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by kgin 6y ago
The reaction against the shutdowns in the US have made me realize this is 100% correct. We can’t even address an actual situation happening this minute. We have no chance of finding the political will to address something where the conseque
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by kgin 6y ago
No, I agree. While I would love to see a water meter, I don’t need the shower head making commentary like “great job!”
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by kgin 6y ago
Does every country have an equivalent law?
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by kgin 6y ago
Thats true it’s becoming unclear, but only sociologically. Legally, it doesn’t matter if people think of Twitter as a public space. No amount of perception turns twitter into a governmental organization or subjects it to laws that only pert
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by kgin 6y ago
That's a funny cultural thing about silicon valley. You're not incidentally an entrepreneur only if you've started something, you're an entrepreneur simply because you're the type of person who entrepreneues.
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by kgin 6y ago
It would actually be the first action in this whole story that would truly fall under the definition of "prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech"
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by kgin 6y ago
I think it's even more concerning than that. Threatening to shut down private companies -- not for limiting speech, not for refusing to distribute speech -- but for exercising their own right to free speech alongside the free speech of
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by kgin 6y ago
At first I thought this would just be a cynical joke, but there are a lot of super interesting points in there. Thank you.
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by kgin 6y ago
I could see that affecting death rate, but not the rate of infection/spreading.
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by kgin 6y ago
There's a difference between suspicion and confirmation
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by kgin 6y ago
There has never been a mechanism whereby everyone can be against everyone else about everything. When my high school english teacher and my aunt are arguing about politics and they've never met each other, it's clear this is a new
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by kgin 6y ago
The blame issue is huge. When humans are wrong, the business’ “ego” can be saved by blaming the employee who made the call, sometimes firing them. But the process goes on with the same error rate. But when software makes the wrong call, it
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by kgin 6y ago
The appetite for revolution is wildly overblown by reporting and the internet. And people are underestimating the commitment it takes to have a true revolution. On the right, even the angriest keyboard commando uncle still wants To be home
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by kgin 6y ago
"All models are wrong, but some are more useful than others" I've come to believe this goes for any verbal / written statements about reality.
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by kgin 6y ago
As a futura fan, I really admired Ikea for switching to verdana for purely utilitarian reasons: they needed a font that had the absolute widest unicode coverage for use in basically any language on planet earth. It was a short list. That sa
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by kgin 6y ago
People have had a hunch that coffee has been bad for hundreds of years and have been trying to prove it ever since. Mostly we just find new ways that it's good for you instead.
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by kgin 6y ago
I think this is based on a misunderstanding of how wages are set. It's never been about an abstract fairness. If it was based on any sort of abstract fairness, there are a lot of professions that would be making more than they currentl
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by kgin 6y ago
It’s true, but if you had to pick an arbitrary London, it seems like either largest item closest would make sense. It’s weird it’s neither.
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by kgin 6y ago
Mostly, it’s not about supporting a side. They look for existing cultural conflicts and pour gasoline on them to increase domestic infighting. They had the most success egging on far-right grievances, but they do the left too. California se
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by kgin 6y ago
If you do work as an owner, your work is valued by the market value of the result of your work. If you do work as an employee, the only thing that matters is the market value of your labor, regardless of the result. It doesn't matter h
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by kgin 6y ago
If the company honestly didn't care where you lived and you took it upon yourself to move to SF, you wouldn't get an adjustment. But if the company needs you in SF, then they'll need to pay what it takes to hire someone in SF
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by kgin 6y ago
This is the difference between being an owner and an employee. As an owner, your work is valued by the income it brings to the business. As an employee, your work is valued by the amount it cost to replace you with another qualified worker.
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by kgin 6y ago
In the big picture, wages are set by how much it would cost to replace you with an equally-qualified worker. In a location-agnostic situation, this would mean "how much it would cost to replace you with an equally qualified worker anyw
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by kgin 6y ago
As autonomy in cars becomes more common, organ transplants and small towns that run on speeding ticket income will have to find new solutions.
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by kgin 6y ago
Where are you reading that?
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by kgin 6y ago
The kawaii style was a few years ago. It’s all about the blob people now.
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by kgin 6y ago
Again, it follows the same pattern of observing American culture, looking for the pre-existing conflicts and just pouring gasoline into whatever side needs it to catch fire.
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by kgin 6y ago
TikTok proved to be a perfect secret clubhouse for Gen Z sensibilities of humor, nihilism, and celebration of differences. But as older generations pile on that do not pass the "vibe check", it is already slowly starting to ruin t
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by kgin 6y ago
I guess the larger point is: he didn't spend much time telling people how great facebook was. He created something with utility and rolled it out in a way that would provide maximum utility to each additional person signing up. (Replic
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by kgin 6y ago
Can't imagine they'd go with that name and risk appearing like a Google Glass follow-up. Apple always names products to sound like they live in their own universe, apart from any possible competitors.

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