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by Keegs 4y ago
“The expected value is negative so playing the lottery is silly” also misses that someone looking for a way out of poverty and seeing a lack of alternatives might judge the opportunity cost of his 2 dollars and 5 minutes worth the vanishing
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by Keegs 4y ago
I think that was presented as an ideology rather than anyone’s personal beliefs. Paraphrasing Zizek, to follow an ideology you don’t have to believe it’s true; it’s enough to act as if it is.
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by Keegs 4y ago
> There are less profitable and more profitable industries and companies don’t move out of the less profitable ones. Entering a different market is expensive and takes a lot of time. It’s also not guaranteed you’ll succeed. > they’d a
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by Keegs 4y ago
> Because you don’t want to harm people Yes but you see the risk to our brand is less than the expected return so harming people is in the shareholders’ interest.
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by Keegs 4y ago
> As an anarchist, wouldn’t that be something you’d approve of? I suspect GP considers themself an anarchist in the pop culture sense, which has little in common with the political practice.
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by Keegs 4y ago
Something similar is happening to Spotify. They’ve shoehorned a lot of “features” into the app recently that will surely make money but at the expense of UX. Attrition is a lagging indicator; there’s always a point where mounting annoyance
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by Keegs 4y ago
Firefox is not an “inferior tool.” Its cookie segregation and CSS styling feature are not found in Chrome. I don’t use Firefox for moral reasons, I use it because it’s better.
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by Keegs 4y ago
> It is very difficult to find someone who can do it, and they command a premium because of it. Is it difficult because people like this are rare, or because so few people are ever considered for these positions?
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by Keegs 4y ago
I think layoffs matter too. ICs may be fired more for performance reasons, but they disproportionately face uncertainty created by rounds of layoffs, uncertainty that isn’t compensated.
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by Keegs 4y ago
For an explanation of what changed see this forum discussion [0]. I’m not a fan of the tab metaphor in general but the implementation could’ve been worse. [0]: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-release-v1-0-0/44
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by Keegs 4y ago
But the same $50m paid to a single employee (on top of hundreds more) is not robbery?
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by Keegs 5y ago
Well done. I’ve played around with framing electronics and yours is a great example.