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by jddj 7y ago
As ridiculous as all of this is, there's some poetry in a company called Robinhood taking angel investment from various billionaires and using it to give millions of dollars in (probably) free leverage to teenagers.
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by jddj 7y ago
I think you'll find that colourblind people don't typically see the world in grey scale.
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Totally, that these people have jobs and pay tax is great. Not being on the street just isn't really enough to write off all other ethical considerations though. Some might wish to set a slightly higher bar than that for people who a
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by jddj 7y ago
This first line here had promise, but it needed to go further. Being rich on its own isn't a social good, but you're right that it can be a good place to start: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
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by jddj 7y ago
Everything is securities fraud
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by jddj 7y ago
I'm completely aware and in agreement on the sad state of the companies who manage those apps, and the transition that the various relationships have taken and are taking is from bad to better in that regard. But I regularly talk to pe
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by jddj 7y ago
Opening up my "messaging apps" collection on my phone shows: - WhatsApp (sees the most use by far) - Facebook messenger (almost completely phased out, used for maybe one or two people and to regain contact when a phone/number
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by jddj 7y ago
I didn't forget that, and thousands of police weren't injured, actually. That's wrong by an order of magnitude. The point is that there is so much video evidence of the entire conflict that we don't really need to deal i
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by jddj 7y ago
Just on the chainsaw point, take care: unless it somehow happened in the only corner of the city with police and protestors but without 100 smartphone cameras pointed at them at all times, it's utter bullshit. These police have been to
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by jddj 7y ago
This is a bit meta and for that I apologise, but it's kind of interesting that the "drug addicts, paedophiles and terrorists" rhetoric seems to have lost almost all of its potency. I found the reference to hate groups to be
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by jddj 7y ago
I only really find myself consistently needing to g! for super recent results, like breaking news or a sports score. Admittedly some of Google's advantage here is the sheer scale of the compute resources they throw at their crawlers, a
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by jddj 7y ago
> Too much of that "focus on the effort" and you end up with a generation of bureaucrats The best things in life typically reward effort spent with incremental results, which come with their own dopamine rush. It's somet
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by jddj 7y ago
Glovo say they become profitable (in that city) six to nine months after arriving. They seem to be run quite differently though to Uber / Deliveroo, probably because VC money doesn't or didn't flow quite as easily in Barcelon
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by jddj 7y ago
Wanted to stay. I've generally either agreed with or appreciated your points in this thread, but this one triggered a reflex in me which has been honed by Brexit. If we're talking about what a population of people want, we should
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Australia is the per-capita global leader in building new renewable energy(theconversation.com)
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by jddj 7y ago
It's not just ads in apps, it blocks tracking beacons too. If I connect my (big Chinese manufacturer's) android device to my vps which has the pihole running I can watch as one or two requests per second are blocked with no browse
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by jddj 7y ago
If tribe was (I hope you'll agree) too small, and nations "too big", what in your view is the optimal scale for governance? Personally, the most logical conclusion for me is that national governance being the highest level is
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by jddj 7y ago
I'm in the same boat. I don't stick to it extremely strictly, and the window moves around a bit but generally I follow 16/8 too and haven't noticed much of change in body fat (but I don't carry much anyway). The rea
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by jddj 7y ago
Your assumption here is that the other commenter is projecting some kind of perfect planning, coordination, foresight and execution onto these agencies. But they can be doing evil things which are in their interest without it being some sit
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by jddj 7y ago
I believe Dang has said once or twice that this is something that can be achieved if you email them.
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by jddj 7y ago
At the extremely wealthy end, you almost certainly didn't . There's hard work, and there's luck. Your genes, your environment and the randomness of the universe add to make up 100% of both of those things. I don't thi
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by jddj 7y ago
Thanks for this, I never noticed the link and just lazily assumed it wasn't available on mobile. For anyone else in the same position: It's there at the permalink (date on comment -> favourite).
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by jddj 7y ago
There's also the humanitarian toolbox ( http://htbox.org ). But I'm not sure if it's still actively developed.
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by jddj 7y ago
Nothing to add, just commenting here so that I can find this distilled wisdom again when I need it.
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by jddj 7y ago
An older guy from the rave scene once taught me this without explaining the process at all. When we'd be out and loud music was playing and somebody couldn't hear what he was saying to them, he'd lean in, speak more softly an
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New Zealand bans swimming with dolphins as numbers fall(independent.co.uk)
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by jddj 7y ago
The salesmen at the company I work with at the moment (industrial/commercial IoT) have adopted "banking-grade" for laymen, and have learned to recite the algorithms and/or protocols for anyone who expresses further inte
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by jddj 7y ago
Sorry, ironically I didn't mean to imply openness in any legal sense (although the foundation itself is publicly accountable in terms of what they spend their money on). Open companies was probably a bad term to use because it might im
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by jddj 7y ago
Definitely not, but I can see how it might be useful to know aggregates of the Firefox version and locale information for people visiting that particular page.
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by jddj 7y ago
I do see the point that you are making, and clearly prevents is not absolutely true, but the beauty of open companies like Mozilla is that this information is available at all. In an issue tracker no less. We can be a little more charitab

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