badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected
if we are in a position where civilian targets are getting bombed we have other problems. not mention in said "war" if we are reliant on green energy we will certainly lose to whoever bombed our power plants.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: On YouTube’s recommendation system
exactly, they are proud to tell you they block videos that are "problematic" from being recommended. But problematic to whom or what is not described. As this would surely reveal their bias in their algorithms. And also who our overlords are.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: A study on dishonesty was based on fraudulent data
The things that jumps out to me is how statistics and studies like this shape the larger cultural discussions, legal discussions, and public policy discussions. It really shows how data can be munged, cherry picked, and altered to fit any narrative you want to send. Luckily over time scientific method should correct this but these can do serious damage in the short term.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins
Now that media has to tell the truth they have to get the negative Trump spin in to justify the vitriol of the last 5 years otherwise the narrative wouldn't make sense.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins
If he did the media would say he was a madman firing people for not believing a conspiracy theory. He can't win with you folks.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins
This is an example of "anything Trump says I must believe the opposite" logic that has plagued our country for the last 5 years.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: US admits Xiaomi isn’t a ‘Communist Chinese military company’ after all
We should allow Xiaomi to sell their phones in US. Reverse engineer their tech and sell knock offs of their phones at cheaper prices. Thereby eliminating them anyways.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
Ho Chi Minh was trained at Lenin's "Comintern" with the expressive goal of training foreign assets to spread Soviet communist interests. These assets would be funded and supplied by the soviets to agitate revolution in their countries. This essentially is an agent.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: Unibomber Manifesto (1995)
Reason is Kaczynski was actually a genius intellectual that went mad. His observations in many ways are completely accurate. His solutions are naive, as he thinks these things could have been corrected. They must take their course unfortunately.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
it wasn't all for nothing. there was time when Americans cared about advancing a free world. Free from soviet style communism. And this was an ideal worth sacrificing for. Unfortunately, Americans have been demoralized by propaganda to the point of seeing freedom as something not worth dying for.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
We didn't lose though.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
Agreed, We literally took over Afghanistan in a month and installed a government but somehow we lost? We just don't really have a dog in the fight anymore. This isn't defeat.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
The US was fighting a proxy war with the soviet union. We had no interest in defeating the vietcong as much as stopping the spread of communism. Ho Chi Minh was a KGB agent and the communist revolution was largely born of soviet agitprop. So there is another layer to this conflict. Even though vietnam "won" they really were just puppets in a shadow war and it came at a huge cost for them. Much less than US.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: China lands rover on Mars
The fact your comment is upvoted says all you need to know about the parcipatants in this thread.
China merely isn't just engaged in industrial espionage because it works to not duplicate effort. They steal to undermine the effort of the people that made it possible to begin with. In many cases ruining the companies that made the original innovation. This isnt crying and whinging for no reason it's unethical and wrong. This isnt a two way street where chinese innovations are helping our world. Almost everything the Chinese steal all while burning through natural resources and at alarming pace and injecting the most harmful substances into the environment. And be honest they are simply doing this to saberrattle the US and create propoganda to legitmaze an oppressive state. So, yes it's not only unfair, it's evil. And I'm not happy for China.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: U.S. adds just 266,000 jobs in April, far below expectations
seasonal work is less desirable than full time work. also cape cod is an odd place. they have a huge need for seasonal low skilled labor but don't really have the housing to support it.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: Why Spotify loves being locked into Google Cloud
If you are in one cloud you aren't truly HA. You also lose all bargaining leverage. If a vendor doesn't have to compete for your business, they won't and your hosting costs will reflect that. Spotify is a big name and is in the unique position to bargain because of the name and PR. But the average enterprise should really consider the tradeoffs. I get that its hard to have hybrid cloud model but there are agnostic tooling that makes this easier to to do then ever before. Its worth considering.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says
this was a collaboration between between corporations like Google and Netflix that want to hamper their competition and leftist who aimed to nationalize the internet. this was the vehicle by which they essentially wanted to seize telecom companies.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says
Your questions are making the assumption that this would cost more and limit choice. This is not how markets work, this is exactly what government regulation and crony capitalism does.
Even in the case of your Spotify but not YT music example, what if there was a 5/month offer for 15mb internet with spotify streaming. Because spotify and your provider made a deal that subsidized the plan? At the end of the day, partnerships are not bad for the consumer. YT music could make a competing for deal for less money with more Google offerings. Also, this wouldn't eliminate an unlimited option across the board. When has competition made something more expensive? Its regulations like NN which pour amber over a system and make it impossible to be cheaper or better.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says
Net Neutrality has nothing to do with individuals and more to do with "entities"..entities like corporations and other very wealthy edge providers. corpos who are more worried about limiting their competition and using government to ensure they aren't impeded.
badmadrad
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4 years ago
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on: Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says
Correct, this is merely a fight between corporations on who controls the flow of information. As we have seen edge providers are also information monopolies who can censor and limit who use their platforms based on subjective whims.
