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A much smarter line of attack against Chromebooks is that they are a way to get kids mainlining YouTube, which is impossible to block on the devices
Also they make that super annoying beep when booted into dev mode and it's hard to remember how to silence it
Show me one Silicon Valley executive who gives their young kids unrestricted access to YouTube. But that's what a school Chromebook does.
I personally love chromebooks, the chrome browser, and Android. There would be enormous benefit to splitting these products off from the Google surveillance/attention manipulation business model
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This article describes the classic failure modes of a centrally planned economy, but for some reason calls it "overcapitalization" instead. Whatever you call it, the tech part is a distraction. This is what happens in any society, at any time when money is assigned by caprice
The untold part of the story is how the move to central planning destroyed the greatest seedbed of innovation in American history, the tech startup economy. The startups are still there, but the only thing they innovate in is telling investors compelling stories
It's not like Softbank came along and ruined everything, either. We've had this pathology for a decade now. Remember Color, with 41M in funding for nothing? Yo, a joke company that raised $1.5M? Secret, whose founder looted a fair chunk of $35M?
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95% of people posting to Medium would be better off buying a $5 domain and publishing the articles there. Use medium as a working platform if you like the editor!
Censorship issues aside, Medium will eventually go under and you will be sad that you lost that 2012 article you forgot you wrote. The company has burned $132M with no hope of profitability. Mirror your stuff to a place you control, or there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth
(When you mirror it, leave out the huge amounts of Javascript and tracking gunk and marvel at how fast text files can load on the internet of 2019)
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The degree to which modern AI has given up on trying to understand tractable, thinking systems and just builds them by brute force is interesting. Our understanding of cognition hasn't improved even as we're able to build systems that have near-human performance in some areas.
This has interesting consequences. One is the "money laundering for bias" issue, where machine systems you don't understand pick up on all sorts of latent patterns in the data you feed them. But my favorite is that it removes a favorite fantasy about recursive self-improvement
Transhumanists have been obsessed for years with the nightmare of an AI that starts to recursively self-improve, and in a few hours takes over the world. They take it more seriously than my breezy phrasing of it implies. They have also learned to not talk about it in public
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So Kamala Harris strategized a line of attack against her biggest opponent and followed through.

That's the scandal, not that Biden had literally years to prepare for this sort of challenge and fell flat on his face.

Okay.
In the end, it was BIDEN who gave Harris the opportunity to go for the jugular at the debate, strategy or not.

And it is BIDEN who decided to use loaded terms like "states' rights" in response to questions about busing.
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This will be a major line of attack against Medicare-for-all, as proposed by @SenSanders -- and it's premise is accurate.

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1) With M4A, you lose choice of insurance but you *gain* choice of doctor. No private insurance networks.
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1. Look for this line of attack against Kavanaugh accuser Ford to spread over the next few hours: Her memory of the attack she claims happened 36 years ago was implanted by her therapist, making it a confabulation and therefore inadmissible in courts.
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