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by resters 8y ago
To be clear, my point is not that Football is boring -- I like to watch it now and then when it's a close game. It's that without the government sponsorship, the sport and viewership would be significantly smaller, probably about
902.
by resters 8y ago
For anyone who has ever wondered why American Football is so popular in the US in spite of being fairly boring to watch (and in spite of being fairly unpopular nearly everywhere else in the world), the NFL receives significant funding every
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by resters 8y ago
While it is interesting to read this, there are a lot of confounding variables. Chances are countries which would allow zero ratings in the first place would also be more tolerant of other incarnations of excessive market power. Note, that
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by resters 8y ago
I think in this case the ethical issue is not disclosing the policy more directly. I suppose why would anyone tip $5 if the driver would only get $1. My guess is that this isn't really an ethical issue with Instacart, which I view as a
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by resters 8y ago
Hah. Well it's obviously a case where the consumer habit of tipping for delivery means that on a $100 order there may be $105 that the customer is willing to (or used to having to) pay. Thus leaving that $5 on the table is perhaps a s
906.
by resters 8y ago
Why doesn't this problem exist when I order something from Amazon? Because there is no absurd idea that I should be tipping the UPS guy or anyone else involved in fulfilling my order. It makes much more sense for InstaCart to simply c
907.
by resters 8y ago
You are overlooking the privileged (red carpet) access to private data granted to warrant holders.
908.
by resters 8y ago
What part seems untrue to you?
909.
by resters 8y ago
Google has a large sales force that targets government agencies, defense, etc., with its products and services. As for the incentives, it's a logical argument: 1) Google is a large, powerful entity. 2) Powerful entities benefit from a
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by resters 8y ago
Just a reminder that Google is a major defense contractor. The incentive to create highly targeted ads is the same basic incentive that exists to create highly targeted threat assessments and social credit scores.
911.
by resters 8y ago
The issue is that the component abstraction makes thinking of state as being specific to a subtree feel better encapsulated then having all components enmeshed with global state in their own way. Doing it in a way that best utilizes the str
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by resters 8y ago
This is a major violation of trust.
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by resters 8y ago
So to put this in perspective... When the US intervenes in other nations there is typically a rival political faction that the US is aligned with: - The US funds rival political groups of many foreign regimes abroad. The important thing is
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by resters 8y ago
It's not that mistakes happen, it's that retractions are usually hidden and do not contain the same level of effort to educate the reader as the initial incorrect reporting.
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by resters 8y ago
You seem to be unaware of the economic literature on trade. Without a doubt, trade barriers harm the public, regardless of which government initiated them (or reciprocates them). The rest of your post recites the American Exceptionalist nar
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by resters 8y ago
At the risk of introducing a political topic into this supposedly apolitical subject, why shouldn't any president simply make demands and then shut down the government until his/her political opponents cave? Seemingly this strate
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by resters 8y ago
The grandparent comment is noteworthy among HN comments for being so eagerly apologetic for the kind of corporate/branding hypocrisy that Google used to position itself against. It makes me wonder if someone posted it in an attempt to
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by resters 8y ago
This blog post is not true and not fair. Airbnb specifies that there must be textual disclosure of any cameras, and there is a section on the listing page that shows them. It's also very rare for a security system to include indoor cam
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by resters 8y ago
I didn't make it up, it's definitely on vanilla Android at this point, not sure if the features are on most of the older phones by other manufacturers.
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by resters 8y ago
Neither, not sure what points you took exception to but I'd be happy to elaborate if you can be more specific.
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by resters 8y ago
Exactly. Lower short-term profits in exchange for significantly greater market share and future profits. For some reason Apple doesn't see the competition rapidly approaching. Neither did Microsoft. All it takes is one misstep.
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by resters 8y ago
I'd argue that the main luxury aspect of iPhone is the GPU and top quality animation and visual effects. There is a superb polish to the UI/UX which (along with the high build quality of the hardware) makes it feel like a seamless
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by resters 8y ago
I sold my Apple stock about 8 months ago. These are the relevant data points: - Apple is a superb company but the stock price is still too high. - Apple faces increasing competition from its own older phones that still work just fine. - The
924.
by resters 8y ago
Ironically much of the criticism and skepticism was dead on, but that didn't stop Dropbox from becoming a very successful startup, though I think the ultimate future of the company is not certain as of yet.
925.
by resters 8y ago
To borrow from the Harry Potter universe, early stage startups need Gryffindors and Ravenclaws, but then as the company grows more and more Hufflepuffs get hired, and sooner or later the company ends up on the radar of Slytherins, who are f
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by resters 8y ago
As someone who is interested in amateur radio, there is certainly something magical and romantic about signals propagating from all over the world.
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by resters 8y ago
The perception that right wing has lost ground is an illusion. There is dramatically less dissent in America today than there was in the past, much less threat of any social movement that would endanger the status quo. To a large extent, t
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by resters 8y ago
I agree, but I'm using the term in a way that resonates with the popular use of the word in modern American politics. The point might be lost if I instead used the more precise phrase "authoritarian, status-quo preserving".
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by resters 8y ago
The major takeaway is that one can't count on the NYT to challenge powerful interests. This makes the NYT a powerful conservative force in US culture. It follows that most of the articles that appear opposed to powerful interests ar
930.
by resters 8y ago
Maybe try some common mode filters before investing in a private line.

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