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I am a brogrammer and I fix problems, bro. Magnesium for life.

In the mass media days, "elites" were able to pretend that all people more or less wanted to consume similar media. That theory has more or less been debunked by the advent of the internet, and of course the proprietor class wants to go back. Advertising was much easier in the mass media days.

And right now AI snake oil salesmen are pushing every narrative that anyone with money will buy. Going back in time to the mass media paradigm is certainly attractive.

Your link doesn't have any probability analysis either. Just supposition that the raw data isn't valid because it looks similar to a 2 year run the Hornets had.

Is it wildly inconceivable that the refs propped up the Hornets for a couple of years? No. Does the only quantitative evidence presented in this thread suggest the refs are propping up a below average Lakers team? Yeah.

Wild hyperbole? https://x.com/AndrewDBailey/status/1772275077280858370

Being +1017 in FTA differential when the next closest is +358 isn't explained by whatever crap you're selling

The narrative that "the world wants to be dominated" is a popular one in mainstream media today.

Is there actually any substance to the narrative? Not in this article. Like most written in this vein, there isn't even an attempt at quantifying support for the story.

The Lakers have a statistically impossible +/- in free throws shot. There is favoritism and the league isn't even remotely trying to disguise it...is that really different than any other arena though?

Another reason to envy controller players. I just can't get used to it.

I highly recommend turning ball cam off once you get close to the ball.

I heard Comm, a pro, once say that he wished he had his 14 year old fingers back...think he was 17 at a time. To me, a 40 year old playing with KBM, I feel like I just can't bend my brain around all of the 3d possibilities. I just don't have any intuition for rolling my car while it accelerates towards the front...and then you add in the complexity of the camera and, yeah, I suck.

Got any "overwhelming" evidence that isn't a podcast? I'm sure social media ain't great for anyone. It's mostly an incomprehensibly large amount of malignant noise...but pretending that justifies some kind of heavy handed government censorship is...well, I guess I'm on social media so when in Rome...overwhelmingly stupid

We have let money become so accumulated, that the owners of the capital are being silly with it

Is that not just an inherent part of the debt cycle that we are at the tail end of?

At that number of observations, I would assume depth of market data so probably HFT use case. HFT is notoriously expensive to try to compete in

The wikipedia link says that its use as a drying agent in the States is uncommon...though not in Canada.

It also created and continues to create a lot of cheap labor, which the United States is in short supply of and likely will be for the foreseeable future.

which shows how rules that supposedly protect poor people from abuse, in practice only help those with access to the skills of the professional and managerial classes.

Maybe the world's problems and solutions are inherently too complex for someone without those skills to have any hope of navigating. Maybe the only real solution is to use Patrick as an example for everyone and ask/demand that professionals spend some amount of time advocating for people less fortunate/educated/knowledgeable than themselves?

Still a long way to go to catch up to Geneva.

The mountain of evidence is a bunch of former US Intel personnel turned corporate media stooges saying that it didn't look like an air strike? Both sides are capable of blowing shit up without an air strike...

I haven't seen anything convincing one way or another and my experience as a former US Intel stooge is that the foreign news press in the United States usually whiffs on the narrative and almost never presents definitive evidence of any but the most tangential details to corroborate their narratives.

If you've seen convincing evidence, I'd be interested in a link.

The best explanation of Virtual Power Plants that I've encountered, from Patrick McKenzie: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/markets-in-power/

My experience being a leader in similar situations is that when I say "we will have that in the next release", I mean "the engineers who are tasked with that will have completed it OR I will personally do it."

There's plenty of stuff in NYT that should by eyed with extreme skepticism. It's got an agenda and is bending its content around that agenda like every other mainstream commercial news outlet.

So you'd need some sort of legal document declaring intent to conclude that it was intentional?

Twitter was the center of the Arab Spring. There's plenty of powerful people in the world who would be happy if it went away. And the users migrating to Facebook, a platform far more friendly to censorship favoring existing power structures, is probably also desirable.