librvf

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by librvf 9y ago
> And that history and that present reality means that many things are not just abstract propositions but are direct threats. Historical context alone does not make a direct threat. A direct threat is a direct threat, and right now bei
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by librvf 9y ago
We're discussing the situation in present-day tech culture, mostly with regards to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area as compared to China.
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by librvf 9y ago
> You're leaving out the part where A whips up a real mob and lynches somebody. Yeah because that hasn't happened, and if it did would be met with universal condemnation and be up against full weight of law enforcement and the
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by librvf 9y ago
Well, is twitter actually the problem, though? Twitter's biases are a problem, but that's a separate issue. Twitter can't be expected to prevent all forms of propaganda from its users, and even if they could the problem is
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by librvf 9y ago
You might agree, but you're both completely wrong. As James Damore proved, the exchange goes like this: A: Statistically speaking, there are some genetic explanations for trends we see between men and women. B: That is a s
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by librvf 9y ago
> I keep hearing that from people saying things like... Are you actually hearing that, or are you reading someone else's disingenuous over-simplified interpretation of what someone else said? Maybe just doing the incorrect readin
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by librvf 9y ago
That period did not last. Yes, if you try hard enough and look narrowly enough you can find exceptions to any of these rules, but it holds as a general guideline. If hyperinflation had continued indefinitely, it's probable some other
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by librvf 9y ago
Missed it. In my mind I think I lumped it in with divisibility, which is related but not quite the same thing.
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by librvf 9y ago
I predict the price will continue to rise on average for the next 1-5 years, although it might start slowing. At some point between 10 and 25 years, Bitcoin will experience a major crash. Whether it stabilizes into some sort of useful med
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by librvf 9y ago
Barter is, by definition, an exchange of goods without using money. In other words if you have to barter to get rid of it, it's not currency.
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by librvf 9y ago
When it hits all of: Acceptability Durability Divisibility Stability Portability (Elasticity) If you can't spend it easily, it's not a (functioning) currency. If it spoils or decays within your lifet
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by librvf 9y ago
It's still far too volatile to be a reasonable currency.
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by librvf 9y ago
> Sadly, in the real world most silicon for users will be busy rendering a cat trying to fit into a box and then falling over Better than ideological proselytizing and political propaganda.
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by librvf 9y ago
> Wow, so you are complaining about, and asking questions to the author of, an article based purely on your perception of its title? He's talking about The Guardian and how he doesn't read it anymore. He didn't attribute
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by librvf 9y ago
> I sometimes feel like there isn't much alternative to The Guardian I stopped reading The Guardian years ago. A little part of me dies inside every time I see some piece of completely off-topic Guardian propaganda make the front p
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by librvf 9y ago
I doubt they're manipulating this sort of thing. But, when you're engineering search results to manipulate public perception, you don't just obliterate all of the undesirable content with hamfisted obviousness. You just weig
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by librvf 9y ago
The problem is that people at level 1 are currency for the people who disagree at level 5. High-level partisans on both sides rely on propaganda and rhetoric to sway the lowest common denominator for support. Most of those people are not
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by librvf 9y ago
This is not the right way to look at the issue. If the low-level data itself can not be made any more convincing, the only real option is to ignore staunch deniers. The right way to look at this, given the way it has been politicized, is
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by librvf 9y ago
I don't mind die-hard liberals who are actually open-minded believers in individual rights and equality. The whole white, het, cisgender stuff is coming from intersectional feminism, which is anything but a liberal philosophy.
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by librvf 10y ago
> fervently hoping that he won't be true to his campaign proposals. Which ones? The only serious one I oppose is aggressive rounding up of illegals. Others I oppose are relatively minor, compared to my opposition to the massively c
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by librvf 10y ago
> And each Trump supporter, no matter what their ideology is, believes that they are the special snowflake who knows what Trump really believes in his heart of hearts. Well I think he is less likely to start a war with Russia. I base th
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by librvf 10y ago
> The problem I have engaging with your argument is that I cannot crawl inside your head to discover what your perceptions of Donald Trump are, and those appear to be the only terms on which you're comfortable discussing Donald Trum
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by librvf 10y ago
> I always find it laughable (in a very sad way) when people support a political candidate based on the active belief that they won't actually do what they say. I always find it laughable (in a very sad way) when people forget that
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by librvf 10y ago
> I am exhausted by all of the requests Well get un-exhausted and stop pretending not to understand negotiation techniques (this community is primarily about start-ups, is it not?). Trump is a negotiator. He has been a negotiator his wh
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by librvf 10y ago
> You realize that a US President merely hinting that we won't defend our NATO allies is a direct path to World War III? You realize that any attempt to implement Hillary's proposed no-fly zone in Syria would require the US to
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by librvf 10y ago
> Russia will reclaim the Baltic states There is no point to wild speculation about Russia invading the Baltic states at some future date when the possibility of war with Russia exists RIGHT NOW over Syria and the allegations of cyberwar
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by librvf 10y ago
Response to Sam Altman's post: A Trump presidency would be a disaster for the American economy. He has no real plan to restore economic growth. The truth is that no one knows for sure what will be best for the American economy for t
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by librvf 10y ago
> You don't need a generation to study basic income. Yes, you do. BI will change mating patterns and child-rearing patterns and the consequences of those changes will not show up for a generation or two.
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by librvf 10y ago
Well, it's "not the normal scientific method." Although it's arguably a part of it. My objection may have been a bit strenuous, as the key word here is "pilot study." This is a pre-study study. Their only &
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by librvf 10y ago
It seems to me that a limited, 5-year Basic Income experiment is fundamentally flawed and will, at best, fail to predict anything important about what system-wide BI would have on society and at worst will be disastrously misleading and hav

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