jbooth

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by jbooth 9y ago
That's not facebook data, that's DNC/Obama data, accumulated over time by other canvassers including your friend. They've done that since before Facebook even existed. Facebook's product is not selling that data,
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by jbooth 9y ago
Then you're dealing with long, nested invisible type declarations.
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by jbooth 9y ago
Quotes from the man's mouth aren't good enough?
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by jbooth 9y ago
Are those links editorials? No, they're not. They're straight reporting. Are you disputing the quotations attributed to Thiel in the reporting? No, you don't seem to be. You asked for examples of toxic viewpoints held by T
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by jbooth 9y ago
There are a tiny minority of liberals who, rather than embracing breaking down barriers and a hunky-dory co-existence like the rest of us, erect barriers of purity and constantly call people out. They're annoying. On the other hand, th
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by jbooth 9y ago
They apply "MBA 101" to the system, best summarized as "extracting more money with better care as a distant second". Was chatting with the doc during our second birth, the admins had just pulled a bait and switch on the
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by jbooth 9y ago
If you want to talk about continuous, evidence-based, detailed and unsexy reform of various laws and regulations in search of efficiency, I'm all on board. We all do that at our day jobs. But none of that shit fits on a bumper sticker
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by jbooth 9y ago
'Inherently linked' is a misnomer. We're in the driver's seat here, we're not at the mercy of the weather. If we can set our trade policy, then we can set our tax policy and budget. Raise taxes on the rich (short
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by jbooth 9y ago
How's that work in practice? "Am I being detained?!" "You can't mug me, I have a right not to be mugged!" It's not a law of nature. The laws of nature are things like "the strongest take what they wa
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by jbooth 9y ago
> globalism has not worked out for substantial parts of the population in most developed countries Pardon my language, but that's crap. Every developed country has seen yuuuuge profits from globalism. What, not all of it trickled d
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by jbooth 9y ago
"This begins by having a limited gov't" No, that's oversimplistic and silly. I'm all for having leaner operations as far as that goes, but let's say there's a new law restricting people from bribing electe
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by jbooth 9y ago
It really doesn't in regards to land in modern society, though. Ownership of land is quite literally a deed on file with the government. Feudal society, maybe.
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by jbooth 9y ago
That's not how Amtrak works now, they price it the same way as airlines, last minute is more expensive. I'm in NYC and would never, ever fly to Boston or DC. For what that's worth.
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by jbooth 9y ago
It happens slowly. Typically the condo board is in charge of contracting a management company who they give the fees to in order to keep up the place. Said condo board is typically made up of retirees with the time to do it and they're
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by jbooth 9y ago
The labor camp comment was in response to someone calling quote 'china' a quote 'psychopath' while being very obviously ignorant about what it's like inside the country. So I'm gonna have to disagree if you&#x
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by jbooth 9y ago
It's a billion people and a big political system that we don't have a lot of visibility into. This whole thread is filled with simplistic, black and white dumbassery. From my limited view, there's actually been a lot of move
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by jbooth 9y ago
It's not whataboutism to point out that every great power, for thousands of years, has done that same thing. Why's it worse in this case?
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by jbooth 9y ago
It's like saying Hollande and Chirac are both part of the 5th Republic regime. Technically true but not indicative of anything and probably a red herring.
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by jbooth 9y ago
That's not what the person was saying, though. They were saying something much more simplistic. To your point, I'd say all 3 parties (D, R and CCP) have had slow and continuous ideological drift. All 3 are unrecognizable compare
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by jbooth 9y ago
Easy for you to say. Last time China had a radical change of governments there were a few speed bumps. It's not nearly as cut and dried as you'd make it. How many Chinese deaths would be justified for such a transition, in your
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by jbooth 9y ago
Yeah, those. Watch the video and tell me how bloodless it was. Or how it's not a massacre. I'm not defending a thing about Tiananmen square, I'm just marvelling at the power of nationalism to excuse anything. Bunch of snake
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by jbooth 9y ago
You ever see the shock and awe videos of Baghdad? That our government approvingly worked with cable news to make sure everyone saw it? For an operation very much not endorsed by the UN or international community? Good thing that's no
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by jbooth 9y ago
"what the market will bear" isn't necessarily appropriate for a public good, though. It might maximize ticket revenue if they priced some people out of taking the train. Doesn't maximize good for the city, or even reven
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by jbooth 9y ago
Yeah. Academia doesn't care about interesting applications, they care about novel methods. "I made a huge difference for the business by being thoughtful about feature selection and then applying a bog-standard regression method&
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by jbooth 9y ago
I'm sorry, are you saying that India should control the whole Indian ocean and the West Indies for good measure? Maybe some reservations in Arizona as well?
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by jbooth 9y ago
Specifically, what will happen is Democrats will have to clean up the mess, and the GOP and their cheerleaders will call the fix 'job killing tax hikes'. But that's later! Right now it's a red herring to call the mess a
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by jbooth 9y ago
That's all fine, but IN CONTEXT, OP is still getting robbed. They're paying higher taxes while the super-rich pay lower taxes. They could have passed a bill that eliminated those deductions and gave corresponding tax breaks to th
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by jbooth 9y ago
Do most of your coworkers self-apply the term 'leftist'? If not, why would you call them that? Seems impolite. Especially if they're actually a mix of neoliberal and libertarian technocrats. Maybe it's just zero toler
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by jbooth 9y ago
You've got some causality backwards, there. Interest rates were at basement levels before QE. QE was an inflationary measure in part intended to keep rates from going even lower into the negative. QE was a reaction and counterpressur
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by jbooth 9y ago
".. could have gotten through if they had been a bit less sloppy" .. and if my aunt had different bits she'd be my uncle. Of course a perfectly executed plot with hard-to-fake corroborating details and no holes whatsoever c

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