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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Since Fox News started fact-checking Trump, Trump's followers have stopped treating Fox News as a reliable source and are voting with their feet towards OANN another very far right sources. They're clinging to lies (politely: disi
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Cryptocurrency is the ponzi scheme for tech people. Because the cryptocurrency ecosystem does not do investment -- likely in very large part because no one can buy anything legal with cryptocurrency -- returns for coiners who cash out must,
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
By the beginning of January, the termination of pandemic-related economic supports is expected to put 19 million Americans at risk of homelessness, and make 11% of the US population unable to afford to put food on the table. The longer-term
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
You're shifting the goal posts from the question of a campaign conspiracy (coordination) to a broader question of inappropriate connections between Trump and Russia. Further, the purpose of the Mueller report was not to investigate any
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
The role of fact checking is not to strive for partisan balance but rather to identify public comments that are untrue. American conservatives would fall afoul of fact checking far less frequently if the conservative worldview wasn't w
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
What do you do when the Republican fact checker repeats what the leader of his party tells him to say even though it is fact-free? A majority of Republicans believe Trump won the election (!) because that's what Trump is saying. There
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
This is inaccurate. Go read the report, or at the very least read the Wikipedia summary. The conclusion was that a conspiracy between Trumpworld and the Russian government could not be proved because the potential suspects on the US side hi
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
There is very little evidence that fact checking actually works to reduce the impacts of disinformation. See e.g. this study of the impact of Twitter warnings on belief in disonformation: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
News media. See e.g.: https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/news-media/r... for more information.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
What sort of 'proposal' do you suggest to deter unethical business practices and encourage the prosecution of white collar crime under existing laws? The problem with white collar crime isn't a lack of ideas, it's a lack
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
I don't see it as unjustified to point out that the primary risk actors in China's threat model will be the American armed forces and/or three letter agencies.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Quoting from your downstream posts for which HN is blocking replies: > The job is in fact risky, which is why the profession is so highly regarded. Police work doesn't even break the top ten most dangerous careers in the US. Landsca
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
This post is advertising (spam) and contains no technical details.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Why would you assume the uplink isn't authenticated and/or encrypted, given that the downlink data has very little value but interfering with the uplink could disable the probe? Spacecraft are power and compute limited. It's
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
What was your reason for posting this? Risk factors are about probabilities, not certainties. Anyone who has even rudimentary exposure to statistics will understand this. One single heartwarming anecdote does not invalidate the fact that th
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
This explanation just reworks the question into one of why western interest rates are so low. Western central banks can't raise interest rates above the lower bound without triggering unacceptable unemployment or even deflation. Indeed
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
> Why can't America build anymore? Is this a cultural problem, or a failure of public policy? America can't build anymore because America's executives have chosen to steal every piece of wealth they can take without leavin
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
We're on different sides of the disinformation control debate but I completely agree with your take on the toxicity of HN. This place is much worse than most of non-ideological Reddit. Serious discussion of matters at the intersectio
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Suppose, hypothetically, that someone with malicious intent installed an advertising billboard, next to your home, that falsely accused you of having committed a horrific crime. Suppose, further, that you lost your job and your family becau
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Why do you believe the right of bad-faith actors to load disinformation into the minds of the gullible is more important than the right of uninvolved third parties to live? It's one thing to spread disinformation that leads people to h
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Bitcoin does not scale as a medium of exchange. It has a hard transaction limit of 7 transactions per second. In contrast, the VISA network alone can process at least 47,000 tps. The entire Bitcoin system would be hard pressed to serve the
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
> I think it’s really a middle ground. Yes, a large majority of the wealthy people did get there by working hard, and being disciplined with money. That depends on how you define 'wealthy.' There is a vast gulf between the kind
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
> Growth in inequality correlates very nicely with expansion of the money supply. This gets complicated. The money supply has to expand to keep up with growth; getting the flexibility to do this is the reason why the world abandoned the
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Part of the point the author makes is that the tech sector--as a cluster of monopolies with disproportionate socioeconomic power--is part of the economic problem. Like it or not, the tech sector does not operate in a vacuum. What the tech s
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Twitter marking tweets containing disinformation does not reduce its impact(washingtonpost.com)
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
> Man, this thread really bringing out the worst of Hackernews and its so disappointing but unfortunately not surprising to see the complete lack of capacity for empathy from some of the other heavily downvoted commenters. That's an
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Ocean freight has far lower emissions per tonne/km than road, rail, or air transport[0]. [0] https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/specific-...
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Yes, of course. If one side wants to behead a scientist for talking about reality and the other side thinks the same scientist should guide policy, we should carefully listen to both sides, and then compromise by cutting the scientist'
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Given the proliferation of lower-performing SMR drives, effective HDD prices have actually gone up rather than down. We're forced to pay the same price for grossly inferior products.
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by bleepblorp 6y ago
Another way to describe the difference between Germany and India is that's the difference between a rich society and a poor society that has (a few) rich people in it. This distinction also correlates with multiple factors of collectiv

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