Permit

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by Permit 5y ago
Fantastic response, thanks for taking the time to break it down!
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by Permit 5y ago
> When I left in 2010 I shared in my exit interview that they should seriously consider embracing actually investing in customer support and leaning into the idea of a "normal margins[1]" kinds of businesses. I speculated that
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by Permit 5y ago
> And it's just, OK now for us to be releasing stolen files from foreign governments ? We are not at war with Russia (yet). There are plenty of discussions of stolen files originating from the American government (and others!) on Ha
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by Permit 5y ago
What an unusually low-value comment from an otherwise high-value commenter. Do you take issue with the label “child free” or with the fact that some couples would prefer not to have children? Or maybe with the idea that an organization advo
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by Permit 5y ago
You have misunderstood the article. The problem wasn't the lack of napkins, the lack of ketchup or a problem with the food. The problem is with the customer. Even if you got all of those things correct, they would be upset with some ot
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by Permit 5y ago
> As of Friday Russia had about $630 billion of foreign currency reserves, a large cushion designed to allow it to withstand economic sanctions and prop up the value of the ruble. But “foreign currency reserves” are not an objective fact
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by Permit 5y ago
> Just pointing out that there is very little any of us can actually do and getting so emotional about somebody buying shares is a little silly because what are the alternatives? The alternative is to pause and think of the human on the
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by Permit 5y ago
> The pirates know how to defeat it, Is this true? I never see feature-length movies on YouTube for example.
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by Permit 5y ago
> People are cheering at Canada forfeiting bank accounts. When such policies are normalized we can expect much more of this. Completely untrue. Civil forfeiture is a uniquely American experience. The Emergencies Act will not lead to broa
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by Permit 5y ago
I guess my post was meant to capture the idea: "Do you find it suspicious that you are recommending CEO/Management be in it for the passion (and low pay!) but seemingly not expecting software engineers to make the same sacrifices?
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by Permit 5y ago
> - Get a CEO/upper management that are in it for the passion Why stop there? Why not get developers who are "in it for the passion"?
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by Permit 5y ago
> I didn't really believe any of this in 2018, and my meal plan then consisted entirely of everything that I can't eat today. I suspect you had the same degree of confidence in your understanding of these issue then as you do n
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by Permit 5y ago
Here's an interesting article on this topic that you might enjoy: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
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by Permit 5y ago
You read about horrible things that happened in the 1800s and your takeaway is... we should allow such things to happen again today? Can you elaborate a little bit?
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by Permit 5y ago
Can you elaborate and give some history? What code did you contribute, and how did it end up being used by Microsoft and then DeepMind?
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by Permit 5y ago
I made no mention of free speech. I'm Canadian and support the significant mechanisms we have in place to combat hate speech! My point is only that speech is not violence. One does not need to change the meaning of the word violence in
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by Permit 5y ago
> Spyware is illegal. So it’s just a matter of defining the data collection practices of internet companies as spyware. I’ve seen this phenomenon before but never so explicitly. When you can’t convince someone that something is bad, you
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by Permit 5y ago
There's a documentary that explores this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film) They deal with exactly the problems you're imagining. How do you convey danger to a civilization 100,000 years
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by Permit 5y ago
> It would be like if Costco instead of buying 1000 legos, just stocked legos in it's warehouse, then paid Lego company everytime a single unit sold. For some reason I was under the impression that this is exactly how it works at so
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by Permit 5y ago
> The OP's Stripe commentary might be over the top, but YC has yet to produce a mature response to any of these friction points. How could they produce the mature response you’re looking for when the accusations are full of holes. L
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by Permit 5y ago
If that is the extent of this line of reasoning then I guess I am in agreement with dvt. That doesn't seem "bad" to me in the least. I thought cr__ was sharing new information regarding the often criticized study I linked abo
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by Permit 5y ago
> manipulates her emotional state for profit. Can you share more on this? I've heard they conducted large-scale studies of emotional state[1], but I never heard about a link to profit before. [1] https://www.pnas.org&#x2F
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by Permit 5y ago
Can you elaborate? Since Facebook has built a large supercomputer, we should all expect to see more ads? I don't understand why the quantity of ads would increase...
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by Permit 5y ago
The linked page is closer to https://lobste.rs (or maybe ProductHunt) hosting a scary-looking webpage with the words "Hacker News is Illegal" on the front of it. Why? Because Hacker News does not indicate that the logi
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by Permit 5y ago
> Invasive species thrive in ecosystems that we create. Is the idea here that invasive species cannot thrive in non-human-made environments? That is, environments we didn’t create?
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by Permit 5y ago
This article is a very good demonstration of the problem with fact checking, thanks for sharing. > Many of these issues were already discussed on HN. Anyone could dig up dozens of such cases with a bit of searching... I imagine I could f
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by Permit 5y ago
> Snopes rates the claim that Senator Joe Biden said "we have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics." as false, Snopes rates the claim "In Octobe
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by Permit 5y ago
> And it's not hard to spin things 180 degrees with framing. Can we see some examples of this actually happening? Have you seen this before?
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by Permit 5y ago
Your comment (and the child comments replying to it) would be much stronger if you could point to actual examples of this happening rather than imagined examples. Personally, I think fact-checking is a hopeless endeavor, but none of the com
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by Permit 5y ago
If someone in this thread claims otherwise, you should post those videos. I was responding to this point: > i wonder how people here inte west think of china. do you really think that GESTAPO will come and beat the shit out of you just b

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