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by kajumix 8y ago
"To that end, we’ll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways—such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making
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by kajumix 8y ago
Isn't this a problem of too much coupling between credentialing and education? People aren't seeking to sit in a room full of 400 people through a lecture given by a certain professor at a certain time. They could probably find th
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by kajumix 8y ago
The case against patents has a moral dimension as well as a utilitarian one. This article is about the latter. Stephan Kinsella makes a good argument for both [1]. Ideas are free and can't owned. In a way, enforcement of intellectual p
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by kajumix 8y ago
How does one propose this 'law' without violating many of its own rules (#10 especially)? It smacks of snobbery.
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by kajumix 8y ago
In other news, the mayor of New York "increased spending on homeless services by about 60% since he took office nearly three years ago, reaching a historic $1.6 billion this year." [1] Despite (or because?) of the increase in spen
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by kajumix 8y ago
The word 'hoarding' demonizes 'saving,' which in most Keynesian economies is considered leakage. It's really a question of values. Inflationary currencies encourage consumption; deflationary ones encourage savings.
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by kajumix 8y ago
>if you do hold the keys you better be absolutely paranoid with them because there's no plan B if they get compromised or destroyed One could do multi-signature wallets with Bitcoin. So, for example, there could be three keys: one w
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by kajumix 9y ago
Judging from some of the comments here, software engineers working in Amazon must either be stupid or irrational to continue working there, given the market for software engineers. Amazon is a highly successful company with significant anti
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by kajumix 12y ago
The entire first world could get by with 100% time off on the back of the poor of this world. Why not just lose the pretense and admit that the rich americans and europeans can truly afford to spend all their days idle, consuming stuff impo