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by mtpn 9y ago
> taking wealth from people None of the ideas in the article truly boil down to this, except maybe some specific implementations of taxation. > redistribution is not the only kind of distribution. I’m trying to understand this, but I
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by mtpn 9y ago
Inequality refers to unequal distribution of wealth so in fairness what could this article have been about, if not some suggested mechanism for distributing wealth differently?
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by mtpn 9y ago
Thanks, that is really interesting. I hadn’t read that page, but I had disabled iMessage from the phone settings, which is how I first noticed the issue. Maybe I was not thorough enough, (it says to disable FaceTime too, which I didn’t&#x2F
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by mtpn 9y ago
The biggest thing I lost in a similar switch was ANY old conversation with somebody who was an iMessage user. Where they reply to a conversation and think they are just texting you, but actually they are sending iMessages that you just aren
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by mtpn 9y ago
I’m on chrome on iOS
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by mtpn 9y ago
I avoided taking notes for much of college, except of key things I wanted to come back to on my own. So many people try to capture the whole content of a lecture in notes, but to me that’s more like transcribing than processing. What I foun
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by mtpn 9y ago
This seems awesome. I can’t get it to play from my phone but the concept is really really useful. I used to want to make something like this for audio-based exams for people with dyslexia, for example. In Ireland people with reading difficu
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by mtpn 9y ago
It’s rare to see the word misunderestimate in the wild. Mind if I ask was this a mistake, or intentional irony, or is this word has just made its way into the general vocabulary now? And to be less irrelevant, I do agree with you that a sim
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by mtpn 9y ago
Airtable does something like this. I don’t know how excel-compatible it is, but the core of data types and something similar to primary keys are enforced in a pretty intuitive way, and basic formulas work fine. Haven’t done much advanced st
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by mtpn 9y ago
Instacart only operates in the US though, so seemed like reasonable context for the comment I was referring to. But I see your point in my choice of “the real world” in my comment. Badly worded.
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by mtpn 9y ago
I agree. I was pointing out that if this commenter “expects” the employee is adequately compensated by the price paid to the company for the service, they are mistaken. I don’t think relying on the individual discretion of each customer to
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by mtpn 9y ago
I’m not at all suggesting that it should be the way it is. Instacart only operates in the US though, so I figured it was safe to take that as the context.
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by mtpn 9y ago
While that would be ideal, I do think it’s at least slightly crazy to truly expect that people delivering food are not somewhat depending on tips to make it work. That’s just how it goes in the real world!
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by mtpn 9y ago
That’s a fair point. But still, the relationship between the root, 5th, and major third are very much connected to the fact that they are specific multiples of that root frequency, and are the loudest overtones typically audible when the no
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by mtpn 9y ago
There are several statements you could pick out like that in this article. Like > There is a chord called "C major", but it's totally different to the note called "C". ... the E and G of the C major chord are pro
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by mtpn 9y ago
My point is that “too much regulation” is an insufficient criticism. It means nothing, except that it suggests you think regulation itself is the problem. If you do indeed believe regulation is necessary, then we both accept that. It then b
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by mtpn 9y ago
> Classic case of over-regulation. "Let's solve it with more regulation!" I find this to be a fairly feeble argument. Regulation, to me, is a necessary evil. Most especially when it comes to protecting the common good, or