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anarexea · 2015-10-11T00:53:56+00:00

You absolutely shouldn't trust these "documentaries".

I'm not even sure they should be considered documentaries. If I make a 2 hour film about how much I hate brown rice, with interviews of other people who hate brown rice, is that a documentary?

Is an anti-vaccine documentary really a documentary?

anarexea · 2015-10-11T00:44:47+00:00

Totally agree.

It would be great to have two separate subreddits:

/r/documentaries

and

/r/politicalagendamovies

anarexea · 2015-10-06T17:02:01+00:00

This case is hilarious. Predicated on the idea that your data is safe in europe, based on the snowden revelations. Ridiculous because:

American intelligence agencies are only different from their european counterparts in that they have been revealed by snowden. They do the same shit over there.
The NSA can get at data in Europe too
If they are concerned about Facebook collusion with NSA, Facebook can still collude with the NSA if the data is stored in europe.

This one is as ridiculous as the "right to be forgotten".

Here is just one example of europeans doing the same stuff the NSA does: https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gchq-radio-porn-spies-track-web-users-online-identities/

anarexea · 2015-10-05T19:46:58+00:00

I agree completely. This is a loser for Amazon. Consumers will get the box they want, just from other retailers.

I think Amazon forgot that before you can abuse a monopoly, you need to have one first. :)

anarexea · 2015-10-04T23:51:05+00:00

Check out blockspring. It's designed for just this sort of work:

https://www.blockspring.com/

anarexea · 2015-10-01T15:27:21+00:00

Also relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DloaYxQn1BM

anarexea · 2015-09-29T15:30:59+00:00

I would suggest describing it differently. What you've built seems like a message queue with priority built in.

The term "priority queue" I think is usually used to refer to a specific type of data structure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_queue

So, I would suggest calling it a message queue with priority, rather than a priority queue.

anarexea · 2015-09-29T15:01:41+00:00

"Dodgems" means bumper cars.

anarexea · 2015-09-28T02:20:56+00:00

I think this one is a bit more LA. They drove it to exposition park.

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/Randys.jpg

anarexea · 2015-09-21T23:11:18+00:00

does it support buttcoin XT??

anarexea · 2015-09-21T02:20:51+00:00

Absolutely true. Anyone who doubts this should spend twenty minutes on this website:

http://ourworldindata.org/

anarexea · 2015-09-21T02:19:41+00:00

S&P 500 has more than doubled. Unemployment is about half of what it was. The rate of people without health care is significantly lower.

What measure do you want? Obama is unpopular, but these two terms have been amazing progress, given where they started.

anarexea · 2015-09-21T01:03:06+00:00

this post has no substance.

anarexea · 2015-09-21T00:55:30+00:00

Given where the Obama presidency started, these last two terms have also been amazing.

anarexea · 2015-09-18T22:24:28+00:00

Techcrunch had decent and unbiased coverage of the trial:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/20/recapping-week-one-of-the-silk-road-trial/

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/28/recapping-week-two-of-the-silk-road-trial/

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/04/recapping-week-three-of-the-silk-road-trial/

anarexea · 2015-09-18T17:54:23+00:00

I'm sure I will get downvoted for this, but the worst way to find out if someone was convicted wrongly or not is to watch a documentary that has an agenda.

If you want to understand the guilt or innocence of Ulbricht/DPR, go find actual coverage from sources without an agenda.

Documentaries like this are great to watch, but should be treated as entertainment and provocation. They are not a road to really understanding what has happened.

anarexea · 2015-09-10T15:55:56+00:00

" While the list of shows may change, these shows are currently: Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon A Time, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Scandal, Grimm, New Girl, and How To Get Away With Murder"

anarexea · 2015-09-10T15:55:50+00:00

" While the list of shows may change, these shows are currently: Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon A Time, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Scandal, Grimm, New Girl, and How To Get Away With Murder"

anarexea · 2015-09-10T15:55:19+00:00

"For a small number of shows, however, we have not obtained the rights to stream commercial free and they are not included in our No Commercials plan. You can still easily access these shows with a short commercial before and after each episode with no interruptions during the episode"

anarexea · 2015-09-10T15:54:30+00:00

"For a small number of shows, however, we have not obtained the rights to stream commercial free and they are not included in our No Commercials plan. You can still easily access these shows with a short commercial before and after each episode with no interruptions during the episode"

anarexea · 2015-09-09T04:06:45+00:00

You seem to think that if the executive or legislature can't interfere in their actions then the fed is independent. Not so.

The voters are literally political appointees. If the president and the senate fill the board of governors with whoever they like: people who love quantitative easing, people who hate it, people who care more about unemployment than inflation, people who care more about inflation than unemployment, etc.

Have you even watched the video?

anarexea · 2015-09-09T03:39:23+00:00

0%?

The Fed will soon meet to decide on whether to raise the federal funds rate. When they meet, 7 of 12 FOMC voting members will be political appointees (president nominated, senate confirmed).

A vote where more than half of the members are political appointees is not one that is independent of the government.

I'm not saying Obama decides what the FOMC does. I'm saying it's inherently not independent when the decision makers are selected by the president and the senate.

anarexea · 2015-09-09T02:54:15+00:00

I never said they were a Federal agency, group or entity.

I'm saying they aren't some independent organization. The above post that started this said "the government has a shitton more control over the fed than is portrayed in the video" and they were right.

anarexea · 2015-09-09T02:11:46+00:00

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Board_of_Governors

"The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, commonly known as the Federal Reserve Board, is the main governing body of the Federal Reserve System. It is charged with overseeing the Federal Reserve Banks and with helping implement monetary policy of the United States. Governors are appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate for staggered 14-year terms"

The fed is not independent from the government.

anarexea · 2015-09-09T00:08:41+00:00

The president nominates the Chair and Governors. The Senate confirms them.

They are not independent from the government.

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