mizay7

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by mizay7 5y ago
Always intrigued by this idea. But the thing that I never see addressed in these discussions: what's the plan for schooling? just do small local rural schools? do online supplementation? This is the sticking point that keeps me from go
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by mizay7 6y ago
so you are arguing that many small insurers, with insurance not bound to employment, would create a healthy price-quality structure in us health care? akin to the german model? i think that has some merit, but its hard for me to imagine tha
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by mizay7 6y ago
I think you are making a more articulate defense of private/market based health care than i usually hear. but i think fundamentally health care has too many forces that make it untenable for a market. there is no real satiation point i
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by mizay7 6y ago
Quibi seems like a neat idea but is being run very strangely for what it is: its being run like old media when the point is that it's new media. -where is the trial option for a new media format? -where are the samples of series on You
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by mizay7 6y ago
Agreed, and that should be illegal. Having companies pay for data of non-users as part of Yang's proposal doesn't change anything.
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by mizay7 6y ago
Yeh, this seems backwards, the users pay the companies for free products with their data and their attention. That's the business model. Why would Facebook and Google run those servers if they couldn't have profitably targeted ads
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by mizay7 6y ago
You could argue that, but in that case my inclination would be that you are arguing in bad faith or we live in different realities. There was nothing about that speech which suggested a didactic presentation to me. Like i said in the parent
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by mizay7 6y ago
I dont think he suggested people inject themselves with disinfectant. That summary is what allows people to say that headlines are blown out of proportion and allows glossing over the real and only slightly more nuanced issue. The man showc
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by mizay7 6y ago
The political discussion in this thread is fascinating. There are people advancing intelligent arguments about how the presidents podium remarks were flippant but basically on topic and that he wasn't telling people to actually drink b
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by mizay7 7y ago
we use azure data explorer for a lot of data storage. It is a terribly boring name but it highly performant at a large range of data sizes, stores rectangular (table) data with clear schematization, and uses the piping type of syntax of tid
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by mizay7 7y ago
I dont really know how to change the economics of the web without changing the laws around financial transactions. The various anti money laundering laws and anti terrorism laws make it basically impossible to transact money without signifi
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by mizay7 7y ago
Yeh, my research had basically dead ended in MSB regulations as well. I get the money laundering concern but also strongly feel that absence of micro-transactions has destroyed the internet and is now doing terrible things to our brains. I
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by mizay7 7y ago
Say i have a platform (like a game) and I would like users to be able to exchange tokens of some kind, like kudos. But i would like those tokens to have actual value. So a user might buy 50 tokens for a dollar, gift them to teammates at end
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by mizay7 7y ago
Does anyone know if anything in the space can allow for P2P microtransactions? Maybe in batches: people send each other a few pennies at time and cash out at the end of the month? From my review it seemed like this is hard to manage with mo
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by mizay7 8y ago
Agree in principle. But in practice, what is the alternative business model you propose? Also, changing the business model away from surveillance capitalism, in my eyes, is not a first step but a massive and complicated (though perhaps very
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by mizay7 8y ago
This reads like an amazing work of fiction.
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by mizay7 8y ago
No, its toxic by design. All the big social networks exist to serve advertisers. They sell users attention to marketers. This means that their profit is directly dependent on how much attention they can harvest. So the systems that emerge (
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by mizay7 9y ago
Yeh, this is one of the reasons network effects are so powerful and so effective market capture. Anybody who wants to push against that is going to have to spend a lot of time and resource getting enough users to create even an echo of a ne
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by mizay7 9y ago
Fear of uncertainty makes sense and something I haven't thought about too much in this project. Sad that the modern net has created such a 'gotchya' impression. I would think that this comes from everyone promising free but a
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by mizay7 9y ago
I really like her commentary and glad she is getting more attention. I think the issue is the magic of free and the irrationality of humans. Free creates irrational responses. People will use a lot of a thing if its free even if its bad rat
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by mizay7 9y ago
well now the video was released. she was walking from the median. So yes, that seems like a colossal failure of the system.
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by mizay7 9y ago
I think the police are incorrect in saying that the woman walked out the median. If you look at the photo (in the NYT) with the bike and car, its shows (and is captioned as) the car damaged on the right side and the bike is on side walk. It