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by concinds 4y ago
Agreed, the problem isn't at pension funds; the problem is the whole financial system's excessive systemic risk. That systemic risk can be effectively reduced, and policymakers haven't done much to address it at all due to r
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by concinds 4y ago
Couldn't be further from the truth. War today is fought with currency devaluations (currency wars), financial warfare, cyberwarfare, psychological warfare (propaganda, see the Western media reports on the well-funded Ukrainan and Russi
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by concinds 4y ago
It's a straight quote from the 1981 movie, Arthur, for the record. There would be zero legal liability to keeping him since any court would see it's a joke.
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by concinds 4y ago
> public leader that is always representing Apple He's far more low profile than Cue or Federighi, and completely unknown among the general public, which backs up your "wanted him gone" theory. If they really did fire him
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by concinds 4y ago
An even better equivalent would be the Apple-Microsoft negotiations in 1997, around Microsoft Office, IE-as-default, non voting shares, etc. I think TechEmails published a bunch of these.
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by concinds 4y ago
Strongly disagree with this; we have many indications that Apple's efforts aren't just on CarPlay. First, Apple's car project is clearly mostly focused on self-driving (tying into Apple's mapping efforts). To steelman yo
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by concinds 4y ago
VK has not been targeted with sanctions, despite what the article implies (though with scare quotes). VK's CEO is personally sanctioned due to being an "adult child of someone who had been a Russian government official" (sour
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by concinds 4y ago
The U.S. would never allow the EU to ban American web services to try to foster European innovation like China's doing. They have strong ways to enforce this including by starting a trade war. But there's no reason for countries l
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by concinds 4y ago
There's no conspiracy. Mostly think tanks, policy circles, and White House wonks over every successive Internet-age administration. All segments of the U.S. government pay close attention to, among many people, geopolitical analysis of
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by concinds 4y ago
I used to agree, but I'm not sure I do anymore. Yes, social media gives anyone a microphone; non-experts can speak on advanced topics with zero knowledge. But Gell-Mann Amnesia predates social media. The "reputable sources" o
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by concinds 4y ago
This is completely misunderstanding the problem. https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full > PayPal [...] reserves the right to suspend or terminate [...] access [...] for any reason
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by concinds 4y ago
> Reasonable people don’t need to have such harsh actions applied of course. > But reasonable people don’t end up getting to this point! Sigh. My face now has a permanent dent where my forehead was. Grievous bodily harm caused by face
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by concinds 4y ago
It's an interesting side-effect of news being so concentrated that it's owned by a few massive for-profit corporations. Random, independent decisions still have huge effects.
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by concinds 4y ago
The problem with open-source is that reaching responsibility or leadership positions requires as much office politics, or more, than normal corporate jobs. When a leader is incompetent, you can't talk to his boss, stirring up the commu
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by concinds 4y ago
They addressed the "political rabbit hole", but the powerful nature of algoriths to change people's lives remains completely unaddressed. People's tastes, views, behaviors, career paths, music tastes, and personalities a
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by concinds 4y ago
A chance for the return of the Safari extension perhaps?
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by concinds 4y ago
You're right. $NVDA went from $2.6B in R&D for FY2019 to $6.3B for FY2022; and they've done a few cloud acquisitions in the meantime. They'll go through a tough period, sales wise, as the market gets flooded with second-h
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by concinds 4y ago
Upvoted you, people shouldn't downvote perfectly fine comments. > What do you think of Prince Andrew? Hasn't been proven guilty. Should we just go about our business with him as usual? What about everyone else who settles a cas
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by concinds 4y ago
And the argument there is that poor countries being forced to keep their populations in poverty to protect the environment while the West could develop while polluting as much as it wants, is unfair. They can easily argue that the West has
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by concinds 4y ago
> If the chess community decides to trust Magnus and his credentials without any proof, that's their prerogative, the concept of criminal innocence doesn't come into play at all here. "Innocent until proven guilty" is
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by concinds 4y ago
> Perhaps you should lookup what Carol Dewek means by "achievement mindset" and "growth mindset". I don't think the way you are using it is the same that she is using it. No, I meant confidence comes from achieve
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by concinds 4y ago
> The reason parents in the US tend to have children with "achievement mindset" is because the culture itself rewards and favors achievements instead of growth. Self-confidence comes from achievement; there's no conflict b
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by concinds 4y ago
I like those questions. "Normal" just means norm, so yes, it's the norm to be relatively-to-significantly emotionally unhealthy. That doesn't mean that it's impossible to achieve a world where 80-90% of the world ha
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by concinds 4y ago
Absolutely true; but, for example, YouTube search results also employ a variety of finely tuned parameters that uprank or downrank certain videos, with zero transparency or oversight. YouTube Trending and Twitter Trends are heavily editoria
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by concinds 4y ago
The CPC has TikTok data, and the US (through PRISM) has iCloud, Microsoft, GSuite, Facebook, and now likely Snapchat too. Separately to PRISM, the NSA intercepts data at the backbone level, which is for example how they could get every last
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by concinds 4y ago
Some cultures are more aware of emotional health than others, and some cultural practices favor good emotional health while others favor emotional neglect. No question. But all the examples you give, I'd put in the "psychological
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by concinds 4y ago
It's more profound than that, I'll restate: Cultural change that addresses behaviors or focuses on other external factors can't work; that's outside-in cultural change. But if you want to fix issues on a systemic, nation
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by concinds 4y ago
">Sorry no updates yet. Please star the bug if you wish to see this fixed sooner." Translation: my manager is blocking this; please star this so have a better chance of changing his mind.
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by concinds 4y ago
Yet another example of trying to solve psychological/emotional issues through cultural changes. The root problem is low self-esteem; it's internal, not external; it takes deep inner work, not a change in social norms and teacher b
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by concinds 4y ago
Source code leak means AlterIWNet v2. People being able to pirate a multiplayer game, unlock all microtransactions for free, and mod the game without limits. Obviously great for the game's longevity, but bad for profits.

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