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by paggle 7y ago
I don't think it's equivalent. In the physical world, it's easy to make a mistake that destroys the entire thing (e.g. causes a power plant to explode) but it's hard to make a mistake that causes the system to do somethi
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by paggle 7y ago
Would you also say that Uber doesn't violate taxi laws or AirBNB doesn't violate zoning laws, and it's just the Uber drivers and AirBNB hosts who are using the products to violate the law? What's your responsibility when
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by paggle 7y ago
Jeremy Lin grew up in Palo Alto, California.
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by paggle 7y ago
And the one who released "Shut up and Listen" is the one who walked back his GM's comments and licked China's boots.
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by paggle 7y ago
As Michael Jordan didn't say... "Republicans buy sneakers too." Billionaires didn't get to be billionaires by leaving money on the table. We need large scale political action against China.
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by paggle 7y ago
This is particularly brutal because for many Venezuelans, online freelancing work is their only way of accessing US dollars, which is their only way of accessing basic necessities. The quantities of dollars here are so low they would make y
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by paggle 7y ago
I use standups to check in with everyone and... 1) inform everyone of why I'm making certain product decisions, so that everyone gets a "feel" for the problem space even though they're not directly talking to customers,
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by paggle 7y ago
Usain Bolt deviated colossally from optimal sprinting structure/style and beat the world record by a crazy number of standard deviations. And that actually happened. So these things are not just false because they're improbable.
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by paggle 7y ago
Poker is a very slow and boring game and with people's attention spans these days it's going to be hard to ban phones outright. Maybe only at the highest stakes tables.
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by paggle 7y ago
How do you falsify his claim that he can read his opponent's faces and tell what cards they have? Isn't that a common skill in high level poker?
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by paggle 7y ago
The Halloween theory isn't an "alternative" one, it's the sensible one, and tying it to iPhone launches is the wackadoodle one.
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by paggle 7y ago
Can you try to give me a sense of what "steampunk" means in a literary sense? When I think of "steampunk" I think of brass machinery, tubes and pipes, oversized hardware, needle pressure gauges, etc... and I struggle to
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by paggle 7y ago
This does highlight a major issue in technology+policy+society -- there's no way to "point fingers" and say "Look at what this company is doing!". You can say "Facebook is doing bad thing X" but when I ope
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by paggle 7y ago
All of the biggest software companies have almost no black engineers and relatively few female engineers. They still manage to make money hand over fist, looks like their software is good enough to do the job.
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by paggle 7y ago
How? Then someone else would receive my USD.
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by paggle 7y ago
Isn’t it more fun to wonder?
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by paggle 7y ago
Well if I was the last person on earth to receive USD I wouldn’t be happy because that means I’d never be able to spend it on anything (if I did, that person would become a later recipient of USD).
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by paggle 7y ago
It also speaks to the need to know your customer. The restaurant should have had discreet cameras with facial recognition software to alert management immediately that a high value customer was walking in the door, and to make sure he got t
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by paggle 7y ago
On the Washington-calibrated President degeneracy scale, bounded by George Washington at 0 and Donald Trump at 10, I’d give this a 5, Bill Clinton a 7, and Lyndon Johnson a 9.
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by paggle 7y ago
The Supreme Court has held that most Constitutional protections from the federal government also apply to state governments.
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by paggle 7y ago
No that’s not what I mean by degenerate. I mean someone who says Mexicans are sending their rapists, their daughter is a “piece of ass,” that they like soldiers who weren’t captured, that pays off porn stars to cover their affairs, that tel
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by paggle 7y ago
Not at all, Reagan was a guy who managed to proudly use the strength of the US without being a moral degenerate.
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by paggle 7y ago
This is where Trump’s “give no quarter” tactics has really yielded fruit. I wish we could find a more normal and balanced guy who was still willing to throw around the weight and leverage of the US.
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by paggle 7y ago
Thanks, sometimes I feel like I stumbled onto Mars.
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by paggle 7y ago
Christianity is very important to lots of Americans but “turn the other cheek” or “blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth” are empirically not among the operating principles of the American government or criminal justice sys
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by paggle 7y ago
I personally think that no murderer should ever be released from prison, no matter how rehabilitated. However, given that this is not policy, I would rather have released murderers working in the oil fields or sawmills, or anywhere very far
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by paggle 7y ago
The Norwegians can hire murderers as babysitters, as a reactionary American I would rather not.
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by paggle 7y ago
Hopefully not Shaker dating services.
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by paggle 7y ago
It’s a great way to say “oh, this is so bad, we’ve gotten rid of the horrible man who was responsible!” while also changing absolutely nothing.
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by paggle 7y ago
Basically the entire reason for kosher laws is to force “advisable” behaviors on people. Pork is banned because it can cause trichinosis. Shellfish are banned because they can have red tide poisoning. The knowledge was far less, so many of

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