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by dmwallin 7y ago
It matters which correlating factors you choose. While the criteria you mentioned are merely correlated for a specific individual, on a macro level there are definite causative reasons why a lack of a support structure etc could lead someon
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by dmwallin 7y ago
Nature and Biology gives us a very strong counterexample to this. If centralization was the stable form you would expect to see an overwhelming preponderance of it. Instead you will almost always see a blend of centralized and decentralized
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by dmwallin 7y ago
So create a system that encourages abuse, profit from that abuse at the expense of brands, and then charge those companies to use your proprietary tracking system if they want to eliminate it? This is straight out of a racketeering playbook
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by dmwallin 7y ago
The problem is that these systems are fundamentally unable to distinguish causation from correlation. Which is admittedly a hard prob even for humans, but at least we have some capacity to tease these out. In this case, the increased crime
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by dmwallin 7y ago
Having intelligence in most cases just means you're better at post-hoc justification of your emotionally-driven decisions.
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by dmwallin 7y ago
This is the key here. Proper application of user rights could also push companies to open up voluntarily. For example, if required by law to continue to support access to content sold for a period of time it could change the liability math
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by dmwallin 7y ago
This is all true but missing one important fact. Dietary cholesterol doesn't turn directly into blood cholesterol. It makes sense why this became a common misconception, but the actual physiological mechanics of this are more complex.
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by dmwallin 7y ago
As a name it seems like it will suffer greatly from overlap, making it difficult to find. If you search for "Burnout" it will be extremely hard to make it a top hit. Searching for "Burnout startup" or "Burnout softw
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by dmwallin 7y ago
I would say this article is making the case that sanity is the ability to correctly perceive what society conceives as real, while hypersanity is the ability to correctly perceive things outside of societies norms.
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by dmwallin 7y ago
The whole point of offering patents is to encourage innovation. It’s extremely doubtful that the offer of patent exclusivity played any part in their push to develop this technology which makes this an obvious failure of the patent system,
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by dmwallin 7y ago
All this means is that large net-worth individuals will increase the practice of keeping money within a corporate structure and using that for as many expenses as possible.
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by dmwallin 7y ago
There is significant evidence Amazon has used it's dominant position and potentially sold products at a loss to undercut and remove competition. https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/amazon-book-how-jeff-b
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by dmwallin 7y ago
I imagine there are probably some tax benefits if they can write it off.
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by dmwallin 7y ago
The way you talk about "choice" indicates you have a flawed and limited model of how choice actually works. Choices are contextual and entirely dependent upon circumstances. You should assume that people by-and-large make the best
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by dmwallin 7y ago
Seems like this system is vulnerable to vote trading. Additional votes in a single category cost more so the logical move becomes to trade those additional votes to someone who wouldn't have voted for it in exchange for your vote on so
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by dmwallin 8y ago
Where's the teeth in getting companies to offer a decent Free File option if you removed the threat that got them to create said programs in the first place?
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by dmwallin 8y ago
What you call virtue signaling other people call a form of morality. Just because not everyone is doing something doesn't mean that it's not the right thing to do. And even though it doesn't guarantee other countries will fol
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by dmwallin 8y ago
Laws that are narrow and targeted often times leave open loopholes. You can end up with a regulatory agency and various companies playing a game of cat and mouse leading to a huge regulatory burden and tons of wasted resources on both sides
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by dmwallin 8y ago
I would suggest a minor adjustment, they fall flat due to a lack of visibility and public acceptance. Advertising is only one such way to achieve that. Unfortunately advertising is capital-driven and there is only partial overlap of product
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by dmwallin 8y ago
Super excited to delve into this! I've read over the documents and examples and it's obviously very well thought out and well-abstracted. In particular I really like a lot of the decisions made in regards the point object: using F
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by dmwallin 9y ago
Part of your premise here seems logically incorrect. If land-value taxes is more heavily affected by neighboring properties then they should actually be harder, not easier, to manipulate since this is a two way asymmetrical situation. For a
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by dmwallin 9y ago
It's already extremely well established that people will work far beyond what they need to maintain basic necessities. There are all sorts of strong motivations for humans outside of basic survival. In addition if you look at groups wi
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by dmwallin 10y ago
Yup!
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by dmwallin 10y ago
I actually currently work at a company that makes playable mobile advertisement games using web technologies. We have our own engine though.