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by apatters 7y ago
> It is funny that the dog whistle for conservatism these days are the immigrants whom are supposedly taking peoples jobs. You have this backwards. My point wasn't that immigrants are taking American jobs, it was that Americans are
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You can tell who was born with a silver spoon in their mouth by their response to this. The "why can't we just make all jobs great forever" responses crack me up. It's classic virtue signalling by liberal elites: demand
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How can you claim "DDG is toast unless..." when they have hockey stick levels of growth? They're obviously doing something very right: https://www.revenuewire.com/performance-blog/duckduckgo-expe...
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Your response is long on explanations of what a nice guy you are and how much you love Singapore, where your close business partners reside. All that however is immaterial to the observation that you've committed the fallacy of whatabo
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by apatters 7y ago
You statement seems like whataboutism, a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit someone else by making an false accusation of hypocrisy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism In truth a common Western position
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A duopoly will be marginally better at implementing user-friendly features like privacy than a monopoly, because there is at least nominal competition. However I think we need to start asking deeper questions - why is it that concentration
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The Qualcomm Case: Why China Uses U.S. Technology Americans Are Locked Out Of(mattstoller.substack.com)
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To think in terms of there even being a next "incumbent in the space" implies a misunderstanding of what is driving Mastodon adoption. The differentiator behind Mastodon is federation via the ActivityPub protocol. And Mastodon is
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Having been on the fringes of the SEO industry for many years, my theory is that the spammers and algorithm gamers have slowly but surely won out. This has forced Google to de-emphasize keyword relevancy and instead prioritize content sourc
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Not really. While that specific quote wasn't about surveillance, Franklin was decidedly pro-encryption, as were most of the Founding Fathers. They all "encrypted" their letters regularly with elaborate codes and ciphers to th
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It's reductio ad absurdum, not reducto absurd. Less than half of college students say they want kids, and yet something like 80% of Americans end up reproducing at some point in their lives. Personally I try to assume that I'm not
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Are they really a vast minority? The statistics here are interesting: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/major-depression.... About 17M adult Americans have had one or more major depressive episodes. 35% o
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I actually think we do a great disservice to people who are dealing with trauma by using alcohol because we stigmatize it instead of treating it like what it is: self-medication. It is just another thing a lot of people do to cope with stre
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This is a reductio ad absurdum. The meaningful issue is the essentiality of the service and government's involvement in it. Do we really need the service? Do we need it enough to force everyone to pay for it at gunpoint? (That is what
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Sure. But the issue that needs to be solved with talking therapies is, how do you scale them? Talking to a psychologist starts at $200/hr and the farther you go down the ladder in terms of qualifications the lower the success rate of t
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This is especially true of big companies or companies that only have a few competitors, which is why it's high time to save American capitalism with a round of good old fashioned trust busting.
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The MySpace vs Facebook example is very old. The modern social media landscape is actually a great example of how the system in the US is broken. Where is the competition to Facebook? Instagram and Whatsapp were compelling alternatives that
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The substitutability of going to the theater is not super high if for instance you are busy parents in a small town and you want to have a date night, or get your kids out of the house for a few hours on the weekend. People might still go b
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Is it really? There are only five major studios which command 80-85% of the US box office [1], and by extension a major share of all global box office returns. Five corporate boards exercise creative control over nearly all of Hollywood. Th
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The tools and even the content itself don't really seem to be the fulcrum of a content business. As thousands of derivativr pop songs and mediocre AAA video games attest, it's all about distribution. Those are industries where the
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> Or it may aid in processing traumas that were blockades to meditation, with a net result of it being easier to do meditation practice afterwards even without psychedelics. It's all speculation until further research is done into h
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Yes, business stakeholders often mistrust software and IT people, because relative to other industries we do a poor job of meeting our commitments. McKinsey did a study recently which found that large IT projects ran on average 45 percent o
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This is very interesting. I think a lot of us have come to believe the claim that blue light exposure keeps you awake. So what do we know? That excessive exposure to any kind of light at night keeps you awake? It looks like there are seve
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This concern does get expressed from time to time, but I think it is sacrificing the long-term for the short-term. Sure, you can prop up bad businesses through government intervention in the short term, and we do it all the time. But in the
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Starbucks is selling an experience and it's central to this experience that there be a human putting a little TLC into what happens, whether it's a friendly greeting, a product recommendation, remembering your name and writing it
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I counted at least six questions in your response -- I appreciate the response, but do you really expect a rational person who seeks to make the best use of their time to respond to six questions in one comment? This makes it hard to contin
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What do you think of the Media Bias Chart? https://www.adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/ This project assesses the factual accuracy and political bias of a large number of articles (and by extension, the publishers of thos
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It seems like you're using an extreme example. Most people's lives are not crashing down around them, but they still have vulnerabilities -- anxieties, problems, things they're afraid of. I responded to a comment saying that
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Most people believe that vulnerability is a weakness and a disadvantage but this is demonstrably untrue. Showing vulnerability is a way to develop rapport and connection with other people. Here is a great example using Jennifer Lawrence who
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Any explanation of why slavery is wrong falls flat unless you examine why it has been a part of so many human societies for most of history. You have to look at why so many people supported it, not just write them off as monsters. Inevita

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