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Is the original article not a major journalistic misstep then? Nowhere does it clarify that this only applies to online gaming.

Yes, we have one party here. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them! - Julius Nyerere

Yeah, socialist here, and I am absolutely no fan of Obama's...

Comment there says they're only selling the "Basic" which doesn't include GPS or LORA

> Ensafi’s team found that censorship is increasing in 103 of the countries studied, including unexpected places like Norway, Japan, Italy, India, Israel and Poland. These countrie…

Livestream for Hearing on “Mainstreaming Extremism: Social Media’s Role in Radicalizing America" is still going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mstNE5KIM-g

Given that some 35% of global emissions this century have come from such unnecessary atrocities as the War on Terror[1] I am confident we have a good starting point for things to c…

There was a sea change in views on welfare in the 80s-90s[1], culminating with the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. Between means-testing, spending caps and staffing cuts, virtually all…

It's a lot more complicated than that. Many of these people are chronically underpaid, the service industry in particular. Yes, of course they like the extra unemployment money, bu…

Thanks for bringing up this book. Everyone who lives in California and thinks about nature needs to check out Tending the Wild.

Is their "slave wage labor" really any worse than being a construction worker in the US, in relative terms?

Thank you. The author really missed the big reveal at the end, I was also wondering this same thing.

Isn't spyware just a subset of malware? This is definitely spyware

Not including the "Mystic" system seems like a huge oversight. It's an analog game system that works using yes/no questions, 2D10, and a probability table. It's not too elegant, bu…

They do subject themselves to it. However, what that analysis lack is an understanding that the worker/employer power relationship is completely asymmetrical. Workers have everythi…

Americans on any problem: "You've got to vote with your wallet to change the world! That's the spirit of the free market and liberal democracy!" China votes with wallet Americans: …

> re-education camps If you're referring to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, there is a lot of outcry, but little evidence to back up statements made by Western press. Google doc amalgamat…

Isn't the core assumption of MVT that there exists a one dimensional spectrum from which to calculate a median in the first place? Voting for candidates is hardly one-dimensional; …

100 'dollars' to spend

This is what I was thinking. I know a big complaint especially of the larger US unions is that they just end up mirroring the bureaucracy & power structure of management anyway

I think it would be comparable, but not equal, to a factory walkout. Without active bug-squashing, DevOps and server maintenance, there is an increased risk of a major outage, whic…

How would you qualify US style vs non-US style unions? The prevalence of business unionism here?

A few fallacies as I see them in this article. One is that everyone, like the author, is starting from a 'clean slate'. This is an extremely privileged position. Almost no one in t…

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US equivalent is SMOG: Signal, Mirrors, Over the shoulder, Go when safe. Not sure whether it is better to signal before or after looking, but that was what my partner's driving ins…