luminaobscura

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by luminaobscura 2y ago
Passive shareholders bought the shares at IPO. IPOs are the reason why we have these large public companies. Passive shareholders deserve the profits.
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by luminaobscura 2y ago
yes. Capitalism is the best system. Even in communist china, only after transitioning to market capitalism they got tech companies producing prosperity. We also allow forming other kinds of companies. You can create worker cooperative tech
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Two months ago I fired my co-founder/best friend(twitter.com)
2 points by luminaobscura 3y ago|0 comments
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by luminaobscura 4y ago
Woow so if airbnb sees this thread they may ban me ha?
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by luminaobscura 4y ago
i wrote the review after receiving an email from airbnb: "You can leave a review for your host even though the trip was cancelled"
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by luminaobscura 4y ago
They actually requested a review after cancelling this stay due to cash deposit issue. Whole thing is bizarre.
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Airbnb removed my negative review
752 points by luminaobscura 4y ago|456 comments
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by luminaobscura 5y ago
I lost one of my ears in a high fever episode when i was a child. I guess what you wrote means i shouldn't get my hopes up for these kind of treatments :(
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by luminaobscura 5y ago
I seriously think declaring something "far-right dog whistle" is a leftist dog whistle, signaling good progressives should oppose that something. After saying this, usually no serious arguments are given. Because they are not need
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by luminaobscura 5y ago
Who said Bodily autonomy is bad? They are just explaining the consequences of it in human species. Access to women's body obviously important for men (sex, kids etc.). Why is this even a question?
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
If I make an invention that provides $1000 value to 100 million people, the work i put in is worth $100B. It doesn't matter if i did that in a day or decade.
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
donation page reads: "Your support will allow us to: - Provide emergency humanitarian relief for Uyghur refugees - Interview concentration camp survivors and help tell their story to the world - Campaign to end "business as usual&
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
"take more than you give" is not an accurate description. free exchange is a positive sum game.
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
there is also a hip-hop version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZobf0MiWpE
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How Skype lost its crown to Zoom(wired.co.uk)
3 points by luminaobscura 6y ago|1 comments
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
So they are a sub-group of whites. they have distinct culture and also some distinct genetic make up (look for Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Panel) If this sub group has more privilege, don't we want equity for other sub groups?
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
It shouldn't be surprising. It's established that IQ correlates with less sex. especially in west.
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
If a group has "fewer resources and more stresses" "when growing up", we should try to address that directly. This doesn't mean universities doesn't present equal opportunity. The reason someone is not as capab
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
If it was all socioeconomics, you could see that in the data. You would control for parent's income and/or education, and you would see disparity disappear. I don't know what is the primary cause of disparities but i wouldn&#
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
Google for example has large offices in Europe. Like in London or Warsaw. They pay significantly less there and find no difficulty hiring people. What i don't understand is why Google still have majority of their engineers in US. Why n
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
Don't know about Hollywood but NBA is both. Meritocracy selecting privileged genes.
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
Being white has advantages, that's true. Being black can also have advantages (affirmative action). But no one uses "black privilege". Because everyone is aware that most of the blacks are, in sum, more disadvantaged compared
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
Yeah, I think a better framing is "black disadvantage". Whites won't object to this.
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
That article from Slate Star Codex is a miracle. Stars aligned and Scott peaked. And here it is read by Jeremiah: http://traffic.libsyn.com/sscpodcast/Meditations_on_Moloch.m...
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
Showcases Asian Privilege.
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by luminaobscura 6y ago
well then you could just do affirmative action based in family income? even if most of the beneficiary of this could be African Americans, everyone would be fine with it. Why make it a race issue?
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by luminaobscura 7y ago
it was for your own benefit. intro is just to get you relaxed. most of them don't even consider that part in the evaluation. so the less time spent there the more time you can spend on the algo q.
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End Price Discrimination in Healthcare(medium.com)
2 points by luminaobscura 7y ago|0 comments
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by luminaobscura 7y ago
"Even a fix now proposed for the Max has similarities with the past: After the crash near Amsterdam, the F.A.A. required airlines to install a software update for the NG that compared data from the plane’s two sensors, rather than rely
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Conservative groups aim to sink bipartisan fix to 'surprise' medical bills(thehill.com)
2 points by luminaobscura 7y ago|0 comments

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