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by jolux 5y ago
> Why is complicity in abuse of populations suddenly a problem? It's always been a problem, but it's best to make whatever strides to resolve it that we can. > The US imprisons more than China does Sure, but it is not curren
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by jolux 5y ago
Well, I think the government buying American is probably a precursor for anyone else doing so, because they're not at the constraints of the market to find the cheapest viable product.
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by jolux 5y ago
This is a difficult question to poll because in a great sense actions speak louder than words, but what information I can find suggests similar preferences among consumers themselves: https://review.chicagobooth.edu/marketin
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by jolux 5y ago
I don't quite follow the question you're asking, but the argument I was making is one about economies of scale. Manufacturing small quantities of expensive products is comparatively easy, at the extreme end you could have a single
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by jolux 5y ago
Have you read Kant? I've had a lot of trouble with Hegel as well, and everyone tells me it's because he's responding to or building on arguments that Kant makes that seem to be pulled from whole cloth without that context (Ka
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by jolux 5y ago
Two what? I'm also curious what defines your standard for clear thinking. Philosophy is at a level of abstraction higher than any other intellectual discipline, and to a certain extent it's not possible to discuss philosophy in th
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by jolux 5y ago
> It's politically unpopular for the same reason action on climate change is unpopular: it makes everything more expensive. You've got this backwards. Both taking action on climate change and buying American are popular [1][2].
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by jolux 5y ago
It really depends who you read. Some philosophers are better writers than others, some philosophical traditions prioritize clarity more, and some translations are really bad. If you’re looking for relatively straightforward thinking, Plato
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by jolux 5y ago
I agree, but part of the problem with manufacturing in China is that American companies have become complicit in the abuses of a brutal authoritarian regime. The manufacturing efficiencies cannot be ignored, but it would be wise to take thi
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by jolux 5y ago
I applaud this accomplishment. I think there will be a push to manufacture more semiconductor-intensive products in the US over the next several years as tensions with China continue to heat up and Taiwan is left as a single point of failur
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by jolux 5y ago
I was actually pretty interested in reading it until I saw that paragraph.
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by jolux 5y ago
Yeah, this sounds like a very early 90s post-Soviet perspective, i.e. at least 30 years late. I'm a Fukuyamaist when it comes to historical development, but even Fukuyama has argued that the long-term trend towards liberal democracy ma
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by jolux 5y ago
What is the non-irony-poisoned translation of that paragraph that I'm meant to accept as the serious interpretation?
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by jolux 5y ago
Why does it have to start with a gross, misogynistic dig at Taylor Lorenz? Comes off as petty and gives me absolutely no appetite to read the rest of it.
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by jolux 5y ago
The Ultrabook brand was Intel's idea but I'm pretty sure it was created to make sure that the Wintel ecosystem could stay competitive with the MacBook Air.
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by jolux 5y ago
Isn’t advertising to people with disposable income more desirable?
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by jolux 5y ago
According to this, Facebook revenue per-user-per-year is about $30, so $2/mo (post-Apple cut) is probably not far off for Twitter: https://www.statista.com/statistics/234056/facebooks-average... . But of cours
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by jolux 5y ago
I think it’s internally case sensitive and provides case insensitive APIs to users, right?
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by jolux 5y ago
> Oh, and that password? Not case sensitive. What, you expect them to make a case-sensitive version of NTFS just to store your password??
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by jolux 5y ago
It’s perfectly conceivable that social factors contingent on race (and importantly income and wealth background too) could impact IQ though. That is a lot of the argument that racial differences in IQ do not describe biological differences.
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by jolux 5y ago
> Citation needed on “unquestionably a racist”. Race is a social category, not a genetic one, so his claim is ill-founded from the start. It is scientific consensus that genetics does not explain variations in IQ between racial groups.
832.
by jolux 5y ago
Isn’t the body hostile to cancerous cells too?
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by jolux 5y ago
It works for some things but they've kind of painted themselves into a corner with cloud services, many companies do not trust that GCP will not just disappear without a trace someday.
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by jolux 5y ago
> Android itself isn't there to force tracking and marketing on users. It's there to prevent somebody else from controlling mobile devices and being a gatekeeper between Google's services and users. It can be, and is, both
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by jolux 5y ago
That's irrelevant because I create my own rc files, and uninstallers should definitely not delete user-created files. Additionally most software that people install is not Unix tools, and most users have no idea what an rc file is.
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by jolux 5y ago
> As far as I know, the author's ultimate goal was libertarianism, but believed democracy was sub-optimal for achieving it. That's a euphemistic way to say he thought his views should be forced upon other people rather than hav
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by jolux 5y ago
As far as I know Urbit itself was an attempt to realize the author's neofeudalist/monarchist political ideas through technology. I don't think he succeeded but I have to say I'm not entirely clear on why the people who m
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by jolux 5y ago
>How do you even decide when do you remove those? I think as a developer you have to take pains to keep them all in one place, and delete them when uninstalling.
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by jolux 5y ago
>Deleting an app folder on MacOS is no less intuitive than right-clicking an app in windows and choosing Uninstall. Here's a question though: What are you right-clicking in Windows that gives you an uninstall option? Windows is so c
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by jolux 5y ago
>Windows makes it pretty easy with the one "add or remove programs" section of the control panel. Except there's no guarantee that uninstallers will remove all ancillary files on Windows either, especially because Windows

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