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by cowpig 5y ago
I would love to learn more about this topic. Would you care to provide a compelling example of this observation being made with evidence?
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by cowpig 5y ago
I think the insinuation that other countries are leaning authoritarian because China overtook the US in purchasing power is making some dubious assumptions about the way that world politics work. That economic success isn't necessarily
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by cowpig 5y ago
I would like to see some kind of evidence or source for these claims: * Most studies show humanity is now less free than several years ago. * more countries become authoritarian [because] China overtook the US as the largest economy in the
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The biggest metropolitan areas are now the most unequal(nytimes.com)
1 points by cowpig 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to hire for non-technical leadership roles?
1 points by cowpig 5y ago|1 comments
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by cowpig 5y ago
I think both of these statements are true
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by cowpig 5y ago
What you're describing sounds to me like a mental health issue. Sounds like you've hacked a dopamine reward loop and now can't stop it. Have you tried therapy?
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by cowpig 5y ago
Your phrasing seems to imply that - we should know that messenger being "subject to community guidelines" means silent censorship - Zuckerberg saying something publicly means it is justified I would disagree with both of those imp
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by cowpig 5y ago
The word "soul" does not appear once in the article
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by cowpig 5y ago
I don't agree in this context. The author wrote an entire article about his position, and dismissing it entirely because some "luminary" disagrees is not an interesting response. OP didn't even bother to point out how or
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by cowpig 5y ago
Appeals to authority are not convincing
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by cowpig 5y ago
dude you can't just drop a hard R like that on HN
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by cowpig 5y ago
Lots of negative comments here but the author's personal experience resonates with my own. I would add that I found it personally stifling to be in an environment where there's a lot of pressure to be constantly upbeat and positiv
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by cowpig 5y ago
I had an experience like this in Numerical Methods in university years ago. The exams were incredibly difficult for bad reasons: you had to calculate many iterations of an algorithm by hand. You also had to memorize a bunch of algorithms (r
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by cowpig 5y ago
When your company culture is authoritarian to the point of installing tracking software on all employees' laptops and monitoring all their activity you might not be the best-suited organization for remote work.
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All Systems Are Human Systems(monadical.com)
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by cowpig 5y ago
Oh I forgot to mention the customer service
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by cowpig 5y ago
When I started my company we chose to use Protonmail. My advice to anyone who wants secure email: don't use protonmail. The email search is completely useless. I don't understand how it can possibly be so difficult to do a substri
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by cowpig 5y ago
I don't think they're similar. There are many stores in my neighborhood, but there's only one google, only one app store on my phone, and only one Amazon. I also think the degree to which the platform can exploit data related
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by cowpig 5y ago
A store is bound to a physical location, whereas online platforms seem to tend toward monopoly
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by cowpig 5y ago
Can we just rule that internet marketplaces cannot offer competing products on their own platforms? The fundamental conflicts of interest will always persist otherwise. This is going to sound radical but I think Google Search should be brok
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by cowpig 5y ago
In an ideal world regulators want to define Amazon as whatever best fits with the public's best interest (as opposed to what is convenient)
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by cowpig 6y ago
> we have well regulated exchanges Are you referring to crypto exchanges as "well regulated"? If so, can you give an example of one that fulfills that description?
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by cowpig 6y ago
jeez.. apparently this is all true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Strzok I am surprised that someone married to this person is acting as a high-ranking official in the executive branch of government controlled by
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by cowpig 6y ago
ok this is better thanks (a quicker, rantier version that touches on related right-to-repair issues)
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by cowpig 6y ago
My first reaction to this was "most crypto mining is done on hydro power because it's cheaper," but then I remembered that demand for power is currently outpacing the growing supply of renewable energy, so many this theory is
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by cowpig 6y ago
When I look at the cryptocurrency economy vs a regulated economy, it's almost night and day in terms of criminal activity. The crypto world is rife with scams, schemes, extortion, fraud, etc. Why do crinimals choose to use cryptocurren
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by cowpig 6y ago
And if you'd bet on Jim Herman winning the PGA Tour Wyndham Championship, you would have over $500,000! High-risk propositions are so valuable when you remove the risk part!
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by cowpig 6y ago
I mean the thought process that goes something like 1. markets are (mostly) good 2. government intervention is (mostly) bad Therefore: 3. anything that takes power away from government, especially if it increases the role of some kind of ma
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by cowpig 6y ago
I think this is less about Bitcoin being screwed, and more a criticism of the neo-libertarian escapist approach to economics. That we all depend on the systems that govern our world, from the clean(er) laws physics of it all the way up to t

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