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by mfringel 9y ago
Right now, where I am, the sky is grey. When there's a really big storm coming in, it's an even darker grey. The sky is, in fact, sometimes blue, but would your statement about Canada's housing bubble be untrue on a cloudy ra
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by mfringel 9y ago
You're missing the possibility that your definition of making the world a worse place is their definition of making the world a better place.
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by mfringel 9y ago
Please explain how society is completely disjoint from government, such that a zero-sum assertion is possible.
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by mfringel 9y ago
I tried using Anki, but creating/formatting index cards was a total pain (especially for Mandarin), and I didn't feel like doing a graphic design project for every character I wanted to learn. If there was an easier way to auto-ge
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by mfringel 9y ago
How about this... "If your executive team is mostly white guys [which indicates that you're mining from the same labor pool as everyone else, and shows you're not willing to do basic legwork,] I'm staying away too."
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Lowe’s prototype exoskeletons give warehouse workers a boost(theverge.com)
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by mfringel 9y ago
...and Uber is just a software company, and Mastercard/Visa just facilitate payments. The specific classification of a company is irrelevant. If they've induced their own gravitational field, then they're responsible for the
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by mfringel 9y ago
The problem with the "We report, you decide." model is that the reporter chooses what to report. The messenger and the message always have a relationship. It may be irrelevant, but it always exists.
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by mfringel 9y ago
You have posted a number of links, but what's your opinion on the topic? Given the link-dump, I'm assuming it's "Technologically savvy people can solve this for themselves, and that's sufficient." Can you clari
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by mfringel 9y ago
Alternately, they could build a tunnel across the Hudson that connects up to the New York City Subway (and possibly NJ Transit on the Jersey side), which would dramatically cut vehicle traffic... but Christie wanted the Tea Party votes, and
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by mfringel 9y ago
Today's discount is tomorrow's fee waiver.
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by mfringel 10y ago
The problem is that there's an implicit agreement that the amount the passenger is willing to pay is the gross amount the driver receives, of which fees are taken off the top. The arbitrage between the shorter path and the longer path
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by mfringel 10y ago
But that's not how services are priced... you can't guarantee that how/what a private entity will cross-subsidize. The whole point of a Universal Service Fund (for telephony) is that there was no motivation for this kind of
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by mfringel 10y ago
In your example, "whipping", "imprisonment", and "[or] fine" are all examples of punishments for a crime. Being poor is not a crime.
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by mfringel 10y ago
As someone who is not an Australian (i.e. born/raised in the USA), I will agree with you that Australian Rules Football is one of the greatest sports in the world. :)
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by mfringel 10y ago
You have found a pattern. Do you have a point you want to make?
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by mfringel 10y ago
I'll admit, I'm pretty amazed that AirBnB has succeeded. I never thought that injecting even more uncertainty into travel was a winning proposition, but they've clearly found a willing market. Perhaps a better way to look at
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by mfringel 10y ago
Your show of virtue has been noted by the Ministry of Statistics. Thank you for the data point.
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by mfringel 10y ago
A profit-making entity taking specific and documented measures to obstruct justice is bad.
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by mfringel 10y ago
Note that we're talking about a justice system that rehabilitates vs. one that punishes. Do you care which one happens to the perp, with the knowledge that they will be back in society at some point?
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by mfringel 10y ago
It might.... under what circumstances? some victims.... which ones? can be considered.... by who?
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by mfringel 10y ago
Will the perpetrator's suffering make the victim un-robbed?
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by mfringel 10y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Uber has started a revolution. I do not require them to survive it.
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by mfringel 10y ago
Allow me to rephrase: "So why is a hostile work environment somehow one of those things that are unjustified no matter what?" Words matter.
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by mfringel 10y ago
It's true that money, connections, and influence will win against an unorganized electorate. The equation changes significantly if there's a coordinated effort by voters.
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by mfringel 10y ago
The state's exercise of force is typically considered distinct from any other entity's.
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by mfringel 10y ago
If that's all you get out of conferences, you're correct. There appear to be enough people disagreeing with you to imply that that is not the full value prop.
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by mfringel 10y ago
One novel way to think about the First Amendment is that it constrains two specific actors. 1) It explicitly constrains the US Government. 2) It implicitly constrains anyone who approximates the coercive power of the US government. #1 is se
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by mfringel 10y ago
You have already started by saying you're a cloud solution architect with Microsoft. Please continue.
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by mfringel 10y ago
Seconded. There's a fascinating amount of detail about how slot machine technology has evolved for greater engagement over time.

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