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by danem 5y ago
Well this is what has left me most confused by this decision. Are Van Jones and an incredibly successful celebrity chef really the best he could come up with? If I were Bezos I'd at least give the money to a person or organization that
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by danem 6y ago
Plenty of examples in this recent article: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/signature-...
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by danem 6y ago
Totally agree. I've seen countless articles on this subject yet I cannot really say what people are afraid of.
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by danem 7y ago
> Hacker News can be great for complex discussions, but it's not free of filter bubbles and echo chambers. Nothing on or off the internet is. That is why it is important to keep an open mind and read widely and voraciously.
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by danem 7y ago
Absolutely. Why would it be any different?
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by danem 7y ago
The threat of regulatory capture is present with every regulatory solution.
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by danem 7y ago
> Oh wait that will be immediately controlled by one player. According to[1], the average number of competitors per US domestic city-pair is 3.5 and has been increasing over the last few decades. [1] http://darinlee.net/p
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by danem 7y ago
Don't the rules of monopoly guarantee all players but one go bankrupt?
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by danem 7y ago
I found John Bartholowmew's[1] videos extremely helpful when I was playing a lot of chess. Definitely saw a huge improvement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2huVf1l4UE
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by danem 7y ago
Link to the API docs? I can't find them.
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by danem 7y ago
In my experience, using ROS outside of Docker is a mistake. Avoids all the usual headaches of software packaging, and with nvidia-docker I can use all the GUI tools (rviz, gazebo, etc) without a hitch.
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by danem 7y ago
I suggest you read up on LVT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/08/09/the-time-may-b... https://www.strongtowns.org&#x2
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by danem 7y ago
How about doing something to address the housing crisis first so all of this money doesn't just end up in landlords pockets? Land value tax maybe?
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by danem 7y ago
Basically every large city in America is struggling to build enough housing, not just the Bay Area. Furthermore, there are a vast number of jobs to be had that aren't software engineering. I concede that globalization has changed the e
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by danem 7y ago
How exactly is it globalization's fault that we have locked people out of the most productive job markets in the country (NIMBY's + perverse incentives), and have a healthcare industry that has been completely captured by rent see
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by danem 7y ago
With the way I look at the review system, an O-Ring certainly could be worthy of 5 stars. By rating something like an O-Ring less than 5 you are implicitly saying that there are better o-rings out there, and that this one could be better. I
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by danem 7y ago
Because in this case the consumer is choosing to waste their own time and their own money. If the charging situation is so terrible people are free to buy other phones.
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by danem 7y ago
Hijacking this comment to point everyone to https://yimbyaction.org/ .
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by danem 7y ago
Do you consider "exploitation" here to be negative or unethical? He is willingly using Google because the provide amazingly useful services completely free of monetary charge. Are you objecting to the fact that Google benefits in
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by danem 7y ago
> "Taxi prices" are the way they are because taxi companies aren't propped up by a Japanese billionaire and his coterie of Gulf oil barons and VC pals whose stated goal is to monopolize the market. That can't be the w
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by danem 7y ago
What's "wrong" about this? No one has provided any evidence of manipulation other than speculation. Maybe people are interested in Samsung's display technology?
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by danem 7y ago
How is this any different than what happens after every Apple product launch?
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by danem 7y ago
And how haven't things improved for the vast majority of people on Earth in regard to food security?
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by danem 7y ago
I'll take being able to feed the entire world's population more affordably than ever over the jobs of a small group of people in a rich country. This isn't to say the government should play no role in cushioning those affecte
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by danem 7y ago
> it's not like China is going to come up with their own basketball league that's going to overtake the NBA, ever. Why not? Is it inconceivable that in the future the CBA will be able to compete with the NBA for top talent? I g
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by danem 7y ago
Doesn't look like he's siding with Beijing at all. https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1181497808563658752 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrY6bKFVD3Q&feature=youtu.be... https
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by danem 7y ago
Doesn't look like he's siding with Beijing at all. https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1181497808563658752 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrY6bKFVD3Q&feature=youtu.be... https
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by danem 7y ago
> Your full time w2 job comes woth exact the sane flexibility - you are allow to show anytime you want to, take breaks as long as you want to and do whatever task you want to. What full time job do you have that allows you to show up whe
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by danem 7y ago
As a free speech absolutist you should support Youtube or Twitter's right to ban who they wish from their platform. What about their right to free speech?
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by danem 7y ago
> Due to the monopoly of control on social media right now, companies like Facebook, Twitter, et. al. are the new public spaces. Just because you want them to be considered "public spaces" doesn't make them so. These are p

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