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by over_bridge 2y ago
You have to wonder if there's some 1-5% of humans who don't meet the bar of being self aware. They seem to exist as parodies of people who can't learn or reflect on past actions. Being on a continuum would make a lot of sense
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by over_bridge 2y ago
Free market ideology has a lot in common with religion. Ignore all data and common sense and just embrace the idea that its true. All will make sense once the goal is achieved and until then you just have to have faith. The idea that compet
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by over_bridge 2y ago
Politicians 'come to their senses' when they interact with normal people and are accountable to them. Public funding of elections and bans on large private donations remove the incentive to only talk to rich people. Getting money
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Finally a solution to the problem of tech companies sitting on huge piles of cash with nothing to buy! Give it all to NVIDIA
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by over_bridge 3y ago
A site with accounts that you never want linked to your real self, or your other accounts, under any circumstances. It bucks the trend of every profile linking to every other one somewhat
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by over_bridge 3y ago
That fiduciary duty needs to die/ be reimagined. It's turned corporations into one dimensional money makers. Profit at any cost. You should make money in order to achieve your goals, not just to set the high score for making money
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by over_bridge 3y ago
What are you on about? So condescending... I'm just saying that you can link certain zones to specific outcomes. If we move into a new zone we haven't crossed the boundary (which feels final and irreversible), we are in a new zone
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Agreed. Setting a boundary invites people to point out that nothing happened the second that boundary was crossed. Maybe defining zones with consequences attached might be more meaningful so we can evaluate which cost is preferred - solving
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by over_bridge 3y ago
I wonder if Google could build some custom variants of their search. That way they can use their underlying tech but reskin it to bias towards different things - eg favor local results, or scholarly, short form, or video/audio/tex
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by over_bridge 3y ago
The only revenue target they have is 'more'. There's no stable end state where the goal has been achieved. Population declines are really going to end that model in spectacular fashion.
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Premium was the worst purchase I ever made. I used to scroll shorts on my phone until my rage towards ads was strong enough to overpower my desire to continue. Now there's no release valve. I should go cancel it actually...
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Some of the best ladder climbers I've seen are amazing at pitching projects. They get the business case done, fully funded, themselves promoted to run it - and then immediately leverage the new title into a job somewhere else. I'v
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by over_bridge 3y ago
This is the trend everywhere in the Western world. At some point we need to think about what all those countries have in common and start making strategic choices to move away from it (hint: it starts with Reagan, Thatcher and other local e
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Scammers and disinformation spreaders especially.
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Yeah it's wild that you have to calculate your own bill to the government. Just tell me the amount and I'll pay it.
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by over_bridge 3y ago
I wonder about index funds as well. How much are we entrenching the top 500 companies by having everyone buying the S&P500? What kind of advantage does number 500 have over 501 just by being included in the index? Companies need to be a
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Being cynical about everything is intellectual laziness. It feels like you are being smart and critical but blindly rejecting and doubting everything is no different from blindly accepting or believing everything. Instead of observing each
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by over_bridge 3y ago
I feel like we need a new default corporate ownership model. A company can be in operation for decades and grow headcount massively but the shareholders at the top retain the same percentage of control as when it was tiny and new. Many peop
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Every publicly traded company will eventually go through this character arc. They scale as big as possible then the need for share price increases will make them increasingly exploitative and force them to offer lower value to users until t
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by over_bridge 3y ago
There's an argument that we've made the job of politician so undesirable that only the most unfeeling, cynical and power hungry would seek it. Lets make it into a normal job. 40 hrs per week, an expectation of privacy for those in
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Politicians are just a perfect role to disrupt. Problem is of course they are a monopoly so can't be competed with and are protected by law/constitution so can't be changed directly. Their whole job is to 'represent&#x27
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by over_bridge 3y ago
I think people are unfair to Elon and color his past actions with the taint of his present ones. Tesla and SpaceX are massive achievements. The space industry was basically dead for years and electric cars were considered a joke or toy. Elo
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by over_bridge 3y ago
I pray that society can move past the desire to protect jobs and embrace the ability to kill them. Imagine checking the news and hearing that through AI and automation, we'd eliminated another 3% of unwanted jobs and those people were
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by over_bridge 3y ago
It really is an awful pattern. The whole point of these apps were to only show each other if there was mutual interest. That made it safe to swipe on someone. Now they can just pay and see all of the one sided interest. Also as you say its
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Line go up. Everything else can be sacrificed as long as the line keeps going up (GDP, stock market, revenue, profit, share price - take your pick). No politician will risk doing anything that makes the line go down even if it boosts '
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Their argument is just the next gen of climate change deniers. We've gone from "there's no problem" to "ok maybe there's a problem but we can't do anything." Next step is "maybe we could have don
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Xcrete and reXcrete X is full of Xcrement
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by over_bridge 3y ago
The 'free market' always collapses to a monopoly (or colluding duopoly) in every field. It can take decades but it always gets there in the end. After all, what could be more efficient for shareholders than having no competition?
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by over_bridge 3y ago
Does nature even exist anymore? Even remote areas often have roads or hiking paths carved through, or huts to sleep in. Or worse, they are dumping sites of plastic. The concept of nature as someone 2000 years ago might have imagined it is c
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by over_bridge 3y ago
I wonder how long it would take to notice. Shadowban all users. Respond to their comments and posts with AI generated responses only visible to the poster. Redditors famously don't want others to know their handle so they won't sh

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