Heraclitusstudent

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Where is the tea party when you need it?
by Heraclitusstudent on 28 Sep 2017   1 comment, latest 7 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0
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The solution to Global Warming
by Heraclitusstudent on 15 Sep 2017   7 comments, latest 7 years ago
The deniers would have us believe that addressing global warming is incredibly costly and would destroy our economy. But the exact opposite is true: It is easy and simple. We ...
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Face ID
by Heraclitusstudent on 12 Sep 2017   4 comments, latest 7 years ago
Because... your finger prints information aren't enough, the NSA needs to be able to recognize you automatically from a picture. Total surveillance demands it. https://www.theverge.com/2017/
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When exactly did things go to shit?
by Heraclitusstudent on 5 Sep 2017   5 comments, latest 7 years ago
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Economic progaganda
by Heraclitusstudent on 7 Aug 2017   1 comment, latest 7 years ago
They tell you no wage growth because no productivity growth... http://www.marketwatch.com/sto The reality:
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Kiss South Asia good bye....
by Heraclitusstudent on 3 Aug 2017   3 comments, latest 7 years ago
http://advances.sciencemag.org The risk associated with any climate change impact reflects intensity of natural hazard and level of human vulnerability. Previous work has shown that a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C ...
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Pay more, die younger....
by Heraclitusstudent on 2 Aug 2017   6 comments, latest 7 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/grap Typically, the more a developed country spends on health care, the longer its people live. The U.S., which spends the most on health care, bucks that trend. Compared ...
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Silicon Valley is a den of lies and crushed dreams
by Heraclitusstudent on 27 Jul 2017   3 comments, latest 5 years ago
http://nypost.com/2017/07/26/s Their code is broken. Silicon Valley has hit a rough patch. Data released Wednesday by job site Glassdoor finds that software-related job growth in the San Jose area ...
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Facebook, as a propaganda machine.
by Heraclitusstudent on 27 Jul 2017   7 comments, latest 7 years ago
- Propaganda is normally understood as a mass media thing: TV or radio for example. But here we have a media that addresses each person individually and that uses ...
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Protectionism => higher prices, but if you really want inflation...
by Heraclitusstudent on 24 Jul 2017   10 comments, latest 7 years ago
Hear them complain that inflation is too low and requires a lot of asset pumping measures. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0 While at the same time they keep warning you that protectionism would ...
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NSA's use of 'traffic shaping' allows unrestrained spying on Americans
by Heraclitusstudent on 22 Jun 2017   2 comments, latest 7 years ago
It's for your own good: http://www.zdnet.com/article/l
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Wage growth vs Housing prices growth
by Heraclitusstudent on 22 Jun 2017   8 comments, latest 7 years ago
Built on preventing access: https://www.bloomberg.com/news
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AI will create jobs and efficiencies?
by Heraclitusstudent on 15 Jun 2017   13 comments, latest 7 years ago
http://www.techrepublic.com/ar " New research from IDC, released by Salesforce, claims that artificial intelligence (AI) will create 823,734 jobs by the year 2021, surpassing the number of jobs lost to ...
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Are we speciating into Eloi and Morlocks?
by Heraclitusstudent on 13 Jun 2017   4 comments, latest 7 years ago
https://www.yahoo.com/news/job Social cohesion is under threat as medium-skilled jobs disappear in favour of better paid jobs requiring high qualifications and low-paid, unskilled work, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...
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CA and South Bay Area are losing jobs
by Heraclitusstudent on 24 May 2017   Posted 7 years ago
With such a great economy, one wonders why. http://www.mercurynews.com/201
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the 'Vanlifers': a generation of young Australians who have been priced out and live in vans
by Heraclitusstudent on 22 May 2017   23 comments, latest 7 years ago
Some nice women in those vans... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new
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Trump Voter Feels Betrayed By President After Reading 800 Pages Of Queer Feminist Theory
by Heraclitusstudent on 3 May 2017   1 comment, latest 7 years ago
www.youtube.com/embed/iqW7lhRx
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Nostradamus predicted Trump
by Heraclitusstudent on 17 Feb 2017   Posted 7 years ago
- Trump The great shameless, audacious bawler, He will be elected governor of the army: The boldness of his contention, The bridge broken, the city faint from fear. - ...
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That time a Russian leader had a US president elected
by Heraclitusstudent on 17 Feb 2017   3 comments, latest 7 years ago
Khrushchev tipped the election in favor of Kennedy in 1960... https://www.washingtonpost.com "Noting that the two candidates were at a "stalemate," Khrushchev recalled saying that if Powers or the other ...
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Why Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing
by Heraclitusstudent on 13 Feb 2017   16 comments, latest 7 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0 Cheaper home prices could add as much as $1.5 trillion a year to US economy. This may disregard some side effects (on consumption and banking), but this highlights ...
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Idiocracy: Researchers say Western IQs dropped 14 points over last century
by Heraclitusstudent on 7 Feb 2017   51 comments, latest 3 years ago
https://www.yahoo.com/news/blo "So why has there been such a steady drop? As UPI notes, previous research studies have found that women of higher intelligence tend to have fewer children on ...
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Davos Chief Heeds Trump Win With Pledge to Tackle Silent Fear
by Heraclitusstudent on 15 Jan 2017   1 comment, latest 7 years ago
Schwab says the WEF’s annual meeting, where companies host lavish parties awash in champagne and rare vintage wines, attendees pay $50,000, and thousands of soldiers and police stand guard, ...
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Obama relaxes limits on sharing surveillance data
by Heraclitusstudent on 12 Jan 2017   4 comments, latest 7 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0 "In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the governmentâ€Ȓ 16 other intelligence ...
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Russia Has Compromising Personal and Financial Information About Trump
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Jan 2017   7 comments, latest 7 years ago
the dossier “includes specific, unverified and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives, and graphic claims of sexual acts documented by the Russians.” It states ...
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How Republics End
by Heraclitusstudent on 22 Dec 2016   Posted 7 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12 "So what’s driving this story? " How about both parties pushing more or less the same policies that hurt the lower half of the country and destroy the ...
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Homeless man, 26, survives by picking up different women every night
by Heraclitusstudent on 16 Dec 2016   9 comments, latest 7 years ago
Apparently men can do it too: http://forum.mmajunkie.com/for JOE is homeless on the streets of New York — yet his hair is neat, his beard clipped and his clothes clean ...
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Liberals' failure to talk honestly about Islam is responsible for the rise of Tr
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Dec 2016   7 comments, latest 7 years ago
www.youtube.com/embed/AC5dDfX3 An other angle on the illiberal left.
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A Bigger Economic Pie, but a Smaller Slice for Half of the U.S.
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Dec 2016   8 comments, latest 7 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12 Maybe Trump wasn't elected because of feminists and video games after all.
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The amazing cluelessness of the elite about tribalism
by Heraclitusstudent on 15 Nov 2016   12 comments, latest 7 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11 "President Obama, in some of his strongest language since Donald J. Trump’s election last week, on Tuesday warned against the rise of nationalistic tribalism" “I do believe, separate ...
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For Le Pen, the Impossible Now Seems Possible
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Nov 2016   2 comments, latest 7 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11 The historian Pierre Rosanvallon regrets that “many genuine democrats hate populism but fail to understand its deep roots.” It is not enough to protest the consequences of populism, ...
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You Deserve a Trump Presidency
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Nov 2016   Posted 8 years ago
Good rant. https://medium.com/@FedericoPi
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Establishment republicans have learned nothing
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Nov 2016   1 comment, latest 8 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11 WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans, stunned by their own good, if complicated, fortune, said on Wednesday that they would move quickly next year on an agenda that merges with ...
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Congress
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 Nov 2016   5 comments, latest 8 years ago
Ok, what now? Beyond the immediate concern of what Trump actually intends to do vs what he said he would do (a real question), there stands congress in the ...
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New Macbook pros...
by Heraclitusstudent on 27 Oct 2016   30 comments, latest 8 years ago
Meeehhh.... - Ok so Apple finally moved from 4th gen Intel core proc to 6th gen.... except Dell and HP are busy selling 7th gen computers. It may be ...
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California needs a new City
by Heraclitusstudent on 25 Oct 2016   4 comments, latest 8 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/interac "California will have to build about 3.5 million homes over the next eight years, more than triple its current pace of construction, simply to keep up with expected ...
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NAC collapsing today
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Oct 2016   2 comments, latest 8 years ago
Is this the perspective of higher rates? or a hotter economy? Yellen dreaming about keeping rates low for a while: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/
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Katla will blow...
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Oct 2016   1 comment, latest 8 years ago
http://icelandreview.com/news/ Mrdalsjkull glacier, South Iceland, where Katla volcano is located. Several smaller tremors have followed. Yesterday, October 5, at 8:22 am, an earthquake of magnitude 3.8 hit the northern ...
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You're Not as Rich as You Think
by Heraclitusstudent on 22 Sep 2016   Posted 8 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/view Satyajit Das is a former banker, whom Bloomberg named one of the world's 50 most influential financial figures in 2014. His latest book is "A Banquet of Consequences" ...
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There are 4 candidates
by Heraclitusstudent on 15 Sep 2016   6 comments, latest 8 years ago
... but 2 of them can't seriously be considered. So we might as well talk like it's a binary choice. #lickmyclit
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The latest 911 conspiracy theory
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Sep 2016   237 comments, latest a year ago
Since our official conspiracy theorist is no longer posting, I thought I'd fill-in for a day. :-) Interestingly the latest theory comes from the European physicists community (generally unaccustomed ...
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