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by cowpig 7y ago
We are paying for it in: * personal data & attention * opportunity cost (b/c their market domination deters investment interest in alternatives) * advertising costs (each $ that businesses have to spend on advertising is a $ taken
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by cowpig 7y ago
Maps has gotten progressively worse in most ways over the past decade, and it drives me crazy. I asked a google employee about this who told me a lot of the changes I hate stem from a refactor around 2014-2015. Obviously there was some big
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by cowpig 7y ago
I assumed he/she was. Internet.org is in direct opposition to the principle of net neutrality.
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by cowpig 7y ago
If that's how you want to define "insult," then I disagree that we shouldn't do it. You shouldn't attack people for who they are, or anything outside of their control (race, gender, etc) But for choices they make, t
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by cowpig 7y ago
> subsidize internet access in the developing world Are you talking about Facebook's abuse of power to strengthen its monopoly position in developing nations? If so, 83% of voters in the USA thinks what you are describing as "s
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by cowpig 7y ago
Telling someone that what they do for a living makes the world a worse place is neither a personal insult nor hating. Social pressure is one of the principal ways we stop people from making self-interested decisions that are detrimental to
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by cowpig 7y ago
What do you mean by "weaker federal state" when describing Canada?
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by cowpig 7y ago
I feel like I see all those same things and feel happy for the people involved, that they are finding something that they feel a passion for. I also sometimes feel disdain and judgment towards other peoples' interests, (pop music, for
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by cowpig 7y ago
I had never seen the word "shibboleth" before reading the article about "The Real Class War" this week, and now I'm seeing it in the title of a submission days later. It's not spiking in google trends[1], but I
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by cowpig 7y ago
> Instagram is often accused of producing artificial images, but there’s something very honest about its commercial system I think the author has mistaken brazenness for honesty
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by cowpig 7y ago
I think Instagram is harmful in different ways
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by cowpig 7y ago
It's like trying to use molecular physics to explain the immune system. It's not just impractical; it's impossible to know enough of the variables to derive one from the other. In practice "evolutionary" explanation
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by cowpig 7y ago
I had a minor fall while snowboarding last January. I just slipped on an ice patch while slowing to a stop, and hit the back of my head. Was wearing a helmet. This was my second concussion as an adult (to my knowledge). My startup was strug
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by cowpig 7y ago
Is it possible to like Jewish people and strongly dislike the government of the state of Isreal?
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by cowpig 7y ago
The point I was making is that every employee invests their life in their work. I think time is more valuable than money. The whole point of money is to give me the resources to do better things with my time. The idea that the person who in
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by cowpig 7y ago
> He is taking the risks The only kind of risk is a capital risk. Capitalism as religion
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by cowpig 7y ago
> This chestnut gets trotted out pretty regularly. What it ignores is the economic activity, largely untraceable, relating to payments outside of the US regulated financial system. You follow this up with some political points that I gen
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by cowpig 7y ago
As a white dude who has had many experiences with cops, I can tell you that if a police officer asked me if I stole Facebook bike I was riding, and I replied, "no, I'm an employee," they might ask for some kind of evidence
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by cowpig 7y ago
From a pragmatic perspective, dealing with the climate crisis is the pretext. There's a history of using the judicial system in this way in the US (particularly on race issues), partly because the judicial appointments tend to be the l
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by cowpig 7y ago
ConsumerSearch is the best thing I've found for this purpose specifically https://www.consumersearch.com/
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by cowpig 7y ago
It's possible he meant the Fourth Estate, but he seems to be blurring the lines between Fourth and Second and trying to make this point about how the Second only exists because of the Fourth, so I'm not sure. But even if it is jus
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by cowpig 7y ago
That seems like a lot of hand-waving to me. > this was the context for Edmund Burke’s remarks in 1787 that “There are Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than
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by cowpig 7y ago
Isn't the media the fourth estate? I can't find any way to interpret this excerpt such that it makes sense. How does anyone have "monopoly control over fact checking"? And I also can't think of a way to favorably in
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by cowpig 7y ago
> The third concern is what has dominated the news cycle as of late: Facebook’s decision to not fact-check any posts or ads from politicians. This is largely being framed as aiding President Trump in particular, which is probably both tr
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by cowpig 7y ago
I dunno, I think Maps has gotten progressively worse in most ways over the past decade (with a particularly precipitous drop after whatever refactor they released in 2014 or so. Google maps is * Much, much slower * Harder to read/under
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by cowpig 7y ago
This is totally unrelated to the article, but are you by any chance the DanTheMan of Wilt Chamberlain Archive fame?
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by cowpig 7y ago
I also want to challenge an implicit assumption made in the article, namely that rent control inherently limits housing supply. Suppose rentals were simply banned. That is, you can only buy, and the rental market was eliminated. Would housi
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by cowpig 7y ago
So many people in this message board hold strong normative opinions of free markets (namely, that they are inherently good) and don't understand the basics of them. It surprises me, because economics seem so aligned with this board&#x2
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by cowpig 7y ago
But this is self-contradictory. When you say "there is only a market price" you are saying that those with money are entitled.
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by cowpig 7y ago
If you cut up the municipality into uniform sizes, and then randomly sample from that to do your counts it should account for that problem I think.

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