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by ahepp 6y ago
Are they condemning sukuk? I thought sukuk was an attempt to reconcile the desirable qualities of a loan with Islamic jurisprudence surrounding finance? So unless the commenter thought sukuk was illegitimate (I haven't seen them stat
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by ahepp 6y ago
I wonder why say, SoftBank, doesn't buy them and do what you're describing? Is there something commercial players realize about e-ink that the rest of us don't? Or do they lack vision (seems unlikely under current market cond
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by ahepp 6y ago
I'd argue that's a consequence of creditors bearing the risk of default. The risk is high both because the business may go under, and because the business has few assets that can be liquidated.
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by ahepp 6y ago
I don't necessarily agree, but doesn't the parent comment clearly say: >I'm betting on hyperinflation, though. The reason is that nearly all past hyperinflationary events have come from large sector shifts in aggregate dem
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by ahepp 6y ago
Creditors certainly bear risk of default. In fact, isn't that why VC exists? If banks were insulated from the consequences of their lending, wouldn't you expect them to loan to risky startups?
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by ahepp 6y ago
I think there's something to the idea that given google should pay to link, they should not be able to sidestep the regulation through monopoly power. That said, I strongly disagree with the premise. I guess Google decided market sha
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by ahepp 6y ago
I haven't been able to find a source for this (apologies), but my recollection is that before threatening to leave Australia, Google threatened to simply stop linking to news sites in Australia. I believe they were told this would be i
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by ahepp 6y ago
>The deal likely marks the death of a proposal from the Australian government to force Google and Facebook to enter arbitration with Australian media companies forcing them to pay for not only excerpts of news articles, but also simple l
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by ahepp 6y ago
I suspect you may have meant "discreet" rather than "discrete" (although I suppose the latter could make sense). I mix them up quite often myself.
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by ahepp 6y ago
Collected from your various comments in this subthread: >99.9% of the people throwing around the word fascist today have little to no understanding of what that political ideology means. The author explains in the first line of the artic
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by ahepp 6y ago
Well, in the case of this particular piece, the very first lines are the author explaining that he was a member of the youth wing of the Italian fascist party. So it seems to me a strange context to complain about people who talk about fasc
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by ahepp 6y ago
The original NYT article for the 2007 incident has more details about the problematic software: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html
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by ahepp 6y ago
It seems like the only hope for a solution here is competition? One would assume review sites need to both be more honest, and take a smaller commission, before they gain market dominance.
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by ahepp 6y ago
Have you found a good alternative to wirecutter? I am sure there are plenty of honest reviews on the internet, tucked into enthusiast sites or on personal blogs. It's hard to find them unless you're a member of their community. Un
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by ahepp 6y ago
>As journalists, we all view this as a horrifying assault on the public’s right to know, and on our own status as brave defenders of the public good. And that is all true, for what it’s worth. But this is about power. We need to take som
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by ahepp 6y ago
To go one level deeper, I feel your comment exhibits a fallacy as well. Sure, science progresses over time. It's fallacious to say that science is wrong because we used to think the sun revolved around the earth. Evidence evolved, idea
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by ahepp 6y ago
It seems kinda weird to me to portray them as greedy. Even if the root of this decision is because they want money, don't they need to fund the content somehow? Khan Academy seems to have really raised the bar for this kind of content.
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by ahepp 6y ago
If you were asked to identify a mystery wine, color would certainly be an important piece of information. If you, as a wine taster, were asked to describe the taste of a mystery wine, I think it's somewhat disappointing if the color of
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by ahepp 6y ago
Scott Alexander wrote opinion pieces. The article that was written about him is a news article. I think I may have ninja-edited my comment as you were responding, but Scott Alexander is the subject of the article. Often sources will be
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by ahepp 6y ago
I'd like to see a reference for the claim that very often , the subject in a news story will be granted anonymity (besides victims of sex crimes) The Virgil stuff is a moot point. There are several differences (difficulty of finding
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by ahepp 6y ago
That's an opinion piece, not a news article. There's also a distinction between protecting a source , and excluding information about the subject of an article. Fwiw, I was highly critical of the op-ed from the start, and I thi
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by ahepp 6y ago
> "The trouble with the NYT piece is not that it makes any false statements, but just that it constantly insinuates nefarious beliefs and motives, via strategic word choices and omission of relevant facts that change the emotional c
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by ahepp 6y ago
Since we're making absurd comparisons, what about violentacrez, who moderated a subreddit devoted to creepshots of underage girls? Should his identity have been withheld because it would hurt his career, or he might be harassed?
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by ahepp 6y ago
Maybe I'm way off here, but it looks like you may think the person you're replying to is saying that Greenwald's article is "a kind of low effort data mining when there is news droughts" (etc) I believe they are agr
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by ahepp 6y ago
It's not directionally correct. It's not correct in any sense. If he doesn't think he can do psychotherapy very while while he's a "public figure" (his name being in the paper a single time), why is he openin
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by ahepp 6y ago
Do you have a link to the Greenwald article in question? It sounds interesting.
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by ahepp 6y ago
The comment I replied to says he was forced to quit his job, which simply isn't true no matter how charitable you interpret it
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by ahepp 6y ago
Thanks for the link. It seems like he's pretty clear that he chose to quit. He says his job was "tentatively willing to try to make it work". It appears to me that he's shown a consistent pattern of overstating the effec
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by ahepp 6y ago
The first link is the endorsement, the second suggests he knew what he was endorsing.
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by ahepp 6y ago
I've read a couple of these blog posts now, and I'm having trouble finding where he talks about quitting his job. Could you share a link?

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