jpttsn

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by jpttsn 10y ago
There is a reason. It would make sense if those regulations happened for that reason. But I'm not convinced that's how politics works.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
What if one day the Airbnb exec privately pockets money for getting someone into an apartment? You've already used "bribe;" where do you go from there? The problem with hyperbole is you will pay the inflation tax on your word
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by jpttsn 10y ago
Alternative: Collaborators are the same age? Next up: a curve showing that friends of WWI vets decrease their tuna consumption when the WWI vet dies, relative to their non-friends.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
It's like how regular folk can't buy food or clothes at wholesale prices.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
I like my analogy. I buy the food (content) and get the branded packaging (ads) I then serve the same food, replacing the branded packaging with my own plates. My dinner guests will give me credit for the plates, instead of giving eyeballs
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by jpttsn 10y ago
"iPhone demand is greater than supply" "Not sure how you can say that when this one guy sold his iPhone" It sounds like a counter argument and fails to be one.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
But if they don't have the freedom to quit their jobs I mean, why not just stop paying them and stop letting them go home? Would anyone be worse off?
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by jpttsn 10y ago
Did it work?
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by jpttsn 10y ago
I think you have enemies that believe racial discrimination doesn't exist, and then you too eagerly fit random internet commenters into that pattern of your enemies.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
Gp said the demand for stories exceeds the supply. Any one story being supplied can't disprove that.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
It's almost like magazines aren't trying to educate people.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
What do you mean by lucky? Was he destined to be black, and lucky to be among the 75% who aren't poor? Or was he destined not to be poor, and unlucky to be among the tk% who are black? In what sequence does your version of destiny exec
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by jpttsn 10y ago
It's the difference between "how poor are blacks" and "how black are paupers." Two different questions with two different answers. OP is refusing to be reductive, and isn't misleading.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
It's about as unethical as removing the packaging from groceries and serving them on your own plates.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
In your view, would it be morally justified to take poor wage-workers as slaves? Seeing as they don't have freedom anyway, what's the harm done in locking them up?
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by jpttsn 10y ago
World you be happy to put the offenders in prison? Or if they didn't pay fines, to show up and collect?
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by jpttsn 10y ago
There wasn't, as of yet.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
Yes- ish ; but maybe not the other way around.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
Well said. I sometimes hear complaints that US healthcare is more expensive, that (perhaps just by mistaken reasoning) treat healthcare as a commodity. In Economics terms, that's a pretty hefty simplification: sort of like complaining
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by jpttsn 10y ago
I could argue that sometimes you won't find anything interesting, but that's probably interesting, defeating my example.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
1: there exists argument against X 2: lots of humans don't believe X Maybe there is a third kind of "discredited."
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by jpttsn 10y ago
I think the travel ban could serve any number of non-obvious political purposes. A show of power? A distraction from less unusual political changes? A way to get press (albeit negative)? A way to decrease overall immigration? Security thea
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by jpttsn 10y ago
I agree. It relied on context. Mea culpa.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
I'm looking at that. I don't know what email they will use to test, and I don't know if they'll look kindly at a special case for reviewers. Do you have any experience with that?
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by jpttsn 10y ago
I built (essentially) this a few weeks back, for an iOS app. Currently trying to get Apple's App Review team to agree it's a good idea. Apple has UI in App Store submission that lets you provide App Review with a demo account user
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by jpttsn 10y ago
Not at all, but I don't trust Rudy Giuliani. There seems to be agreement that this administration lies in a new and blatant way. I want to stop taking their word for things across the board. Part of that is not trusting their admissio
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by jpttsn 10y ago
An interesting twist in the evolving hivemind. Westerners generations ago assumed the rest of the world were savage. Today's westerners assume that they are the savages, and that the rest of the world is enlightened, free from self-int
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by jpttsn 10y ago
Oh good I thought it was novel. I guess individuals have nothing to worry about, as long as the idea is ancient.
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by jpttsn 10y ago
Curious: Do you think Hillary Clinton is still at risk of being jailed? I mean, do you generally believe campaign promises, or do you selectively believe them?
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by jpttsn 10y ago
By design. In the candidate pool, there will be some who see the odds as too steep. For others the cost of completing assignments is lower, making the proposition better. Not good, but comparatively better (less bad) than for the former kin

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