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by montagg 4y ago
Walmart too. And Target. And grocery stores. I am not sure people are really prepared to take the implication of how unfair Amazon seems to its logical conclusion, because it means undermining a lot of what makes us comfortable in modern li
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by montagg 4y ago
Yeah, the family planning changes that result from housing costs literally have generational effects. Even if you think of it just from a housing and economy perspective, the tax base and workforce of the future is smaller because of high h
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by montagg 4y ago
I think by the logic of "either you're a neutral party or you are not" no provider, big or small, is a neutral party, but I don't think this would produce the best outcome. It's a very good thing if we have lots of
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by montagg 4y ago
It won't kill them, but it will slow down Meta for a while, during a critical period where it needs to outrun innovation that will be nipping at its heels through the 2020s. It could be one of those "causes of the IBM-ification
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by montagg 4y ago
A good chunk of Black Mirror episodes deal with the ethics of simulating living human minds like this.
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by montagg 4y ago
People don’t have the guts to make the changes necessary to truly shift how power is distributed, because it would be painful to every level of society until it settled. I believe where we are today is our local maxima until something more
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by montagg 4y ago
And TikTok. It really depends what Tok you end up on, but there's plenty of corners of TikTok that are exactly the same mechanics as Twitter: quick bursts of infuriation that activate you and leave you wanting more. I think it's e
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by montagg 4y ago
I imagine you're going to get a very different type of person moderating if they have a monetary incentive to do so. I don't disagree with your argument in the broad sense—the rich get richer at the expense of everyone else, and t
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by montagg 4y ago
This is a fascinating use case. You’re describing something closer to “redact” than mute, it seems, and this seems like a great function to give people control over what they see. Something that doesn’t totally erase someone’s existence fro
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by montagg 4y ago
I’ve used Soulver on the mac to replace a spreadsheet for personal finances and it is amazing. Does a lot of what this does but with better natural language integration and a whole ton of useful functions like compound interest/loan ca
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by montagg 4y ago
They are not free from criticism of it though. The idea of a “wartime” person is anchored in machismo. It romanticizes, and excuses, really crappy behavior that is long-term destructive. Calling something a “war” is a convenient justificati
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by montagg 4y ago
D3 on console also has a much more arcade-y feel than the PC version. And the local multiplayer is soooooo much fun.
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by montagg 4y ago
It’s one of those stories people can turn into whatever conclusion they want: - DF is still a great game, so good UX in games doesn’t mean anything. - DF is still a niche game, so good UX in games is essential. Caveat: I’m a UX designer who
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by montagg 5y ago
Abundance for some. Built on scarcity for others.
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by montagg 5y ago
Have you seen the way the wind is blowing in the US? We are closer to The Handmaid’s Tale than anything like what you’re describing. Progress is never inevitable.
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by montagg 5y ago
Everything is renting eventually.
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by montagg 5y ago
“If it works as designed” is I think where Gruber’s article does it’s best work: he explains that the design is pretty good, but the if is huge. The slippery slope with this is real, and even though Apple’s chief of privacy has basically
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by montagg 5y ago
When there are enough people, you'll see a plurality of every opinion.
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by montagg 5y ago
Very few people have figured out how to square this circle. And those that do often live long enough to see themselves become the pop-villain.
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by montagg 5y ago
One day, the math person isn't going to convince them otherwise.
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by montagg 5y ago
It’s not “Social News.”
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by montagg 6y ago
Yes. From [Investopedia][1]: > Insider trading involves trading in a public company's stock by someone who has non-public, material information about that stock for any reason. [1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms
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by montagg 6y ago
I've run into this while interviewing people for UX positions. They'll walk me through a portfolio and point out a lot of the aesthetics, whereas I'm asking about their decision-making process: how did you identify the proble
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by montagg 6y ago
I’d really like to underhand this: Why should you be allowed to be an asshole anywhere you want? And why should everyone else support that idea?
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by montagg 6y ago
Well, someone had to be there.
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by montagg 6y ago
I think Ben Thompson does a good job laying out the situation fairly in this article: https://stratechery.com/2019/neither-and-new-lessons-from-ub... It’s not exactly a primer on the good faith arguments for employee v
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by montagg 6y ago
If one day we can solve for how AI is just bias enshrined in software.
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by montagg 6y ago
I’ve seen cases like this personally. It’s usually not cut and dry either way. A person can have a pretty difficult attitude to work with, or honestly just not be a good fit to work with the other people on that team, and that person can
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by montagg 6y ago
One has to wonder at what point the utility of clothes doesn’t make sense, and astronauts should just get used to working naked. Not actually advocating for that—beyond cultural difficulties, I’m pretty sure clothes are useful enough to mai
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by montagg 6y ago
You are not alone! This is how I used OmniFocus for a very long time (I use Things now but basically the same way I used OF). I also found the same dynamic: a lot of things went in, not a lot of things came out, and the things that did were

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