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by eplanit 5y ago
I had a very wealthy 73 year-old client once -- one of the most interesting of all. He had built up a collection of businesses around the world, and at 73 was (and is still) flying around the world to make deals. He is like a savant in th
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by eplanit 5y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=white+males+root+of+all+evil
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by eplanit 5y ago
Maybe it's the result of telling 2+ generations of boys that "males", especially "white males" (predominant in Canada) are the root of all problems in society and the world, coupled with ever-present emphasis and pr
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by eplanit 5y ago
I do. I respect the guy, but this seems like a "me too" (the traditional meaning, as in someone trying to assert "Hey, I'm a player, too"). It's a worthy cause, but I think his major contribution may be his c
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by eplanit 5y ago
Race is distinct from Nationality. "Latino" is not a synonym for citizens of Latin American countries, but the name of a racial group which originated from that region of the world. It gets confusing with countries like China, Ja
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by eplanit 5y ago
Much of what you say about hormones has been considered scientific fact for a long time -- but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the facts have been banished by political correctness. Plus, Facebook is indeed a harmful product for
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by eplanit 5y ago
No, you're spot on. That's been my conclusion of the past few years, that Facebook, Twitter et al. are the tobacco companies of our time. They act very much the same as the tobacco companies did: misleading their 'customers
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by eplanit 5y ago
Well put. My only social media connection was via Twitter, which I quit a month ago. This states the motivation, and the resulting benefit, succinctly.
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by eplanit 5y ago
"The question about human overpopulation is not whether there can be overpopulation, but whether the often popular claim that the earth can not sustain the current or the projected future human population is true" So only human
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The War on Reality(tabletmag.com)
2 points by eplanit 5y ago|1 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
You make it sound like the job situation in the Netherlands is desperate. From what I can tell by searching, unemployment is only about 3%. Where's the desperation in that? Uber drivers I've talked to didn't join because th
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by eplanit 5y ago
Uber drivers I've asked have, without exception, said that they oppose these moves to make them employees. I ask almost every one whose car I get in.
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by eplanit 5y ago
The whole appeal for the drivers was "employment-like" opportunities with more freedom for themselves. This takes that away. If they wanted regular jobs they would have sought that.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Who says anything about crippling or destroying anything? One approach is to split up the company in to separate entities. Search, YouTube, advertising, technology products and OSs, etc...
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by eplanit 5y ago
To suggest that overpopulation is controversial is itself absurd, as it is fundamental to the science of biology[1]. That a species can reach numbers where their environment and habitat is depleted or otherwise unlivable is fact, not contr
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by eplanit 5y ago
"When an academic wins a Nobel prize, they have achieved a pinnacle of expertise. At which point they often start to wax philosophic, and writing op-eds. They seem to be making a bid to become an elite. Because we all respect and want
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by eplanit 5y ago
To be fair, that's the same CDC that only 5 months ago was saying getting vaccinated meant "getting back to normal" -- no masks, distancing rules, etc. Their reputation as being authoritative on this topic is understandably
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by eplanit 5y ago
A healthcare professional who may already have antibodies from prior infection, and who therefore does not need a vaccine, perhaps.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Technically, Soylent Green was made of people (the plot of the movie). The premise of it though was Soylent (Blue, Yellow,...) foods were (supposed to have been) made from vegetable and seaweed protein -- which is not so much science ficti
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by eplanit 5y ago
As a US citizen, I really wish I lived in a country with effective (i.e. actually used/enforced) antitrust laws, that would see the dominance in browsers (chrome and android), combined with dominance in search -- which promotes its ads
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by eplanit 5y ago
It'll take a couple of generations. Starting raising your kids on only Soylent Green type modern foods, and no meats; then, they'll grow up to find real meat disgusting.
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by eplanit 5y ago
The (proper) strategic idea was as a deterrent, not _wanting_ to use them in an offensive manner. The strategy was in making an attack on "us" carry the high probability of annihilation of the attacker, thereby discouraging it
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by eplanit 5y ago
I had a new A/C installed in my house a few years ago. The technician asked for the wifi password so that the A/C could connect. He was very puzzled when I laughed and told him no, the A/C has no need for the Internet. He
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by eplanit 5y ago
Yes, but then there are examples like this guy: https://www.businessinsider.com/woodworker-drivable-wooden-b... ...who I hope gets as much free time as is possible.
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by eplanit 5y ago
"I'm very worried that any government action is going to end up being something that only FB, Google, etc can do anything about." Worse is the likely objective/outcome: big tech and gov't. joining forces.
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by eplanit 5y ago
"I'm sure there are more productive or fulfilling things for people to be doing..." I love the irony that they work in "Fufillment Centers".
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by eplanit 5y ago
The article says that the LAPD is also using "Media Sonar" ( https://mediasonar.com/ ) to provide basically Minority Report style "pre-crime" data. I guess it shouldn't be surprising that LA is most
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by eplanit 5y ago
There's a difference between "country founded by", and "land occupied by". Yes, the aboriginals, like native tribes all over the world, were displaced by modernity. One can debate the good vs. bad of it all, but t
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OpenSSL 3.0 Has Been Released(openssl.org)
12 points by eplanit 5y ago|3 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
Just dried herb/flower. Yeah, concentrates would be hard for me to trust, too.

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