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by ksdale 5y ago
My question is how does your platform differ from what Substack is already trying to do?
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by ksdale 5y ago
And I guess to expand on my position, I don't think this debate is stupid. The way through, in my mind, as naive as it may seem, is to be basically like substack, and acknowledge that providing a platform is a big responsibility, one t
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by ksdale 5y ago
Haha I can sense your frustration! What is the real debate, in your mind?
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by ksdale 5y ago
The silver lining of this awkward middle ground is the certainty that censorship is the wrong way to go. We may be doomed if people remain so easy to manipulate, but if you really believe that censorship is counter-productive, then educatio
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by ksdale 5y ago
I think it's far too early to pass judgment on whether it works in China. Lots of very oppressive states have lasted for decades, apparently successfully, until they implode spectacularly. Less than a century ago, many in the West sang
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by ksdale 5y ago
I was under the impression that Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of Congress as a whole, but the individual representatives are about as popular as you'd expect.
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by ksdale 5y ago
How can you be so sure it's not regionalism that's causing you to dismiss nearly 10% of one of the largest, richest countries in the world as inconsequential?
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by ksdale 5y ago
When machines malfunction and kill people, the manufacturers pay. If it was gross negligence that killed someone, someone goes to jail, unless they're the dead one. Every day, our homes don't catch fire despite all of the electric
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by ksdale 5y ago
I don't see how that's any different of an issue for when any machine malfunctions and kills someone. Was the design or manufacture of the machine negligent in some way? Was it a failure mode that we've decided is rare enough
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by ksdale 5y ago
I didn't take the parent to be saying that self-driving is better, just that humans are really surprisingly bad, and that's the bar we should be measuring against, not an ideal world where no one dies in traffic accidents.
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by ksdale 5y ago
This is a very underappreciated point. SO many people die from driving each year, but a lot of people treat a single death from self-driving cars as a reason to scrap the whole endeavor.
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by ksdale 5y ago
I think you're right about automation coming for office jobs, but it's not that odd that physical labor would be the focus, a couple hundred years ago, like 95% of people worked in agriculture, and automation is the reason only 1%
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by ksdale 5y ago
Exactly, people get loans for houses and cars, and the banks make damn sure you're a good credit risk. For college loans, it's literally the opposite. Since the loans are so hard to get rid of, the only incentive is to increase
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by ksdale 5y ago
Would you be ashamed if your child was a forklift driver? The world needs people to do useful things, and we shouldn't shame people for doing useful things.
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by ksdale 5y ago
I'm not the parent poster, but I have always found that, to an extent, the more detail you put on the invoice, the better. There are some people who seem absolutely compelled to say "but you only did x" if they only see one t
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by ksdale 5y ago
On the other hand, I think it was common in a lot of places for a long time for families/clans to settle disputes internally - if someone was killed and everyone agreed it was justice, then it wouldn't end up reported/remarka
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by ksdale 5y ago
The market goes down during the day, that isn't the same thing as everyone losing money during the day. On net , all of the market participants lose money, but this is still consistent with sophisticated financial firms making money o
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by ksdale 5y ago
Or there's still a massive pandemic happening and supplies of everything are still very shocked.
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by ksdale 5y ago
I think the issue with this is that one person's loss is another person's gain. Lots of people lose money during the day, but it's not generally the very sophisticated hedge funds and HFT people. And if you were to hold overn
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by ksdale 5y ago
Exactly, the randomness of overnight would completely erase the consequences of a day full of miniscule trades.
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by ksdale 5y ago
Seems to me like an easy explanation is that a whole ton of firms wouldn't want to hold anything overnight because you can't respond to it until the next morning? So they pile in in the morning, and exit in the afternoon.
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by ksdale 5y ago
Yeah, in most of the places I've lived, I've only had one choice, and it's been quite expensive for the quality.
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by ksdale 5y ago
So no one should have nice things to protect the incomes of the few lucky enough to possess the only natural supply?
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by ksdale 5y ago
Lots of businesses have successfully kept trade secrets for decades, many very famous and gigantic company's recipes are trade secrets. Companies know that if they patent it, it will be in the public domain eventually, whereas trade
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by ksdale 5y ago
As someone who knows nothing about being a professional chef, it surprises me to discover that a professional chef wouldn't be very comfortable sharpening knives!
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by ksdale 5y ago
I mean, if you don't force people to do it, then English is The One Language you're talking about. People have basically collectively decided that if they're talking to someone halfway around the world, the words for net an
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by ksdale 5y ago
I mean... we eat biomass? Mass starvation will occur when we can't grow food anywhere. We literally grow the food we eat in a year in a year. I don't think it's ridiculously optimistic to assume that if starvation was on the
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by ksdale 5y ago
I'm not saying that the climate isn't going to change drastically, I'm saying that as long there isn't mass death, people will adapt, and most likely will continue to have a higher standard of living than people did for
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by ksdale 5y ago
This. There is such a huge chasm between mass death, and practically any other consequence of climate change. As long as mass death doesn't occur, people will adapt to what happens (and it may be rather unpleasant, to be sure...) A hug
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by ksdale 5y ago
The song is a bit cynical for my tastes, but it seems willfully obtuse to not be able to fathom why someone would be very frustrated with many aspects of modern Christmas.

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