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by paggle 7y ago
Without “full access,” the API surface is basically nil and the keyboard is just a dumb app. With full access, the keyboard can phone home with everything you’re typing. Kudos to Apple for calling it “Allow Full Access” to make people suffi
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by paggle 7y ago
“Tribe as product” already exists, most successfully in professional sports teams: “I am a die hard Eagles fan.”
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by paggle 7y ago
Sometimes an organization needs to act with less power to punish, but also less standard of proof. For example, NFL player Ray Rice was caught on video punching his girlfriend unconscious. The NFL can’t put him in prison, but they did suspe
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by paggle 7y ago
I would have gladly lived in such a place from age 22 to ~28.
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by paggle 7y ago
I mean, Christianity has died in Europe. It’s now just a abstruse set of traditions, not a major societal pillar.
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by paggle 7y ago
But the ARPUs in Germany will be much higher, probably enough to cancel out.
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by paggle 7y ago
I don't think they will shut down WeLive. The entire premise of WeWork, and WeLive, is that they can sell you more than real estate -- they can sell you a "tribe." There are so many reports in recent years about growing socia
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by paggle 7y ago
That's why Apple devices are much cheaper than Android devices. They're secure and usable for far longer, as long as you don't break them, so the amortized monthly cost is far less.
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by paggle 7y ago
The government is big and can do multiple things at once. Ensuring safe streets is an important responsibility. Vehicles kill many more people than child molesters and drug dealers combined.
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by paggle 7y ago
What exactly would be the loss? What’s the harm in torturing a guy like this?
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by paggle 7y ago
How do you feel about government setting up speed cameras at all of these side streets and issuing citations to all speeders, even those 1mph over the limit, through dragnet surveillance?
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by paggle 7y ago
There can be standards of proof higher than the current ones for torture. For example, another jury whose instructions are “beyond all doubt.” Both juries would need to come back guilty for the torture. Of course no system is infallible, bu
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by paggle 7y ago
You could never let out anyone who has willfully killed a person, and you wouldn’t have the recidivism problem.
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by paggle 7y ago
There is no “one true ethics.” There are different methods of ethical reasoning, such as Categorical Imperative / Veil of Ignorance etc, and different conclusions that different people can make using these techniques. You can’t just sa
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by paggle 7y ago
Luckily a Juul prosecution requires little political capital, since the value of political capital has gone to nearly zero as the elected part of the federal government has tumbled into complete dysfunction.
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by paggle 7y ago
> Technology amplifies our nature. It is a neutral force. No, that is not correct. The "gain" of the amplification is VERY unevenly distributed. For example, nuclear weapons only amplify the force of the biggest and most powerf
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by paggle 7y ago
Sure, but it perverts incentives when a crime is punished only when it is a certain level of severity but not when it's more severe than that. For the people who are looking at their phones at red lights today, what percentage of them
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by paggle 7y ago
The thing is that if Evan Spiegel, or any tech billionaire, just wanted to party on boats, they would have left long ago. You or I see "running Snap" as a negative, so of course if you could find a way to not do it, we would. He p
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by paggle 7y ago
And if we look at the pattern of behavior at the Department of Justice, the pattern of behavior at Facebook seems (at least at this moment) to be perfectly rational.
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by paggle 7y ago
I hope he got paid well for that talk, it was probably his last paid speaking engagement.
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by paggle 7y ago
Yeah, I’m not as much of a film buff as you. Pay to rent on Amazon does the job for me except about once a year when I order a disc.
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by paggle 7y ago
The last 10 years have been investors competing over startups, so this is what you get.
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by paggle 7y ago
The high quality unpopular movies don’t make it on anyone’s radar to negotiate streaming rights. The high quality popular movies are too valuable to offer to Netflix for a price they would be willing to pay. I like Amazon’s pay-per-watch sy
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by paggle 7y ago
It’s probably just cheaper to include the 8051 in every part and disable it for people who have bought the cheaper part. The way that some Teslas are range handicapped and can be upgraded over the air and given out for free during emergenci
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by paggle 7y ago
That's true of every crime, if the accusation is completely fabricated then any punishment is of course unjust.
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by paggle 7y ago
Well in terms of consistency, you shouldn’t have a red pointy logo for a product called Lulu or a blue globular one for a product called Kraxis.
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by paggle 7y ago
I don’t know, even if Gates wrecked his or his family’s happiness to work all the time, it’s worth it for the millions of people who are beneficiaries of his foundation today. What’s better, that he just became a family man, working a 9-5,
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by paggle 7y ago
There is some repeatable science to it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
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by paggle 7y ago
This whole thing has gone too far. By “thing,” I mean that every action of every person, past or present, must inform all future interactions with any other person or entity. It’s a problem caused by the information we have today (who would
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by paggle 7y ago
Because some people are too poor and/or too bad of decisionmakers to get loans. If someone's eating just one potato a day, you loan them money and you know they're not going to invest it in a business, they are going to buy a

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