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by csallen 6y ago
How would that explain things? If there were significantly more pro-climate action press releases than anti-, you'd expect to see similar a proportion of coverage, not the opposite. A better explanation is that the news likes to focus
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by csallen 6y ago
> Any action that cannot sustainably be extended to everyone else in the world… This rules out lots of things that society accepts as fine. Although perhaps that's your intent.
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by csallen 6y ago
> I don't understand why people are complaining like it's an absolute disaster. Partly because the ethos of HN is to reward whoever is the best at disagreeing or pointing out flaws in the original post (or in the comment they
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by csallen 6y ago
That's completely irrelevant to the analogy, and you are making the same exact mistake as flyinglizard: treating an analogy as a simple comparison instead of as… an analogy. For example, let's try another analogy: If a plane crash
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by csallen 6y ago
Is there any evidence that reducing the public's focus on fighting racism will increase its focus on fighting black-on-black crime, reducing poverty, reforming prisons, etc.? I doubt it. Some issues are great for publicity, and others
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by csallen 6y ago
What makes MLM schemes bad is not that the people at the top make money faster, but that people who aren't on the top tend to not make any money at all. This is a direct result of the fact that many MLM schemes are actually pyramid rec
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by csallen 6y ago
The game isn't rigged because it isn't zero sum. Billionaires getting richer doesn't normally impact your ability to get richer. And as long as you're free to maneuver how you'd like, it shouldn't really matter
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by csallen 6y ago
The political system is always grappling with lots of things simultaneously. Some of those things will always be getting more publicity and arousing more anger than others at any point in time, but so what? That doesn't necessarily mea
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by csallen 6y ago
As far as I'm aware, none of the efforts to curb normal violence and crime ("Problem A") have declined. The only thing that's changed is that more people are joining the chorus to fix policing ("Problem B"). No
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by csallen 6y ago
Again, the focus isn't only on cops. There's plenty of time, effort, money, etc. spent on minimizing "normal" violence and crime. Society is quite capable of doing more than one thing at once, even if the media likes t
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by csallen 6y ago
You're assuming that care for every issue is expressed in the same way, and also that whether or not something makes front page news or gets people riled up is a fair measure of how much they care, as opposed to a measure of simply how
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by csallen 6y ago
In what way does being capable of considering multiple issues simultaneously require protest for all of these issues, or equal prominence for all of these issues? I have no idea what point you're trying to make, really.
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by csallen 6y ago
The political system doesn't work like this either. All governments and political bodies are capable of dealing with multiple issues simultaneously. As far as I'm aware, none will deny you your rights or restitution just because &
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by csallen 6y ago
Thank god this rubbish isn't how the legal system functions in any civilized country.
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by csallen 6y ago
Surprised you're being downvoted. Let your mom know that the majority of violence against most races comes from other members of the same race, especially in highly segregated societies. For example, 84% of White victims are killed by
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by csallen 6y ago
That's not how analogies work, so this is completely missing the point. For example, if you say the Colosseum is to Rome what a roller coaster is to an amusement part, you are not saying that the Colosseum is similar to a roller coaste
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by csallen 6y ago
Same as EoS, network effects can be a component of a flywheel, but aren't necessarily equivalent to the entire flywheel itself. Network effects simply mean that the value of the service increases the more people who use it, whereas a
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by csallen 6y ago
It's quite possible to create content that survives and thrives without depending on some large, proprietary platform like YouTube. Happens all the time. Of course it's not easy. You have to figure out growth for yourself, and mos
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by csallen 6y ago
Economies of scale is a distinct concept that's different than a flywheel. Yes, EoS plays an intimate role in powering a lot of flywheels. For example, the section of Amazon's flywheel that allows them to offer lower prices as a
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by csallen 6y ago
Engines might be an appropriate analogy to flywheels, but a funnel is a different thing entirely, as is your quote from David Ogilvy. A funnel typically represents the customers' journey, with some amount of dropoff at each step along
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by csallen 6y ago
Flywheels aren't a new concept. I first encountered them in Brad Stone's excellent book about Amazon, The Everything Store , which I believe was published in 2014. Stone explained how Bezos and crew discovered their flywheel in
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by csallen 6y ago
That doesn't make any sense. Notion is literally just a powerful text editor. If the act of using Notion is busywork, then so is the act of using a typewriter, a pen, a whiteboard, any other text editor, etc.
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by csallen 6y ago
Notion's just a tool, like a pen and a pad. If you decide to use it for nothing but busy work, that's an option I suppose. But I get a lot of real work done using Notion.
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by csallen 6y ago
There's no way that any of this is going to meaningfully affect Chrome's market share.
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by csallen 6y ago
You might be the only one who believes a conversation loses all value if someone benefits from it, and who thus reduces an otherwise interesting discussion to "just an ad."
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by csallen 6y ago
Startup founders often cater to other startup founders, and it seems oddly circular, until you look at more mature businesses and realize the same thing is happening: businesses selling things to help other businesses sell things to other b
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by csallen 7y ago
My twin brother was much more popular than I was in high school. I was one of the nerds working hard to get into a good school. I never heard anything about the parties, drugs, sex, etc. going on until my senior year. My own brother rarely
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by csallen 7y ago
> they're really attempting to use sophistry to shift the argument away from what was otherwise a straightforward case of them knowingly breaking the law and ripping someone off The other side of that coin is that terminology like
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by csallen 7y ago
You're right, which makes this situation tricky to reverse. But the least we could do is stop continually extending and strengthening copyright terms, which at this point are encouraging loads of rent-seeking behavior and quite possibl
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by csallen 7y ago
I misspoke. It's more likely that the vast majority of voters don't care about this issue, and in fact aren't even aware of it.

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