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by jpetso 9y ago
It appears relatively easy to get a majority to vote against their best interest. Case in point: Trump getting elected. If all that's needed to win a vote is populism and ad money, then you can be damn sure that people will vote not ju
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I found these slides: https://www.slideshare.net/InsightTechnology/dbtstky2017-c23...
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But how are you going to listen to music on your wireless Airpods during the long flight, given that you showed courage in abandoning your audio cables? Delightful.
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I'm not sure I would want to operate in a country where the tax situation was likely to change drastically from one term to another. If I need Tea Party people to agree on frequent tax extensions, even the sensible/proven ones, I
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You can approximate the point at which companies decided to own our data by looking at when they transitioned from client-side software with local file storage and open protocols to web services with proprietary protocols. Microsoft is stil
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While I agree with your statement in general, I take issue with your italicizing of "ethical treatment of animals, and ecological sustainability" as either revolutionary or socialist. These are political issues but do not intrinsi
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That's as anecdotal as it is devoid of any causal link. There have there been numerous incidents of rapist and otherwise crazy Uber drivers around the world, and the mere choice of whether you're an Uber/Lyft driver vs. a reg
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Question: If you take an organization with the goal to make money, and you execute well on social media with the help of capable engineers, will the end result have been drastically different than what Zuckerberg came up with? If the aims a
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Nah, they just haven't had the time and opportunity to gain and abuse power, or to become disillusioned. They'll be just as questionable as ourselves when they're our age. In different ways.
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Simpler in terms of not handling retail operations directly. More complicated as now you have to employ an army of regulators to make sure the regulations aren't being skirted in favor of higher sales numbers.
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Okay, so what? What do we gain from letting Shoppers Drug Mart and Rexall sell pot? The aim here is to provide regulated access, with prices that are low enough to eliminate the black market, but high enough to encourage people to think twi
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I find this mindset both admirable and deeply troubling, of people who feel that being able to do a handstand on another person is a worthwhile trade-off for the considerable risk of injury to yourself and the other person.
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Ask not how much customers are willing to pay for it, ask instead how much data collection companies are willing to pay for customer data.
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In all my 34 years so far, I've never had the desire to have my fridge conditioned in baking soda. Sometimes I feel like manufacturers really just introduce stuff to make life more complicated (and sell supplies regularly), then afterw
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Yeah, but 4%/20m is only the third strike. If as a small company you're unwilling or unable to fix those issues in a reasonable time frame after the first two strikes, you might not deserve to survive as a business in the first pl
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Which is basically what any other Android phone manufacturer would offer for their flagship phones, except for the fact that they don't guarantee it. Samsung, HTC, Sony, Google, even LG, all have similar track records with the margin o
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It's funny that nonprofits would charge almost twice as much as for-profits.
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The nut job volunteered for the Sanders campaign and asked if the people he was going to shoot were Democrats or Republicans. You might not identify him as left-wing but he sure as hell did himself. By the same logic, reasonable right-winge
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> Others value service more and robots have yet to match the service quality of a human. That would imply that the robot cannot do the job, so it doesn't really contradict the parent's statement.
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I somehow find it really weird to see Canadian proper nouns with American spelling for Centre.
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> We should be able to arrive at some kind of consensus on what our moral rights our, through rational discourse. In the commonly used sense of the term, the scope of morals by far exceeds what you'll get even reasonable people to a
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Usability on booking.com is decent, search, filters and map view are useful. Things have been getting better elsewhere, so it probably doesn't stand out as much as it did years ago. Either way, if prices are roughly the same on most si
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Basic rights are defined by various charters, constitutions, international agreements, and that's about it. If you find that one of those restrictions contradicts the ones applicable to your country and legal system, you have a good sh
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Education, quality control and help towards addicts implies the need for regulation and taxation of profits. For instance, gambling and casinos tend to be permitted but tightly controlled by law in many countries, for exactly this reason. A
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Funnily enough, putting money over ethics also presents a high risk of losing the long term game... if your long term goal is to end up with something user-centric and ethical.
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What's the origin of your desire to be better than all of your peers?
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Google has deemed Fiber a failed experiment. It's great for consumers that got it, but if not even a corporation with a giant war chest and the right kind of incentives can make it happen on a scale that goes further than selected neig
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Well, why don't they? Is the market not large enough to take 300 million invested via ETFs? Is it factually incorrect that if Trump had invested in the market, he would have made more money than he did actively managing it? More import
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If they're coming to the US and take American VC money, most of them will be building an American company, not a foreign one. Led by a foreigner, yes. But hiring a good bunch of local people if the company ends up successful. The while
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If your firm makes less money because it can't get enough developers to reach full capacity, then it makes sense to spend extra money on salaries to make even more money from customers. Assuming that this calculation applies to your fi

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