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Zooper | 5 years ago | on: The FBI tracking your browsing history without a warrant might be the beginning

It happened around the time when people thought having one dude called a king telling everyone else what to do was a pretty efficient way to run things fairly. Unfortunately, the "enlightenment" never seemed to progress past a small group of landed oligarchs telling everyone else what to do because they were obviously so much smarter and better, we're certain, after all they had all the stuff.

Zooper | 5 years ago | on: Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment

It's not a good chance at this point, it's the height of naivety and ignorance to assume that this isn't actively occurring. There's absolutely no incentive for it not to occur and there's significant incentive for it to occur.

Zooper | 5 years ago | on: Deno 1.0

I used to dislike typescript, until I was hired to write it. It has warts, but the benefits outweigh them, and you aren't forced to use the parts you may not find beneficial. I think it's a good way to prototype a typed version of javascript, at the least.

Zooper | 5 years ago | on: Valve drops VR support for macOS

Let me say in no uncertain terms that there will be a time soon when desk monitors and tvs will be present but not the main display, and their sales will drop at that point. To me, it's more "when" than "if." To reach that tipping point two things need to first occur: there needs to be an ~300 USD headset with specs comparable to the current Valve Index, there need to be improvements to hand & finger tracking so existing workflows begin translating directly into the virtual environment. When those two things transpire, give it like 3-5 years tops, and I'll think you'll see a state change.

Zooper | 6 years ago | on: Venezuelan ship sinks itself after ramming cruise liner with a reinforced hull

US is in a clear-cut info war with US citizens in order to attempt to coerce them into a war; we need to fully neuter its ability to do this to its own citizens and hold those doing it to account. This is US propaganda; end of story. Full stop. This is an attempt to facilitate a major act of violence against innocent people under the guise of a benevolent conquest in order to secure oil.

Zooper | 6 years ago | on: Corporate Socialism: The Government Is Bailing Out Investors and Not You

You can freeze all loans temporarily. You can freeze all rents temporarily-- and even if you disagree with it, many, myself included will simply not pay it come April 1st and we will outnumber the police. The government can exchange cash for equity, then instead of selling it back or selling it on the open market, the government can give or sell it directly to the workers over time.

Zooper | 6 years ago | on: Freeman Dyson takes on the climate establishment (2009)

When your unfounded, conspiratorial thinking comes from AM talk radio, due to a supposed existential threat to freedom, an educated, informed, and well-spoken overwhelming consensus of independent scientists trumps a physicists off-the-cuff remarks.

Zooper | 6 years ago | on: Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care

To give a real-world example of why this is problematic: my wife recently had surgery, and they had a follow-up a month later to remove a stent. Even though she was insured, a slew of wholly unintelligible bills from various departments at the hospital followed. When she showed up to have her stent removed, the director of the hospital's billing department told her that all past bills must be payed before they are able to remove the stent: this was a blatant lie, and the doctor overrode the decision in about 30min. Now after speaking with the nurses about this, one reveals that the collections department has a whiteboard game going on in the office where they write up their names and have an ongoing competition over who can extract the most money from patients. The hospital and its services are under no obligation to provide accurate pricing until ipso facto, and the pricing can often be changed because it doesn't stand up when placed under scrutiny. Does anyone believe a system like this is capable of producing an accurate "score"?

Zooper | 6 years ago | on: Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

Why? Bezos isn't going to open any other videos from someone else. The US executive branch won't do a thing, in case the Saudis decide to stop buying US treasury bonds in exchange for oil. Then they might stop buying weapons, which funds the inflated military industry, and then they might buy weapons from someone else and begin keeping larger reserves of their currency. This exchange is worth more to those in power than Bezos' love life.

Zooper | 6 years ago | on: Why aren’t Americans rising up like the people of Chile and Lebanon?

Part logistics: if the US was the size of 1 or 2 states, it'd be simpler. Part incentives: can't get paid and will get fired for any time off. Part terror: the Police here are armed with live ammunition and if you are shot, you will die, and the officer will continue policing.

If / when the powder-keg explodes, the media will scapegoat the protestors to protect plutocratic interests by showing the destruction of plutocrat-owned property, playing it off as the destruction of worker-class property; this will divide the public into two superficially opposing, easily conquered, groups, one that defaults to accepting any appeal to authority and law as just (liberal), while the other is labeled radical or reactionary (left). Plutocrats will further gaslight and inflame fascism on the impoverished right, blaming the left for all their problems. This seems to be happening in every nation touched by international, capitalist trade, in the same pattern. Maybe we should solve this one before the world breaks.

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