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by citrablue 8y ago
How could a company signal this virtue to their customer?
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The US military spends a huge amount of money on "kind" projects -- e.g., not bombs and planes. The USS Mercy[0] is a multi-generational series of ships that go to help natural disaster victims, all over the world. The entire mi
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by citrablue 8y ago
If the prior contract reputation is the primary concern, couldn't google get good reviews from the feds on altruistic projects? The less important the contract amount, the easier it should be to choose an altruistic project (they tend
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by citrablue 8y ago
What is your opinion of the work that IBM did for the Germans in WW2?
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Have you considered offering this as a browser extension? It would greatly increase your market size, and I have worked with (non-technical) people who would love to be able to activate an extension, enter an email address, and email out a
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by citrablue 8y ago
Failure to trim wild growth is a very common cause of massive wildfires.[0] In California, there's an incentive problem because the utilities try to charge the costs to the consumers. They have reduced economic incentive to maintain s
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by citrablue 8y ago
Perhaps those characteristics aren't as valued in today's society as in the past. They may also be difficult to signal and interpret truthfully. Further, in the what-you-see-is-all-there-is Kahneman worldview, it's much eas
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by citrablue 8y ago
I used to work with people who did this. A lot of it does appear to be uniquely American, but the human element is this: these groups have all 110% convinced themselves they're saving those poor unfortunate people. A little marketing
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If you have an infinite budget, I could 'target' you by purchasing every ad on the internet with the copy "hi bawana, click this link!" Nearly every impression would be seen by the wrong person, but a few of the impressi
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by citrablue 8y ago
Can you point to the specific statutes that she violated? "Fraud" is very broad -- I am not clear that she did anything illegally, just unethically and deceptive. We aren't criminalizing how Reddit astroturfed their site.
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by citrablue 8y ago
The answer, of course, is hindsight bias. It says more about our inability to understand the probabilistic nature of the future than any sort of commentary about the downfall of civilized society. Call to mind the Michael Dell letter about
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True, but don't you think the sophistication and frequency have increased considerably since then? Add in the fact that it comes from complete strangers, and I think even if it's roots are way back in history, the modern environme
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I'm not sure everyone feels the same way. When you donate to the ACLU, don't they send things like bumper stickers that people use to signal to others that they are the kind of person who donates to the ACLU? I wonder how much of
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by citrablue 8y ago
Here's another issue I have with identity politics: it's a lens that can be useful for examining certain situations. However, it's not the only one. Yet subscribers to the I.P. framework seem to insist that it's the on
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It could also be caused by the evaluation of candidates by (typically) business types. They think they can recognize a great sale (because it sold them), but evaluating engineering talent is hard. Even for other engineers, much less suits
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A strategy for this is outlined in the (great, IMO) book "Never Split the Difference": treat the interaction as a negotiation, and adopt a EQ-first approach. The book has some good phrasing hacks and other subtle messaging techni
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Scientific theory is based around the idea that you can never, 100% prove anything absolutely true.* The best we can do is to be "less wrong" by learning how we're wrong. It's a perspective on acquiring knowledge that