notMick

Why don't they reduce spending?

Surely there are expenditures deemed "being nice" which isn't a real neccessity for the local citizens?

There are a lot of people right now who want to stifle free speech. "Have a different opinion, that's abuse - or a beating". While not restricted to antifa, there seems lately a surge of "little Stalinists", who seem intent to crush or silence any dissenting opinion.

In short, history repeats itself, and "experience is recognising a mistake the second time you've made it."

I was in another country, and still seeing the political bias (CNN+) in the reporting. Call me old school, but 'news' and 'journalism' is meant to be impartial. It wasn't. Opinion piece after propaganda opinion piece.

I think maybe, we have just woken up to what is going on.

This seems another vague anticapitalism story portraying the VCS as bad, whereas they bought a stake in the company and tried to turn it around. They also lost.

90% of new businesses fail - most often from not finding or matching/addressing the market. The market also changes so anyone who doesn't adapt end on the Darwinian company list.

Toxic means, they don't agree with me?

Toxic and hate speech are recently invented terms to curtail free speech. If I said anyone who wanted communism were hateful (they hate capitalists) and supporting a historically violent ideology, I'd be as right/wrong as people on the left doing the same.

Anti free speech are a means to an end really, power.

There is nothing, except a large paid hoax propaganda campaign. With the same team we could make mother Teresa seem like an imperialist religious nut. But anyway, let's agree to disagree. Because the world is nicer that way.

What does that mean though? People who post in one sub aren't allowed to be in any other sub?

People in TD can write in others subs too, as can people from late stage capitalism. Wanting to forcibly segregate and silence people with different opinions is I think at the heart of the problem with silicon valley right now.

'remove those who disagree with me' has killed hundreds of millions over the years, and is a common and dangerous kind of groupthink.

Wrong. TD is made up from both genders and many races who are conservatives and support the president. Its style is glossy trolly. They are anti political correctness, against sjws and groups that oppose others free speech. Reddit has site wide rules against racism, and those subs that don't remove it are banned. TD mods remove anything racist quickly - almost exclusively posted by few day old accounts . Also, have a nice day.

Still a nothing burger, it's paid political propaganda on those default reddits, paid teams pushing bs and noise.

Share blue for example was given a budget of 40+ million a year to do just that. (Over 100k a day)

The other paid campaign is 'deplatforming' (their term). They do your best to silence opinions which don't match the paid script.

Politico? Oh come on, that is a garbage partisan left site for garbage people. This is hacker news, and one would hope still propaganda free.....

Can I set my watch by that?

Then why not remove r/politics for your same reason? Or r/latestagecapitalism. Crazies from that subteddit have the nerve to post in other parts of Reddit.

The biggest problem, imho is that there is an attempt to 'deplatform' dissenting views. (That term was coined by people on the left actually doing it)

Quite simply it boils down to vilifying your opponents, classifying dissenting views as 'toxic' or 'hatespeech', and screeching loudly and as often as you can to get the opposition removed. If they move, do the same to them on the next site.

This is big money apparently pushing for this as an 'online strategy' to remove opposition. Heck I can buy as many reddit accounts and votes as I like.

We need to push back and see it what it is - to try and remove any wrong think and get people thinking as a controllable single mass.

Is the main benefit of this sampling technique that it reduces the contribution from rare though large error variance outliers?

Nice, though, you could probably get better performance by using an analogue integrator and sigma Delta encoding. Probably even better if you down convert (multiply with expected frequency first) You can swap bandwidth for resolution.

About half the country has the opposite opinion to you.

If I break into your house, am I part of your family?

Border laws don't stop being laws because of emotions, and every decision to ignore the law has major consequences. Being naive or not thinking of consequences doesn't work in chess or in life.

We need thiel to help balance the insane part of the echo chamber. let's hope they bring him more on board.

Well said. Media which have been selling bullshit might be making some sort term profits - however are destroying their credibility and brand.

Perhaps Facebook should remove password/id checks to encourage open borders?

communities doesn't mean access to improperly entering people. Try not to conflate the issue.

Half of Facebook's users are (probably) conservative, that is half the user base.

Still sound like you want your echo chamber.

Seriously? The only people keeping the first amendment there are the conservatives!

The left are trying to remove it with their various 'hate speech' laws (already done in many countries, say the 'wrong thing' on Facebook in the UK and you have the police coming to arrest you in hours) which can be applied to anything the left simply don't want you to say - and silencing you is fundamental to far left ideology.

Oh gawd, enough with the social justice warrior routine.

I've been overseas more than half of my life in different countries and can tell you every country and culture has is it's nuances, good and bad, which exist and can be very different and very noticeable.

At least one of the billionaire Princes was reportedly funding the antifa 'riots' on Nov 4. They have been locked up for corruption, and the money for the riot never appeared, thus people stayed at home. Saudi Princess have been buying up media for a while, most recently 'the independent' and 'Twitter'. They have been pushing their own ideological goals.

Great advice for clearing the distractions. Another technique to use is to set 15 minute timers. You can try and get something completed in that time (ie race the clock challenge), or just a "wake up" event to alert you that you've been staring at a poster for the last 10 mins.....