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by ggg9990 8y ago
It has for me. It has basically eliminated truly bad restaurant visits for me, and alerted me to some really cool new experiences.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Energy cost is only worse for quadcopters. A small fixed wing airplane gets roughly the same gas mileage as a car in traffic.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Can’t you draw some conclusions, anecdatally, about the impact of Facebook on societies since its creation? You could do the same in reverse.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
But that’s what the big corps want. They’d gladly each cough up a billion for a permanent state where market entry is harder. Especially the easy to disrupt consumer services like Facebook and Snapchat.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The even more ridiculous thing in my opinion is comments like this that conflate a truth and proof of that truth. It’s the difference between saying that every even number greater than 5 is the sum of two primes, and being able to prove i
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by ggg9990 8y ago
When you’re doing shitty work to comply with this shitty law, perhaps you can find some comfort in the fact that people have suffered more from stupid government policies, and that misbehavior of foreign governments is a persistent risk of
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by ggg9990 8y ago
There are much more plausible clear and present dangers to humanity than our failure to get off our fragile planet. It’s like people on a plane that is listing because everyone on board is sitting on the left side wondering how they can bui
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I’ve already had my sister send one to the chief competitor of my side project.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
“GDPR is great and will cost nobody anything”
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by ggg9990 8y ago
What data would be worth preserving through an event that obliterated every data storage location on earth?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Some good stuff in here that risks being glossed over because of the length. Could use a tl;dr or a 75% reduction in words.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Does it matter? There’s no point to any of this, it’s fun stuff for rich guys like golfing or art collecting. Mars or Moon is just a matter of preference like Pebble Beach vs. St. Andrews.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Yes, in a certain way, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, etc. are millionX PMs.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It’s interesting that you mention 9/11 because one theory I’ve heard is that polygynous societies where there is a surplus of unmarried men breed violent young men (both married and unmarried).
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I can’t speak for all Americans, but in New England most people would rather spend $5000 on a dishwasher than $4000 on lifetime dishwashing services from a person. I don’t want someone in my house and putting away dishes isn’t so agonizing
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I wasn’t really talking about Europeans as the people who love it. More like China, India, Latin America.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Why are you more skeptical of porn as a cause than anxiety? One is directly related to sex and one isn’t.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
That’s not the only way that monogamy can be enforced. For example, in many countries, sex outside of marriage is illegal with severe penalties, and divorce and adultery are either illegal or lead to social ostracism. These countries don’t
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Academics certainly study how the end of societal norms such as monogamy impact those societies, although this kind of research is pooh-poohed by the large group of people who believe that all societal norms are worthless.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It’s not shady to not want your home address published to every visitor to your website.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I think Americans particularly dislike this obsequious type of service. People from other countries love it. Steve Jobs famously had very little household help and their family did their own household chores for a very simple reason that he
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Why is Mark Meru allowed to pay back only 10% of his discretionary income? He has a $225,000 income and can pay back more than $1,590 a month for the education that got him to this salary level. Then he could make a dent in the principal.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Yes.. it’s called charging money... Which some are mad about which is ridiculous.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
> Either pay or sell yourself. What is your preferred third option for content that costs money to make?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
People paid money for USA Today, and people looked at more advertisements in print papers.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The problem is that security is often the feature that has the biggest gap between how much the end user cares about it and how much the IT buyer cares about it, which makes it perfect as an upsell.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I tried but this essay has a lot of problems.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It’s absolutely not true that the goal is compliance rather than fines: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/world/europe/margrethe...
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The EU actually loves levying huge fines against rich US tech companies. Why do you think they prefer compliance to fines?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Neither of you are right. The EU is not going to go out guns blazing with $20m fines for small companies. They’re also not going to host a drum circle for companies to harmoniously join the movement towards better user privacy. They’re goin

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