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by jpttsn 9y ago
First baby take 9 mo, but with a pipeline you can get the average close to 1 mo.
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Big changes do happen and look small only in retrospect.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Not sure it’s a genie situation. Look at Java applets, Flash player.
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If not for NATO Sweden and Norway might well be part of Russia. Nations are not isolated systems. Comparing national policies as though they didn’t interact gives wrong answers.
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Aww
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by jpttsn 9y ago
If capitalism is to blame for this profit chase, then who’s to blame for capitalism?
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Society rarely gets its calculator out. Rule making tends to be a political process. Oftentimes, the rules are suboptimal. The “calculation” is just a convenient rationalization.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
> I'm asking questions to learn something from the discussion. Currently, my opinion is that regulations are necessary, but perhaps they aren't, and I would like to hear why. Trying to recall what they taught us in business sch
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Users might notice the battery penalty.
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I think users can jump through those hoops as well. Before emoji were available as a system keyboard, for international (non-Japanese) iOS users, many users downloaded apps to enable the emoji keyboard.
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Sounds shiny. How would government determine if there’s a solid case? Some kind of formal hearing?
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by jpttsn 9y ago
I wouldn’t say I chastised you.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Whataboutism: you say ”this is bad” and I say ”but what about <other bad thing>.” Logical smooth sailing: you say “this is the worst” and I say “can’t be the worst because here is something worse.”
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by jpttsn 9y ago
In your ideal society, you would rather see Hogan lose in court for lack of money?
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Putin and Xi must be relieved to hear that Gawker going bankrupt is “one of the biggest attacks on freedom of the press in recent history.”
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Luckily, I never claim politics has nothing to do with me. Politics, sanitation, planetary orbits all affect me, and I contribute. But I don’t necessarily care about them all. Your central thesis, that there “is no neutral”, is unworkable.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Trolley problem. If I don’t pull the lever, maybe I can be blamed for it. But does it mean I support trolleys?
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by jpttsn 9y ago
I’m saying I can hardly support a regime by virtue of not caring about politics. A new born child doesn’t understand and can’t care about politics. Would you say this child supports the ruling party? Never mind whether politics affects
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by jpttsn 9y ago
So since politics is important, not caring mean I support the winner? You make a strong case for caring about politics. But I’m not convinced why low interest in an argument puts me on either side of it. I’m sure a sports fan could make an
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by jpttsn 9y ago
I don’t care about sports. Does that mean I support the latest Super Bowl winner? Not everyone can afford not to care about sports. Does that mean I have to care about sports?
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Would you also say that “not being religious is a religion in itself?” Or that “not being sick is a disease in itself?” Maybe there are games I’m just not interested in playing. There are many different ways to frame the human experience. “
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What does profit have to do with it? Would it be better, ethically, if they sold it at a loss?
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Either that, or it’s just an emotional outburst. Meanwhile, in the course of history, humans regularly engage in mass slaughter of humans. We could say indifference to genocide is not viable, because it ought not be viable. But that has
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by jpttsn 9y ago
It must be awful to have Apple leeching of your hard work.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Fair point; it's not exactly the same mistake. If humans made those, this discussion would probably never happen. What I tried to rebut is your first, weaker assertion: > The problem with optical illusions like that is that they are
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by jpttsn 9y ago
If it weren't for the evil managers, we would all adopt to a 21st century lifestyle overnight, throwing out the stale routines of the backwards generation that raised us.
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I think it's kind of a leap to assume the value is low just because it's hard to measure. This is in general a common, elusive mistake: "We can't measure it, so it must be zero." Better to be ridiculous and say it&#
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A4QcyW-qTUg
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by jpttsn 9y ago
I hear that a lot, but I don't buy it. Fearing the failure itself is useful. If failure leads to awful consequences, fearing failure is a shortcut. If it doesn't lead to awful consequences, I'd rethink framing it as failure i
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Enligthen me; what possibility did I miss?

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