zeth___

7 ms·

1.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Yes, it's called voting. Unfortunately it seems that in the US the Democrats are more in the pocket of Big Data than the Republicans so it's a choice of 'do I like minorities or privacy more'.
2.
by zeth___ 8y ago
How else can any one justify working for capitalists? I enjoy destroying the environment for future generations so they don't have it too easy?
3.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Google et al can't focus on his policies because they benefit from them. Or their owners at any rate. The rich will not save us from themselves. But they will put a nice rainbow flag up with the wages they stole from us.
4.
by zeth___ 8y ago
If you think the coverage of him is bad now, wait till you see what happens when the digital monopolies are fighting for their lives. One only has to look at what the Murdoch paper monopolies did to any politician who dared stand against hi
5.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Microsoft got smacked down by the DoJ hard. Here's hoping that Trump in his second term hits the digital monopolies with the anti-trust legislation they have been flaunting for the last 10 years. Just because they are somewhat closer t
6.
by zeth___ 8y ago
This is the best example of live by the sword die by the sword [0]. Pay for play is a huge issue in journalism, that he was mocking poor white guys with an interest in gaming is very dickish. Gaming is by far the largest cultural industry [
7.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Every community I know that's been started for the goal of 'protecting' some group has ended up as the most toxic tarpit imaginable. Mastodon seems to be headed in the same direction. Tone down the rhetoric of protecting peop
8.
by zeth___ 8y ago
The down side of this is that once carbon capture becomes viable the amount of CO2 Canada and Australia want in the atmosphere are very different. Should Canada take it as a declaration of war if Australia starts a program to reduce CO2 to
9.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Right, and now compare it to the original bag. You have increased variability between generations by reducing the variability in the second generation.
10.
by zeth___ 8y ago
You misunderstand the argument. It's like having a bag 1 filled with equal quantities of capsicums, cherries, and apples, then selecting the top reddest 25% of bag 1 and moving them to bag 2. You will have much less variability of fru
11.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Science has been hijacked from the inside for a long time now. While it's better than trusting straight up corporate releases, there are thumbs on the scales that push studies to get the results those giving the funding want. Social sc
12.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Where? The only thing even remotely negative I see in the top comments is questioning why they had so many big names on the board that had nothing to do with startups, biotechnology or medicine. In hindsight it seems like a way to keep the
13.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Society is very anti-me. I just wear a suit to work and pretend to be someone else. Not terribly hard.
14.
by zeth___ 8y ago
As posts in the thread have made clear, this is a third world problem which is being exported to the rest of us. A captain for proper sanitation and waste disposal in China and Africa would greatly reduce this problem.
15.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Sure in the third world. Doing that in the first world makes about as much sense as a tax on bowel movements because people in India don't use toilets and we need to pay for the increase in communicable diseases.
16.
by zeth___ 8y ago
And America is that on the scale of a continent. At least the British left the India to the Indians when they were done stealing all that wasn't nailed down. The Americans on the other hand gave the Indians the bad parts of Idaho * . *
17.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Technically Greece and Britain are within the EU. No problems there either.
18.
by zeth___ 8y ago
>Is this "matter of fact" mindset an unique trait of European cultures? No judgement is passing here, I am only curious about the thinking and mindset. I would venture to guess that nations of other cultures in modern days prob
19.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Given that the alternative the USSR had to Stalin was Hitler it was a pretty good deal all things considered.
20.
by zeth___ 8y ago
If the last 50 years have taught us anything it's that the middle class will be pushed lower, the lower class will be pushed lower still and the upper class will take all the winnings. The economy has been a zero sum game for the major
21.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Sounds like regular college students are too expensive for the tech companies because they have a hard floor below which they will not work. Having a cursory look that is due to student loans being easier to service if you're unemploye
22.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Try: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews.compact It's a sad day when sites from 1995 are more usable than the newest 'dynamic' websites.
23.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Looking at statistics instead of stories: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IAPCPI In Iowa 2008 was the biggest drop in nominal personal income since 1955. The period 2009-2017 had the slowest nominal personal income
24.
by zeth___ 8y ago
If you follow the links on the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking
25.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Oh :(
26.
by zeth___ 8y ago
It's already been thought about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
27.
by zeth___ 8y ago
>I do have a UPS on the modems and main access point.. but after reading this post, I may invest in diesel generator and a 5,000 gallon subterranean tank. I'm not sure if that's a joke or not, mainly because after reading it I&
28.
by zeth___ 8y ago
Yes, we should punish children for the sins of their fathers. Especially the immigrants, who had nothing to do with any of it.
29.
by zeth___ 8y ago
>It's hard to educate yourself well if your family is poor, I hear. Have a look at the incomes of immigrants to the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U... The top 20: Ethnic Group
30.
by zeth___ 8y ago
That's dogwhistle for 'you're racist'.

More ›