FredPret

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by FredPret 2y ago
If you’re an Apple person, consider Things. It’s a classic.
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OK but that’s true for literally every relationship between a human and an organization. But you have to balance what you give and get so it remains mutually beneficial. You can choose the optimal level of your engagement, including none at
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Fair. But I think we score a goal for each of those posts. The vast majority of the data comes from users who did agree. The rest of the data, the portion the public didn’t agree to, is gathered in exactly the way that every other busines
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> buying stuff I was buying more generic stuff before, now I’m buying products that are tailor made for the very specific demographic I am. Win-win for me and for the entrepreneur targeting me. Who cares if Facebook also benefits? Who ca
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My life is materially and socially richer because of Facebook and Instagram. I frequently get laser-focused targeted ads that actually help me discover products I love. Unsure how I’m getting exploited. Seems to me I’m better off all round
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At least, you really shouldn’t
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Right!? We should send someone to write serious and thoughtful pieces about “How the unchecked power of governments is destabilizing companies”
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If America isn’t perfect, does that mean its enemies must be? Surely you don’t live in so simple a world? Anyway, us encroaching on Russian interests (debatable) is hardly an excuse for them to go blowing up a country full of innovent civil
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So they can fork it and roll their own version of Linux. Russia-ux.
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Wasn’t he like 21 at the time? We’ve all said some stupid shit and later apologized. The healthiest thing is for everyone to move on.
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I'm confused by how much matter there is. Are those dots entire galaxies? It's just nuts. Thank you team Euclid.
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Show me that data. Here’s the opposite perspective: Real disposable income is up: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A229RX0 Real median personal income is up: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ME
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What data are you looking at that shows decreasing wages and spending?
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3x is standard, you should push for a 2x raise. You might have to jump ship twice to do that
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The US spends more on healthcare than arms. You could argue for lower defense spending, but there’s a hard lower limit (which is unknown) and if you cross that threshold, the world changes for the worse very quickly. The rules-based order i
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The most efficient system would be direct payments only. The downside is only the very roch can afford expensive medical emergencies. But with insurance individuals get to pull the value of future premium payments forward to pay for large e
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It’s an interesting form of classism because I’d bet the average farmer is vastly better off than the average cubicle slave, in addition to being masters of their domain.
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Maybe I haven't noticed this since I got inoculated against this notion by the reality of farmers early on. It still seems surprising to me that this idea can survive more than five seconds of thought. Farmers own tracts of land, lots
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There's a vast amount of non-terrible space that used to be uninhabitable due to zero economic activity
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It’s the modern Wilhelm Scream
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Enter WFH
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Where did you get this stereotype of farmers? I’ve always though of them as business owners with special skills in growing things, auto mechanics, and logistics.
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I think he’s just saying he has a nice train ride.
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You first
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Perhaps there were, but not for long
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Did you just whip out that amazing ASCII art or do you use a tool?
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That incentivizes the FAA to hire an army of pencil pushers and take even longer to approve things
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As a non-physicist, it’s hard to understand if she has a point or not. Any physicists care to weigh in?
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So true. Then the economy grows for a while, and a plethora of new niches in the ecosystem come out. Legions of small companies turn into new industries, and a whole new set of activity can be automated.
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Very cool. I've always thought there's a lot of untapped potential in literate programming [0]. There are lots of reports and documents that should be this instead of static Word files. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F

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