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by glesica 11y ago
> Why not allow 12 year olds to marry as a consititutional right? Marriage is a legal contract. 12 year olds can't enter into legal contracts (alone). Therefore, 12 year olds can't get married. This also takes care of pedophile
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by glesica 11y ago
My (least) favorite is job ads that list "working for a startup" as a "perk". Part of the problem is that startups have been romanticized so heavily that working for one has become its own reward in the eyes of many. As
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by glesica 11y ago
> If the subscription is doled out in proportion to time spent in-app And think of all the cool new laborious, overcomplicated, and time-consuming UI designs we could look forward to!
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by glesica 11y ago
Sure, but that doesn't provide any more information than any other server log.
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by glesica 11y ago
> most sites just won't exist. I'm actually pretty OK with this. I doubt it will happen, though. There must be a better way. For example (and this is just an example from my own life), right now, the only thing I can do is bloc
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by glesica 11y ago
In addition to the other responses, McDonald's franchises require substantial investment on the part of the franchisee. You have to plop down hundreds of thousands of your own money, which represents entrepreneurial risk. This was foun
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by glesica 11y ago
I realize that someone would have to come up with something better first, and my comment about "disruption" was meant partially as a joke. I do, however, struggle to understand the deference many people on HN seem to have for the
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by glesica 11y ago
I agree that GA can be useful to site owners for things other than advertising and shady optimizations. The use cases you describe are all totally valid in my mind. However, and it seems that you agree with me here, those use cases don&#x27
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by glesica 11y ago
> By blocking GA, the site doesn't see you as a visitor. They can still use server analytics to see me as a visitor. I even show up on Cloudflare. I don't want them tracking what I do on their site, it should be enough to know
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by glesica 11y ago
I remember fondly the days when Google web sites could be relied on to be usable, well-designed, and easy to read. The Nexus page has been a bit of a canary, every time a new phone was released it got worse and worse.
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by glesica 11y ago
Until the next cool freemium app in that space comes out, then the customer just switches to that one. The real problem is that we just don't need 80 gazillion apps. The "app" market is extremely competitive, that's real
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by glesica 11y ago
> Even if other countries discriminate against Americans, the US would still benefit by NOT discriminating against citizens of these countries. Some Americans would benefit. Others would suffer because competition would be tougher. And o
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by glesica 11y ago
Yes. And why not? That's the whole point of countries. Americans are discriminated against by India, so we discriminate against Indians. Same with the English, Canadians, Chinese, Finns, Malaysians, name a country. Is it a lovely, wond
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by glesica 11y ago
When budgets depend on covering up cheating, cheating will be covered up. Educational institutions are failing to uphold their responsibility to society (partly) because society has largely abdicated its responsibility to educational instit
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by glesica 11y ago
Wouldn't a better long-term solution be to deal with the underlying causes of the rampant crime? You can arm everyone, but that won't actually stop crime, just move it somewhere else or force it to evolve. I mean, in the extreme t
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by glesica 11y ago
That's why I said "list of suspects" instead of "culprit".
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by glesica 11y ago
Find out who made money by shorting it, there's your list of suspects, or at least co-conspirators (if this turns out to be a hack).
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by glesica 11y ago
Yeah, they're basically just like the unintended consequences of relying entirely on markets.
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by glesica 11y ago
Sure, other things can be considered trade barriers. Different currencies, or even different languages as well. The problem is that most people would prefer to have those differences even if it means less trade, which is why the only way th
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by glesica 11y ago
TTIP doesn't open up trade. There have been plenty of articles about this. Actual trade barriers between the participants are already incredibly low. http://www.cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/correction-to-mank
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by glesica 11y ago
AFAIK trademarks don't work that way. You can "use" a trademark in a text or computer program more or less freely. What you can't do is do business under the trademarked name, or offer a competing (or substantially simil
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by glesica 11y ago
That's what we did in undergraduate. Practically every class I had required a research paper. We didn't always have to use statistics, but we were graded on methodology. Recall exams were rare, most exams involved interpretation a
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by glesica 11y ago
> Better incentives? Yep, incentives that lead to better outcomes, from my perspective. For example, less incentive toward corruption. Chinese emperors supposedly used eunuchs as court officials so that they wouldn't be tempted to f
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by glesica 11y ago
You make a good point, but I think getting rid of political power is at least as difficult as changing the economic system to provide better incentives. It's like companies that claim to have flat corporate structures. There are boss
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by glesica 11y ago
The dangers of fishing for p values (to focus on those paragraphs) are covered pretty extensively in undergraduate courses in, at the very least, economics and political science. Something happens between that point, and the point at which
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by glesica 11y ago
But as long as the political system and the market economic system exist side-by-side, this particular market will always exist! It's a feedback loop. The favor generates a return, the return allows acquisition of power, and the power
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by glesica 11y ago
> The big winners are the big corporations world-wide, because they know how to play the game or at least how to pay the people who know. It even goes beyond that. The corporations use policies that benefit them to enrich themselves. Som
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by glesica 11y ago
> This is just a consequence of powerful people happening to have a lot of money to invest... Hehe, as though these things just happen to go hand-in-hand.
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by glesica 11y ago
That's fine for cops (although then you've still got the problem that the legal system is heavily stacked against the poor), but I disagree that all unions are inherently bad (even for cops, the union could just be limited to sa
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by glesica 11y ago
Does anyone who would be downloading tmux not use an ad blocker? Because if so, consider me shocked. I mean, not that the ads aren't still a moral concern, but from a practical standpoint it doesn't seem like a big deal. I didn&#x

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