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by netcan 6y ago
This is very well written. If antitrust laws do not define google as a monopoly, it's obviously the antitrust laws that are wrong. Google is obviously a monopoly. The 2018 case against Google in the EU (€1.5bn fine) made very similar p
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by netcan 6y ago
I feel like we're missing the popular vocabulary to describe some of these recurring problems. The algorithms reflect and amplify biases in the data. They also go into feedback loops once they affect the reality being represented in da
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by netcan 6y ago
> Its hard but not that hard That depends on how you define "it." Media is not neutral. At least, we haven't yet had a neutral mass media. In 2020 that means defaults, recomendation engines & such. These are core to FB
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by netcan 6y ago
Reading a speculative prediction, given been watching progress from up close for 57 years, is interesting. Any meaningful milestones along the way, that you think are worth noting. Tasks or roles that indicate progress?
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by netcan 6y ago
Good Luck. Keep chopping! Copywriting isn't that hard, but you should treat it as crafting or artsing. Chunk & edit at different size-levels. Sentences. Words. Paragraphs. Do all of them do a job? Are they doing it well? Being conc
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by netcan 6y ago
This is a hard topic to theorize (essay-ize). The retrospective view is somewhat illusionary. It's hard to capture what really happened att. I think a lot of the insight is in the first few paragraphs. Ideas in the "startup idea&
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by netcan 6y ago
I like this. It's concise, and captures something I've been saying about pop statistics for a while. Statistics are such a big part of information these days (eg covid), and the poor intuitions people have about statistics are get
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It's so depressing how low the bar is, for regulatory frameworks. Maybe it's totally co-opted by industry incumbents, and serves as a moat against competition. Maybe it's about electoral politics. IE, the problem is stifling
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by netcan 6y ago
How about "landlord-friendly design," and "consumer-friendly prices," "renter-friendly" or somesuch. Think about what you are trying to communicate. You can use "show-don't-tell" to imply superla
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by netcan 6y ago
Congratulations nikodunk. Kits like these are , IMO, pretty important steps along the way. First, they're accessible. People get their feet wet, learn. Since the technology is improving, it can be a rewarding "hobby" project
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by netcan 6y ago
Great advice. Practical.
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by netcan 6y ago
One thing to note is that "front door" recruitment is generally more youth oriented than back channels. Most people apply for jobs out of college. As they age (a) they tend to switch jobs less often and (b) they have accumulated f
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The op is not reducing everything to talent, or even implying that talent is especially important. If you are thinking about this statistically (the OP is), than these examples don't matter. The implication is a distribution of outcom
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by netcan 6y ago
Agreed. Wee need to teach thiss type of logical reasoning about statistical information at the high school level. It needs to be instinctive, and our default instincts are completely wrong for the task. Statistical information has become ex
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by netcan 6y ago
I agree that the story is totally different from the other end, and that non-trade things like slavery, war, colonisations and other atrocities committed by the empires and companies preceding them are salient. I was simply commenting on th
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by netcan 6y ago
If we think of capitalism in the 18th century... it's worth remembering that this the canonical "Capitalism." That is, it is what Marx was describing (and deriding) as he popularised the concept of "capitalism." It&
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Totally soveable. We have tax accountants. We have real estate people. We have conventions for dealing with this sort of thing.
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by netcan 6y ago
No, and it's not precisely the argument he was making. He was arguing for manned exploration generally, and large scale space projects generally. I was abbreviating, poorly as you point out.
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by netcan 6y ago
>> The problem is there's no real money in the a la carte model. True, but sometimes these things are true until they are false. I'm not saying there is definitely or obviously a workable business model using pay-per-article
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Ultimately, a lot depends on individuals. Incentives, systems, and such can make things common or uncommon, but innovation tends to be uncommon anyway. Google was founded, and mostly run, by people with a pretty broad academic interest in s
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by netcan 6y ago
Very good points. I think we (I, maybe) default to the mistake of thinking in terms of "one big systemic explanation." Ultimately, something like investment in or success at innovation doesn't follow strict rules. The factors
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by netcan 6y ago
What I meant was that printing a share at any price is printing money. Uber prints a share. An investor exchanges currency for it. The share goes into his account. He can treat that share as money for most purposes. For many uses of money (
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by netcan 6y ago
I did say it gets abstract, and into some stuff that's highly debatable. Interestingly, economists (also sociologists, historians, etc.) disagree agree on what money is. For the purposes of this topic though... I think it's suffic
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...especially considering that you can't just go buy them some petrol. Now that I think of it, what's the MO if you run out of juice in a tesla.. tow?
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>>Meanwhile, you can buy a generator for as little as $400. You can buy a generator for even less, and it makes for a more robust emergency plan. But... most people don't. The tool you have is always better than the one you don&#
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It's not far fetched... but it gets into somewhat abstract (or debated, at least) economics. For an analogy, neoclassical-adjacent economics' take on international trade practices like dumping or export subsidies is pretty much wh
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by netcan 6y ago
In some sense, it's financial. All the stuff you said is true. Spammers did sort of win, at least against the more open media structures. Video did represent a hosting hurdle. On RSS, I feel that it failed^ moreso than it got murdered.
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by netcan 6y ago
About 15 years ago I was following some small podcast on my new ipod nano. Nothing too grandiose. It was about beekeeping, worm farming... Probably dozens of listeners, hundreds at most Anyway, the podcaster went dark for a week and then p
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Funny you replied with those two. I've worked in both finance and casinos.
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I did say it was a cliche. On the greater point... I agree that some gig economy companies are more on-the-nose, but they overall proposition wasn't that different. The business model lost money, but generated growth. In hindsight, onc

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