jonfw

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by jonfw 7y ago
So there is this common idea that social media is creating sort of "fake" social interactions where things are said and pictures are taken in pursuit of social reward (likes, follows, engagement). But this behavior isn't real
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by jonfw 7y ago
What the company should have done, ethically, is to just increase base compensation for drivers. You shouldn't be able to dynamically change base compensation based on the quality of the tip that the driver is rewarded, that is pretty
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by jonfw 7y ago
The path of least resistance is not a social issue, it's purely practical. It isn't a "failure of western civilization" that wheat based goods are an extremely economical way to satiate hunger. It is a failure of individ
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by jonfw 7y ago
I'm not convinced that morality and self-interest are mutually exclusive. Very often the best decision for a given entity to make is a moral one. We should still reward/praise companies who make decisions that are morally superior
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by jonfw 7y ago
Users could probably select their own escrow, right? For me, I'm not tying up the majority of my net worth in a single crypto. I could set an escrow at double the value of my wallet. It's highly unlikely that I do lose my secret k
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by jonfw 7y ago
Money isn't green paper rectangles, it is a store of value. It represents tradeoffs. It represents man-hours, other investments into our future that we could make, etc. Pretending money isn't that important is just an ignorant thi
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by jonfw 7y ago
This leads to more very cool stuff. 3D body scanning to get a representation of your body. Than use software to automatically generate and cut clothing patterns to get the exact fit you're looking for. TNow all that's left is stic
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by jonfw 8y ago
> But it's not just your opinion, because I'm forced to go along with it Welcome to society? I don't like speed limits so I feel your pain. > There can be no trust (and no science) where reasoning is enforced. I'm
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by jonfw 8y ago
Then by all means, disagree. That's just my opinion man. Any amount of law or regulation will have some amount of citizens who disagree with it. For me, I think that the average citizen should be able to trust the medical community, an
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by jonfw 8y ago
Why don't those laws against fraud apply to those companies that sell "power bracelets" or "healing crystals"? Or like 80% of the supplement industry? Snake oil is sold with regularity under our current false-advert
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by jonfw 8y ago
Those are markets with much less regulation than the medical market. If we deregulate medical tech we risk our medical tech market reaching similar levels of degeneracy.
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by jonfw 8y ago
I don't trust the "move fast and break things" approach with for-profit healthcare. With open source stuff like this, it works because nobody is pushing this tech for any reason other than it works. But if commercial products
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by jonfw 8y ago
I would love to see more of an open source movement in medical technology. That would be such a great way to reduce costs and make healthcare more accessible. Who knows what could be accomplished if we just had root access to more of our te
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by jonfw 8y ago
> I suspect they're esthetics Totally unrelated to your point, but I'm curious as to what this word means in this context.
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by jonfw 8y ago
This bears the question- are classes based around studying a particular technology track the most effective way to teach somebody how to learn?
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by jonfw 8y ago
In-process construction is pretty difficult to evaluate the value of for banks. Often times, the market will value an investment property much higher than a bank will value it, because the banks aren't always in the business of real-es
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by jonfw 8y ago
It's interesting to me that minimal interaction with strangers is what you would consider polite. What you're saying is that airpods are a barrier preventing the person from coffee from actually having a social interaction with yo
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by jonfw 8y ago
I wonder what the impact on resale value would be
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by jonfw 8y ago
You are 100% sure that Seth Rich wasn't murdered in a conspiracy because Wikipedia said so? I'm not saying that he was murdered by the DNC because I haven't seen enough evidence that supports that theory. But to act like the
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by jonfw 8y ago
I never considered this. Metaphors are very difficult to translate because while the primary definition of a word may be easily translatable, that translated word may have slightly different linguisitic properties that make the metaphor a l
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by jonfw 8y ago
"we can't actually afford to make a 35000 car, but Elon promised it, so we are going to attempt to prove him right by just software-limiting a more expensive car and than hoping nobody buys it so we don't lose money" How
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by jonfw 8y ago
Running a website that publishes other people's leaks at times convenient for an election is not the same as orchestrating a surveillance program and than a cover-up (as a sitting president!). This is an extremely dishonest comparison.
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by jonfw 8y ago
For the sake of anybody else reading this, I edited my previous comment before you responded, but at the time you saw my comment your first quote was accurate. My fault for that disjointed communication, I thought I edited it quickly enough
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by jonfw 8y ago
I'm using the term you used. I'm not concerned with the connotation, I'm concerned with making an argument based in fact. You said that some people make the distinction between "election meddling" and "exposing
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by jonfw 8y ago
I know that it intends to meddle with the election. Like I said, that isn't inherently a bad thing. I also fully intend on "election meddling" by sharing my opinions on the internet. As should you. It's on you to prove w
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by jonfw 8y ago
Election meddling is not inherently bad. If your version of "election meddling" is just by sharing facts about a potential electee, than I would say that you have meddled in a positive manner by making americans more educated. If
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by jonfw 8y ago
They will still sell you a model 3 standard if you want it, but it's just a software limited version of the standard plus, where you have to pay to access the full capabilities of the car.
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by jonfw 8y ago
Legally they're not supposed to fly past a certain distance from an operator, but if you don't care about the law you could easily operate via cell towers, or even autonomously via a predefined GPS coordinate based route.
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by jonfw 8y ago
No need for a parachute with the payloads that drug dealers are dropping.
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by jonfw 8y ago
so now I'm supposed to pay even more taxes so the government can pay to advertise to me to inform me of an american companies lack of ethics?

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