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by semilattice 2y ago
I agree with that. US is becoming a culture of 'Good enough' This is very prevalent in Eastern Europe, near east, probably China and India, not sure. Certainly not Japan. Culture - is what people do when nobody is watching (or the
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by semilattice 2y ago
would also be good for scientists that report homosexuality in animals, to report if those same animals have healthy heterosexual relationships in their lifetimes.
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by semilattice 2y ago
I would have rephrased the title of the article: "US Supreme Court: Immigration to US is still a privilege, not a right. A US citizen has a right to marry a GS-13 gang member, but the right does not extend to giving him a US immigrant
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by semilattice 3y ago
US equities market for retail investors are riddled with sharks taking the retail investors money left-and-right. From high frequency traders, to the fund managers, to money managers, to Jim Cramer-style filth marketing stock picks. Hoping
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by semilattice 3y ago
The founder of Microsoft, has wealthy connected parents and grandparents. The founder of Facebook too The founder of Google grew up in Academic family. -- All of them received financial support, reducing risks loosing living expenses. Risk
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by semilattice 3y ago
There are probably 3 classes of Retail investors a)Members of political elite that get insider trading stock tips. (illegal of course). The number of folks in usa congress and senate that become 'very lucky' investors after they j
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by semilattice 3y ago
>It's a judiciary dictatorship. They're working to censor Bolsonaro friendly radio stations right now. Ever seen a democracy do that Selective outrage judiciary system is a hallmark of Tier-3 dictatorship. That means that gover
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by semilattice 3y ago
I am 100% sure that this will be reversed within 1 or 2 months, or sooner. Musk and his team are zigzagging to evaluate possible business models that make money.
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by semilattice 3y ago
>You're almost saying capitalism and efficient markets are pointless. Maybe they are, but I think it's nothing like crypto. People are saying this because, HFT sounds similar to 'crypto mining'. That's people wit
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by semilattice 3y ago
Countries that export to US [1] or to EU, and US itself will have an unreasbly (un-deservedly) high standardard of living. That will always attract both talent and con-artists to US, Canada etc. Because for the same amount of effort (or sa
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by semilattice 3y ago
> Groups of people don't have guilt or automatic responsibility, only individuals do. I think the question here is who is entitled to have the 'revenge' or the reparation or the 'affirmative action' People who we
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by semilattice 3y ago
The article is suggesting to think: 'how would organized criminal deception, selective outrage judiciary system, powered by a federal spy agency operatives actively suppressing information relevant in election -- would look?' For
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by semilattice 3y ago
There are 4 types of 'pressures' a social media platform execs are facing a) economic b) legal c) selective-outrage judicial/law enforcement d) personal bias (of the execs) In US, before Musk -- Twitter was succumbing to (c)
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by semilattice 3y ago
I believe we are increasing in the number of autoimmue disorders. Alergies is a clear sign that these are not 'hidden', 'waiting to be discovered' symptoms. My personal view is that this a combination of the following to
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by semilattice 4y ago
> Can we fix the U.S. Healthcare system? My opinion is no. I am going to say that every large 'super' institution will end up in this problem ... Unfixable. Whether it is military, judiciary or educational system -- they have t
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by semilattice 4y ago
unusualwhales could be intentionally misinterpreting the intent of the congressman. Or, they can be correct. Another site [1] explains this as a the congressman is questioning whether SEC is practicing selective-outrage, rather than the fun
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by semilattice 4y ago
> Bankman-Fried was a major donor to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election and is the primary donor to the Protect Our Future PAC, the political action committee which endorsed Democratic candidates such as Peter Welch, who this week
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by semilattice 4y ago
Lack of incentives for scientific skepticism as a normalized, institutionalized form of academic discourse -- is the problem. The are a lot of incentives to get 'published' or to get 'sponsored. And there are no incentives to
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by semilattice 5y ago
Gab supports legal speech, uncensored. Speech control (Censorship) is used to remove 'independent thinking' as a state of mind. The current view in US, Russia, UK, China, Canada, etc and most of other countries -- is that 'l
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by semilattice 5y ago
I think I am driving towards 2 keys: a) people that do live in a structured society, have to trust somebody. Because one cannot be an expert in everything. In the sea of deceit, figuring out the 'right pundits, rights representatives&
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by semilattice 5y ago
>"... Most things are pretty grey - not black & white. So there's not a clear good/bad side. Which is the reason people want personal freedoms and you could want anonymity regardless of how "good" you think y
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by semilattice 5y ago
WRT, > ".. Um, those two mindsets are not a genetic or ethnic heritage; ..." Yes, agreed. I do not know if these behaviors are completely 'learned via indoctrination', 'learned via experience', 'enable
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by semilattice 5y ago
You actually do not need go far to answer most of the questions you are thinking through. Australia (and to lesser degree Sweden ) are considered to be forerunners, the test-environments for the policies advocated by EU, Left politicians, a
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by semilattice 5y ago
>" The concept in one sentence: We overestimate the likelihood of events that are easier to recall. " Yep, very true. That's why propaganda press (whether it is for political gain, financial or legal advantage) works. W
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by semilattice 5y ago
My view is that a system of government, where material advantages are based on quality of legal representation -- is doomed to become non-representative. The case in article is just an example of it. That means, in short, wealthy (corporat
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by semilattice 5y ago
Seems like there is less and less reason for not using Erlang for distributed coordinated compute broker tasks. I have a stateless java backend servicing REST APIs. These backends are load-balanced by nginx. Now the time is approaching whe
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by semilattice 5y ago
>What will it take? An asteroid impact? I think dislodging US dollar from being 'reserve currency', and subsequently removing US (and UK) financial and judicial systems from being the 'international financial litigation an
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by semilattice 5y ago
fascinating and informative talk. highly recommend to listen if you want to learn more about Ethereum. My short summary: a) In Ethereum, smart contracts must execute calls to other contracts within a 'single transaction'. A trans
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by semilattice 5y ago
@OP, I have heard many have same feeling. Although, most think it was not over the 'past year'. It just became more visible lately, as the 'trust' in USD was overextended by a decade or two. 48K $USD for a post by an &#