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by creddit 6y ago
Other than the opt-in nature preventing critical mass of adoption, what would you describe as the laughable flaw(s)?
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by creddit 6y ago
> Global social networks are that megaphone. Uh, what? No they aren't. If I shared something on FB or Instagram, it would be shared exactly to the people who I'm friends with on FB or follow me on Instagram. I, and I'm wil
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by creddit 6y ago
> All that is overshadowed by the fact that most people straight up don’t have anything interesting to say. Think of the average person. Do you expect them to wow you with what they are working on even once a month? Chances are, most peo
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by creddit 6y ago
> data.table is a completely separate implementation of a data structure that is functionally similar to a data frame but designed from the ground up for efficiency, though with some compromises, such as eschewing R's typical copy-o
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by creddit 6y ago
Even allowing that, it still doesn't come close to Ricardo's Law of Rent implying that > all the bounty of our efforts will accumulate to the holders of fixed assets, namely land and human talent.
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by creddit 6y ago
Ricardo is never referring to land in the use of housing, he's referring to land in the use of production. EDIT to expand given downvotes on prior post: You claim: > ...all the bounty of our efforts will accumulate to the holders of
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by creddit 6y ago
You've misinterpreted that greatly.
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by creddit 6y ago
> Even doing well isn't sufficient in pandemic times. Ask anyone hiring at a FAANG co and you will find that it's a massive struggle to hire now. Pandemic isn't making anything harder for applicants and, given the relative
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by creddit 6y ago
> I feel like every time it gets used in such a flagrantly meaningless way, it burns some of the power. We can only hope. I think it'll get worse before it gets better, though. At least in the circles I find myself in!
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by creddit 6y ago
Thanks!
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by creddit 6y ago
That’s quite the straw man. Like, I didn’t even mention anything about web search so that’s a really quite the attempt at reconfiguring my argument into something comical to mock. What’s more, the story is pretty explicit that they did lo
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by creddit 6y ago
I’m American and know of TPB, doesn’t mean I know who its founders are! The lawsuits were never particularly big news in my experience. I honestly don’t even specifically know what or when TPB was in active legal hot water nor do I have any
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by creddit 6y ago
True, but it’s a powerful incantation nonetheless.
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by creddit 6y ago
> Also, they didn't notice before? Not like internet people should have never heard of his name. One of the craziest things about the internet to me is that everyone treats their experience of “the internet” as THE experience of “TH
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by creddit 6y ago
Oh so you mean you would want rationing too. How is that related to rent control then?
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by creddit 6y ago
Unclear on how claimed price controls would ensure equitable distribution of bread. Why is the price of bread being capped making it so that more people get bread? If I’m rich and the price of bread is artificially low, maybe I’ll just buy
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by creddit 6y ago
Seems like you do react to it by being scared and then posting about that reaction on HN.
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by creddit 6y ago
What an insane pivot from the factual inaccuracy of “the SEC stopped GME trading.” Just admit you had no idea what you were spewing and move on.
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by creddit 6y ago
You keep moving the goal posts with regards to your original point which was generally about privacy. First you did it with the weasel word of “novel” while mocking my “misquoting” of you and then proceeding to reference a product I made no
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by creddit 6y ago
Not only is the snark in your reply annoying and take away any point you wanted to make, but also it's not socialism so it's an even worse take.
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by creddit 6y ago
I didn’t mention signal. Do you claim Telegram’s channels are not novel? Do you think the FB owned WhatsApp doesn’t do whatever it can to drive engagement? Everything is constrained in some dimension. To assert that E2EE as a constraint imm
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by creddit 6y ago
You must really hate E2EE messaging services like WhatsApp and Telegram. They provide dramatically strong privacy guarantees while being proprietary and driving engagement. What is the reason that users shouldn't be allowed to have the
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by creddit 6y ago
> And I hope it forces Facebook to actually support journalism instead of leeching off of it. Not unreasonable arguments could be made that it's journalism that leeches off of FB. FB drives huge traffic and provides a massive platfo
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by creddit 6y ago
> These catalogs do not biodegrade well, by the way, because they're not just paper. Great! A new carbon capture method that also provides utility! I’ll take 40M please.
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by creddit 6y ago
You: “no support for welfare programs”, “no worker’s protection and social welfare on the list” Self-described neoliberals: “a robust social safety net” But, sure okay, represents exactly what you’ve said.
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by creddit 6y ago
> That being said, neoliberalism is a fairly well-defined descendant from classical right-wing liberalism that arose during the 80s. It's characterized by laissez-fair market economy, less taxes for the rich, and no support for welf
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by creddit 6y ago
Bari Weiss writes about a general set of issues she saw: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter I’m not certain this website isn’t itself interesting for plenty of other reasons, though.
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by creddit 6y ago
First time I’ve seen the culture war described as “neoliberal.” It seems like everyday that word becomes less and less meaningful. There seems to be a large set of people who use it as a general descriptor of things they don’t like.
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by creddit 6y ago
Amazon's "grotesque" profits come from AWS. Probably not many $15/hr workers contributing there. Also, Amazon does not have anything near a monopoly on warehouse work. Are you kidding with that?
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by creddit 6y ago
> When you get issued stock options at a company, you immediately become liable for taxes on them, since they are treated as income. This is false, right? It's only taxable on exercise. That or I know 1,000s of people at major compa

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