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by ohduran 7y ago
Sell them, obviously. The fact that we are even talking about this issue reveals that TechCrunch is eager to show off that they know in advance! It can always be considered as "I got this info from TC, never mind my insider trading&quo
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by ohduran 7y ago
Why not showing the Firefox extension as well? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/itemsy/
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> Perhaps this is all a sign of a fractured attention span It is not, I think. It's a sign of the overall bad quality of most books, fiction and non fiction ones alike. Your ability to skim through the bad ones pays off if you find
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by ohduran 7y ago
my understanding is that they're resigning because of how unbearable the experience as a moderator is, aka not being taken into account when taking strategy decisions. They are nonetheless not part of the SO ecosystem, and thus they ar
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> mindbogglingly naive. Absolutely. What drives the attention of the execs at Stack Exchange is first and foremost Stack Overflow. Everything else seems like a liability to me, specially sites like Mi Yodeya and Christianity, where sensi
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by ohduran 7y ago
Their relationship goes as deep as Firefox bringing Google as the default search engine. I presume Google pays some non-negligible amount of money for that, so Mozilla execs are tied to Google. Having one big source of income implies pivoti
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Can't describe it better (unless it involves food). Good job!
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Agreed. So 10'000 hours of practice isn't just doing it, it's actually becoming obsessed with doing it BETTER. I can make sandwiches all day long, but only if I focus on how precise I am in the dose of mayonnaise, how seamles
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by ohduran 7y ago
Hitting a paywall...can anyone assist?
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Thanks for the recommendations!
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The main reason I don't read 200 books a year is because I read good books frequently, instead of wasting my attention on low quality books and challenging myself on the number of books I read.
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Wasn't this the painting that Michael Lewis suspected that it isn't by Leonardo? Edit: It is, indeed: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/michael-lewis-salvator-mun...
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by ohduran 7y ago
I know! Because it is absurd to think that we can gerrymander who gets to decide what, which is what essentially what the regional government of Catalonia is scheming to do. The issue isn't simple and I'm positive that this has no
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by ohduran 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying on this!
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my understanding is that international laws are set so that humans do have rights due to their conditions of being human, based on the assumption that there are things that you cannot do, regardless of the culture you live in. It aims at in
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by ohduran 7y ago
If that is the case, then how are groups of people held accountable? If there is a chance for groups to "have rights", then there must be a certain set of obligations that they must fulfill in order to do that. Nations do not have
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by ohduran 7y ago
But it makes sense to ask that question! If I can rule myself on the sole basis of self-determination, it's turtles all the way down. Can Val d'Aran[1] secede from a seceded Catalonia? Can I just ignore the rules of the country I
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by ohduran 7y ago
Rights are inherently individual. You have rights, I have rights, etc. "People" don't have rights, no "Lebensraum", nothing. You, and only you, are in a relationship with the state, not subsumed in an aggregation of
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by ohduran 7y ago
Wait, so a job at Amazon is better than anything else, and you complain about Amazon? Why not complaining about anything else?
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Oh, but it is. Can Amazon live up to the unbounded expectations place upon it? No. Anything short of "complete world domination" is not doing it. There are markets where the situation is quite worse than those where Amazon is. One
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"Can Anyone Catch Nokia" - Forbes magazine, 2007
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by ohduran 7y ago
> This is a great argument for why entangling alliances with people who aren't really your friends or are too culturally distant to even pretend as much are a terrible, awful idea. I believe we fought a World War because of this onc
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by ohduran 7y ago
Are you aware that the whole Brexit campaign revolved around the fact that giving money away to people abroad clashes with voters?
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by ohduran 7y ago
Sure! Mind if I ask you how are you going to fund this? > EU guarantees funding for basic infrastructure like education, legal system, security, health cate and tax authorities. That doesn't even happen for actual EU citizens, why o
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I've heard the opposite! Any piece of information that you can share to back it up? Highly interested.
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Superposition doesn't stop, or that at least is what I understand. The uncertainty principle can be expressed in terms of increments of energy and increments of time: the farer I could be from where I am supposed to be, so to say (that
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by ohduran 7y ago
You're right, I haven't expressed myself in the best terms.
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My broader point is that you as a consumer have no means to directly affect the decisions being taken by companies, other than choosing with your feet and go buy to another company or, in the case where there is no real alternative to big t
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Capitalism is founded on the idea that the consumer is a means to an end. Apple, Google, Facebook, etc, can do as they please insofar as they keep creating value to their shareholders. Which is another way of saying "if you don't
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by ohduran 7y ago
Not cruel, but self-centered. Infancy seems to me like a progression from complete self-centerness (if I'm not pleased, I'll cry until I turn blue) to become functional, socially. Adolescence is part of that process of gauging how

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