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Here's what your "democratically-legitimized PhD filled institutions" have cleverly orchestrated.

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/03/fed-announces-program...

I'll take the disinterested algorithm please.

Exactly. Once the occupying force was removed from those countries the underlying ethnic conflict resumed openly. Similar things will happen elsewhere as US military power wanes.

Yes, and that claim is wrong. Germany has had 50,000 US troops stationed in it for 75 years and the most rebellious thing they've done is politely ask for their gold back (US said no). No need to subvert a country you already have firm control over.

Wow, published in 1909. Amazing how old (and wrong) this "economic mutually assured destruction" argument is.

I think it's popular today as a distraction from the fact that the American Empire is really held together by military occupations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America etc. and not economic ties. Obviously "we just want to make you rich" is much nicer sounding than "we will bomb you if you resist US hegemony".

Interesting. The McDonald's thing is sort of like saying that no two Soviet Socialist Republics have ever gone to war. It just means they aren't really sovereign independent countries acting on their own behalf.

It absolutely would be a betrayal of the people you'd be giving up on to not do everything we can to help them while we still can. You can advocate for or against taking strong action but you can't tell people you're allowing to die to not be upset about it.

Why not? It's just giving some context to people who may think .2% is a "low" mortality rate.

Thanks for the age specific number. That shows my point even more.

For comparison, the death rate across all age groups of flu is 0.1%. Extrapolating out, a failure to contain the virus will still mean tens of thousands of young healthy people dying in every country. That's why governments are finally admitting "Herd Immunity/Flatten the Curve" without total containment is not an option.

Google, Microsoft, Apple and even Firefox have an incentive to reduce competition by making the web as complex as possible. If the web is to be free, it must be radically simplified. To call that a lost cause is just a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I think his point is that if people set the objectives, the AI will learn what people like, and that is going to be discriminatory in some way.

See the reply by masonic. The article makes no mention of this being different other than the added protection for the officers, but like I said the tone is clearly attempting to give that impression without actually saying it.

I'm really tired of being called a fascist for wanting to live in a country with boarders.

You certainly didn't misapprehend the narrative this article is trying to push. I don't think immigration enforcement should stop as a result of the pandemic, if anything we should be even more determined to discourage illegal entry.

That's the point. The people making the above arguments are unsympathetic racists. The fact that a subset happen to be members of the group they attack is quite odd but still just as wrong as others making those arguments.

That article says 50,000 accounts were "linked to Russia". Do you know who linked them to Russia and by what criteria? They weren't actually controlled by the Russian government because the article cites that figure at only 3,000.

The hysteria over Russia as an excuse to ignore the concerns of Americans who support populist positions is pretty transparent at this point.

By unambiguously taking this side of a highly partisan political issue, I fear TBL has lost a lot of credibility in the eyes of many of the people he needs to fix the actual problems that have befallen the web.

It depends on what you're doing. Low level stuff pretty much has to be C. But for applications I agree there are much better alternatives these days.

It's hard for me to imagine New York City being so safe and relaxed about security that no one had a problem letting any old dude with a camera into underground construction sites to take pictures.

Your alternative sounds an awful lot like what has been done in china by other means.

A prty that anyone with any views can join isn't a real party, and having two of them doesn't help.

I think a lot of non-technical business people and journos didn't fully understand that the Bitcoin blockchain is more than just a Merkel tree, and so have started using "blockchain" to mean a bare MT, despite the fact that the blockchain in Bitcoin is only meaningful because of how it's computed.

So maybe proof of work can be replaced, but without some consensus protocol it's not a blockchain in any meaningful sense.

My theory is that the nerds on here who spend too much time in the financial fun house become imbibed with the ethos of it. It's really a sad end to a lot of idealistic young hackers who give up on changing the world in order to defend their fancy new stock portfolios. The joke is ultimately on them however, as everyone who trusts wall street eventually gets taken to the cleaners.

We have all been told to accept a lower standard of living because of climate change. Deniers are just ordinary people who noticed that people telling us this most loudly have abjectly refused to accept a lower standard of living themselves. Many even fly to climate conventions on private jets. So the idea that it's all fake is a much simpler and more compelling reason to ordinary people than "the sky really is falling and you need to learn to like eating bugs".

Large portions of the US populations arguably already live in shantytowns; run down inner cities inhabited by great migration blacks, sprawling exurbs in the south and south west inhabited by recent hispanic immigrants, many illegal, and trailer parks in the rust belt where white factory workers layed off by globalization are dying from opioids.

Its only in a few well insulated big cities that the true effects of globalization are kept far enough away to not be immediately obvious.