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by losteric 9y ago
Have you seen how Trump supporters treat other politicians? Trump gets a pass on anything because he's on "their team", opponents are under a hyper-partisan microscope where even reasonable normal behavior is criticized.
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by losteric 9y ago
That's really the crux of it. Remote work is a cultural problem, not technical... I've worked on very remote-friendly teams, the tendency to work in isolation was a constant problem. But properly using tools like email/slack&
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by losteric 9y ago
Taxes don't pay for private education, let the free market decide how to run those schools.
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by losteric 9y ago
My intent was to describe the system (social media is a hyper-efficient anarchic consensus-based information exchange), and a root-cause for undesirable output... There may not be a solution that preserves the open internet, if this system
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by losteric 9y ago
I disagree with the fast food analogy because that has obvious and direct personal costs, while infotainment negatives are subtle and externalized. Re: trust and appeal to authority; your example made me realize people are drawn to grand co
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by losteric 9y ago
There are multiple sources of internet archives and reddit-specific archivals. re: edits; check whether the post sentiment changes, I'm not worried about admins fixing typos/grammar. Also, investors understand trust is a prerequis
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by losteric 9y ago
We really just need better public education, as well as clearer separation between information and entertainment. Facebook/Reddit/Twitter/etc promote a regression towards the mean understanding... viral content reflects and a
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by losteric 9y ago
Tampering can be detected with internet archives and data dumps of Reddit submissions/comments.
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by losteric 9y ago
It's even more ridiculous: The bank lets criminals walk out the door with money in our name. Equifax demands money to avoid punishing us when banks are defrauded through their own incompetence. This is worse, because Equifax aided th
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by losteric 9y ago
It depends on the animals and fats. eg red meats correlate with heart disease and some cancers.
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by losteric 9y ago
> it's still way too low for a "non-tip" job. Hell, it's probably even too low for a job with tips Tangential to your main point, but Uber does have tipping
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by losteric 9y ago
On the other hand, it's reasonable to worry about another driver's car being on fire despite your own flat tire.
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by losteric 9y ago
I guess my questions boil down to this: Human cognitive abilities follow a normal distribution. Some low-skilled laborers never had an opportunity to reach their potential, others lack the capacity to perform higher skill jobs... and some p
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by losteric 9y ago
I highly doubt islands are respected considering Chinese trawlers are found invading territory as far as Argentina
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by losteric 9y ago
How many people will be employed by the companies that replace all these low-wage low-skilled jobs? What will those formerly low-wage low-skilled laborers do after they are replaced? Buy a college education? Learn robotics? As those jobs ar
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by losteric 9y ago
That is not an example of anything - "We can't eliminate poverty! If we gave everyone a college education, some people would still be in poverty". There is no cause and effect.
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by losteric 9y ago
Social stratification factor also needs to be factored into that equation. Intelligence might correlate with wealth in societies with free markets... but lower classes in a stratified society won't have access to resources that transla
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by losteric 9y ago
Elixir is amazing! The original author, José Valim, took a brilliant approach: Take a 30 year-old battle-tested highly-parallel VM, and build a modern language on top of it. Syntax is inspired by the good parts of Ruby (very clean), but not
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by losteric 9y ago
I would argue that cultures engaged in war as a means to resolve tension are less civilized, and those engaged in war without tension are even worse... Similarly, totalitarianism is a less civilized form of organization than, say, successfu
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by losteric 9y ago
Indian? You mean native Americans? Europeans are solely responsible for bringing new diseases to South America - that wiped out most of the population, far more than swords and guns. Britain also killed a lot of people in India, but they di
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by losteric 9y ago
I've been in that situation, and meditation/silence actually helped me in a big way. I hiked out to a remote campsite and lived there for a couple days, alone. No technology except an emergency GPS beacon. In daily life we're
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by losteric 9y ago
No one's suggesting otherwise. Every culture has blood in their past, "civilization" is the slow process of collectively maturing to avoid those conflicts.
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by losteric 9y ago
Functions-as-a-service seems clearer to me
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Octopod forms are a better fit, but no doubt more complex to build and control over telepresence...
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by losteric 9y ago
Advertising falls on a spectrum. Book reviews seem OK, news papers don't get kickbacks for writing positive reviews, while sponsored content on Forbes/BI definitely warrants labeling.
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by losteric 9y ago
How free is a monopolized market? If a regulation outlaws monopolies, does it improve or impede the market's freedom? Regulations that improve market efficiency are good. Regulations that impede efficiency are bad. In practice, we do n
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by losteric 9y ago
Yes, exactly - informed consumers are one of the requirements for a free market. Agents cannot act rationally when information is obscured. In this case, the information is technically available but obscured such that consumers cannot mak
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by losteric 9y ago
Do you mean branding must reflect ownership? Banning the use of brands obviously won't achieve anything desirable, but requiring transparent branding seems like it will improve the consumer market's spending decisions. Of course,
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by losteric 9y ago
I think it's important to separate: * People who just want to watch "something", often while multitasking * People who like a show / movie, and want to own it for future re-watching "Watch something" has vastly
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by losteric 9y ago
What fraction of borrowers end up in a decent professional career? > That's easily paid by most working professionals over a decade or so. So most people can start saving money around 30? That's a regression from past generatio

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