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by montagg 6y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, and I think when it comes to Apple holding the keys to their own platform, we have that balance: you don’t like Apple’s management, you go to Android instead, and there’s competition. Plenty other areas I’d like to s
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My head canon, it’s Lavos.
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I believe (from my limited knowledge from Interstellar ) that it’s the opposite: higher gravity environments move slower relative to lower gravity environments, which enabled the “go down to high gravity planet for a couple hours and come
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by montagg 6y ago
I had an iPhone 6 or 6S Plus for a couple years a while back, and since then I haven’t ever needed to use a case. I just got so used to using my phone with both hands, and two phones later I’ve never needed a repair. Of course, as soon as I
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by montagg 6y ago
This quote from the article describes the dynamic in the US pretty accurately, in my opinion. > The conspiracy theories, the lies, the distortions, the overwhelming amount of information, the anger encoded in it — these all serve to crea
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Then you're going against a hundred years of legal thought on free speech there. There's a reason certain speech is not protected, and it's been hashed out. if you have a better legal argument than "it's just not,&q
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by montagg 6y ago
There is absolutely speech that is violence, and it is typically not protected by free speech. Harassment, yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, calling for literal violence against others, these are allowed to be regulated (in the
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The thesis behind these programs is explicitly that the government shouldn’t waste timing being paternalistic about the recipient’s spending, like existing programs are. It only matters if in aggregate people’s lives are improved, not wheth
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Any form of communication can be helpful with norms and proper framing. I regularly use Slack for asynchronous decision-making where we’re explicitly not trying to fill each others’ calendars with more meetings, and we start with a specific
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by montagg 6y ago
Well, we’re talking about Facebook, so I’m not worried about gulags. At least from Facebook itself. From the people who get their information on Facebook, though, maybe I should be. I’m positing that in the long run it will be easier and le
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by montagg 6y ago
I wish he'd say this for a different reason: we'll find out whether you're correct or not very quickly. In a way, I also wish I could be this cynical, because I wouldn't have to think about the complexities of human moti
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by montagg 6y ago
I think there's a non-splippery-slope way to position the worldview you're describing that might be more palatable to the values of a worldview based on limiting discourse based on content. I believe the hardcore freedom of speech
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What forces do you think are capable of causing leaders at financial institutions to internalize the cost of criminal banking activity such that they adequately prevent it?
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by montagg 6y ago
If you're hiring someone, it seems reasonable to ask about someone's ethical considerations to make sure they're in line with your company's. You're going to put a certain amount of trust in them. I, too, would be
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by montagg 6y ago
This is a really good point. “Stupid” is a fun and dramatic framing (I will sometimes use “drunk user” as the equivalent), but it’s also reductionist and less useful for specific design decisions. Thinking deeply about why they are operat
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by montagg 6y ago
What large organizations do this consistently?
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Early on, I don't think so. You need all hands on deck to move fast. But I do think you need to start establishing those Good Habits way earlier than they might be immediately valuable. For example, getting good at product and technica
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by montagg 6y ago
Well, yes, I am saying from a business perspective this worked. but I also think we got lucky. Around five years ago, a little before the high profile failure, we were starting to lose marketshare, and though we've been able to claw
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by montagg 6y ago
How much would you recommend importing Chinese censorship before it outweighs the benefits you're suggesting here? I'm not saying there's no valid trade-off there, but catering to the needs you're describing does have a
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by montagg 6y ago
I work at a company that grew from a few hundred to a few thousand people in a few years' time, and there was an identical mindset and identical problems over that growth period. I started during that growth period, and 10 years later,
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by montagg 6y ago
Are you familiar with what it’s like to have depression? It’s not something you can really ever get rid of, even if you can mitigate it with medication and lifestyle changes. It’s there, though not dominant, even when things are going well
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by montagg 6y ago
Guilt is as much a tool as pride. I think the way Martin Luther King, Jr. frames the goal of direct action in “A Letter from Birmingham Jail”[1] is helpful in understanding the power of internal guilt in changing things: > You may well a
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by montagg 6y ago
A communication environment is just a reflection of culture.
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That’s pretty core to any anti-trust argument that is built on monopoly: is the iOS market distinct from the smartphone and tablet markets?
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by montagg 6y ago
You might be correct, from an ethical perspective, but this isn’t the way US antitrust law works today. If different rules should be applied to companies that are essential to modern life, such as classifying them as essential services, tha
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by montagg 6y ago
These are from the SPLC’s list of quotes: “I don’t view humanity as a single species...” —Podcast FDR2768, “Collective Guilt for Fun and Profit”, Saturday call-in show, August 9, 2014 “The whole breeding arena of the species needs to be cle
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by montagg 6y ago
They certainly fostered toxic behavior. The social interactions we see on social media—even in HN from time to time—are familiar to anyone who frequented forums in the past. The ad-supported business model industrialized it, though.
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The book Emotional First Aid by Dr. Guy Winch was my first introduction to a mental model of emotions that allowed for this type of thinking: injuries, ways to heal, and the difference between an emotional paper cut and an emotional broke
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That latter part is important: there's currently no incentive for the outcome the author envisions, at least not enough to produce truly great outcomes that are better than education as its exists today. Consider that many teachers hav
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by montagg 6y ago
This is true: lots of folks are asserting that X or Y behavior is an anti-trust violation, and it might be, but that hasn’t been shown legally yet.

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