mtgex

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by mtgex 9y ago
I don't feel I've acted like any of the things you're ascribing to me. Corporations are not divorced from the people that run them, but the people that run them are divorced from the people they impact by their decisions. Whi
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by mtgex 9y ago
We have lots of restrictions on corporate behavior because markets do not solve human problems, they solve corporate problems. The corporate response to long hours and low pay is to put up suicide nets. In the U.S. we have minimum wage, ho
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by mtgex 9y ago
Yeah I wasn't aware of it either before.
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by mtgex 9y ago
I mean, yeah kind of. But I don't think that's entirely accurate. Wikipedia says "Initial funding was provided by Kapor, Wozniak, and an anonymous benefactor." It's not like he funneled his Lotus gains into the EF
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by mtgex 9y ago
Yeah, the article discusses this.
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by mtgex 9y ago
I'm not sure, the article doesn't mention any of that. It actually tries (weakly) to claim the opposite, with statements like "Carlos and Wilber both had very similar white mobile phones" and "We are a little bit mo
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by mtgex 9y ago
I am having a civil discourse and did not intend to cause a polarization. You cannot discuss luck and success in life without discussing race. In no way did I suggest that people should want to change their race.
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by mtgex 9y ago
Many people deny this, so I think it is an important part of the higher conversation and inherently productive to discuss. People tend to think luck is heavily about positioning yourself to succeed. I think that's true, but I also beli
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by mtgex 9y ago
Yes of course, but I don't believe that's what the commenter was talking about. The comment said it is not a race or gender issue, which I disagree with.
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by mtgex 9y ago
No it's not mandatory at all, just incredibly advantageous. Much more so than physical attractiveness, although that helps a great deal in life as well.
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by mtgex 9y ago
But it is a race and gender issue. I'm not trying to divide people, just stating facts. Attaining wealth is much easier if you're born into a specific race, thus your chances of being born wealthy are directly correlated with you
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by mtgex 9y ago
You can't position yourself to be born a white male, which I believe affords the greatest advantages, and opens the most opportunities of any personal attribute you can have.
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by mtgex 9y ago
Am I missing some detail here, or is this post getting downvoted solely because it's a faith based app? I'm not a religious believer but surely a company has a right to build a meditation app targeting a huge segment of the popula
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by mtgex 9y ago
Yeah I can see that, although in that case you do need to prove to your agent what you were making before, and if they feel it's not worth their time they will be more likely to pass on working with you. But that's a whole paradig
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by mtgex 9y ago
I think there may be varying degrees of willpower such that a barrier can help and avoidance is itself a barrier.
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by mtgex 9y ago
I created a Chrome plugin to block all Hacker News comments and just provide a list of the links because I found myself wasting too much time reading Hacker News comments but I still wanted to be up to date on the actual news part. All it d
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by mtgex 9y ago
This suffers from the same issue with using a real estate agent to buy / sell a house. Agents are not financially incentivized to get you the best offer. They are financially incentivized for you to accept any offer, period. The extra
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by mtgex 9y ago
Yeah, the article addresses this question pretty clearly. Even things that "feel" obvious to us should be studied. We shouldn't just take it for fact that an emotional support animal is a valid method of coping with depressi
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by mtgex 9y ago
As lukas099 has said, the book does not take the view that you're saying it takes. Cherry picking quotes out of the context of an entire book can get you to any conclusion you want to come to, especially if you don't know the rest
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by mtgex 9y ago
A few thoughts on this: The title of the article made me think it's a concept phone, as in not real and unlikely to be produced. I almost didn't click on the article because if that's the case I don't really care. It lo
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by mtgex 9y ago
But all of that is discussed at length in the book we're talking about. To pick out the word "selfish" and say that that's the gene model displays to me that you haven't read the book. It's difficult to defend
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by mtgex 9y ago
lukas099 is arguing one of the central points of the book, that altruistic behavior is inherently selfish on a genetic level. You seem to be arguing completely based on the title of the book, which itself makes clear that the title is provo
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by mtgex 9y ago
While that's true, the context of the statement makes it clear that's not what's being discussed at all.
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by mtgex 9y ago
No, I'm not a trusting fool. I don't know how you came to that conclusion. I think you're arguing for the opposite of what you're saying. Con artists rely completely on our subconscious judgement, rather than rational t
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by mtgex 9y ago
I didn't suggest that trusting your gut means you're not aware you can be biased.
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by mtgex 9y ago
I completely disagree. I think our "gut" is infinitely biased. No one is immune. If you believe you do not have racial, ethnic, and gender biases you are wrong. And, if you read the article, everyone's gut reaction was tha
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by mtgex 9y ago
It seems they've deleted the video and rereleased an identical version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233RzfqYExI My cynical side says it's specifically to divert attention away from this comment.
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by mtgex 9y ago
I agree, but I think the most irresponsible part is the texting while driving. Edit: The video was deleted and an identical video reposted to their YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233RzfqYExI
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by mtgex 9y ago
I think that's a poor interpretation. Yes, putting the two words "fake" and "news" together into a Google search happened prior to pizzagate. But the term "fake news" as it's understood now came abou
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by mtgex 9y ago
I don't understand the argument you're making with the Google trends link. What I see is that a term which entered the common lexicon specifically to describe things such as Pizzagate is correlated with searches for the thing it d

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