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by imagist 10y ago
AirBnB poses a safety risk to homeowners. The fact that it's also a billion dollar business now doesn't change that. Additional problems have been discovered with AirBnB's business model, which are arguably even worse. Sure,
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by imagist 10y ago
So basically if you order by frequency, order correlates with frequency? Isn't that just two ways of saying the same thing? Isn't it obvious? I don't get why we would need a law for that so I feel like I'm missing some d
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by imagist 10y ago
First of all, that's not how you make a Sazerac. You rinse the glass with absinthe and toss the absinthe, you don't add it to the mix. There's also an ordering dependence: the rye and bitters can be mixed in either order, but
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by imagist 10y ago
What does "rank" mean in this context?
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by imagist 10y ago
> Code is just code. Bad changes can be backed out. It's much better to move fast and iterate quickly than to create an illusion of care and add friction to every aspect of the development process. Up-front design of software just d
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by imagist 10y ago
You're missing my point: I think that this could be studied cheaply enough that he wouldn't need outside funding. I'll add that I think the reason he hasn't performed studies on the technique isn't lack of funding,
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by imagist 10y ago
But he's already performing the treatment on people. He's already skirting the regulations. Merely collecting data on what he's already doing doesn't make it worse.
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by imagist 10y ago
Let's be clear here: I don't think outside funding is needed. As I described, this isn't expensive. The cost is small enough that it could be paid for out of his pocket and he'd easily recoup the investment if it proves
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by imagist 10y ago
It's not about being taken seriously, it's about finding out whether what he's doing actually helps people. You don't need institutions to prove your hypothesis, you need evidence.
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by imagist 10y ago
Is it, though? Science isn't always an expensive endeavor. Certainly checking in with clients a few years after and comparing outcomes with a control group could be done with volunteers. Setting up a blind can be done with basic survey
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by imagist 10y ago
I find it funny that the C code is in a larger font than the Go code.
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by imagist 10y ago
Surely comfortable survival and providing for your family are valuable.
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by imagist 10y ago
This is just semantics. Typically wages are valuable--I don't know anyone who is being paid in smiles. Ostensibly when work is done and paid for, value has been created.
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by imagist 10y ago
That's not the question businesses are asking. They're asking, how can I solve this problem as cheaply/efficiently as possible? And the answer is increasingly not human labor. There is work to be done in poor communities in t
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by imagist 10y ago
Wouldn't it be more productive if they titled their article with something that describes the content of the article?
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by imagist 10y ago
1. It doesn't come from physical access to the device: the device is accessed wirelessly. 2. The water company collects all this data from everyone with the device. 3. As the Mirai botnet showed, it's not just the government who m
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by imagist 10y ago
The idea of transemployment (work that is not needed, but is created to prevent unemployment) is a terrible idea. Have we really become so brainwashed that we have forgotten that the entire purpose of work is to create value? Simply letting
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by imagist 10y ago
> FOSS massively benefits nowadays the worst actors on the HW/SW markets possible. If you wait long enough you will see the heroes turn into the villains. (cf The Watchmen). This is really only true of OSS, not Free (Libre) Software
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by imagist 10y ago
Keeping the power of determining where the money goes is in itself selfish, so I don't buy the argument. More to the point, why are we optimizing for altruism and forward thinking? Are those end goals, or merely means to an end goal?
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by imagist 10y ago
You start off by claiming that people are notoriously selfish and short-sighted, but mysteriously the rest of your post only applies this to the receivers of aid. The givers are people too. More fundamentally, you're only looking at ma
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by imagist 10y ago
> I think it's probably more condescending, and certainly more harmful, to assume that extreme poverty bestows upon the global poor some mystical ability to make optimal spending decisions that for some reason doesn't apply to
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by imagist 10y ago
> I'm sorry, you do not get to blame me for the continued existence of capitalism. That's just ridiculous. If you choose to participate in harmful systems, you are in fact partially to blame for the harm done by those systems,
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by imagist 10y ago
That's what I said.
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by imagist 10y ago
> I don't buy the argument that deworming doesn't really help people because they weren't offered the choice of buying the equivalent value of cigarettes instead. Do you understand how condescending it is to think that you
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by imagist 10y ago
Not to be pedantic, but ROI as a concept only makes sense when you're trying to achieve your own goals. If you're really empowering other people, then they are the ones who should be evaluating the ROI on their decisions, not you.
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by imagist 10y ago
I think GiveWell does a great job at determining where we get the best bang for our buck when it comes to aid, but at a more fundamental level, I don't think I'm in a position to tell someone else what they need. That's conde
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by imagist 10y ago
> Im sorry, but your position just sounds like uninformed radicalism. Don't be sorry for labeling my position, just don't do it. If you had a defensible position you could defend it without name calling. > Most corporations
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by imagist 10y ago
> I like having the option to support sites I enjoy without massively inconveniencing myself. So do I, which is why I use Patreon and subscriptions. The side effects of viewing ads are that in addition to supporting the sites you enjoy,
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by imagist 10y ago
I think you're deeply misunderstanding my position. I don't think we should accept and normalize this behavior from corporations, I think we should reject corporations as valid entities with a right to exist entirely. Expecting co
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by imagist 10y ago
The modern American take on a corporation is the existent majority of successful corporations. That's certainly how casinos operate. I'm not saying this is the kind of corporation I want--on the contrary, I despise that such organ

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