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by holmesworcester 5mo ago
Doing anything you want to do that does not harm anyone else, and helps some, is most certainly a human right. To arbitrarily repress this most basic impulse, the one to go after a dream to make better ways to do things, is severely anti-hu
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by holmesworcester 5mo ago
Good luck finding any objective distinction between HN, Reddit, WhatsApp, Signal, or email + listserv and "social media"! Or finding any one of "social media's harms" that could not, in some world where Facebook, In
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by holmesworcester 5mo ago
Or nostalgia for simpler times
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by holmesworcester 6mo ago
Bravo, palmas! etc.
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by holmesworcester 6mo ago
The visuals weren't terrible, I thought, but the writing, dialog, acting (except for Moura), and narrative arc were terrible. It's one of those movies where almost everyone looks like they just really love being on stage ("is
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by holmesworcester 6mo ago
If it becomes commonplace for existing prediction markets to get undermined by this kind of manipulation, won't that just be an opportunity for people to create better prediction markets that are less vulnerable to manipulation? And do
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by holmesworcester 6mo ago
It's wild that there are as many jobs in the category "Top Executives" as in the category "Retail Sales Worker". This makes sense given both automation and the US's role in the global economy, but it runs somew
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by holmesworcester 7mo ago
> That’s not their call to make. Whether they participate voluntarily in a commercial transaction or participate only when compelled to by law (setting aside the question of whether the government does or should have that power) is cert
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by holmesworcester 7mo ago
Isn't insider trading on a prediction market only wrong to the extent the insider is violating some duty of secrecy to the company? And isn't that just between them and their company in a case-by-case sense? If there was some valu
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by holmesworcester 7mo ago
That's not always true. Regulations increase the cost of transacting and make ranges of transactions non-viable, just like a tax. So there is "dead weight loss", where transactions that would have been mutually beneficially a
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by holmesworcester 7mo ago
A reminder: Israel counts Hamas soldiers as military targets, even when they are out of uniform and in civilian life. If we apply the civilized world's standards of war then yes, Israelis who are also off-duty soldiers or reservists do
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by holmesworcester 7mo ago
It was standard practice by the police and DA in 2000s Massachusetts. Neighbors were annoyed at loud college parties at the school I went to, so local police waited in bushes to catch people peeing in them, arrested them, and one of the cha
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by holmesworcester 8mo ago
> You don't casually give up massive abstraction wins Value is value, and levers are levers, regardless of the resources you have or the difficulty of the problem you're solving. If they can save effort with Electron and put th
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by holmesworcester 8mo ago
"Spotify" literally means "put ads on things". It's not obvious to US English speakers but "spot" was ad industry jargon and became the word for "TV commercial" in several European languages. It&
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by holmesworcester 10mo ago
I think it's important to not throw babies out with bathwater here. One can disagree with Mozilla and think advertising sucks, and use tools to block it or FOSS products that don't force it on us, while also seeing how e2ee encryp
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by holmesworcester 10mo ago
Same, so much so! My feelings of freedom in that era, as a teen in a small 90s US city, were what fueled me to co-found one of the organizations (Fight for the Future) cited in the article! (No longer in the trenches, just on the board, des
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by holmesworcester 10mo ago
The most important reason for privacy is that without it, social norms calcify. If a norm is outdated, oppressive, or maladaptive in some way and needs to be changed, it becomes very difficult to change the norm if you cannot build a critic
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by holmesworcester 11mo ago
You wouldn't say this about a message encrypted with AES though, since there's not just a "human patience" limit but also a (we are pretty sure) unbearable computational cost. We don't know, but it's completely
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by holmesworcester 11mo ago
I know HN viscerally hates crypto, and yes Trump is embarrassingly corrupt, but the charges against CZ were a greater wrong than whatever quid pro quo happened in the pardon. This is the most embarrassing part of all of it. The US is ping p
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
I think "if their authorities can kick down the door of the house you were born in" is a good enough guide here to see the problem as distinct from other military interventions, not like the invasion of Iraq was a good idea. The U
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
A country loses its right to "re-establish deterrence" when the population it's "deterring" is born inside its own de-facto borders, and when the only reason it needs to deter so many of them is that they would (rig
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
Israel's main best option is to give Palestinians, at least those unambiguously born under Israel's control, the right to vote in Israeli federal elections. A government that can kick down the door of the house you were born in ha
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
And not in a war zone, even. (West Bank is governed by Israel.)
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
Everyone here is talking about Israel, even the person with the wild comment about Epstein and Kirk. It is common for a minority of people to say similarly wild things about the US, Russia, China, and so on.
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
Electric does make it pretty important that the software is unusually good for a car, though, because the software has to compensate for non-ubiquitous charging infra. Tesla does this very well. There are some quirks around charge schedulin
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
One way to look at this is that the Bay Area focuses on transportation technology that works and scales regardless of the rare socio-political star alignment that makes HSR and subways possible. And the Bay Area, largely, eats its own dogfo
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
I think I agree overall, but "these kind of deals should be boring, not a media event" make me doubt that position, because "deal becomes a media event" seems so eventually-inevitable given how democracy works.
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
When did China become part of the free world?
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
One way to settle the question of whether Khan is right would be for the government to simply make competing offers in these situations, buy the companies, and shepherd them to IPO, or a buyer with fewer antitrust issues if that's not
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
Then why did shareholders choose to sell? In choosing to sell they decided the risk wasn't worth the reward. If you were in their position, would you have sold or held?

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