jensen123

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by jensen123 10y ago
> Where's the backlash against this: https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ So, some people at the GCHQ have discussed doing these things. However, is there any evidence that the
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by jensen123 10y ago
Do you have any examples of Western governments doing this?
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by jensen123 10y ago
In the Western world, there seem to be this prevalent ideal that the people should control the government and not the other way around. If a Western government hired people to influence politics like this, wouldn't there be a backlash?
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by jensen123 10y ago
Interesting. This makes me wonder about how many blog/forum posts in the Western world that are written by PR agencies. Not working for governments, of course, but for corporations and NGOs.
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by jensen123 10y ago
Freedom is very important to me. Keeping animals locked up makes me uncomfortable. Of course, the fact that I enjoy being free, does not necessarily mean that freedom is important to animals as well. Perhaps animals are too dumb to apprecia
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by jensen123 10y ago
> Isn't it interesting that calls for animal rights are strongest among those who don't interact with any animals except pets? That's an interesting observation. My impression is that the most intelligent humans typically
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by jensen123 10y ago
> Yes, in tech it's pretty safe to take English as the lingua franca here. Another thing, that was not mentioned in the article, is that the government of Estonia seems to be doing a better job of managing the country than the gover
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by jensen123 10y ago
China did a huge study on cancer. T. Colin Campbell wrote about this in his book The China Study. It looks like the more animal protein you eat, the more likely you are to get cancer. Taking a cursory glance at the cancer rates in different
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by jensen123 10y ago
Yes, perhaps in the future, movie and computer game studios will lobby hardware manufacturers like Intel, AMD and ARM for locked-down hardware (non-free BIOS etc.) in order to protect their DRM. I think general purpose computers and enterta
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by jensen123 10y ago
Good point. I admit that I'm not very good at getting laid myself. However, if you eat healthily, you will look much better than if you eat unhealthily. We know that men are attracted to good looking women. However, women seem to be at
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by jensen123 10y ago
If you read a few books on nutrition, you will learn that refined sugar is unhealthy. This is not hard for anybody with half a brain to figure out. As for working two part-time jobs etc., many of the people doing this buy status symbols lik
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by jensen123 10y ago
The other day I went to buy some canned refried beans. When I read the label, I noticed that it contained refined sugar. WTF?!? There should be no need for sugar in refried beans! After recovering from the shock, I went to another grocery s
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by jensen123 10y ago
I'm actually not familiar with criminal background checks, but they work like this right: if you get caught for some crime, and spend time in prison, then you will have a criminal record, and be discriminated against for the rest of yo
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by jensen123 10y ago
I wonder if Universal Basic Income would also solve the copyright problem? You know, in the old analog world (with printing presses etc.), copyright worked pretty well, but in a digital world, it has many problems. Personally, I'm not
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by jensen123 10y ago
Wouldn't you be able to maintain a home in Prague PLUS another home in southern Europe somewhere for less money than it would take to maintain one home in the Bay Area? Of course, that depends on you being able to work in a location-in
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by jensen123 10y ago
I wonder if they track you? Some other companies who sell digital downloadable products insert your name, address etc. into the files somewhere. Selling downloadable digital products strikes me as a bad business model. Bad for either the co
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by jensen123 10y ago
It's seems pretty obvious to me that pigs and cows have feelings and are somewhat intelligent, so I'm reluctant to eat those. But I'm really wondering about dumb animals like chickens, fish and insects. Do they have feelings?
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by jensen123 10y ago
Instead of looking at capitalism vs. socialism, I think it would make more sense to look at free markets vs. unfree markets. Many businesses will lobby politicians for laws and regulations to protect themselves against competition, for subs
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by jensen123 10y ago
Good example of doing something well, that probably shouldn't have been done at all. This will make London a better city to live in, causing even more people to move there. This will make it even bigger than it already is. This will ma
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by jensen123 10y ago
This article basically says that having a wealthy non-working elite is bad. However, I'm not so sure. This non-working elite won't simply sit staring into a wall all day. Aren't many of them likely to get into cultural and ar
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by jensen123 10y ago
Good article. However, there is one thing that is never mentioned in the mainstream press when discussing why some countries are doing better than others: the intelligence of the populations. The average IQ in Brazil is 87, while it's
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by jensen123 10y ago
> Highest suicide rates occur during the spring, around the vernal equinox not around the darkest time of the year. If you don't take vitamin D pills or consume (lots of) cod liver oil, then your vitamin D levels will be lowest in t
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by jensen123 10y ago
> “There has been fast urbanization in India that’s brought with it a change in dietary patterns and lifestyle,” ... “It’s leading to this huge jump in cardiovascular disease.” I'm guessing that urbanization means less exercise and
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by jensen123 10y ago
> The "Guardian-reading lentil-munching sandal-wearing lefty" is a popular caricature I find some of these caricatures interesting. Like how many leftists are vegans or vegetarians, and how many libertarians are meat-lovers. Yo
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by jensen123 10y ago
> Norway before the discovery of North Sea oil was one of the poorest nations in Europe. Not really. In 1969, the GDP per capita of Norway was $9,899. Compare that to Sweden ($12,540), UK ($10,552), Ireland ($6,089), Germany ($10,440), F
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by jensen123 10y ago
I just read a science fiction book where this kind of technology was used - Proxima by Stephen Baxter. Great book!
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by jensen123 10y ago
Perhaps this depends on the speed of your brain? You know, different people score differently on IQ tests. For example, some score 140 while others score 70. I read (in the book IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen
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by jensen123 10y ago
Some of these designs look amazing. One thing is for sure, trees make cities much more pleasant wherever they are, whether along tree-lined streets, in parks or I guess on skyscrapers. Perhaps putting trees on the ground is more practical,
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by jensen123 10y ago
So the article says that there are currently about 3 trillion trees, down from about 6 trillion when humans started with agriculture, and then cites an ecologist about how insane this is. But, if you go back even further, wouldn't ther
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by jensen123 10y ago
I've seen several dating sites that give you the option to only show profiles with a picture. However, I've never seen a dating site that gives you the option of only showing profiles that contain more than say 2 sentences. I thin

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