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by nickff 10mo ago
> ”we should encourage all of them to spend their money. Even buying a superyacht is a benefit to the economy.” You’re falling victim to the ‘broken windows fallacy’ here; money which is invested is actually more productive in improving
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by nickff 10mo ago
Teachers in many jurisdictions (I don’t know about every jurisdiction) are required (and paid) to take training in spotting signs of sexual or physical abuse, and are (at least often) legally required to report it. In that sense, they are ‘
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by nickff 10mo ago
Your quote would seemingly apply to a number of recent administrations, given the state of federal healthcare programs and legislation.
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by nickff 10mo ago
This sort of thing is unfortunately very common in many large bureaucracies, especially across the government. A notable (and likely controversial) case in point is teachers who (sexually or physically) abuse students, and are kept on the p
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by nickff 10mo ago
Have you seen how and what the Longshore Workers negotiate (mentioning them because the grandparent did)? They falsely claim many things, such as that port automation is dangerous (when it isn't in Europe), to increase the number of me
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by nickff 10mo ago
> "To be fair, shopping at Amazon is nearly the same as shopping at some Chinese company." Have you actually used AliExpress? I use both Amazon and AE, and the former definitely offers a lower-deceit, easier to use, and better
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by nickff 10mo ago
I am not a Redditor, but RES sounds like it would increase the ‘echo-chamber’ effect, rather than improving one’s understanding of contributors’ calibration.
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by nickff 10mo ago
We're all too busy filling out forms to manufacture anything in the West. They don't have to declare their conflict minerals contents (which seem impossible to verify), or even try to measure the PFAS in their products (good luck
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by nickff 10mo ago
Very little YouTube advertising is for local businesses, partly due to geotargeting issues with YouTube ads, and YouTube isn’t a huge market for most products, due to its poverty.
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by nickff 10mo ago
Advertisers generally avoid spending money on displaying ads to poor countries. It is interesting to see how the ads change depending on the country your IP address is from.
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by nickff 10mo ago
These institutions don’t bother making fixes where they can, so it seems unlikely that giving them more options will change much. Ironically, things like windows auto-update being the default probably actually help their IT departments main
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by nickff 10mo ago
> ”Given this understanding, the best away to achieve the desired outcome is to get creative about aligning incentives at the top of org structures where resources are allocated.” I really don’t understand what this means; could you ple
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by nickff 10mo ago
Yes, I agree that (on and off-line) advertising does seem to be unnecessarily expensive (across the economy), but valuable 'advertising placements' are scarce, and I'm not sure how else they could be allocated.
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by nickff 10mo ago
I think I (mostly) agree with you, but it seems like SEO and search in general would be even more distorted if outright advertising were disallowed or penalized.
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by nickff 10mo ago
Do you have any non-feeling based thoughts to contribute? I see your comment as being non-constructive, as you have not presented any new information or thinking.
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by nickff 10mo ago
Discoverability is a very difficult challenge, especially for small niches. Many customers contact my employer, saying that they didn't know our products existed (and many products have existed in some form for >10 years). If you ca
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by nickff 10mo ago
The UK has a 'Digital Services Tax', which is effectively an internet ad tax: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introduction-of-t... You could also argue that corporate taxes do tax ads, as they
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by nickff 10mo ago
The statement implies an assumption that the drivers weigh / mass more than 59 lbs. / 27 kg, as they are included in the first measurement, but not the second. This is a reasonable assumption, as even Indycar drivers are all adult
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by nickff 10mo ago
It probably helps the employer demonstrate that they hire and retain disabled people, likely assisting with some government quotas, and defenses against lawsuits by aggrieved ex-employees.
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by nickff 10mo ago
But for 'AI' to be a winner-take-all market, it seems that the winner would have to be using customer data to improve the 'AI'. Not only do you have to believe that one of these (relatively) under-capitalized upstarts ca
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by nickff 10mo ago
I was under the distinct impression that Seattle was somewhat divided over 'big tech', with many long-term residents resenting Microsoft and Amazon's impact on the city (and longing for the 'artsy and free-spirited'
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by nickff 11mo ago
I recall reading that Google had similar 'delay' issues when crawling the web in 2000 and early 2001, but they managed to survive. That said, OpenAI seems much less differentiated (now) than Google was back then, so this may be a
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by nickff 11mo ago
Crews saved multiple 737-MAXs, but the public has focused on the aircraft whose crews were less effective.
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by nickff 11mo ago
Airbus is not immune to design & manufacturing issues with fatal consequences, they’re just not too-of-mind these days. A similar issue seems to have ‘cropped up’ on this flight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas
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by nickff 11mo ago
Even the Maastricht Treaty went beyond trade, though that does seem to have been the origin of the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty
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by nickff 11mo ago
It's not clear that concentrating so much money on a single government project fosters more benefit than having the money go to a variety of other projects. It is easy to see the items developed by something like the Mercury/Gemin
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by nickff 11mo ago
If a company is unwilling to jump through its self-imposed barriers to paying for things it wants, then it obviously doesn't value those features/items. This is definitely a case of 'voting with [one's] dollars'.
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by nickff 11mo ago
I agree that Google is benefiting from being the dominant player in a two-sided marketplace (which makes it harder to compete), but we can always choose not to use it, both as advertisers and as searchers. Google’s exploitation of its count
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by nickff 11mo ago
This Pluralistic post seems very rant-y, but it links to a Bloomberg piece that seems like a better source for backing up the claim: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-obamacare-open-enrol... As someone with a lit
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by nickff 11mo ago
I believe that ozone is usually reported as smelling like pansies (the flowers).

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