moolcool

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by moolcool 4y ago
It seems unlikely to me that a vast majority of people with enough wealth to create a scenario like this truly created that amount of value in the first place though. In other words, the existence of billionaires in the first place is indic
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by moolcool 4y ago
I think that it's really important for knowledge workers to think about these kinds of things. We (the HN target audience) are in one of the most lucrative professions in the world, and I think it's easy to lose perspective as a r
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by moolcool 4y ago
This is the system working as designed. This profound unfairness exists and propagates, and those who benefit most from it have a mental framework to justify it to themselves as "fair".
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by moolcool 4y ago
I'd argue that the dynamic you're talking about is a part of a free market though. Like you could use your McDonald's example to make the opposite point that you're using it for. You could say "A lack of pay, recogn
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by moolcool 4y ago
It's "fair" only in a very tautological sense of the word, and in the sense that literally any wealth distribution system is "fair". Like yes, a hedonistic trust fund baby who spends their life buying luxury goods a
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by moolcool 4y ago
> Free markets will always remain the most fair system of resource allocation. First, I think there's a lot of different angles from which you can challenge that claim. In a truly "free market", things like nepotism, bribe
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by moolcool 4y ago
This is what scares me about Metaverse. Initially I was like "Oh good, Facebook is blowing all of their resources on a bad idea everyone hates. I hope this goes badly for them!". Then I realized, the target audience for Metaverse
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by moolcool 4y ago
Yes! It's just bots targeting bots in a giant chain of grifts where each player thinks they're the grifter. Authenticity on the internet is dead, read about the Dead Internet Theory. AdTech is a con and only serves to do damage to
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by moolcool 4y ago
Jon Bois is fantastic. All of his videos are great and he's a great writer. I highly recommend his "Pretty Good" series.
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by moolcool 5y ago
I don't see the irony. I don't think anyone is denying PG's his right to speak freely, they're just disagreeing with him.
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by moolcool 5y ago
> I'm curious how Mr. Graham can look at a country that is in the process of reversing much of the last half-century's progress on women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and disability rights, and _not_ see a politics of heresy em
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by moolcool 5y ago
> You do not need one of their very expensive medium format cameras to use it Not only that, but they also have an extensive collection of camera profiles and lens corrections for pretty much every vendor. Their support for Sony and Fuji
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by moolcool 5y ago
I can't speak to lightroom, but I found that CaptureOne renders Sony RAWs much better out-of-the-box than either Darktable or RawTherapee.
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by moolcool 5y ago
Good point! I should note that I do have an ordinary resume which is available upon request.
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by moolcool 5y ago
> Is this because of speculation? Isn't that why almost everything is priced how it is?
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by moolcool 5y ago
To that point, ASCIIFlow is an amazing tool which I use constantly when working on markdown files https://asciiflow.com/#/
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by moolcool 5y ago
Do you think there'd be a way to generate the puzzles that make a case like this is impossible? Like with this puzzle it's a 50/50 gamble whether you get it all in one guess or not
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by moolcool 5y ago
This is cool, but there's a bug when there's multiple possible correct solutions https://i.imgur.com/S56AWWj.png
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by moolcool 5y ago
"Buying Weed in the Korean Demilitarized Zone"
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by moolcool 5y ago
Who can tell me the atomic weight of Bolognium?
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by moolcool 5y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think the law is as interested in pedantic "you're technically correct" loopholes as HN is.
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by moolcool 5y ago
Since it's search is just based on prefixes, you could probably just alphabetically partition the databases.
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by moolcool 5y ago
> if privacy is your concern, you're almost always better off using a VPN I am really skeptical of this. Not that ISPs are extremely trustworthy, but they're at least bound by some state mandated privacy protections which <F
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by moolcool 5y ago
BitTorrent slaps so hard as a protocol, and DHTs are absolutely brilliant. With all of the recent hype about decentralization with the rise of crypto, I'm surprised BitTorrent hasn't seen much hype or revitalization as well.
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by moolcool 5y ago
This reminds me of the Monty Python "Funniest Joke in the World" sketch
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by moolcool 5y ago
It'd be easier to identify Babylon Bee content as satire if they were actually funny
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by moolcool 5y ago
What didn't you like about the kindle? I absolutely love mine, and almost dislike paper books in comparison.
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by moolcool 5y ago
It's not like we're not culturally flirting with that already. Film photography and vinyl have both seen massive resurgences lately.
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by moolcool 5y ago
It's hypocritical in the same way that "You critique capitalism, yet you still have an iPhone" is technically hypocritical. Hypocrisy is an overrated faux-pas; you're allowed to critique systems which you still participa
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by moolcool 5y ago
I appreciate your thoughtful reply! Honestly when I replied I didn't realize you were a mod. At any rate though I think there's some interesting meat to this discussion, though I will try to be more attuned to what could be seen a

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