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by heurist 7y ago
Viral gibberish can still influence subconsciously. But I think FB gets more blame than they should out of all this, and agree the collective is trying to pin the blame for complex social trends on a singular actor. Domestically, the fault
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by heurist 7y ago
I don't think you can discount that a concerted effort to create viral content will spread much farther than arbitrary wall posts by individuals. There are statistical methods Facebook could use to figure out how much of an impact that
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by heurist 7y ago
I charge my hybrid for free at a ChargePoint station near my office. My wife likes to charge her electric car at an outlet mall when she goes into town. I don't take my car on long distance trips so I'm not sure if there would be
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by heurist 8y ago
I totally disagree with your perspective on this but do not that think we will reach an agreement with further discussion.
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by heurist 8y ago
I feel that you are being overly reductive. My midwestern parents spend half their evenings on Facebook with Netflix on in the background now instead of simply watching cable TV. Society is having huge, diffuse discussions around overuse of
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by heurist 8y ago
Technological and social impact. SV owns the west's attention and behavior right now. I do not consider art to be the only cultural artifact. OP in this thread actually included financial impact in its consideration of NYC. Technology
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by heurist 8y ago
Had Rome in the list but removed it because I felt I was missing one or two in between it and Vienna. Rome and Florence dominated for a long time. Culture also used to be more distributed and heterogeneous prior to industrialization.
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by heurist 8y ago
NYC only became a cultural and financial center in the last century. The core Western cultural hub has been moving around over the last couple centuries - Vienna, Paris, NYC, now arguably SF. It's not impossible for another to rise in
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by heurist 8y ago
Garden cities have never worked and never will work. I'm sure they have their reasons for building these now, but they will be big liabilities for China in 30 years, just like they have been in the US. (Speaking as a fan of Jane Jacobs
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by heurist 8y ago
You have experience, use it to improve your product/team/company. You have to stand behind your opinions and push to make yourself heard. Take control of your time. Be willing to lose your job, whether it's from quitting or b
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by heurist 8y ago
By joining local institutions and listening for opportunities, I assume.
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by heurist 8y ago
Sadly, this often takes money because powerful people tend to be in expensive areas. An alternative is to find the lean rising power and make yourself valuable to them.
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by heurist 8y ago
He's one of the more charismatic contenders, is young, and has a large cult following both in a deeply red state and online. Those factors naturally lead to coverage, at least in today's press.
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by heurist 8y ago
Even more worrying is the prospect that they'll use their profit to lobby for regulation that aligns with their goals under their "non-profit ethical framework", shutting out any would-be competitors who have a different take
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by heurist 8y ago
If they're willing to make this change, they might be willing to remove the cap in the future when they have something truly marketable.
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by heurist 8y ago
There are neutral spaces (on Reddit) but they are not popular because they don't make people feel good by confirming their biases. Most prefer attacking feckless strawmen over having substantive arguments.
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by heurist 8y ago
Germany censors Nazis now, though. What lesson do we take from that?
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by heurist 8y ago
I haven't seen a lot of active suppression of right wing views other than the more numerous liberals having more bodies to throw at arguments. If the tables were turned and liberal ideas were less popular than conservative ideas then b
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by heurist 8y ago
A single player that is strong enough can decide that the market will not have more than one player.
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by heurist 8y ago
I prefer nonfiction audiobooks to podcasts. Good books have years of effort put into them to present a cohesive narrative with deep research and subtle detail. Podcasts feel rushed in comparison. I can also listen to classic books that will
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by heurist 8y ago
Oil money is a start, though my understanding is the workers go where the work is and take the money home when the work runs out. Those also tend to be in places people don't want to live for long. Most of the oil money is also extract
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by heurist 8y ago
That's what happens when unrestrained capitalism moves production of goods outside of the local economy and into distant foreign economies which are more difficult to access. Capital aggregates in the few international trade hubs and s
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by heurist 8y ago
Kind of proves my point that there are no easy categories. I used millionaire as a catch-all term but you can substitute hundred-millionaire, billionaire, trillionaire, or any subset of each and the point still stands.
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by heurist 8y ago
You'd have to be precise in targeting the social network in which the subject individual wields influence. Networks are more important than money in many ways. An individual who is friends or whose family has friends in VC or PE has a
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by heurist 8y ago
As a small team's CTO doing both product management and engineering, I'd say product management is the more difficult role. Might be because I'm not as experienced, but despite having a natural aptitude for it and even after
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by heurist 8y ago
No mention of Audible?
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by heurist 8y ago
"God" means a lot of things to a lot of people. Appreciating the world around you and doing what you can to be good to others can be "God".
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by heurist 8y ago
Automation thought leaders have become an echo chamber divorced from the reality of problem solving. I rarely see discussion of concrete steps to take to automate something, only fluffy high level conversation about impacts should a vague w
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by heurist 8y ago
We need to reduce zoning/land use restrictions and reduce the concentration of wealth which prevents the middle class from building small, dense housing/mixed-use developments to live/work/rent from. The wealth concentra
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by heurist 8y ago
I think among younger people watching porn is a given. It's ubiquitous, especially as production of pornographic media has exploded in the last decade. People post their nude selfies online for fun and seem to be fine. I've seen

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