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by forensic 14y ago
Just because I acknowledge they are poor people doesn't mean I think Android targeting them is bad. Android is a net positive for the species. Having said that, it would be even better if more companies were willing to take risks and innova
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by forensic 14y ago
Of course not. I accept and expect an infallible reality, it is the commenter I responded to who is shocked.
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by forensic 14y ago
welcome to the legal system. every verdict is rife with errors, committed by judges, lawyers, juries, police, everyone
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by forensic 14y ago
>When in the history of the world have we ever seen a single company and a single line of products dominate a mass-market consumer segment for more than a few years? the historical norm is monopoly, not competition
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by forensic 14y ago
That global market is mostly made up people who would never become Apple customers. Apple really doesn't target poor people; Android does.
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by forensic 14y ago
It's easy to argue that they aren't competing. Apple innovates in their sphere of innovation, their competitors copy them and produce cheap knock-offs attempting to cash in Apple's R&D. It's not competition when one company does ALL the
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by forensic 14y ago
You really don't have a clue what I'm talking about. I don't give a shit about the founding fathers. I am philosophically asserting that positive liberty is a legitimate philosophical concept, a worthwhile concept, and in fact I believe tha
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by forensic 14y ago
Equal justice under the law is one component of positive liberty. The gilded age saw the rise of Marxism and labour unions precisely because the super-rich domination of the world was so depraved, complete, and horrible. A recognition of po
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by forensic 14y ago
Actually, my post just gets at the heart of his comment. I am not fooled by his surface level criticism. I am seeing through to the underlying motivation that presents this kind of highly deceptive bullshit. There are many problems in the w
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by forensic 14y ago
Asian slums are one product I'd rather not import. Your attitude will turn back the clock on civilization. You want to revert to slums, workhouses, child labour, the crushing poverty of indentured servitude. Your approach was tried before a
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by forensic 14y ago
Don't forget positive liberty. The gilded age had copious negative liberty but very very low positive liberty. Democracy is definitely not the answer, but libertarianism is probably the greatest political threat to civilization as a whole a
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by forensic 14y ago
Did you know that governments aren't businesses? You're applying principles of making money to governments. Governments ARE NOT there to make money. They are there to serve the public interest. Concepts like profit and minimum viable produc
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by forensic 14y ago
The actual interesting phenomenon here is how this pablum makes it to the frontpage. It shows how philosophically and emotionally juvenile the readership here is. It exposes HN as a frat-like atmosphere full of blowhard meatheads obsessed w
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by forensic 14y ago
It's a Jesus complex and a mental illness. Pity them. They are sick.
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by forensic 14y ago
It's very easy to train for eg steel mill work in eg community colleges. Specialized jobs can easily have their training outsourced. When a job pays >minimum wage OTJ training can be paid fr by an apprentice paycut. When a job pays clos
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by forensic 14y ago
On-the-job training is already dead. LearnUp, by recognizing it first, will profit as the middle class further disintegrates into various strata of indentured servitude. Corporations hold all the chips and so the labour force is obligated t
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by forensic 14y ago
why does that show that Quora is overhyped? your contention is just that the value per user could not possibly be as high as facebook/google etc? Quora has pretty rich content and while they'll never have a userbase like facebook i don't se
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by forensic 14y ago
There's that word again.. "fault" The only truth is power. Legally the site was in the clear, and yet the authors had enough power to shut it down. Many of the authors understood that it was legal but still did not like it because it skirte
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by forensic 14y ago
Should we be making shitty news articles more accessible or understandable, or should we be making the public more literate and intelligent? At a certain point, dumbing stuff down strips it of all meaning. Our species is going to have to st
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by forensic 14y ago
Good autodidacts learn from the best, and the best are always academics.
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by forensic 14y ago
My first few tries were wonky, but after adding more cooking time the suggestions came out GREAT! Extremely well done! I've bookmarked it and will be back.
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by forensic 14y ago
You're confusing spheres. Propaganda and geopolitical intrigue is completely separate from crime.
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by forensic 14y ago
His problem is he's comparing jobs in completely different categories Law, Medicine, Business are high-status and high-competition jobs. Somewhere he got the delusion that computer programming is comparable in terms of social status and now
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by forensic 14y ago
So you agree with my original point then. Consumers feel choice to be a burden and want to be told what to do, think, like, and buy. Control is felt as a burden.
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by forensic 14y ago
I'd like a late-2011 venti skinny mocha chai latte please. I really don't give a shit what you prefer. Consumers want simplicity because technology is scary. Apple provides that by anthropomorphizing their products and Apple wins because of
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by forensic 14y ago
Some tech nerds are unable to empathize with normal people. From the perspective of the majority, their naming is less confusing not more confusing. This is why people love MacBook and loathe the Dell InspironXE E1795fpw-A
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by forensic 14y ago
Control slices two ways. Control can be a burden.
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by forensic 14y ago
To some extent, the startup scene is about high valuations, making the investor the customer. The filters that gatekeepers and valuators use are very hackable. Is it easier to hack a gatekeeper's filter, or to make an awesome product? I sup
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by forensic 14y ago
Deregulation is a recipe for disaster. Using the scientific method, reason, and intelligence in government is the only way good governments have ever happened. You sound like one of those people who wants to abolish all government, meaning
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by forensic 14y ago
All of these are solvable problems. 1. Regulators lack visibility? Give them investigatory powers. 2. Regulators can't predict the next crisis? Maybe with bigger budgets they would have higher quality employees. All the talent works for the

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