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by marcell 6y ago
Again, I’m describing a goal. You are describing the status quo. The existence of a bad status quo doesn’t negate what the goal should be. In my view, the goal of FB should be to allow for free speech, especially in the context of politics.
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by marcell 6y ago
It certainly muzzles speech. It is likely to lessen the advantage of money in politics, but does not eliminate it entirely. I don’t believe eliminating the influence of money from politics is a desirable or achievable goal. If you do think
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by marcell 6y ago
Whether or not FB has this commitment right now, they should have this commitment. A ban on political ads would go against a hypothetical commitment to the principle of free speech.
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by marcell 6y ago
If you ban advertisements on Facebook, you end up favoring people with pre-existing set of followers. Typically this will be an incumbent, or perhaps celebrity candidates. Moreover, FB banning political ads doesn't end the advantage of
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by marcell 6y ago
It violates the principle of free speech (even if it does not violate the letter of the law in the first amendment). There is nothing inherently bad about paying $1000 (or $1M) for a political ad. For a mental image, someone paying for a po
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by marcell 6y ago
I'm always surprised by the negative comments about US colleges. Sure, they are expensive, and many students pursue useless degrees, but is it that big of a deal? Most people really enjoy going to college for the social experience. It&
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by marcell 6y ago
It's a think tank: https://greatdemocracyinitiative.org/about/ Lindsay Owens - ... Senior Economic Policy Advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren... Suzanne Kahn, Deputy Director - ... Director of the Great Democracy
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by marcell 6y ago
The direct quotes from this article can been found elsewhere on the internet. They collate them to provide a coherent narrative which is backed up by the OP article. This is an ad hominem argument and not compelling in this case.
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by marcell 6y ago
This is interesting in the context of this recent article on Zerohedge: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/loretta-mester-hints-fed-p... In short, three Fed officials (two former, and the current President/CEO of F
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by marcell 6y ago
One thing that amazes is me is how the individual rights objections to these orders get so little credit. People go into deep discussions of whether the cost/benefit makes sense (do you save sufficient lives with a measure to offset th
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by marcell 6y ago
It was a long time ago, but when PG first started writing, nerds into programming were a marginal group, not rulers of the tech world with great influence. His writing resonated with that group at a time when they didn’t seem influential or
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by marcell 6y ago
> The main argument presented here is that banks do not have central bank-like special powers in relation to money creation; the process in which banks create money is entirely pedestrian. I think this is wrong in a subtle way. Regular b
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by marcell 6y ago
Curious, you seem pretty well informed about Ethereum, blockchain, etc. Do you work in the space?
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by marcell 6y ago
Curious what do you use the EVM for?
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by marcell 6y ago
I’m sure the institution that brought us the Los Angeles public school system and the thriving Los Angeles public transit system will surely succeed in building an Uber competitor.
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Ask HN: Who wants to hack on dapps/Ethereum/defi?
1 points by marcell 6y ago|0 comments
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by marcell 6y ago
Aside from the brand name of Coinbase, this seems worse than similar offering from Nexo (nexo.io): - Coinbase APR is 8%, Nexo is 5.9% - Coinbase max loan is $20k, Nexo is $2 million I can see the appeal of borrowing against your bitcoin or
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by marcell 6y ago
I dug through to find a few of the underlying studies on the topic of masks, which is a controversial topic. I looked at three of the studies they cited that had high N numbers for enrolled patients: [1] https://www.medrxiv.org&#
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by marcell 6y ago
At Google there was an internal spreadsheet to track this also. US law protects the rights of workers to discuss the terms of their employment, which of course includes pay.
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by marcell 6y ago
Well, it depends on what you think is "strong" evidence. A 10% reduction doesn't seem very compelling, and when you introduce the more advanced statistical analysis, that hurts the case in my eyes. There are probably less dis
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by marcell 6y ago
To be honest that topic people can debate. Men are allowed to walk around without a shirt. Women breastfeed in public pretty frequently. There is however a long history and tradition of humans wearing clothing to cover their genitals. Even
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by marcell 6y ago
In the case of masks, you have a big change in human tradition. There are very few societies that have ever required all people to wear masks all the time. I can't think of any examples. A small handful of modern societies require it f
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by marcell 6y ago
Those two studies you cite aren't strong scientific evidence. There is no control group, so we don't know what would have happened if they had not been wearing masks. Also the sample size is quite small (n=2 across the two studies
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“Everything” Is Done(questinglog.com)
1 points by marcell 6y ago|0 comments
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by marcell 6y ago
I’m pretty confused then. What’s the benefit of DDG over Bing? Is it just marketing?
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by marcell 6y ago
Is DuckDuckGo just a Bing UI? I thought they had their own index.
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by marcell 6y ago
It’s interesting that there’s an unstated assumption behind your comment: we need a central authority to plan some, maybe many, aspects of the economy.
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by marcell 6y ago
One example, in California the high speed rail project is bogged down due to land acquisition problems and lack of funding.
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by marcell 6y ago
What are some of the possible applications of this? My first ideas are: - translation - sports writing based on a play by play - stock market summaries - SEO blogspam - Customer support chatbot
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by marcell 6y ago
I think some of what you are saying is true, but you may be lacking some balance in your sources of information. For example you say: > It would kill some people and causes other health effects. We don't want a few million deaths. A

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