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by nebabyte 9y ago
> if there are other options Hence the problem they're trying to solve by poaching drivers. They're fine being the ISPs of ridesharing - ISPs are still in business.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Which matters a hell of a lot more than those professionals' opinion, as unfortunately democracy's current models rely far more on what the amateur 'baseline' knowledge is and not 'what the professionals know'.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> For ISPs the problem is that companies tend to expand. Not cooperatives. Co-ops tend to focus on their region, and have neither a reason to push into other territories, nor usually the foothold to do so as easily as in their own region
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by nebabyte 9y ago
He's not arguing for perfect, he's arguing for sustainable. No system of regulations you build won't eventually be corrupted because (exactly as he says) there exists no neutral desireless arbiters in our world to enforce the
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Yes, I can understand the desire to die on the "but the term as used correctly is what we want" hill. The far more pertinent fact is that just calling it 'the free market' allows others to advance their own concepts un
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by nebabyte 9y ago
In that situation I'd probably giving my best "grumpy old man from Up is not amused" face for the camera to quickly get across that 'yes, it's me, now let me back in' or such.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Hey, it's less awkward than asking him what he's wearing
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Or, in graph form: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2177
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> One of the most important people debatable > in one of the most exciting and important positions opinion > in one of the most important companies for the future of our society opinion, unlikely > quit at a very interesting tim
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Thoughts? Sure. > Facebook. Network-powered monopoly. My ass. In next to no sense of the word does FB still have a monopoly. Most people have left for 'greener pastures' and while most other social networks center around a
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> refreshing sigh > they have a vested interest in keeping Republic afloat through its bankruptcy (and therefore, discreetly accepting blame)
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> It’s also not clear if he left as a result of the sexual harassment allegations, but something tells me that scandal probably didn’t make him particularly pumped to stick around "I don't have any facts, sources, or even a quo
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Naming schema reminds me of this encoding used to refer to variants of conway's game of life, where numbers correspond to the conditions by which cells are created/maintained/destroyed etc. It's interesting to see games
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> at what point is it expected that they use some of those profits made at the planet'*s expense Expected? None at all. People will argue that that's not the place of companies nor the regulations imposed upon them, and they&#x
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> because all the malicious nodes are using download bandwidth but (deliberately) not providing upload bandwidth And avoiding being throtted how?
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Someday, far in the future, in an era of advanced space-age tech that currently only exists in the world of science fiction the most advanced tech-related mindshare will be allocated towards the ongoing effort of maintaining x86 compatibili
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by nebabyte 10y ago
An idle king
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> That's the rate it must pay if it repatriates overseas profits, there is little it can do to change that. other than not repatriate. (A) "if". (B) Not even necessarily; [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Why would Apple return money back to its shareholders? Doesn't it already do that by paying a dividend? Did you read the post?
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Surprised it made direct mention of the recent event.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Yep, I was sure to check that a few slides in heheh.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Outranks because google has a vested interest in promoting it
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Yup, and inb4 "it's anon so impossible to regulate". You're not fighting someone trying to stop you from purchasing it, you're fighting an apathetic system that will go with "whatever works" and isn't
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> especially paper money (A) someone either forgot about or doesn't grasp the scale of the derivatives market (B) Given the choice (and that's assuming they're given a choice) between the long-standing fiat-based currency
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by nebabyte 10y ago
That line of "reasoning" is only possibly justifiable if you can come up with a specific way it discredits his argument - ending at "see he thinks X, clearly we shouldn't listen to anything else" is just burying you
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by nebabyte 10y ago
I, or my high-paying competitor who wants you working for him :)
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Which is exactly the argument FOR letting kids choose their own path. There are a few subjects which kids have 'forced' on them which they end up 'never using', and certain others which they do end up needing later but a
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> I have the feeling remote works only for people who have an intrinsic motivation to be good at what they do. Have you met kids? Many (most?) of them have an innate curiousity which is not hard to channel into a passion for learning g
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Why does HN limit the depth of replies? OH. I felt like I was going insane reading some of the comments that seemed like they had no context. Ha. (Now to figure out what the proper ordering is? Unless it's deleted) Thanks for the
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> He runs an extremely influential organization that administers a sort of purity pledge that, for most Republican candidates for Congress, is necessary to sign in order to avoid being primaried How in the hell is that legal Ugh, subpr

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