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by dotcommand 5y ago
There has been a move toward boosting 'authoritative sources' in the tech industry the past few years. Of course after intense pressure from the 'authoritative sources' demanding preferential treatment on tech platforms.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Same here. But sadly the title would have been 'Google purchases "The Mermaid" for $X'... Given their near $2 trillion market cap, I doubt any search engine would be allowed to stay hot for too long.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Don't call it the flu. It's not the flu. The original commenter didn't call it the flu as far as I can tell. He wrote: "Is there some reason to expect that covid-19 is different in long term effects than a flu? This
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> But I'm not talking about infants. I'm talking about people in general. You specifically responded to my comment which was a response to "I think people have an instinct for enriching their genome...". INSTINCT. Som
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Everyone knew from that first cluster in Wuhan that this was much, much more dangerous. Everyone told you that. Everyone trustworthy, anyway. I hope you find the CDC to be trustworthy because the CDC says on their website that the flu
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> it's local and in-depth generic reporting that's struggling. Exactly. And what's killing it is the big news companies like the NYT since they get preferential treatment by social media and search. If you search for wildf
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> The reach is in how far you're applying it. I'm not "applying it". I'm stating what it is. > But then you can't say the natural programming is the reason. Sure you can. Because as I said, infants do it.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
2004 was 17 years ago? My god where did the time go. Someone born in 2004 will be 18 next year. So if history does repeat, home prices will keep skyrocketing for 3 more years before another economic crisis? Or will it be different this time
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by dotcommand 5y ago
All major tech companies are part of the state. Frankly, they are too important and useful not to be. More than anything, this will be used by NSO to sell more services to unsuspecting and naive governments/political actors/orgs a
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> You're reaching. Early bias exists, but that doesn't remove culture from the equation. I'm not "reaching". I didn't do the research. Scientists did. The research was on 3 month old infants. Before they are
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Has there been any research on Prions as a bio-terrorism weapon? All such research has dual military-civilian usages. Similar to how all nuclear energy research has nuclear weapons implications. All space/rocket research has icbm
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> This is not an accurate reading of history. Is there such a thing as an "accurate reading of history"? I posit it's impossible. > Turkey had, in fact, been destroyed at the end of the First World War. No. The ottoman
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> I think people have an instinct for enriching their genome, that's why we're attracted to features our own group lacks, like different skin/hair color, facial structure, etc. This is simply false. We know for a fact that
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by dotcommand 5y ago
We didn't lift anyone out of poverty. Stop with the lies. After hundreds of years of european colonization, half of africa still has no electricity. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/11/13&#x2
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Isn't this well known already? Don't small volcano eruptions create their own localized weather systems over the crater as well?
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by dotcommand 5y ago
No. We just exterminated countless indigenuous peoples/nations and stole their land. Not to mention stealing resources/capital from china, india, middle east, africa, etc plunging much of the world into unimaginable poverty from w
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> A country choosing to adopt the ways of another is only evil if it is forced upon them by outsiders. You are ignoring the fact that the ottoman empire had been invaded by european powers for hundreds of years and ultimately destroyed b
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> The money was not as important as the workers, thinkers, raw materials. Industrialization requires money ( capital ) + resources ( workers, thinkers, raw materials, etc ). Money, being half the equation, is quite important. But in actu
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by dotcommand 5y ago
What killed Usenet, IRC, etc is new technology/platforms not "irritation from a handful of people". If that was the case, facebook, reddit, twitter, etc would have died a long time ago.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
But there are no cases of a successful tech industry without government support. So we can safely say government support is key. Perhaps government support is necessary but not sufficient.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Putting in the hard (and smart) work and persevering is all you can do. I mostly agree. But if the problem is systematic ( slavery, indentured servitude, etc ), leaving or trying to change the system is probably better than putting in
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by dotcommand 5y ago
It's not odd. The journalist who wrote this piece mostly likely regurgitated misinformation/propaganda he read it elsewhere. Since you clarified the tech misinformation, I'll tackle the historical misinformation. > changin
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Softbank has served as the intermediary of a few major tech asset transfers the past decade - Sprint->TMobile, ARM->Nvidia,BD->Hyundai. Pretty impressive stuff given the geopolitical/regulatory implications. Who knew Softbank
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by dotcommand 5y ago
I'll do you one better. If you learn the history of media, then you'll realize why you see propaganda everywhere. Even more simply, one only has to ask why would anyone create a media company? Why did Trump threaten to create a me
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Whats with operating systems and religion Many daemons lurk in OSes. Sometimes religion provides the comfort and safety you need to face the horrors hiding in operating systems.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Isn't H1-B a program for foreign workers, not entrepreneurs? Everything you listed (education,salary,job location,etc) has to do with workers, not entrepreneurs.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
"And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died." - Genesis 9:29 You can argue that Noah was "grandfathered in" since he was born before the 120 year rule. But.. "And Arphaxad lived after he
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> I think it is the wood mafia trying to make a living out of enforcing city codes to use only lumber for houses. Not really. No more than the ice mafia made the inuit build igloos out of ice. People do with what they have. The eastern s
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> In German, it is called Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt which, translated word-by-word, means The small Caterpillar Never-sated. I always found that an especially cute name. So if we translated it from german directly back to english, the
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Isn't that how it's always been. People just regurgitate the media they consume. It used to be sermons at church. Then it moved to print, radio and tv. Now it expanded to the internet/social media. Whether we like it or not,

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