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by ggg9990 9y ago
The problem is that they become worse in prison. I’d be for a policy where once you went to jail you were never let out into the general population — you’d have to go live on an island with ex-prisoners.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The utilitarian approach would be to identify the worst n% of the population and pre-emptively kill or imprison them. There would be mistakes for sure though.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Brand image matters a ton to both companies because they are fueled on user trust. Uber asks you to get into a car with someone you’ve never met. Google asks you to trust them with your entire digital footprint. If people have an “icky” ima
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Why change his name and haircut? As Silicon Valley becomes more like Wall Street this behavior is not condemned but celebrated and even admired.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
“Even in a bad economy, this is something that we need.” Reminds me of some consumer research on Brazil that I worked on. Parents there buy video games for kids even when they can’t afford to send them to private school to get a better educ
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by ggg9990 9y ago
There are more exploits outside VBA than inside it.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
He’ll be sued but regardless of what happens he’ll be fantastically wealthy afterwards.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Celebrity culture gone way too far.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I was not concerned about harming my mother as she was dying of Alzheimer’s and used to be a scientist — she wanted to try it herself.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Because 1) I paid for it, and denying it to me is as stealing an unused item from my house and 2) laypeople DO use scientific papers. I read the paper about 40Hz light being applied to mice with Alzheimer’s and used it to built a light-flic
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Does anyone know where this community has migrated to? I know they were setting it up last week expecting to get banned.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The Gutenberg Project had free e-books decades ago, but people did not and do not devour Beowulf the same way they do an Instagram feed, even though Beowulf is even easier and cheaper to access.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Shout out to MyAnonaMouse.net for a good audiobook private tracker
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Sorry, you must not know that AirBnb is in the Silicon Valley/SF Bay Area. “Moral obligations” don’t mean jack shit here.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What is the relevance of the “techies got treated well”?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Most people with any writing capability do not use these tools. They are for foreign speakers of English or extremely poorly educated native speakers, they only affect the bottom 50% of written content which is not what affects the developm
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It’s good for code review for small teams. Junior developer writes some bad code. Senior developer points it out just using his insertion pointer (no editing). If he wants to say “you should use the set() method here” he can just type it.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Is this comment a satire?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
They probably saw that a New York Times article mentioned them and emailed their customer base to catch anyone who was reminded by the article.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
We have transferred a TON of this institutional knowledge to China. Now companies like DJI can compete and beat us, and it’s all with knowledge that we transferred to them in the last 30 years.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
If Microsoft bundling a browser is antitrust, why isn’t this?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Not sure why that study needed to be done, as it proved nothing. You can imagine yourself from above without actually having a camera 8 feet over your head.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
If you can make a porn video of someone look like a porn video of someone else, I’m sure the technology to solve this problem is not far off.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
That doesn’t prove anything. Make your fake video, point your phone camera at it, record.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Legally, in the US, if you own the copyright to the source images, the copyright to the porn, and you’re not selling the output, it’s 100% legal
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by ggg9990 9y ago
People fucking love their iPhones. People on this site don’t seem to realize that — I see comments of the form “I can’t run bash on it, so it’s going to fail.”
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Would you sue a wine glass maker too? A much more fragile handheld object, but expressly designed also to be handled by drunk people?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
That’s not necessarily inevitable since a large part of what makes marketplace trust metrics hard to game is that it costs a lot of money to drive fake transactions through it, since the marketplace will be taking its cut each time.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
No, because without Prop 13 a retired teacher isn’t going to want her house to be worth $5 million if she plans on continuing to live there.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What they have demonstrated, completely uniquely, is their ability to repeatedly enter brand-new markets and completely dominate them. That’s why the market estimates their growth potential somewhere between impressive and infinite.

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