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by ggg9990 9y ago
I am male but I don’t actually over emotionally depend on my wife, I am just a loner (I lost my interest in friends before I met my wife). My preference for time with my wife is about 30 minutes a day and my daughter about 2 hours a day. I’
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by ggg9990 9y ago
One anecdatum: I simply lost most interest in having friends by 25. I lost the rest when I had a kid. Now my friends are my daughter’s friends parents. I don’t really like them, I just end up chit chatting with them while our daughters play
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The suppliers are often themselves exploitative middlemen in third world countries who use the farmers’ poor price information and lack of capital against them.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The majority of people worldwide are still eking out survival with perhaps a few indulgences that people have always had (decorative arts, celebrations, etc).
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Where is the evidence that “processing” or “refining” makes anything worse? In what way is 300 calories of table sugar worse for you than 300 calories of watermelon?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
That just effectively hands your vote to some other idiot.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s not these ads in particular — it’s that culturally, Facebook believes that it should be able to sell whatever the hell ads it wants to whomever it pleases, and when someone questions that, Facebook’s instinctual response is “shut up pl
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What you’re missing is that Facebook doesn’t really want to solve this problem — dollars from Russians are still green. They just want the news story to go away.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The Harvard doctor part actually makes it much more impressive because it means that he had in his back pocket the option to just go be a doctor and make $300k+. I would have quit a lot earlier.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Real relationships can’t be purely online: Disagree. An app that introduces two people and says “Be friends you two!” can’t be the answer: Agree.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The U.S. government has a set of laws that govern what “shares” in a US-listed company mean. If Google’s management tries to completely nullify what equity ownership means, the US government will go and take it back. They will freeze the fo
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I think you are too quick to ascribe “money” as the only motivation to Jeff Sessions. That guy has been ranting about how marijuana will turn children into demons for the last 30-40 years. He just has a blinding hate for “the kind of people
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Only the publishing is compulsory license. The performance is not — if Spotify wanted to carry Taylor Swift songs against her wishes, it would need to hire a musician to re-record the tracks.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Yes, but that requires an expensive far-IR imager.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Their moat is that discovery is fueled by listener data, so it will be very hard to get better at discovery than them. Apple Music tried and failed: their success comes from device bundling and most evaluators of both agree that Spotify’s d
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by ggg9990 9y ago
That’s a coordinated action (through the courts) which is a good point... if the four major labels collude they can fuck over Spotify and the DOJ sure as shit isn’t going to care one whit.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
That’s not how Spotify played it. Spotify bet the farm on discovery and won, with users marveling at how good their playlist selections are. When people are using Spotify recommendations, they become immune to content creators threatening t
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Sure. Even if the volume dropped 50% Uber could just fire half their staff. There is no way that Uber couldn’t find some volume level to play at.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Interestingly, we don’t post any baby photos on Facebook because it’s too toxic of an environment. We use WhatsApp, which is still owned by Facebook but much harder for them to monetize.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Makes solid business sense. If you are doing generic brand advertising you want positive associations with your brand. Unilever pays millions of dollars to celebrities just to be associated with them. After all that you don’t want to show y
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by ggg9990 9y ago
BitTorrent serves a purpose even when unused, like nuclear weapons. All media companies know that if they put ridiculous hurdles in front of content consumption, piracy will pick back up.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I routinely buy one shrimp because I don’t like shrimp but I cook it for my baby as part of getting her diverse foods.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The Wire is fiction. The best place to observe the reality is Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia. I have driven through and parked and observed but never gotten out. The one thing the Wire got wrong was how densely packed everyone is... in K
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s because low paid work is the hardest, physically and mentally, so poor people don’t have the energy to cook, and with McDonalds available, they don’t really need to when you can get a dinner for $2.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Why are you excited for Instacart to go out of business? Why not just stop using it?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
My guess is that your household income is at least $150k? Wealth can be a partial vaccine against discrimination.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
As someone with no stake in this, I would rather have all of that decay in one place I can avoid rather than strewn about my city.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The British-style civil service structure is much more suitable for long-term government investments like NASA, NIH, etc. They are too important and too complicated to be left to politicians.
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Of course “they” do, the EU collects billions of dollars in protection money every few years from each of the tech giants.
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I feel like the time is ripe to change that. It used to be that copyrights were held by big corporations and small enterprises were the ones who wanted to infringe. Now copyrights are held by millions of users and big corporations like Goog

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