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by bhupy 5y ago
Yeah that's fair.
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It appears their bet was that by having the upfront cost be discounted and making the money back in "service" payments, they increase access to those that might otherwise not be comfortable footing the high upfront cost. The produ
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My understanding is that it's the current administration that's the one demanding payment from the world in return for forgoing the economic growth that might be realized by deforestation. Considering that the Amazon is pretty ess
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by bhupy 5y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with your perspective here, it makes sense. That being said, with payment plans, there's typically some notion of an interest rate. If you miss a payment, you "just" owe the compounding inter
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by bhupy 5y ago
Agreed, it doesn't seem like this would even need to be a "service", at least in the sense that the core functionality of "inflating" can entirely be serviced offline/locally on the jacket. There's so much
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by bhupy 5y ago
> nay, rewarded Really? I see a low hanging fruit opportunity to get rich: manufacture and sell the same motorcycle vest and sell it at an upfront cost equal to some approximate amortization of monthly payments over some average LTV. As
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by bhupy 5y ago
> You can see how this impacts the Board's rulings, they're almost always formed as requirements that Facebook clarify its policies further. If that's the case, then the Oversight Board doesn't actually serve the purp
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Great, so by the logic you just set out, I think it's pretty clear that the "founding pillar" of the United States was a system that allowed us to eventually create laws that would be forced upon the slave states on account o
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> If monarchy was indeed both socioeconomically important and a deal-breaker for founding the EU to a comparable extent as slavery in the United States, then I would think it's fair to call it a founding pillar. The disagreement is
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> The boards charter isn't to set facebooks policies, but to ensure that Facebook is enforcing them consistently. Sure, and in theory the Supreme Court's function isn't to set new laws, it's to ensure that the governm
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by bhupy 5y ago
By that logic, universities are a big contributor to ongoing economic inequality. You spend 2-4 years (at least, more if you want a post-grad) not earning any money, and in fact paying money to get the credentials needed to eventually bec
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by bhupy 5y ago
Uh, yes? Monarchy is an essential component of the political systems of the Netherlands, the UK, and Denmark (to name a few). There are a variety of reasons the citizens of those countries continue to preserve that institution. The question
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by bhupy 5y ago
With respect, that's a pretty asinine reading of the comment. Slavery was not a founding pillar of the United States, any more than monarchy is a founding pillar of the European Union just because some of its member states happen to be
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by bhupy 5y ago
That was...not a founding pillar of the United States. It's fairly well documented that the Founding Fathers were pretty much all opposed to slavery, but saw it as a huge political shit sandwich that would jeopardize Federalization. Th
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That's an odd dichotomy, because the overlap between those two groups is much larger than you might think. There's a common trope thrown around that "the first amendment only applies to the government"...which is obvious
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Sounds like you've done the research, and I'd genuinely love to learn more about the board. Do you have some specific examples of board members whose ideologies could be reasonably construed to be sympathetic to Trump (or at the v
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by bhupy 5y ago
I'd encourage you to read my comment in full: over the long run, the balance has swayed, but it's never remained ideologically homogenous in perpetuity. Until 2017, the majority of the Supreme Court was "living Constitutional
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What checks and balances exist on the board? What mechanism does the board have to ensure a sufficient diversity of ideologies? I've seen news outlets describe the Oversight Board as a "Supreme Court" of sorts. With the US Fe
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It sounds like we agree! I will say that from the transcripts (and from the way conversations have been going in this thread), the way this usually starts is that one party unilaterally sets the rules of engagement and more or less demands
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by bhupy 5y ago
And conversely, you don’t get to assume that others understand you when you use language in ways that aren’t colloquial. Shared definitions is the bedrock of human communication, and absent that, we’re no better than chimps just grunting pa
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by bhupy 5y ago
The point that I’m trying to make is that the biggest beneficiaries of collaborative problem solving here are the very Black engineers you’re talking about. Playing rhetorical tricks in an attempt to “make people uncomfortable” just muddies
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> Pedantry over definitions distracts from the underlying issues, while new and inventive and nonstandard usage of language can spur critical analysis and jolt us out of our familiar understanding. I understand that that’s the intention
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> This isn’t a helpful approach. Prescriptivist appeals to the dictionary and dismissal of others’ viewpoints are not ways of listening to the perspectives of others or empathizing with different experiences, and seem to be actively prev
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At least the damage from those stupid people is well contained, as opposed to the alternative where stupid people come into power at the Federal level every 4-8 years and muck it up for everybody.
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> It has no built-in control for a company that becomes too big to the point of being a detriment to society. That's verifiably untrue. One of the key traits of capitalism is that businesses are allowed to fail, and we see that they
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by bhupy 5y ago
Because of the time-value of money. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/timevalueofmoney.asp
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You're correct that they're probably not similar, but they are different in ways that undercuts your original argument. There are almost certainly more than one search engine (Bing, DuckDuckGo) and more than one online retail plat
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by bhupy 6y ago
It's actually debatable if capital is even > labor. https://taxfoundation.org/labor-share-net-income-within-hist...
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I'm not sure why spam should be treated any differently than conversational indecency (personal attacks, bad faith arguing); in theory it could all fall under the bucket of "this doesn't belong here", right?
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Just FYI, that's just a theory, and in the decade since his book was published, there have been several rebuttals and refutations pointing out that this theoretical mechanism doesn't match the empirical data. https://ww

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