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by redczar 1y ago
All societies enforce standards of care for kids and all societies try to intervene when those standards are not met. In the U.S. we require that parents educate their kids. We require that parents provide a level of care for their kids.
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Not all parents are responsible. FB, Google, and others have shown no desire to combat mass manipulation or to combat the psychological harm their services can do. It is appropriate for society to force the issue.
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It used to be the case that individual banks could issue currency. It was found that having government control this much better overall. It’s not perfect.
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They tried to keep it secret that they were storing the garbage instead of recycling it. The trash still needs to be disposed. Your response is to question whether this was fraud and a bad thing. That’s a weird response.
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Potential for sexual slavery. Performers being coerced to do the performance along with the fact that performers are often in locations with lax law enforcement standards.
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That’s a fair point.
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Your jihad against how these words are used in common speech will fail.
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This is how people use the word now. He religiously did yoga every day. They religiously attended every game. That book became their bible. The phone is now everyone’s idol.
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by redczar 1y ago
You are trying to fight how people use words and you won’t be successful. Phrases like “religious fervor” and “religiously <did some activity>” etc. are in common usage and refer to things outside of religion. Phones are worshipped i
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by redczar 1y ago
this modern style of criticism is so tiring. It’s a modern style of criticism because….anyone…anyone… We should ignore historical reality. It’s makes you uncomfortable.
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by redczar 1y ago
Your complaint would have much more merit if there wasn’t hundreds of years of examples of women being systematically discriminated against and having the system unfairly target them.
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You are naive if you think apps will go down in price more than a small amount as a result of this.
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If people are willing to pay $x for a product then you you don’t charge 30% less for it just because your costs have gone down. You should read up about pricing power.
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I’ve taught in higher education for over 20 years. Let it go. It’s not worth the hassle to prove the student cheated.
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Why would the apps cost significantly less? I think you don’t understand pricing power. You’ll get a slight discount as a means of enticing you away from the app store but you’ll give up an easy way to control subscriptions or prevent com
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by redczar 1y ago
Colloquial meaning and the well defined meaning are two different things in most cases, right?
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I’ve got 20 years of experience teaching mathematics at a community college. MyMathLab and it’s various clones are all terrible. My brief tinkering with this product has impressed me. Certainly it underdelivers at this point but they are
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by redczar 1y ago
I don’t see how they could prevent a sale since they own such a small percent of the startup.
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by redczar 1y ago
Can YC prevent startups from selling to Google? Even if they could why should they? There is nothing wrong with believing Google abuses its monopoly and selling to Google.
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They may have changed but it used to be quite confusing how to cancel Prime. Once you cancel and try to buy something on Amazon they present a variety of dark patterns to get you to sign up again.
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by redczar 1y ago
I’m white and not from the south. But I went to FSU as an undergrad. White people assumed I was just like them in attitude and beliefs. One friend tried to get me into Christianity. He casually mentioned that black dominated churches were
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by redczar 1y ago
Hence the “respective areas of the country” part of my comment. DEI started due widespread systemic disadvantages certain groups have historically experienced. White Christians can’t reasonably claim to be part if this in the U.S. The spee
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by redczar 1y ago
I think you don’t understand what DEI really is. In America the groups you talk about are not at a disadvantage when it comes to recruitment in the respective areas of the country. As such they aren’t part of DEI in corporate recruiting.
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by redczar 1y ago
Last semester I gave my students a take home final exam. I told them they could use AI. I just asked that they document their usage of external sources. This was precalculus class. The first problem was a graph x(t) and y(t). The compon
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by redczar 1y ago
You can’t in good faith try to convince anyone that cancelling Prime is as easy as canceling a subscription on iOS. After cancelling prime whenever you order something dark patterns are used to try to get you to sign up. One such patten i
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by redczar 1y ago
Try cancelling Prime. Then try buying something from Amazon without them trying to trick you into a Prime membership. Amazon sucks. Also its return policies over the years have gotten quite obtuse for physical goods in my experience.
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Apparently I believe so since it provides me with an experience I’m willing to pay a premium for.
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My point is, saying “let the market decide” is a stupid response. One can always pick a starting point and say, “but the market did decide”.
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Yes. I don’t think Apple is a saint. I think it understands that forcing consumer friendly practices for its customers makes sense especially if they get paid to do so.
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I don’t know anything about the issue from a developer perspective. I just know that as a consumer I like how Apple handles things.

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