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by fogzen 9y ago
As if we needed another reminder that Wall Street is a casino underwritten by the taxpayers. A welfare program run by the Fed for the rich. A market for fools, not a necessary institution to capitalize business. I guess it's better tha
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by fogzen 9y ago
Nothing to celebrate. My CDs from twenty years ago still work. Why would I invest time in Spotify when one day all the music just disappears, or they raise prices, etc.? If this is the future it doesn’t feel like progress.
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by fogzen 9y ago
Manipulated? Isn’t that the entire point of a political campaign? To convince people to vote for a candidate?
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by fogzen 9y ago
I can't talk of a solution because I don't see a problem. I'm fine with political campaigns advertising for their candidate. If I see an advertisement for a candidate on Facebook, TV, or anywhere else, and I agree with the ad
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by fogzen 9y ago
How were any of you damaged by Facebook ads, exactly? Why the outrage now and not before, when Obama (and everyone else) used targeted advertising? This whole outrage over privacy is disingenuous. It’s painfully obvious the outrage is about
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by fogzen 9y ago
Why should a company have to delete accounts?
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by fogzen 9y ago
So employees can read your private slack right? F it’s really just about creating a safe space, I don’t see why management is exempt.
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by fogzen 9y ago
Knowing where my data is stored is hardly a consumer protection. Whether data is hosted in Russia or the EU it’s at risk of being stolen, exposed, and misused and the liability companies have for that has not changed (there is no liability)
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by fogzen 9y ago
I don't see how GDPR changes the knowledge of risk exposure. Before GDPR I know that when I give companies my personal information it is at risk. After GDPR the situation is the same.
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by fogzen 9y ago
> and definitely improves security. How? What procedure improves security? Right now, people I don't know at various companies have access to databases with my personal information. Those same people will still have the same access
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by fogzen 9y ago
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned that being forced to provide personal data on request does not in any way reduce the risk of personal data being misused. What’s the damage consumers are being protected from, exactly?
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by fogzen 9y ago
I’m amazed people think they own personal information at all. As if writing their name on something makes it their property.
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by fogzen 9y ago
Why is this a good thing? Wouldn’t the good thing to be able to get a work visa if you want to work?
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by fogzen 9y ago
Where are you quoting from? I didn't see anywhere in the article "Tibetan Zen Buddhist monk Chogyam Trongpa" was mentioned.
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by fogzen 9y ago
No framework at all. We use PostgreSQL and simply point postgREST at it, and it automatically generates an entire REST API from the database. Authentication and permissions are handled at the database level. I can't think of any framew
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by fogzen 9y ago
In my experience "cookie-cutter" (in other words "consistent") UI is more effective than custom UI most of the time. Absent A/B testing - which isn't part of most product design processes - there's no util
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by fogzen 9y ago
Thanks. I wasn’t looking for individual advice I just wanted to point out that the major barrier to entrepreneurship is not lack of ideas but a lack of access to capital for new businesses.
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by fogzen 9y ago
Really depends on the specific loan program, but in general the majority of owners or employees must be black, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American. Not sure about the process of proving that though. There are loan programs for woman-owned b
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by fogzen 9y ago
That’s my point... the financial system is built to reward the wealthy and does not focus on creating new entrepeneurs. Commercial loans aren’t provided for startups. Only the SBA engages in that and you have to prove you don’t have persona
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by fogzen 9y ago
There are plenty of profitable business ideas but you can’t get capital for them because they aren’t going to be billion dollar ventures with 10x returns. The problem with entrepreneurship in America is lack of micro financing and support f
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by fogzen 9y ago
Article should be titled “Try being a wealthy business owner to work less.” Most people don’t have the luxury of choosing their hours and only working 4 hours a day, remotely from a cafe or hotel. It’s not as if everyone is getting up and
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by fogzen 9y ago
Sure, he could have it worse in that he could be like many others in his position but without parental support. How would he be able to work 50 hours a week and physically go to school 50 hours a week? Amazon controls his hours not him. Sch
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by fogzen 9y ago
Yes! Minor correction to spelling: Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus’ concept of Social Business is essentially using for-profit enterprises that are self-sustaining to solve problems typically addressed by charity: Poverty, unemployment, educa
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by fogzen 9y ago
I have tweets out of chronological order 20-30+ tweets down from the top... I’m assuming it’s different for you because you check Twitter often? In either case the feed is most definitely not in chronological order, but determined by an opa
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by fogzen 9y ago
Are you sure? I have “show best tweets first” turned off and my tweets are not in chronological order after signing in to check right now.
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by fogzen 9y ago
Not being in control of what I see is why I stopped using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. I want to control what is in my feed, and I want it in chronological order. Twitter and Facebook make me feel passive and helpless. I use reddit bec
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by fogzen 9y ago
Why would anyone give X money to a new venture if there’s no mechanism by which they get Y*X money back? Wouldn’t it make more sense to dispurse new funds in tranches only after the first tranch has been repaid with interest?
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by fogzen 9y ago
That’s true. I’m not sure being more open than China says much. Just because we have more open immigration than China doesn’t mean our immigration policies are fair, compassionate, or in service of American ideals of freedom and opportunity
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by fogzen 9y ago
We could keep talent if we just allowed people to work here. We don’t. We only allow 65,000 people to work in large corporations, in specific industries, at the behest of the company, under constant threat of deportation and after gambling
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by fogzen 9y ago
By not eating meat or dairy and relying on grains and legumes.

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