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by bhupy 5y ago
Just curious…why? For the vast majority of Uber’s users, space is basically free.
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It might even have the effect of strengthening First Amendment protections by creating yet another precedent in a long line of permissiveness-expanding precedents that began since NYTimes v Sullivan and Brandenburg v Ohio.
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You’re right, a typo. Question still stands.
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It relates to your explaining the subtext because that subtext is a straw man. I can’t speak for the GP commenter to whom you responded, but I can speak for myself when I say that I strive to to treat everyone the same regardless of their r
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by bhupy 5y ago
> Every representation of humans is racialized, they exist in a social context where race exists This is only true as long as we go out of our way to make it true. The concept of “googly eyes” for example, is totally race agnostic. Like
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by bhupy 5y ago
I think it’s possible to hold the following two views at the same time: - “systemic racism” is real and not 100% solved - of all the possible strategies to solve systemic racism, racializing all facets of everyday life, including emojis, ma
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by bhupy 5y ago
This comment seems to imply that certain beliefs (ostensibly your own) are objective truths/facts that hold special merit. This is simply not the case.
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by bhupy 5y ago
It seems weird to conflate private policing with concepts like decentralization and federalism; which are pretty common in the world (see: Canada, Switzerland, Australia, the European Union, etc etc). They don't seem related. I actua
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by bhupy 5y ago
In your mind, does a company like Frame have the authority to use force and/or arrest people? What happens if one resists arrest?
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Right, and that's exactly the point. No one ever consumes the set-union of all content at the same time . Having multiple platforms have different content is not all that different from having multiple TV channels have different conte
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> I have mixed feelings about this one because rightsholders essentially have a monopoly on their content. 5+ video streaming platforms is bad for consumers, and this exists because rightsholders are allowed to control their content. I f
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by bhupy 5y ago
That's not the point that I'm making. You're absolutely right that nobody would ever pay $200 or whatever per month for such a service, but that's because nobody would ever consumer $200 worth of TV series on any given m
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> Still, I've been to that party that end with one room full of "Amazons", one room full of "Neflixers" and those left over wondering what they all talk about. I really like what you said here. A familiar analogy
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by bhupy 5y ago
Thanks for the correction, you're absolutely right about the ebook market share. Notwithstanding that, I think the general point is that this is a vertical acquisition completely unrelated to that market, in which Amazon has nowhere cl
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Based on this line of reasoning, literally any acquisition is bad. What's the limiting principle?
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One glaring difference between 1948 and 2021 is that distribution is basically free now. Whereas in 1948, one's ability to consume media was dictated by their physical location, today there is close to zero marginal cost to deliver dig
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by bhupy 5y ago
I think you're both arguing the same point: that monopoly markups can negatively impact consumer welfare. The central argument is whether Amazon specifically is a monopoly in any of the industries in which it operates, so as to be ab
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It feels like the aversion to the "trillion" market value is strictly psychological in response to an arbitrary order of magnitude. Keep in mind that the total value of all US companies combined as of March 2021 is $49 trillion (
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I think you both appear to be aggressively agreeing with each other. Yes, deaths are front-loaded towards young people because the biggest variance in average life expectancy is child mortality. In countries like Bangladesh, one's abil
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by bhupy 5y ago
> For individuals, the only thing we have in this world is time, and it's finite. When it's all gone, it's all over for us. That means time is the most valuable thing possible to individuals. But this is a difference in de
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by bhupy 5y ago
> Time is more valuable than money This is one of those "does not compute" statements that's sort of like dividing by zero. Money buys time, and time has value ( https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t&#
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by bhupy 5y ago
I recommend reading Steve Yegge's (in)famous "Platforms Rant". https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 The conventional understanding is that AWS was a top-down mandate by a prescient Bezos way ahead
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by bhupy 5y ago
That's Axios's style. Their thesis is that most "analysis" is biased (and often wrong), and therefore they stick to just reporting the raw facts as concisely and easy to digest as possible. I, for one, love it but I unde
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by bhupy 5y ago
The way I like to think about it, Elon Musk over over over over promises, and "just" over delivers. Most CEOs could never dream of producing the kinds of real results that Elon Musk has, but also most CEOs aren't as comically
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by bhupy 5y ago
Some States will likely re-establish their own moratoriums. My state, NY, just did: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2021/05/03/ny-state-evic... California already extended it through June: http
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by bhupy 5y ago
> That’s close enough to the notion that supporters of slavery deserve credit for the abolition of slavery, because without slavery existing it never could have been abolished Um, that's not remotely close to what's being conte
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> What would be the cost to manufacture them at the rate of 500 million a year? That's the global market potential. Completely agreed. The fact that there's one bad product on the market doesn't mean that one can conclude
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> I think if you've concluded that from my prior comment, you're not reading what I've said with any open mind. Because I explicitly stated the opposite. You more or less admitted it in the following statement: "It is
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And my understanding is that the entire world would be a better place if we could all hold hands and sing kumbaya. These are fanciful ideals, but where the rubber meets the road, there are real tradeoffs with real consequences. The best we
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by bhupy 5y ago
I think we're aggressively in agreement about one thing: the OB is actually not the US Supreme Court, it's the Iranian Assembly of Experts. I think where we are in disagreement is whether this remotely can be considered an indepen

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