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by pksebben 6y ago
These are very broad generalizations, and not at all representative of anything like a truth. I concede that it may have been true in your experiences, but it's a fairly toxic pattern to make categorical statements about "what wom
902.
by pksebben 6y ago
who is this a quote of? seems like common knowledge here.
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by pksebben 6y ago
How does this relate to jaywalking? Is there some correlation between acreage and risk to pedestrians? I'm confused.
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by pksebben 6y ago
Perhaps there's a good reason for that. Not all ideas are created equal, and the proliferation of mass shootings in the states should serve as a strong signal that our gun laws are dumb. Somehow, the conversation has stalled here becau
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by pksebben 6y ago
I don't think it's taking the point too far to say that this will be one of the horsemen when the end comes for our current form of governance. Communications technology speeds social change, and government digs it's heels in
906.
by pksebben 6y ago
The only problem is that's hard to speak. Also, what's DDD?
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by pksebben 6y ago
For my money, I can't help but think of people who have legitimate reasons for wanting privacy and how my relative lack thereof deprives them of it. For every one of us that has a well defined presence, it becomes that much easier to s
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by pksebben 6y ago
I think the sane argument here is for sensible defaults. Leaving all those switches turned on is just opening the door for adtech. The set of information that's made available out of the box should be small, and if you need to access i
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by pksebben 6y ago
I hate to nitpick, but your use of 'spoiler alert' here made me believe there might be some clever deception in the article, but he got hired at Amazon _after_ the Google rejection. this is slightly misleading.
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by pksebben 6y ago
the point of making a philosophical argument about it is to avoid the inevitable practical problems posed. We're there already, too. Adtech data has been bought by the Pentagon for use in targeting individuals overseas for military ope
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by pksebben 6y ago
the story specifically leaves trust as an ambiguous quantity in that relationship. she obviously doesn't trust him. so, not only are we left to ponder her nature, but his relationship to her. does he take her suggestion at face value,
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by pksebben 6y ago
neither emacs nor vim workflows are half as impressive as emacs-evil workflows, though. the unique strengths of each are lethal when combined.
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by pksebben 6y ago
"Sorry, but" is a poor substitute for "my bad". The error being pointed out to you is that your tone is dismissive, which this diatribe did nothing to correct. The culture people are trying to cultivate here is one that
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by pksebben 6y ago
if this is true, why on earth wouldn't they just use that money to, I dunno, rent them an apartment?
915.
by pksebben 6y ago
that all sounds like an incredibly roundabout way of inflating ownership structures rather than contributing meaningfully to value. how much fidelity can be assumed by this, over time? Unless you assume that value traded in a market is perf
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by pksebben 6y ago
it's not just the way the world works. it's the way capitalism works. I don't think it's unfair for people to be fed up with watching these things happen while the root causes continue to be largely taken for granted.
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by pksebben 6y ago
The axes on which this article turns make perfect sense - namely, those of the shamelessly pro-business bias that this joker is pandering to. Click through to the rest of his work. I would be astounded to learn he isn't receiving a pay
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by pksebben 6y ago
That is not why we have those social norms and laws. The War On Drugs was a political move by the Nixon administration that got doubled down on by the Reagan administration and has simply lasted long enough to become baseline cultural conte
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by pksebben 6y ago
not yet it's not, but once upon a time, the dollar was backed by precious metals. Not a terribly outrageous leap.
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by pksebben 6y ago
the board and corporate governance of companies should be held criminally liable for actions they oversee. You can get locked up for life under the kingpin act. Let's make that applicable here.
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by pksebben 6y ago
There is some really, really good advice in here for those folks who might be struggling with identity and self-valuation in today's excessively connected culture. There are a couple of indelicate points, however, that I think bear ad
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by pksebben 6y ago
given the cost of vitamin d supplements, and the lack of any discernable downside to taking them, does it really matter?
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by pksebben 6y ago
I would love to see a world where your monthly government ethereum check is balanced against some equation like the number of open source PRs merged * repo utilization
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by pksebben 6y ago
not to mention that if we could magically poof 30% of the working age population into KE jobs overnight and still have a significant amount of workers for sticking shelves, because the labor force participation rate is abysmal.
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by pksebben 6y ago
having read the (yes, quite long) whole article, I don't see where the author asserts that Romer was "mostly correct". "Mostly cohesive but critically flawed" would be a more accurate description of the author&#x27
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by pksebben 6y ago
the money really is the crux of the issue, too. if you take as a given that consumers won't pay for a service they can get for free, then you're kind of in a bind creating an unopinionated search - if you're truly objective,
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by pksebben 6y ago
we have been trying to do things this way for years. The deteriorating condition of our democracy and electorate would suggest that we need a different approach
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by pksebben 6y ago
1. externalities related to drug use are largely a consequence of their status as illegal. a lack of public awareness and any reasonable regulation create a situation where illicitly substances are orders of magnitude more dangerous than th
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by pksebben 6y ago
how does that work? if I collect a unique identifier on two different sites how am I prevented from connecting the dots?
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by pksebben 6y ago
the shared burden of infrastructure makes that problematic. A huge chunk of the country would collapse if it didn't have the ability to externalize cost to other states, and taxing the coasts without representing their needs in the bu

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