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arkona3

26 karma · joined March 2, 2018

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
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arkona3··on FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices
Have you ever been involved in development or written software?
arkona3··on $1M to build decentralized social networks
Is this sarcasm? I honestly can't tell.
arkona3··on Buffett bashes Bitcoin as nonproductive, thriving on mystique
Like... finance, economics and investments?
arkona3··on Buffett bashes Bitcoin as nonproductive, thriving on mystique
I don’t get his metaphor. Rat poison is not necessarily a negative thing as it helps people keep vermin under control.
arkona3··on Health dangers of sleep deprivation
> The World Health Organisation and Walker both recommend about eight hours a night as a good baseline.

I’ll take the shorter lifespan and bet that more diseases will be cured in the future. The extra hours of life I get every day will ultimately allow me to afford treatment.

arkona3··on The Era of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be Near an End
... if I mention that very obvious deflationary fixed supply asset I will get downvoted into oblivion on Hacker News.
arkona3··on Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
> utterly horrifying

This has been common knowledge for years. Is the general population not aware of Facebook’s business model?

arkona3··on YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says
To be frank, Fox has been parroting the same conservative rhetoric for as long as I can remember. It’s the same as it was during the Bush years and the Obama years - O’Reilly has been replaced with Hannity and when Hannity retires another talking head will take his place. On the other hand CNN, NYT, Washington Post, MSNBC have shifted so far to the left, they would be unrecognizable to a time traveler from 15 years ago. Remember when CNN was considered in the center of the political spectrum and one of the most “objective” news source around? There is a pronounced bias in the mainstream media and it is not towards the right.
arkona3··on YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says
Not at all a false equivalency. How do we encourage artistically oriented people to be more mathematical? How do we change ESFJ into INTP? How do we increase IQ? Just hecause certain traits are mental rather than physical doesn’t mean they don’t exist.