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by jpttsn 9y ago
I like my analogy; why not convince me it's wrong? Are there no negative externalities of trying on clothes?
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Employers do buy the labor of employees. Think of the employee as the store and the labor as the clothes.
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That’s like a store charging you to try on the clothes you don’t buy. I wouldn’t like that.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Sure it does! I could attempt to fly every time I see an open window. It’s wonderful to fear failure.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
As I see it, your options are fear of failure, fear of success, fear regardless of success/failure, or fearlessness regardless of success/failure. Fear of failure seems like a fantastic choice.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
No, I think the difference gp ignores is that they could either protect false negative real users, and eat a loss for the good of those, vs. ignore real users getting squeezed and boost stock price by...? This is where it gets fuzzy.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
So you’re saying that instead of trying to rescue their stock price, Twitter are looking to treat everyone fairly, cost no object?
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So Woz’ strengths are marketing etc.? Always seemed that was precisely the part he didn’t play too well.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Social trends in America are never framed in terms of class. Instead, we have to reach for other dimensions, in this case race. We could say it’s plain racism that keeps AAVE down. But it’s such an easy theory to falsify: it predicts that w
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Emotionally troubled male, check. Probably also wears an eye patch and rides a motorcycle, lonely child, 5’2”? That flavor of case cracking only works reliably for Sherlock Holmes. I’m worried you might be creating a totem of your adversari
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by jpttsn 9y ago
The day when China is the size of the US there will be lessons to learn from China . I bet there are many lessons today. But if Iceland remains its current size, neither superpower should treat it as comparable for scenario analysis. I get
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Differences in scale are a great reason to throw data out. Past experience gives us lessons for similar cases. The onus is on anybody using a model to ensure the use case is similar to the training data. The US and Iceland are nations but
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Of course scale should be taken into account; it’s a sad state that this would count as exceptionalism. Iceland and Portugal should be lessons for entities or similar size, like individual states of cities in the US.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Mostly great article. There’s probably a lot of economic history that applies to cryptocurrency. The fiat part of the title is just FUD. With the same argument, gold bullion would be fiat because a majority of humans could decide they don’t
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by jpttsn 9y ago
I still control my machine. I just run software that I don't understand to get content to play. If I wasn't able to run a certain subset of software, i.e. DRM, then my machine would be less universal, not more.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Don't you think bringing Trump into this is an example of the same things you admonish GP for?
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by jpttsn 9y ago
A newfangled med school could conceivably lecture on "Smoking, causation and the cancer of old age" in the intro course, and still turn out great doctors. But it should raise some questions about who backs the school.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
That's nice of you. Is it enough to keep the projects alive?
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Maybe gp worked really hard on that comment; should you really criticize it?
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It's not a random process. Babies aren't allocated by the stork.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
It becomes less clearly undeniable once we separate Google into its constituent parts, though. Is search a utility? How about email? Webmaster tools for SEM? WiFi thermostats? It seems unfair to blanket classify Google's offerings as u
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by jpttsn 9y ago
That analogy makes sense. So the discussion should be around what makes Facebook as important as e.g. electric power. Personally, I think Facebook is more like a lottery or a tabloid than it is like electric power. Citizens are fine, nay,
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Do you think we should have regulated AltaVista and MySpace as utilities, way back when? If so, what would this have done to Facebook and Google's prospects? If not, what makes something a utility?
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Are you sure the authors are writing this story out of a genuine heartfelt fear? Do you think the editor who published them shares this genuine fear?
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by jpttsn 9y ago
That checks out. Also, I think a lot of "western" stories have this structure too, namely: jokes. Many good jokes are conflict-less stories, that create a contradiction for the reader to resolve with a double take.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
I think the upsides of "greed" outweigh the downsides. Getting rid of greed to thwart con artists would be throwing out the baby with the bath water.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but what we turn off is iOS "Location Services." It's not really possible to "opt out of sharing location information." It's like, if I opt out of showing someone ID, I don't ex
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Well, who would you rather fight, people who rely on CAPS LOCK or people who rely on Escape?
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by jpttsn 9y ago
While human nature can excuse some lasting response to lived experience, I think there's a wider gap to bridge before ethics allows us to generalize and map past crimes to present perpetrators.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
You're pointing at a real issue, but I doubt this post a good exempel of that issue. I'd venture a guess that OP is not a prude at heart, just cautious enough to hedge heavily against being perceived to condone Lolicon.

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