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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I have to concede on your conception argument -- that is legitimately fragile.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I don't know what you're ordering, but good/excellent quality espresso is readily available throughout Australia and New Zealand.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Named in Australia but invented in New Zealand, and yes, the best way to serve coffee with milk.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>I suppose it's an example of how much failures are far more visible than successes This is true of support systems. I think in general, more people remember Apollo 11 than 13.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I'm just trying to illustrate what happens when you have an agent-principal relationship, which is the situation that public corporations are in. Now, perhaps my boss and I have an agreement such that if I see a suitably sympathetic lo
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I don't disagree with any of this. And if we're talking early stage, founder-led startups, I'll grant that this may not apply. It's most relevant to large, board-led corporations, and it's also not necessarily zero-
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I'm not saying it isn't ever possible, just that most of the time, whether you arrive at work at 8:00 or 8:01 doesn't have a meaningful knock-on effect in your life or anyone else's.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Yes, I probably should have framed my answer more carefully. My point wasn't that people shouldn't complain about this stuff. My point was just that businesses, by their nature, are sociopathic (regardless of whether anyone who wo
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
You assumed that the woman who was delayed would go on to conceive that night. I suggested that, generously, 99 times out of 100, the branch falling doesn't slow someone down and/or that person doesn't go on to conceive that
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
All business behaviour is (potentially) predatory. It's the job of regulators to set the rules, and for businesses to play within those rules as optimally as they can. It's definitely not the job of companies to _not_ give their c
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
But you're assuming the world is a chaotic function. Don't confuse the ability to add up tiny changes with those changes having a meaningful impact. You can dip your finger in a river and tell me how a bunch of molecules are displ
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
In your example, a falling _might conceivably_ affect one person's conception. But even in that example, the odds are most likely that it doesn't. Let's say 99 times out of 100, a delay of a few seconds doesn't impact wh
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
My guess is that Instagram users on average probably follow more people than they did one or two years ago but probably give out about the same total number of likes.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>I've yet to meet someone I would trade places with. If they're smarter than me, maybe they make less money. If they're richer than me, and smarter, maybe I don't care for their spouse. Or they're in bad physical
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Seems like this should result in more likes on your average post (which should now be above average, since the weaker content has been moved to stories).
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>He is expected to resign or be sacked when the next prime minister takes over So they're going to tell him to take a walk?
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Imagine you live in Zimbabwe in 2008, or Argentina now, where people have no faith in their central banks to responsibly manage their money supply. Then ask yourself what's the value of a portable, anonymous, relatively stable currency
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Ray Kroc was already a successful salesman by most ordinary standards, and then became extraordinarily successful. Walter White narrowly missed out on a place as a co-founder of a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company. Neither is real
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Electrek is a Musk/Tesla fanboy blog so no surprise that they don't portray this as a negative for Tesla.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Apparently you didn't get the targeted ad telling you that advertisers' dark patterns have become so sophisticated that free will is literally fiction now. /s, obviously
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>We could say that an AI program should pass the Turing Test and many have written programs that more or less pass it. But so now, write a program that writes several different programs that all pass the Turing Test one better than the p
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World Aware that I might be jumping to conclusions but that doesn't sound like the title of an objective, scientific text.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>Imagine the moving company puts out a job ad saying that they're looking for "powerlifters" or "muscleheads" or something. What they _mean_ by that (or what they think they mean) is that they want people who are
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
yeah they lose money on every unit, but they make up for it in volume
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
I grew up in a western country in the 80s; all my toys were war or military based.
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
Unfortunately I suspect the Chinese -- coming from a culture with one party and zero dissent -- take all the anti-Trump rhetoric in the American media as a sign of weakness, and this emboldens them to drag out a trade war that they have no
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
What percentage of the products that you see advertised every day do you buy? 100%? 50%? I'm guessing it's probably less than 1%. No one would argue that businesses spend a lot of money on targeted advertising, and targeting is so
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
>I see this argument made again and again. Just because one is "worse" by selective parameters doesn't mean that the other option is any good either. It means it's the better option given the choices available. Everyt
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
If the advertising industry is such a powerful force of mind control that we literally have no free will anymore, then why did they let _you_ figure it out? You're giving them way too much credit. Do you notice how the world is full of
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by foldingmoney 7y ago
But you're talking about guiding your children, not observing your neighbours. This is 'how do I make other people choose the same things I would choose', not 'people aren't free to make their own choices because [t

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