gds44

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by gds44 2y ago
Whats really interesting about our timeline is when you look at the history of market capture in Big Oil, Telco, Pharma, Real Estate, Banks, Tobacco etc all the lobbying, bribing, competition killing used to be done behind the scenes within
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by gds44 2y ago
In the defense of the people, there has been an explosion of useless information. Just look at the number of settings on an Android phone or Chrome browser or in your Google account. Human Brains dont grow at the same rate year on year.
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A New Jersey couple survived the Alaskan wilderness on a homestead(bbc.com)
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British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M deepfake scam victim(cnn.com)
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by gds44 2y ago
Yet their own people are quiting over their claims - https://grist.org/accountability/microsoft-employees-spent-y...
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by gds44 2y ago
Its more that the army, navy airforce world over all are heavy oil guzzlers. Its not going to simple if its a long war.
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by gds44 2y ago
Agree. Difference being the amount of stuff competing for kids Attention has exponentially increased. Attention Theft is a phrase I read on HN a while back. Felt like a good description of the main dynamic in the Attention Economy.
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Singapore sees a doubling in Covid cases week on week(channelnewsasia.com)
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by gds44 2y ago
Well US is not dependent on anyone for her Energy needs. Unlike China. Its quite vulnerable on that front if a few pipelines blow up ala nord stream. This is also why the US has such a large presence in the middle east.
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US coffee consumption hits 20-year high(perfectdailygrind.com)
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Sony results show 12M copies of Helldivers 2 sold and 20.8M PS 5 units in FY23(gameworldobserver.com)
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by gds44 2y ago
I dont know if they teach the Theory of Bounded Rationality anymore but it helped me when I was younger and got thrown into similar complex no win situations. The tendency is to think ALL complex problems can be solved if I just have the ri
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by gds44 2y ago
There is an alternate option which is stop putting everything online and using the cloud. The benefits have been greatly oversold by BigTech multimillion $$$ sales teams. They are lots of stories of bribery involving these contracts.
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How Lightning illuminated Indonesia's Ruang volcano(reuters.com)
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Paris unveils water storage basin to clean up Seine River ahead of Olympics(smartwatermagazine.com)
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by gds44 2y ago
Once upon a time I used to live in libraries to make any kind of progress on certain problems. Then Google arrived and my library visits reduced drastically. Yet libraries still stand. And I still head there whenever I need some peace and