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by eiaoa 8y ago
> If you're going to comment on an inflammatory topic like this, do so with respect for the opposing point of view. If you can't muster any such respect, and only want to smite enemies So you're saying we should respect th
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Has anyone had any issue with "Sold By X, Fulfilled By Amazon"? That usually works well for me. That's actually the worst, since that opens you up to getting counterfeit items from reputable sellers, due to Amazon's
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by eiaoa 8y ago
Or, a government could just say... Why not both? I'm serious. It seems like a good idea to promote competition and put a ceiling on the prices of essential medicines based on the global market. 10% above the lowest price may be a
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Please don't Godwin already-flameprone threads. That's trolling, whether you intended to or not. If you weren't aware: Godwin has repealed "Godwin's law": https://www.washingtonpost.com/pos
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by eiaoa 8y ago
Exactly my point. Science wasn't neutral in WWII, and it's not neutral now. If von Braun hadn't been part of their regime, they may not have had V-weapons. If Hitler hadn't been such an anti-Semite, Jewish scientists
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Do you equate the Chinese to nazis? No, I emphatically do not. That's the most false and inflammatory misreading of my comment possible. The Chinese people are not villains, full stop. The point I was making is that political
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by eiaoa 8y ago
Only one of those links was about Muslims. One was about the terrible conditions in labor camps that even Han Chinese are sent to, and another was about the jailing of human rights and defense lawyers for doing their jobs. I don't car
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by eiaoa 8y ago
They are harbingers of the computing apocalypse and have shown that progress is a lie. By 2050 we'll be forced to use monitors with the aspect ratio of swords, because the manufactures are going to need to find another ratio to sensel
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> This is fantastic news. Science will eventually benefit all of mankind even if the benefits are initially felt closer to where they're conducted. > I welcome increased science funding regardless of who is doing it Would you say
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by eiaoa 8y ago
My main problem with 16:9 is how obscenely long they are. I use my monitors to do work, not watch movies, so I have a lot more need for vertical real-estate. Tilting them on their side doesn't help, because they're far too narrow
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Maybe engaging China is the first step to them opening up their society? Similar to the arguments against the Cuban embargo. No. Them "engaging China" will not open up Chinese society, because Google will have to implement t
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by eiaoa 8y ago
This needs "(2014)" added to the title. This appears to be a repost of the famous Facebook study that manipulated people's news feeds: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06&#x2F
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> You realize that automated credit scores are a thing in the US right? China is taking the concept a step further, but it's not unique to them That's a disingenuous and misleading comparison. Your American credit score isn&#x
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> That’s the gp’s point I think, the U.K. doesn’t have the the same separation of powers between government branches as the US. With some minor exceptions, Parliament is the whole enchilada. An example of this is that, until recently, th
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Not all social media bots are malicious. And not all social media bots are posting content from low credibility sources. The collateral damage from banning them all may be worth it, if they're a major means for pushing low credibi
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I'm trying to manufacture a theory that better fits all the facts. Intimidation is a simple theory, and acceptable as a fallback, but if that's all that was going on, then it raises some questions. You definitely seem like yo
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Wouldn't that be like a new zealander visiting the LA and doing something the Bloods don't like, and so the bloods barge into his hotel room on the night before he returns to new zealand and says "hey is anybody else her
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> It seems more like they were looking for a specific person, instead of trying to intimidate directly. That idea doesn't make any sense. They didn't search other rooms, and this person was a journalist that was covering a sto
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Plenty of countries get around this with independent but government funded media Yeah, that's kinda what I was getting at. I don't recall the conversation advancing in that direction very often. > The only problem I'
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Soviets tended to play up the bad points in their propaganda, so it would likely be pushing images and videos of people suffering with AIDS Soviets tended to play up the bad points in their propaganda, so it would likely be pushing ima
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> News organisations like the music industry before them need to realize that a huge part of what people used to pay them for was the reliable distribution of their product. This and the markup on it was where they made their profits and
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I seriously don't think they care if we use Baidu or not. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the party would PREFER that we NOT use Baidu. If the world used Baidu, it would be a propaganda coup for the CCP. They'd have
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Advertising is different from Javascript. Advertising can simply be a load of images that are easy to render, as in traditional periodicals. Web pages suck because it's easier for a site to instruct the client to download and run
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Yes, I use aggregators so I don't fall victim (as easily) to echochambers of my own design. All sources are biased, but at least you can hopefully get some idea of the truth by reading differently biased sources. I'm not sure
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Local and major news sites alike, are cesspoools of intrusive advertising and tracking. They’re so poorly built, with so much advertising, that they hardly even function any longer. But that's an effect , though maybe one that wi
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> There are plenty of holes to poke in his arguments, so have at it. 1. You're not going to truly release the social value of a monopoly unless you socialize it, either through social control or regulation. Without that, the monopo
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> In a world where users desire a "long tail" of brands, corporations continue to consolidate but simply invest in a wider variety of brand names and marketing for them. There's still synergy to be gained from a consolidat
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I don't think it's hard to explain: it's the cities' equivalent to cartelization. It's no wonder why two competing firms would like to prevent each other from lowering prices, and they often lobby for laws to d
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by eiaoa 8y ago
>> but I'm confused about what part of what they did was actually illegal? Didn't just gullible people on GoFundMe fall for a fake sap story? > Yes, but there are laws that make various forms of such behavior criminal, su
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Someone that does not want to be tracked by facial or gait recognition, either because he's a criminal or a political activist, will always be able to do that. There might be a race between the recognition software and the circumv

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