#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #5yrsago, aggregated by home.social.
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"However, inflation control as we do it today is inefficient. Moreover, it is inhumane. In many countries, authorities target a rate of unemployment that they think will not cause inflation (NAIRU). In Kelton’s vivid words, this policy 'uses people as human shields against inflation'."
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#5yrsago The audiophile #MQA format really doesn’t have #DRM, but that doesn’t mean it’s not on the toxic rainbow of locked tech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/closed-proprietary-felonious-toxic-rainbow-locked-technology
#5yrsago The latest Facebook scandal might explain why Amazon wrongfully banned book-reviewers https://gizmodo.com/amazon-and-facebook-reportedly-had-a-secret-data-sharin-1831192148
#5yrsago Inside the funny accounting that lets the money-losing #fracking industry claim to be profitable https://www.desmog.com/2018/12/18/fracking-finances-record-oil-production-fuzzy-math/
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#5yrsago #MachineLearning hucksters invent an AI racist uncle that predicts your personality from your facial bone structure https://www.faception.com
#5yrsago Assessing #Snowden’s legacy, five years on https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/the-snowden-legacy-part-one-whats-changed-really/
#5yrsago Make: a gingerbread house #zoetrope https://medium.com/george-eastman-museum/how-we-made-a-gingerbread-house-zoetrope-b4112b5a9dbe
#5yrsago UK minister says airlines used “exploitative algorithms” to split up families unless they paid extra https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/airline-flights-pay-extra-to-sit-together-split-up-family-algorithm-minister-a8640771.html
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