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by acituan 6y ago
> we have our own we fail to care for well enough. Tell me more of this “our own”. 25% of the current US population is either 1st or 2nd gen immigrants arrived after immigration reform of 1965. They include the innovators, laborers, ent
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by acituan 6y ago
Because a good chunk of immigrants are underpriviliged kids of the world, when you compare the GDP levels of their home countries to the US. That and US doesn’t need to pay a dime for them developing their skills while getting to skim the
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by acituan 6y ago
Yes, and maybe our political and public perception apparatus doesn’t scale well to the long tail of public interest topics and a singular strong entity with clear goals is simply taking advantage of that mismatch.
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by acituan 6y ago
> Economies of scale are dictatorial dynamics. Economy of scale means you're putting unbalanced pricing pressure on suppliers. I think you are confusing economies of scale with monopolistic/monopsonistic dynamics.
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by acituan 6y ago
> Any value that something this large has, is in its ability to exhaust resources from the ecosystem, control the market, the workers and the ability to resist changing its behavior when better things come along. It is no news that big-c
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by acituan 6y ago
> almost magical property of making incentives legible. Perfect information symmetry is a precondition for the theoretical free market construct, but by no means a magical, inherent property to markets. In fact, there are many instances
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by acituan 6y ago
> Rental housing is a business. Housing is also a basic human need. Both can be true, but when markets fail, we risk failing basic human needs and all the associated costs to society. > Which means instead of an orderly market, rental
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by acituan 6y ago
> transformative experiences are unlikely to happen which from personal experience I can say is false. The impact of a breakthrough psychedelic experience can be profoundly positive especially for those starting from a less enlightened p
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by acituan 6y ago
I might have over-emphasized the worker drone persona. But I think the potential for self-deception and long term foolishness is still there across the board. > With meds, I find it much easier to step back and get a clear picture of not
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by acituan 6y ago
> we don't start giving children coffee at younger ages to help focus > we are inhibiting our full potential because of misplaced fears? I'll argue with the assumption that there is zero long term psychobiological consequen
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> If a country has figured out how to provide for its people w/o jobs, so what? Except no country has done that yet. We are far from full automation and most of the structural unemployment is due to emerging differential between lab
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The difference with moving pictures is that it comes with the implication of photo-realism, while other art forms are self-aware about being representative or expressive rather than being high fidelity simulacra.
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> have very welcoming immigration laws But also huge language barriers, especially for small shops, not speaking the local language is seen a disadvantage. > we have no massive local companies that can utilize all that talent and no b
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by acituan 6y ago
> It is also unethical way of life in this planet. Let’s not project western purity codes to the entire planet. This planet still has countries with high mortality rates, infant and otherwise.
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> Pushing back is not your (our) job Please tell me more about my job internet stranger. You’re making the same arguments without adding substance, just emotional rhetoric and unnecessary personalizing. > Imagine your power steering g
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by acituan 6y ago
I was talking about the “users who don't want new features and just want software to stop being buggy and acting like a goddamn haunted house.” so the selection bias is yours. Most bugs are just annoying, consequences are not catastrop
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> I think the difference is that the entire software/hardware stack is a world created entirely by humans, untouched by "reality" for the purposes of all these annoyances, so it feels like we should be able to wrangle it b
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by acituan 6y ago
> Epic and Spotify are pushing their own walled gardens, they just want to do it with a bigger profit margin. There is absolutely no problem with that because it cures the one and only walled garden problem. If they implement a subpar
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by acituan 6y ago
I agree that reviews being seen as a competition is a problem, but it is nonetheless the same problem if you don't see it that way while people around you do. Promotions, compensation etc they are not exactly zero-sum games but they do
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by acituan 6y ago
Well you’ve suggested this ideal of “being fun to work with” and you’re challenged to clarify your position, no need to get defensive. “There are ways to be a pleasure to work with without pandering” I’m sure of that but work by nature incl
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by acituan 6y ago
> but it doesn't follow you around for life, tied to your surname, determining who you can marry or what jobs you're allowed to get, or if you'll get beaten simply for walking into certain buildings or touching strangers I
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by acituan 6y ago
Still sounds like some servile function to evoke positive emotions in others is required. Why doing our jobs is not enough? If everyone is doing their jobs, wouldn’t that be “fun” enough? If not, shouldn’t that be a problem with the job des
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by acituan 6y ago
> Do your job well while being someone fun to work with “It is not enough that you do your job well, you also need to spend energy to put out an entertaining persona.” is such an Americanism that creates a game theoretic layer of duplici
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by acituan 6y ago
Just to play devil’s advocate, I can imagine a game theoretic scenario in which revealing what we know about let’s say a deliberate cryptographic vulnerability will potentially make the other party switch to another vulnerability we don’t k
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by acituan 6y ago
You realize that search engine itself drives massive traffic right? Even with the dumbest adds, that is billions of eyeballs concentrated on one page multiple times a day. That already makes a very steep barrier of entry. > You are rea
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by acituan 6y ago
Agreed. This is basically folk cognitive science, slapping together random post-hoc explanations from popularized cog-sci terms and other domains from a few generations ago. I believe the target market is people who want to feel smart as
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by acituan 6y ago
Does it though? Numbers I look at don’t seem to support that. I find these “as a profession” enactments more to be self-congratulory rituals than anything else. It is like trying to clear your disk storage space through deleting thousands o
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by acituan 6y ago
Around 90% of energy production of the world comes from coal, oil and gas, with each around 30% contribution. Simply changing our energy sources will lead to the most meaningful betterment.
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> They do have exclusive access and control over the source of data that bring you that effectiveness though And what data would that be? All search engines crawl the same web.
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by acituan 6y ago
I’m with you with your conclusions but not only you are not responding to OPs point about the complexity of cost calculations, you are adding further data that is irrelevant. “This is what Coca-Cola said” is not a valid rebuttal.

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