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by ggg9990 9y ago
Sad. I had several great dates from Craigslist personals.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I don’t think ebook piracy has jeopardized book sales though? Music piracy certainly did.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The day I discovered all Likes were public I went and deleted all of them. God knows who got them before I did that (and I’m sure Facebook still uses them).
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Apple was able to do that because MP3 piracy was already rampant. e-book piracy was not.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Warning: photo of dead baby at top of linked article.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Microsoft would have never succeeded with an e-reader even if they had shipped it. Amazon succeeded because they already had a stranglehold on the print book market and skeptical publishers had little choice but to go all in on the Kindle.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Uncomfortable ideas that might be true: * a person may be happier working 8 hours for $100 than getting a $100 handout * some n% of people may be better suited for repetitive work than creative work, and when these people are automated out
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by ggg9990 9y ago
In what space? What types of jobs?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
If cultures can’t be better than each other than American culture today is no better than it was during slavery.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Idiosyncratic means unique. There are more countries with litter than without.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
And Google probably knows every last thing about you so they can gauge your willingness to pay (based on say your willingness to pay for other Google services, the number of impulse purchases you make on Amazon, etc).
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Japan is so idiosyncratic that you cannot assume that any policy from there will behave similarly anywhere else (except in some cases Singapore)
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Yes, but if you take a photo with a Sony A7s it will vastly outperform your eye.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Is that bad? If someone lives in a community that is 90% their race, with their neighbors listening to their kind of music, engaging in their kind of activities, going to the same kind of events, not wanting to become a 10% minority? It wou
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s not irrational. Integrating an acquired knowledge work company is a costly and risky effort in terms of management bandwidth, culture clash, and business model alignment. Unless you are buying pure assets, it rarely makes sense to acqu
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Exactly, but it’s not just people in Washington. It’s anyone who gets to sit at an air conditioned desk for 8 hours a day and make twice as much as a coal miner with black lung.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Imagine you live in a room with an investment banker. Every day, $100 appears in the room and the investment banker decides how much you get to keep. Every year, you get to decide whether or not to push a button that sprays rancid feces on
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s only salaried workers who think that Zuck’s endgame is insider trading. The reality is 1000x more terrifying and resistant to regulation.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Not really, I think that for a certain subset of the electorate, voting Trump was highly rational from a game theoretic perspective, and the worse Trump is, the better he serves this purpose. So I don’t need to hand Wave the emotional reaso
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I mean, I know why people love him too — he is entertaining as fuck and if you’re too poor or too rich to be affected by government policy, who gives a shit about the president?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Also some words are confusing when flapping around and some are not, depending on how many other words can be formed with the letters that are not visible. Perhaps some algorithm could be made to ascertain the flagworthiness of a string.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The same can be said about a lot of things like littering, gun violence, etc, but there’s still things you can do to treat the symptomz
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Zuckerberg can’t launch nukes but he can manipulate the emotions and attitudes of entire countries and societies. In many way his power is more terrifying because he can exercise it in secret and with no repercussions. I mean, if this Cambr
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I don’t think he was ever running for President. I think he was realizing that Facebook CEO is a position of more political influence than perhaps even the US President.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Whether the video will be released may also depend on her family’s wishes.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Destabilizing governments and social movements is exactly the playbook of Shell/United Fruit/etc.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
No, the debt is intended to give them leverage. Have $300 million but want to get the returns of having a $3 billion company? Use debt to make up the difference, make $600 million if the value goes up 20%, and leave some pension fund dumbas
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by ggg9990 9y ago
And, of course, his entry into politics, the claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
No, I don’t mean political positions, I mean reality like “how many people were at my inauguration” or “how many million illegal immigrants voted in the 2016 election” (hint: ~0.00 to ~0.00000) Of course, Trump also says true things that no
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by ggg9990 9y ago
With the benefit of hindsight, it seems almost cute how strongly the DOJ went after Microsoft in the ‘90s, when they were just victimizing competitors rather than destabilizing democracies.

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