The last line of the article says, "The ultimate concern is a panopticon of a single federal database with everything that the government knows about every single person in this country,” Venzke says. “What we are…
Thanks for mentioning your site and have you seen http://scaleofuniverse.com/ ? I sometimes use that site as a lecture tool when a larger context of time and space is useful.
This is one reason it is not included. Cue up the John Taylor Gatto reading list.
Yes, deliberate abuse of the laws would be the main problem and nobody could be trusted to run such a lucrative fine program. It would just be another excuse to treat people like piggy banks and to rob them as often as…
Confirms what I expected - not new in the world, but new to many/most people.
There is definitely memory, but HN also has new members. If repeat topics move up to a top location, this probably reflects the number of people who hadn't yet seen the topic. "Not new, but new to you."
It would be good to have pesticide and hazardous chemical amounts per serving listed along with the other ingredients. What an eye opener that would be. I wonder what it would take to accomplish this given that…
All is not lost, the story of Gravity Payments is an unfolding example and experiment of a company owner, Dan Price, taking positive actions for employees including large wage increases.…
Iceland successfully identified, prosecuted, and jailed specific bankers for their roles during the 2008 financial crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-31/welcome-t... and this article mentions "market…
Great habit. Trash picking is excellent because people throw out such great stuff. Perfect working condition, sometimes perfect condition period, sometimes just good for materials. One such Mr. trash picking is shown…
Yes, the problem of killing innocents via flawed algorithm is noted in this article https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...
The Retraction Watch website http://retractionwatch.com/ is one good method of highlighting retracted work. For researchers in any given field, keeping current on literature is hard work given the pace of publication…
In addition to the other comments, what interested me about the findings mentioned in the 2016 quantamag article was the shared problem solving required to answer Joe Corbo's sense that there was a pattern to be found…
Thanks for posting this article and it is indeed disturbing. It looks like there is just an insane amount of mind scrambling content that nobody should let themselves or their children experience. Given the Medium…
The last line of the article says, "The ultimate concern is a panopticon of a single federal database with everything that the government knows about every single person in this country,” Venzke says. “What we are…
Thanks for mentioning your site and have you seen http://scaleofuniverse.com/ ? I sometimes use that site as a lecture tool when a larger context of time and space is useful.
This is one reason it is not included. Cue up the John Taylor Gatto reading list.
Yes, deliberate abuse of the laws would be the main problem and nobody could be trusted to run such a lucrative fine program. It would just be another excuse to treat people like piggy banks and to rob them as often as…
Confirms what I expected - not new in the world, but new to many/most people.
There is definitely memory, but HN also has new members. If repeat topics move up to a top location, this probably reflects the number of people who hadn't yet seen the topic. "Not new, but new to you."
It would be good to have pesticide and hazardous chemical amounts per serving listed along with the other ingredients. What an eye opener that would be. I wonder what it would take to accomplish this given that…
All is not lost, the story of Gravity Payments is an unfolding example and experiment of a company owner, Dan Price, taking positive actions for employees including large wage increases.…
Iceland successfully identified, prosecuted, and jailed specific bankers for their roles during the 2008 financial crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-31/welcome-t... and this article mentions "market…
Great habit. Trash picking is excellent because people throw out such great stuff. Perfect working condition, sometimes perfect condition period, sometimes just good for materials. One such Mr. trash picking is shown…
Yes, the problem of killing innocents via flawed algorithm is noted in this article https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...
The Retraction Watch website http://retractionwatch.com/ is one good method of highlighting retracted work. For researchers in any given field, keeping current on literature is hard work given the pace of publication…
In addition to the other comments, what interested me about the findings mentioned in the 2016 quantamag article was the shared problem solving required to answer Joe Corbo's sense that there was a pattern to be found…
Thanks for posting this article and it is indeed disturbing. It looks like there is just an insane amount of mind scrambling content that nobody should let themselves or their children experience. Given the Medium…