alexanderstears

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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Because there isn't enough skin in the game. Judges don't get punished for bad decisions and Transworld was allowed to mislead the courts for too long.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
I live in a country with reasonable abortion access and adoption laws - every parent is a parent by choice. I'm not sure that every jerk is as accountable for their behavior.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
I completely put all the blame of the costs of jerks on management and you should too. Every jerk you work with was hired by management! Jerks don't wonder around the street, finding their ways into offices and meeting rooms and then s
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
I think the best thing to do is look at each transaction separately, read a few sources, and reflect on what made sense, what the sources were all agreement about, and what seemed like a pitch. Consumer advocacy agencies usually have excell
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
If the person has a kid that's sick as often as the jerk is a jerk (read - a majority of the time), you won't be so thrilled about picking up their slack. There are people who have chronicly sick kids and you have to believe that
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
and so we use finance to bridge time horizons. The banks should only lend money to people who would be capable of saving for a house. But if you're capable of saving for a house, and someone has money they're not using, why not us
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
You're right that productive people are productive despite being jerks, not because they're jerks. And sure, cast as much judgement on jerks as you feel is proper. But most people are pretty set in their ways. Everyone who yel
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
You're right. The person managing the jerk should have 'skin in the game' with everyone the jerk interacts with or else the manager can (and will) game the system. I once managed someone with a terrible reputation (because I
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
It's not accurate to characterize finance as simply something that happens to be capable of making you rich in a narrow point in time. More than you know, I'm not a cheerleader of modern finance but it is the reason that most of t
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Hiring brilliant jerks is fundamentally a decision that comes down to the specific situation and imo it should rest with the hiring manager. Letting brilliant jerks ruin it for others is a management problem, not a brilliant jerk problem. H
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
I think the US is much more likely to violate the privacy of a random 3rd party than Russia, absolutely. How many Kenyans have their data sitting in NSA servers? I bet it's more than Kenyans on the FSB's servers. I don't know
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
>I say that if WL's real goal is to promote human rights, That's where you're wrong. Wikileaks' mission is "transparency for governments and privacy for people". Perhaps they seem to have affinity for publis
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
>"Neocons" were the foreign-policy hawks of the 2000s. These guys largely call themselves the "alt-right". Hardly. Most nationalists (probably the LCD of dissident right movements) hate foreign entangelements. Trump s
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
No - people who don't want to live in a totalitarian hellhole know that scalping is totalitarian hellhole stuff. SJWs agree that they hate white cismen's hellholes but they just hate white cismen. SJWs love diverse hellholes.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Ha, I'd have to get a golden parachute to work there. Some SJW googler would try to scalp me within 30 minutes of me saying the problem with policing in America is the lack of secret police. And the problem with airport security is tha
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
There's a shortage of qualified software developers like there's a shortage of steinway pianos in my house. There's not enough available at the price I want to pay. So sad. The market's clearing but not for me. Pay more
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
IF you guys activate on this idea - let me know. I'll work for no salary (but equity) and I have an extremely strong vision of how this should be - build an augmented reality app to help people with basic car repairs - start out with
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
The sites would have to pay youtube for the content (ideally they'd pay something similar to how much youtube pays the creator - which would actually incentivize youtube to pay creators). If youtube doesn't pay you, that's be
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Who said anything about licensing it for free? I think youtube's catalog should be available to service who can cough up as much as youtube.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
If a creator uploads their video to youtube, other video sites should be able to license it from youtube. If youtube doesn't want to share the money, the creators should find another platform.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
There are too many normies on the web these days.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
We should formulate rules around data ownership - data is scarce resource that is fundamentally owned by the subjects of the data. We should probably create universal standards for data portability on platforms and mandatory licencing schem
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
It's going to be interesting to see how the rights of free association evolve as platforms kick more and more people off of them. On one hand, most people agree that platform owners get to make the rules for their platforms. On the oth
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
It's only through the construction of highways that suburbs can be accessible. There was a great study done to show that the cost of highways is mostly subsidized by the inner city, not the suburbs themselves. Are you intentionally c
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Subject to economic / technical constraints. But when there's money at stake, construction companies find a way. The petronas towers have pylons driven deeper than 100 meters [0]. You're right that the land matters and a San
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Perhaps but now we can document it better, and he seems to be taking the MSM down with him so that's a plus.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
If anything, the laws demands everyone subsidize parking through higher prices / rents. London recently got rid of parking laws and to no one's surprise, developers built a lot less parking. Parking is a perfect example of bad zon
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
Some areas have geographic or legal limits to constructions (maximum building hight, water, etc). There is simply no way to build more building without first demolishing existing buildings, which is costly. But not as costly as sticking t
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
He's less capable and more easily thwarted and has awakened the fourth estate.
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by alexanderstears 9y ago
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/443799/obamas-imperial-...

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