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by esja 6y ago
I agree. It’s no different with other speculative “assets”.
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by esja 6y ago
No. The negative impact is a certainty. Any compensating factors are hypothetical and there’s no evidence for their existence or their impact pro or con. So in this argument, given what we know right now, they can be ignored.
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by esja 6y ago
You're being needlessly patronising, but I'll answer in good faith in case you are actually interested. Ceteris paribus, reducing your hiring pool is a negative. Can qualitative factors counteract that? Sure, it's possible. B
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by esja 6y ago
If it’s not an emotional benefit, what are your rational grounds for this? You propose to exclude tens of millions of people because you believe their vote proves they have poor judgement. Yet you are displaying poor judgment by making this
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by esja 6y ago
It’s not an opinion, it’s basic logic and arithmetic. Shrinking the hiring pool by eliminating both Trump voters and also the non-Trump voters who don’t like the implications of the question. That’s a very large negative and is based on mat
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by esja 6y ago
The market cap is very misleading, as it values the entire pie based on what someone paid for the last slice. Much less than half a trillion has gone into BTC.
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by esja 6y ago
Today's Red Guards will never achieve this level of self-awareness: "Hans, are we the baddies?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWvpvlT9pJU
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by esja 6y ago
Something to ponder given the topic of this thread... your comment says very clearly that you're willing to make decisions which impact a company negatively, provided they benefit you emotionally. That's disqualifying for most pos
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by esja 6y ago
Interesting idea... reminds me of Chaos Monkey.
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by esja 6y ago
Difficult to prove, but many believe these sorts of payments are often a delayed bribe, for services rendered while in office. Look after us while you’re in power and we’ll look after you later. And other politicians watching this will noti
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by esja 6y ago
In general: if it’s on a corporate server, it’s not your email, it’s corporate IP.
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by esja 6y ago
“In this instance, yesterday our systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts.” If true, that is damning, and would demonstrate once again that being an “ethics research
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by esja 6y ago
Thanks for that, I think you've persuaded me.
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by esja 6y ago
What happens when they move from Signal to some other form of encrypted communication? Won't you need to ban that too? Have you considered the difficulty or the implications of what you are proposing?
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by esja 6y ago
Friend, please call the suicide prevention hotline in your country. It will only take a few minutes. If you do this now, and if you decide to trust in yourself and the many people who will help you from that moment onward, one day you can w
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by esja 6y ago
In the real world 99.9% of people require fiat currency to obtain water, food, shelter, and the rest of the things required to keep them alive. This is actual real-world value, as opposed to the theoretical value that Bitcoin might possess
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by esja 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. Do you think the numbers are useful though? Or just the "status", e.g. popular or unpopular, which would be a simple change. I would personally prefer to never see the actual numbers, as I know really high sc
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by esja 6y ago
Can't you see them on your own comments?
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by esja 6y ago
The PC hardware market also had fairly thin margins, if I remember correctly. It didn't stop Apple carving out a profitable niche and then expanding it.
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Ask HN: Would HN be even better if comment karma scores were invisible?
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by esja 6y ago
I agree, but I wish HN would go further and make karma invisible. By all means, use it to rank things, but showing the numbers just triggers the wrong behaviour. Both in terms of creating addiction in the users, but also in terms of poisoni
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by esja 6y ago
But technology can make things worse, so it does need review. Give better weapons to warring tribes and watch what happens. Similarly, implement likes and upvotes, and use ML recommenders to push people into echo chambers, and watch what ha
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by esja 6y ago
Similar story with the ABC in Australia. Also, as a non-profit entity that entirely depends on government funding, the typical staff member is more left wing than the population, and this inevitably skews some of the content.
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by esja 6y ago
This is one of the problems with unaccountable private censors. It's very easy for them to selectively apply their rules, based on the whims of their workforce or major customers, etc. There is very little oversight, and if they are a
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by esja 6y ago
1. Opinion piece 2. Blaming one side of politics 3. Amplified by being shared on social media (here and probably elsewhere) This piece is a perfect example of what raiyu was pointing out.
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by esja 6y ago
Have you seen the recent disclosure of the data gathered by Messenger? https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/04/app-privacy-labels-messaging-... That's a data hoover, not a dustpan... and it's not been collec
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by esja 6y ago
Google Search is trending in the same direction and could easily end in the same place, with search results skewed to support (or suppress) particular narratives and ideological beliefs. Look at the "ML Fairness" debates and ask y
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by esja 6y ago
"in the interests of preventing further violence and undermining of the democratic process" And yet your proposal would absolutely undermine the democratic process and encourage additional violence.
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by esja 6y ago
There are many obvious reasons to believe fiat currencies have value. But perhaps the most obvious one is that having and using fiat currency is required by 99.9% of people in order to stay alive. Staying alive is quite valuable.
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by esja 6y ago
Those are very good points but they don't change the fact that grouping by people in this way tends toward smaller and smaller groupings, and exacerbates the sort of division and "different realities" that is hurting social c

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