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by blackbagboys 8y ago
Not taking sides in this particular dispute, but it's generally naive and incorrect historiography to take source documents at face value like this.
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
Can't say I blame the bereavement guy. Nearly every firm in the United States has an unacceptably stingy PTO policy.
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
This is almost certainly true. Breakthroughs in science, mathematics, technology, and engineering occur when the conditions are ripe; if you look into every major famous breakthrough, you find that it was being duplicated or research along
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
I suspect this effect only holds on extremely broad issues where people don't consider their core identities material interests to be at stake. It's one thing to be amenable to arguments about very 'zoomed out' policy is
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
The continued health and well-being of our fellow human beings take precedence over most other 'things'. If it's a choice between letting someone buy an extra boat and giving someone potentially life-saving preventative care,
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
Given that my 'nuanced position' was included in the same post as my 'overbroad claim', and that you're apparently now seriously arguing that there is no difference between handful of guys in a start-up making a dec
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
Most of the people responsible for the most vicious atrocities in history look, act, and speak like reasonable people. In the U.S., staid corporate lawyer types like John Dulles have been responsible for vastly more human suffering than out
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
The YC credo is to encourage these companies to think of themselves as judges of what is and is not acceptable lawbreaking. That's the problem.
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
No, there are two separate points being argued here. You first implied that there are plenty of rules that are completely pointless - mitigating no negative externalities. I challenged you to provide an example of a start-up whose business
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
They're in conflict with federal law, but they're following a legal and regulatory framework that was established by their local governments, so there's a broad consensus where they are operating that it's OK to break th
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
Can you offer any recent examples of start-ups routinely breaking the law where nearly everyone is in agreement that their law-breaking has no negative social effect? Again, all rules involve trade-offs . It may be that those trade-offs or
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
Rules and regulations require trade-offs. The YC types that run these companies notice the inefficiencies resulting from these trade-offs, recognize the opportunity to profit from them and arrogantly assume they have the right to ignore any
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
We can push for higher journalistic standards and also push to punish crooks who intentionally deceive the public in order to line their pockets, especially when it's at the expense of struggling populations like heavily indebted stude
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
In practice, this is what breaking 'rules that don't matter' looks like - you break the rules that don't matter to you , but those rules were probably put in place for a reason.
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
Well, they have the apparatus of the entire state protecting them, so the guys directly on the payroll are mostly just for show.
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
Phase in high land value taxes (not property taxes) when personal residences are sold
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
1.9 million kilograms is only ~2100 tons. I think it is perfectly reasonable to look into why a handful of suppliers are exporting ~5% of Syria's annual pre-war demand to an active war zone without bothering to follow the proper licens
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by blackbagboys 8y ago
>> That did not happen. Counterpoint: It did happen. Only the country currently propping up the regime's genocidaires with all-out military support is claiming it was unspecified 'militants' who blocked the inspectors.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
Yes, it's unsurprising that the pro-government press supports the government's campaign against their rivals.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
This is incorrect. A considerable amount of opposition to slavery came from "Free Soil" farmers, laborers, and mechanics who did not want to compete with slave labor. After the war they continued to pursue their class interests an
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
What is programming other than a way of embedding human knowledge into machines in order to generate value?
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
Which series are you using? I have nothing but positive things to say about the T-series. I think the E-series is just a garden variety commodity laptop with the ThinkPad branding, though.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
The Philippine press is not free. Duterte has made his "fake news" nonsense a key part of his project to crush opposition media. It's no surprise that the Manila Times has gone out of its way to avoid stepping on his toes, al
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
Somewhat tangential to the main article, but I have a hunch (as yet uncontaminated by hard evidence) that some sizable fraction of the decline in writerly fortunes over the last hundred years or so is that even though literate audience has
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
So a tiny handful of top performers - plausibly few enough that you could fit them all on a schoolbus - in an ultra-hot technical field are raking in huge sums, for the moment. Unless you are a top professor at an R1 research university or
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
I'm crimes I'm talking about all come from the rapacious desire for either land to speculate on or new markets to exploit, both of which are quintessentially capitalist in character. Again, to play this game, we could just as easi
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
Greenspun is notoriously, shall we say, “contrarian” when it comes to modern gender issues, so I don’t think that’s an incorrect gloss on the piece.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
I'd be pretty amazed if it was even possible to construct a model that would answer that question. In the article's example, you're constructing a model to determine how a movie might be reviewed. The data indicates that movi
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
I'm not unsympathetic to your concerns, but the obvious retort is that if you already know which results are accurate, why bother doing analysis?
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
>> Normally, we'd simply choose Model C. But what if we found that while Model C performs the best overall, it's also most likely to assign a more positive sentiment to the sentence "The main character is a man" th

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