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by jariel 6y ago
They care a lot about advertisers and lawsuits at very minimum. Nobody wants their video ad up against 'controversial' material. That said, there has to be a way to redress these grievances. Of the many things we could start to re
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by jariel 6y ago
Not quite the offending hashtag is: "#ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide" So this is the government tamping down language which they deem destructive to them, particularly, one individual i.e. Modi. It remains to be seen if 'genocide
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It's not surprising, it's just that she was getting widespread systematic and cultural pushback in the vein of: "It's not the time to tell stories about White Men". Of course, her own rejection of the industry wasn&
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by jariel 6y ago
The majority of votes on HN I believe are instinctive - someone liked or didn't like what you said, or the tone or whatever and that's it. Often there isn't much rhyme or reason. Clearly there are low/high value comments
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The people in the suits are actually a really small part of the market. Nobody really sells that kind of specific devices. Irrespective of any choices BB made - they went up against the iPhone, the #1 product of the last few decades - and o
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It was always unrivalled as a comms device. It was really odd to see the industry shift so hard from that utility.
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This has become institutional. And FYI it's not a paradox that you can 'care about diversity' and still be bullied by activists. Major corporations are making requirements for panels at conferences etc. and it can get very co
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by jariel 6y ago
Bad Bunny is barely famous, not remotely approaching the status of mega star. If you don't believe me, check out Google Trends and compare to other, actual stars. JLo is one of the only mainstream Latina stars and therefore gets the sh
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by jariel 6y ago
It's 'hard' largely because the standards bodies and browser makers fail to provide simple and expedient means to do the most basic of operations, making every little thing a designer wants to do a giant hack. For something s
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Or the Latino community, which is marginalized and literally bigger than the African American community and constantly ignored in all of these initiatives. It's really mind blowing frankly that every single time the issue arises it&#
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by jariel 6y ago
Of course there is, I'm not denying that - and Google, Facebook and Apple frankly could be doing a lot more, but they aren't really. Their actions are exceedingly superficial.
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Except that they will get in return considerably more than $100M in lifetime brand and PR value, is one way to start looking at it. Also, 'throwing money at problems' has never really solved much. The best way to solve problems is
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by jariel 6y ago
It's hard to be critical of people who want to see justice, paradoxically, I think we need to be the most skeptical when corporations which have zero problem operating and participating in them most aggressive regimes, try to use moral
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by jariel 6y ago
Naked short selling is illegal and so is market manipulation i.e. coordinating an attack on a stock.
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There needs to be a lot more evidence than some random screed on the web. He barely gave a single example 'TASER' and frankly didn't really specifically indicate how that worked. With 100 companies at any time under the squee
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This article would be more substantive with a lot more examples of the mechanism of the coordinated fraud.
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So this is an important point. An American in Germany would probably knee-jerk to 'racism' for a few reasons, and although there are different kinds of unfairness, I'm not sure if that's quite the right word. America is
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by jariel 6y ago
PISA standardized testing (I think 15 year olds) differentiates between migrants and non migrants. In the Anglosphere aka US, UK, Can, Au, Nz - migrants do only a little bit worse on standardized test than local kids, but once accommodating
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by jariel 6y ago
We need multiple app stores with legislation on providing access and default searches, much in the same way EU will require devices to allow users to select default search etc.. A good amount of competition will help solve a lot of problems
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Massive investment and ever increasing market value of abodes is generally the opposite problem of 'urban collapse' - I mean, unless the bridges are falling down, which I doubt. NYC in the late 1960's and 1970's underwen
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Yes, but measurable, understandable outcomes. And when it goes way over, it's usually easy to identify the problems, it's just often politically infeasible to address them. With construction - the numbers are on the table. And FYI
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by jariel 6y ago
No, this is not cynical enough. Even the part you mentioned: 'wrangling data for legacy systems' does not cost that much, it's still a small piece of the pie. The 'bulk of it' goes to sales, BD, marketing, profits,
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by jariel 6y ago
Unfortunately not, as the numbers are already on the table. People don't need to pay for news, so they generally won't. The smaller publications are all getting wiped out, NYT and a few others will remain paywalled in a smaller st
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Your chart literally shows a line over a decade 'going very quickly towards $0'.
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The entire silicon valley - and the very nature of BTC itself is a living testament to the ignorance of those supporting it. It is not really currency and it's the worst store of value imaginable. Literally ever kind of other normal lo
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Then they're idiots. If they want to hedge against inflation they would be buying real estate, equities and commodities - not magical monopoly money.
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In 1980 newspapers were where >50% of advertising dollars were spent, now it's going to nothing - and - they have to fight for every little click using click bait. You can see the natural progression towards hyper bifurcated viewpoi
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1) People are not using BTC because of fear of debasement. 2) Nobody is forcing you to hold large quantities of cash. In fact, very few people or institutions do. Most portfolios are 90% 'other stuff'. Cash is for liquidity, it&#x
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??? Art is not a currency easily transmissible over the internet to anyone, for whatever purpose, outside the reach of the law. India is one of the most corrupt places on Earth, it's a perfect vehicle for organized white collar crimina
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This notion that your business can evaporate without notice overnight has to stop. We absolutely need clear legislation on this, this is causing harm and the power asymmetry is monumental. Also - consider the conflicts of interests: Google

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