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by gretch 3y ago
Everything in our society at scale is going to be “poorly executed”. If your idea only succeeds when the smartest people are running it, and they can’t make any mistakes, then it’s not actually a good idea.
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by gretch 3y ago
> Everybody's winging it, nobody knows what they're doing I’ve seen this comment a lot in recent years and I think there’s a lot of nuance here that is unappreciated. When taken literally, it is used as a weapon of anti-intelle
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by gretch 3y ago
Example: a video shows a group of police beating up a man for a minor crime (say littering). The video is signed by Michael Smith (the random passerby who filmed it on his phone). The video is published to Instagram and shared widely. How d
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by gretch 3y ago
Doesn't this encoding scheme seem extremely brittle to errors during operation? Like for example, you put the jelly pack at 12 o'clock, and then if someone rotates the plate, now it's at 6 o'clock and you have the wrong
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by gretch 3y ago
1) wouldn't blame them if they did 2) we are in this military alliance called NATO; if you are depending on each other for military help, you're not thinking about social media based threats
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by gretch 3y ago
Your life isn’t in the hands of twitter. It’s in the hands of NYPD, an institution designed to protect the public. While it’s certainly nice to have, we shouldn’t have an expectation that a private business to defend us from the corruption
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by gretch 3y ago
The employees collectively have a lot of power. A single employee has almost no power at all, which is rightful.
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by gretch 3y ago
>price you differently based on who/where/when you are, etc public transit already does this https://www.bart.gov/tickets/discounts -Seniors 65 and over get 62.5% off -Youth 5-18 years old get 50% off
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by gretch 3y ago
He got up on that stand to answer questions. If he’s going to go up and proceed to dodge questions, then he needs to just go home and stop scheduling press events. I don’t want a coward for a leader.
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by gretch 3y ago
I actually spent a fair chunk of my afternoon researching the candidates during that election. I don’t think elder is a white supremacist and personally I also would consider myself “tough on crime”. But his views on the situation are also
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by gretch 3y ago
As a bay area resident: I don't think this carveout materially amounts to much. There are sooooo many open fast food positions and if they all go to $20 (currently at $17 in my area) then panera has to keep up. It is still a free optio
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by gretch 3y ago
Morals? You think you’re some kind of righteous crusader? I’m talking about toys and gadgets. The ability to view memes.
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by gretch 3y ago
Apple has a decade+ track record of making devices that i really like. (At several points I’ve compared solutions across the market). Instead of siding with Apple, why would I side with anonymous and random internet commentators who have ne
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by gretch 3y ago
IMO if the lie is “inside the work”, then it’s fair. Another example in the comment thread is Fargo. The lie about the true story happens inside of the film itself. But if you lie in the meta data, then it’s unethical. In this case if Fargo
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by gretch 3y ago
> why can't we just have something that's truly paid and ad-free? We can. You just have to make it first. This is not a question to ask of others, it a just question you ask yourself. Once you answer it for yourself, then just
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by gretch 3y ago
It's not absurd though. It actually works. Is it suboptimal and a bit confusing at times? sure. But man these internet people sure are watering down the meaning of the word "absurd". It's like a tax lawyer saying that co
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by gretch 3y ago
So your thesis is that it doesn't work. We are all enslaved to keep buying iPhones and have no free choice? Or is it that even if no one bought an iPhone, Apple as a company would be able to keep it's market position? This is why
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by gretch 3y ago
> This whole area of law seems utterly absurd. Only if you don't understand it > Did they just commit retroactive tax fraud? That's not how fraud works and that's not what the IRS is trying to do Fraud: you have to know
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by gretch 3y ago
> nobody would be able to do anything about it Just don’t use an iPhone. And Amazon - just don’t put an app on the iOS store. I mean it really is that simple. If customers actually cared about any of this stuff they would just switch. If
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by gretch 3y ago
Here's Tom Scott quoted on MKBHD's channel where he literally says "this is my dream job" https://youtu.be/GQAvce3MA44?si=deP0GG1hICPp9jr8&t=93
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by gretch 3y ago
People always talk about these things as if they are mutually exclusive. In reality, there’s lot of opportunities that benefit all 3 of user, Google, and decision maker. it’s kind of the fundamental principle of trade/business - that b
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by gretch 3y ago
disclosure: am investor It's one of those stocks that people love to emotionally say is "over" without quantification. And very loose analysis like "I don't use facebook.com anymore" or "metaverse VR is no
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by gretch 3y ago
Because your original comment is very low quality >I think every major update to Google maps in the last decade or so has made it worse. I expect no different with this one. I just hold our community to higher standards. You know offline
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by gretch 3y ago
Well do you want to tell use about your use case at all or do you just want to be mysterious and indignant?
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by gretch 3y ago
I think you vastly underestimate how much baseline experience has improved on the internet in the last 10 years. Here's a talk that google gave on improvements happening in Maps 10 years ago: https://youtu.be/HrLyZ24UcR
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by gretch 3y ago
Market places and distribution channels are not mutually exclusive concepts
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by gretch 3y ago
The AppStore is a distribution channel. It’s a plausible business model to charge per unit of distribution, just like a freight company might do. Unity is a game framework/toolkit/engine. It does not do distribution (I sign into u
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by gretch 3y ago
Since our ape brains evolved millions of year ago, we've always been fascinated with big, tall things. Stone henge, pyramids, etc It's not rational, but it is pretty fucking cool
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by gretch 3y ago
No one can predict the future. But here’s some data we can look at. In the US currently, you cannot be barred from buying health insurance even if you are an active smoker. And we’ve known about the dangers of smoking for a long time. So ev
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by gretch 3y ago
See this is the kind of thing I’m talking about. To me, you’re like a digital prepper. You have a bunker full of canned food and guns because you think “you’re gonna wake up one day and …” So be it. The way you live your life doesn’t negati

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