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by leothecool 4y ago
That doesn't matter. Drug dealers, hitmen, prostitutes, etc. go to jail all the time even though its their job.
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by leothecool 4y ago
Sure, why not. If he's identified a niche in the market, he should exploit it. Personally, I'd expect that energy executives and policy makers already considered this and rejected it, but who knows, maybe he found a niche they di
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by leothecool 4y ago
If you think there's another viable solution, please found a company around the idea and prove us all wrong.
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by leothecool 4y ago
Coach salaries -would- look like a bargain if revenue correlated with win-loss rate or quite frankly any measurable activity the coaches do. But, they don't. IMO the guy in big-10 football who deserves a multi million dollar salary is
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by leothecool 4y ago
Another thing to consider is that no payment method is free for the merchant. Even with cash, you need to pay Loomis, or you need to pay an employee to physically visit a bank.
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by leothecool 4y ago
IANAL but I think you are probably subject to both versions of the TOS. You granted them a license to the content you posted under the old TOS, and those terms are still valid. Future content grants them a license under the new terms.
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by leothecool 4y ago
US growth is saturated. They raised the price 10%. They lost less than 1% of subscribers. What's the problem?
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by leothecool 4y ago
> combined cable & internet is cheaper than only interne Be careful. Its not cheaper after they include local programming fees.
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by leothecool 5y ago
But its not the position of zero, its the derivative. The car analogy would be something like "If you raise the speed limit by 1 mph, you've just moved everyone's houses exactly one mile."
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by leothecool 5y ago
As a garbage bag manufacturer, can you advertise that your garbage bags are for that purpose?
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by leothecool 5y ago
So... if I watch a copywritten video on peertube, the MPAA might sue me for being a peer and distributing it?
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by leothecool 5y ago
Ban credit card reward air miles while we are at it, right?
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by leothecool 5y ago
Its capitalist if the government handouts are only available to people with a considerable amount of capital, which is the case in the article. Is it a failure though? I'm amazed I need to say this on HN, but that depends on the KPIs
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by leothecool 5y ago
Not really, because I also think Amazon is illegally classifying these employees as contractors. I don't tell the contractor working on my house what tools to use, and the contractor working on my house has other customers besides me.
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by leothecool 5y ago
> A version of this essay was sent to premium subscribers to my newsletter earlier this week. Find out more here. The solution is right there on the page, just not in the article itself.
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by leothecool 6y ago
I think you are missing the point. Pop culture thinks science means space, chemicals, and electronics. We aren't even hearing the words of authority in this case. A scientist describing what science is doesn't sound like indoctr
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by leothecool 6y ago
Right. At launch, leveraging ipod marketshare was key. After those same users got locked in to the app-store, the music library lock in became less important. So they started out by letting you pay extra money to break out of their walle
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by leothecool 6y ago
Not true. MCI predates the break-up of ma bell.
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by leothecool 6y ago
Its not exactly a good thing that they leveraged itunes library vendor lock-in to drive market share early on. The anti-consumer aspects of their closed ecosystem directly resulted in their success. There's no doubt about it.
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by leothecool 6y ago
There is an exception for data that is required for the functioning of the service. You need your friends email address to use email, but do you really need their birthday or a sentiment analysis of their opinion of cheesecakes?
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by leothecool 6y ago
Facebook processed data without the consent of the subject of the data, right? (The friends of the user who agreed)
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by leothecool 6y ago
Do you have any metrics to back this up? Or is this your own fantasy you've built up...
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by leothecool 6y ago
The trailing dot is fine. http://www.dns-sd.org/trailingdotsindomainnames.html Though now I'm curious why it fails for you.
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by leothecool 6y ago
> they were actively moderating the platform to push it on the far right side Do you have a source for this? I tried googling it for ~5 minutes, but my google-fu is too weak.
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by leothecool 6y ago
To me this looks like the practices that led to the High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation of 2013 are still going on. The market is still broken. Companies that have this policy are only free to pay "cost of living" based sala
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by leothecool 6y ago
Denying its a kafka trap only proves that it is.
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by leothecool 6y ago
Too bad he didn't cite where in the source code it does any of this stuff.
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by leothecool 6y ago
Wow, by that logic news reporters aren't even allowed watch videos on the site for news reporting purposes because it would violate the ban on commercial use.
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by leothecool 6y ago
> What is the end-game that is so feared? Personally, I am afraid of very large media companies making AIs that have utility functions intended to change the behavior of humans without their consent.
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by leothecool 6y ago
I guess I'd have to see the metrics on it in production, but my intuition is that a 2% improvement to latency would be even less noticeable on low bandwidth connections where the download times are measured in whole seconds.

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