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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Isn't that a bit misleading because Erdos was a famously unusual mathematician personality/lifestyle? I think focusing on Erdos as an intro fetishizes mathematicians/mathematics.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Mob brigading and SEO techniques aren't better. Distributed , personalized reputation systems give democratic control.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Hyperpartisanism is not new. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_machine
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
The stock market is a prediction market.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
But the subtler point is that your index fund is mostly invested in a few big companies,plus noise. AAPL ($1T) itself is 3% of the entire US stock market ($30T).
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That would be wage savers buying from retirees who are cashing out, both with market orders, not limit orders.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Anyone who holds stocks bought them, and if they are still generating net wage income will buy more, and presumably will eventually sell them when hey retire.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's not true if actively managed funds fail as bad or worse during a bear market.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Same isn't good enough. You need a killer app to get people to switch.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
I agree that some places are worse, but I don't see value in accepting a more diluted poison. Bad apples spoil the bunch. In fact Reddit's I'll may be worse because the non toxic content is attractive enough that it draws u
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
You can't imagine that some people find a few fad frameworks not appealing enough to overlook hijacking the world's social relationships?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Plenty of people hate things they are stuck with for lack of usable alternatives
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
What is going to prevent everyone on Solid from getting constantly hacked by 0-day bugs and all their data read?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
The popular communities (Twitter. Reddit, Youtube, email spam) are already toxic. The solution to that is good UX this puts users in control of which content is put in their face.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
He's using his personal funds and under-informed judgement to redirect the malaria and education industries toward his ve pet theories regardless of scientific consensus. He also "donates" to creating dependencies on Microso
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's not what those words mean all. Socialism and Democracy are orthogont concepts. Socialism is an economic concept; democracy is a political concept.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
If the money goes to taxes instead of charity, you still have the same need for lawyers and accountants and inspectors to check that the funds are used properly and not diverted
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That first one is a bad example because as the article notes, they are under investigation for suspicion of not being a legally valid charity. That doesn't undermine the concept of legally calid charity. The rest of your argument is s
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
None of that justifies a tax deduction. Taxes are the way the way government funds its social contract. "Giving more to private exharity at the expense of tax revenue" just raised the tax burden of everyone else -- sonwhy shouldn&
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
In the modern era, we have Roger Penrose masquerade religion as physics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
That's not what irreducibility means. Irreducibility would be , for example, some kind of biological "atom" that isn't made of physical atoms.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Why do we want equality if it means pushing women away from the motherhood they choose?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
You don't think Twitter was critical in building Musk's brand and investor interest?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
How did Jobs do this? He dedicated his life to Apple until the day he died.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
You call it counterfeit, China calls it commodity. When you buy generic sugar in USA, is it "counterfeit"?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
A common practice is to sell the same branded product at a lower quality level when sold through a different retailer. Either intentionally or because QA rejects get sold cheap to wholesalers for use at discount stores. The modern twist is
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
It sounds bad but it's actually good -- competition is causing inprovement. Rome wasn't built in a day.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
30bucks lifetime value for one user plus all their trusted friends is not a sustainable business.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
This is a private spat spilling into a public spat innuendo. It should have been published, shouldn't have been posted here, and should have been upvoted, and should be flagged away.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
SMB3 offered an easy 100 lives plus continues. The parnent was referring to the original SMB, where you had to play the whole game, try to solve an invisible maze once or twice (unless you got good at the one or two 100 lives spots), and t

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