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by fipple 8y ago
I don’t take my kid to the library because of the homeless people there. I don’t oppose government funds being used to provide daytime facilities for homeless people, I just don’t think it should be at the same location as the kids library.
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by fipple 8y ago
Don’t knowingly create a mass death epidemic and you won’t be executed.
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by fipple 8y ago
I’d support a political platform to create a legal framework to execute high-level corporate criminals like the Sacklers and their henchmen.
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by fipple 8y ago
Overseas matters a lot. It makes prosecution almost impossible.
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by fipple 8y ago
The lack of any real business model besides gambling on mobile apps sends the market from professional firms like Autodesk and Adobe to solo developers overseas. They have much lower accountability which makes this entirely predictable.
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by fipple 8y ago
It’s not at all unusual for senior execs to rarely get promoted, since there are so few roles to promote them into. Look how long Sheryl Sandberg has and will be COO of Facebook.
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by fipple 8y ago
No house and staying in Airbnb’s isn’t “homeless.”
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by fipple 8y ago
He has always been a bad speaker.
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by fipple 8y ago
Some husband and wife startups are both very successful financially and greatly enjoyable for the couple. Voicestream for example.
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by fipple 8y ago
I can tell the difference between Glenn Gould and Murray Perahia and so can anyone with a pulse. YouTube fucking it up means nothing.
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by fipple 8y ago
Huh? If Youtube’s black box AI can’t tell the difference between recordings by Glenn Gould and Murray Perahia they should be equivalent in the eyes of copyright law?
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by fipple 8y ago
People do terrible things for tyrants (or their bosses more generally) because if their boss or tyrant is eliminated the resulting power vacuum will likely harm them with high likelihood (new ruler purges old loyalists) and reward them with
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by fipple 8y ago
Yes, 60% of motels are owned by Indians, and 1/3 of those (so 20% of total motels) have the surname Patel.
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by fipple 8y ago
The thing is that being a warlord and a Silicon Valley CEO are completely different. If the shit really hits the fan, my point is that all of these bunkers will be seized by the warlords from the CEOs.
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by fipple 8y ago
If it really gets to that point, the rich are going to get all their NZ compounds taken away from them by the people they hired to build and defend them. If you’re a Special Forces veteran hired to protect the Zuckerberg compound why wouldn
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by fipple 8y ago
Most families don’t have $50k to invest in their kids’ business, but there are at least 10 million such families for each Gates/Zuckerberg/Bezos etc.
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by fipple 8y ago
A lot of it boils down to different priorities at different ages. If I had started Facebook at 19 and Yahoo offered me $1 billion for it, I probably would have made the same decision Zuckerberg did and say that running Facebook is more fun
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by fipple 8y ago
The speed of light time to the satellite and back is too long for them to replace courtsiders.
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by fipple 8y ago
I don’t think they actually try too hard. I have two accounts which the most trivial of algorithms would have caught and haven’t been flagged >5 years in. (Always logging in from the same machine, no cookie clearing, in quick succession)
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by fipple 8y ago
Why doesn’t the wheel deform at all? If it doesn’t, how is it a suspension?
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by fipple 8y ago
If the scooter wars are driven by scooter design the winners are going to be very different than Bird and Lime which are logistics companies.
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by fipple 8y ago
They created conditions for a massive degradation of the public sidewalk especially for wheelchair users. They did nothing to fix it. Regulators act slowly and rarely, but when they do they always overreact. Entirely predictable.
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by fipple 8y ago
I just find it sad that you can’t get anything out of just listening to good music. It’s certainly not an “unhealthy” activity.
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by fipple 8y ago
Uber and Lime will but Skip and Scoot this month.
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by fipple 8y ago
The scooters that were in SF were certainly not surviving 50 days. They were 90% broken and not because of the battery.
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by fipple 8y ago
Well maybe those companies shouldn’t have been huge assholes the way that Uber was. The city is once bitten and twice shy with Uber.
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by fipple 8y ago
And the federal government issues effectively binding guidelines for the cap design of baby food. The upside? Windows don’t fall out into people and babies don’t choke on the caps.
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by fipple 8y ago
Unequal enforcement of the law is certainly a major problem, but I have no objections to excluding from governance oversight those people who refuse to comply with that governance.
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by fipple 8y ago
Land ownership is never absolute because it isn’t the product of human endeavor, so owning it means you either violently excluded people from it, formalized that violence through law, or bought it after one of the above had happened. That’s
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by fipple 8y ago
Damn right I’ll fight tooth and nail any policy which aims to make my child’s school worse to make a different child’s school better. Selfish? Hell yes.

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