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Just to think of it: American stock market has a better appreciation of the importance of morality in international relationships than the president of the United States. Again, cold blooded stock traders get it and the supposed leader of the free world doesn't. The invisible hand of the market is more ethical, as objectively measured in billions of dollars, that the asshole tens of millions of Americans voted for in free elections. And those morons still support him. Fucking unbelievable.

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at around 3:30, he says, I'm suspicious of philosophy.

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Jamie Dimond of JPM about AI in his business and beyond

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TIL: The Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine (1987)

Introduced in 1949, the Fairness Doctrine required television and radio stations holding broadcast licenses to present "contrasting viewpoints" on controversial issues of public importance. “The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine did not directly enable Fox News through a change in law for cable. Instead, the 1987 repeal (and subsequent deregulation in the 1990s) encouraged a media environment where, for the first time, a channel explicitly targeting a conservative audience with a specific ideological viewpoint was commercially viable.“