billytetrud

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by billytetrud 5y ago
Sorry, what is GGP? What counter examples? > a poorly regulated market will almost certainly result in a great many monopolies A market regulated in poorly thought through ways can certainly lead to monopolies. But monopolies specificall
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You're correct, usually is not always. But also, that's not what I meant. I meant that when companies can make profits without creating more value to society than the profits they make, its generally because of regulatory capture
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by billytetrud 5y ago
??? What idea aren't you buying into? That platforms can't feasibly police their users and that its unreasonable for us to expect them to? Yes, they can get the worst of the worst. They can comply with court orders. But expecting
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by billytetrud 5y ago
I don't know why you're assuming my or most good programmers' githubs are filled up with todo apps and other worthless garbage. > saying “I have a lot of repos” is def not. When did I say that? I didn't. They should b
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by billytetrud 5y ago
You realize that an autocracy and a dictatorship are so similar as to be basically the same thing, right?
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by billytetrud 5y ago
When it's out of alignment, usually it's because of regulatory capture.
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by billytetrud 5y ago
You have a rosy view of the oppressive actions of an authoritarian government. It should be noted that the author does not think that is the reason China is doing what it's doing. Netflix is not draining capitol and not sapping menta
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by billytetrud 5y ago
If their labeling is confusing or misleading, that's their fault.
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by billytetrud 5y ago
It's really weird that people think it's the responsibility of these platforms to police their users. Those of you that think it's easy to do, you're very very wrong. Censorship is also a problem and we should be support
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? Why?
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> how do you know I didn’t copy the code from somewhere? You can ask your candidate to explain the code... Is that not obvious? > writing code for the sake of writing code doesn’t tell a hiring manager if the person can take requireme
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Yes, every bad hire is really bad. However, companies generally don't put in any effort into seriously evaluating your publicly available work. I have reams and reams of open source code companies can take a look at, and I've neve
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by billytetrud 5y ago
That lustre has faded already.
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Yes they should. Most government secrets aren't in the people's best interest.
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It seems pretty clear that he is being jailed for being a whistleblowers. The case brought against him seems incredibly flimsy. Its retaliation, plain and simple.
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What Snowden did was herioc and needed to happen. The fact that he had to break awful oppressive laws to do it is an indictment of the laws, not Snowden.
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Rewrites aren't fixing technical debt. Rewrites are letting your last version declare bankruptcy
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What part of the title is misleading exactly? The title doesn't say he is going to jail because whistleblowing is illegal. But he is indeed going to jail for things about how his whistle blowing was done. I think it's misleading t
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by billytetrud 5y ago
And people wonder why Snowden didn't turn himself in
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Why did this article feel the need to put the political divide chart up there? You can clearly see the divide started long before the internet was a factor. The political divide has been caused by first past the post voting (which causes th
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Yes, these kinds of reports are incredibly biased. I see very little evidence of any "model" in the papers other than extrapolation and number tweaking to produce different scenarios. For sure, pollution, habitat destruction &#x2F
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by billytetrud 5y ago
> the book that featured this world model was a bestseller in the 70s Was "the book" she mentions the now debunked book "The Population Bomb"? The 70s had lots of catesrophic thinking because they had an economic cris
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by billytetrud 5y ago
> But the ACLU Sure. The ACLU probably won't get involved, but the reason is not that the guy has no case. He clearly has a case.
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by billytetrud 5y ago
Its not an insult. But feel free to take it the wrong way. I just hope that next time you violently disagree with someone, you stop and think "what are other ways i could interpret this that make more sense?"
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Communication is a two way street dude. As a speaker, its your responsibility to consider your audience when encoding your thoughts as incredibly inefficient, verbose, and imprecise human language. As a listener, your responsibility is to c
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by billytetrud 5y ago
> I'm not aware of any laws that would require the city to issue the license or even to respond He purchased a license and sent him a response as a receipt. They have an obligation to send him his license or respond or both. That is
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by billytetrud 5y ago
You seem to be massively misunderstanding what he meant by "basically a ghost town". All he meant is that lots of people will leave, opportunity will be reduced, etc. You seem to be taking it far too literally. And no, it's n
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by billytetrud 5y ago
> Why is it different? Because youtube videos aren't rewarded based on votes. People generally want creators to be rewarded for their work when its good, and they'll almost certainly put more effort into rating if they know tha
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by billytetrud 5y ago
> Certainly saves me money. I think a lot of people believe its saving them money, but in reality its actually costing more and at the same time lower quality than it would be with a correctly-priced pay-per-view model. You can't co
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by billytetrud 5y ago
> Would you like to pay say 1 dollar per movie and watch significant amount of ads during it? No I wouldn't.

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