caved to pressure from the ai
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by bimr 10y ago
Such an apologist. NY Times sent stories to Hillary for pre-approval. I worked in journalism. In my time, this was a scarlet-letter offense. The conspirators should be black-balled from journalism.
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by bimr 10y ago
Nope, you nailed it. You've read enough of our prostitutes to correctly identify the state of US journalism. Fortunately, they should be completely ineffectual very soon thanks to efforts of my write-in presidential candidate Wik I.
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by bimr 10y ago
Although, to be fair to Richard Thaler, the article you cite itself falls prey to the 1/n "mental accounting" heuristic. It gives half of its attention to a call center replication that did support the priming effect.
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by bimr 10y ago
as @tiglionabbit mentioned, this is priming. The term should be famous now thanks to the books "Thinking Fast and Slow" and "Nudge". Also probably a dose of recency bias. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com&
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by bimr 10y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted. This is priming. The term should be famous now thanks to the books "Thinking Fast and Slow" and "Nudge" http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/ps
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by bimr 12y ago
I watched the commercial and was immediately reminded of the Led Zeppelin album cover for Presence. Time for Jimmy Page to lawyer up. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Led_Zeppelin_-...
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by bimr 13y ago
Oh. Didn't make the connection that APC was on for Codeigniter, Laravel and the other frameworks.
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by bimr 13y ago
In order to have an apples to apples comparison, wouldn't you at least need to have an opcode cache for the PHP frameworks? PHP has to live and die upon each request, but Java culls all of its classes together on the first request and from
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by bimr 14y ago
Pretty sure IE has always had a single process per browser window. At least since IE6
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by bimr 14y ago
Umm... if you are over 40 in Iran than you are either the Shah or a foreign diplomat https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
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by bimr 14y ago
Umm... the facebook post already stated that javascript analytics could only verify 20% of the traffic. They also explained that they wrote their own analytics sans javascript to verify that javascript was disabled. How did he miss that?