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by rosser 8y ago
The airlines are having to pull massively CapEx equipment (the price tag on a 787-9 is well over a quarter billion dollars) out of their fleets to have the IPC turbine blades on their engines replaced — using a temporary fix, which will req
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by rosser 8y ago
Are you legit suggesting that people should do their family planning around their employer's convenience ?
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by rosser 8y ago
How is that "biological pressure to spend less time with their children"?
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by rosser 8y ago
No, her look, and the prevalence of her using self-portraiture as her vehicle, were even then a repudiation of the prevailing standards of beauty. It was arguably even a repudiation of the existence of those standards.
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by rosser 8y ago
I'm not sure where I implied that it is, except perhaps in invoking YC, which funds far more than "web apps". Not having to burn yourself out just to feed and shelter yourself would afford you vastly more opportunity to find
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by rosser 8y ago
> You're not going to become an entrepreneur with $20k… Isn't that around the amount YC typically puts into a project? Hasn't the internet proven how cheap entrepreneurship can be?
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by rosser 8y ago
> And if you want more then you'll have to work in some high skilled job to earn extra money... Or try your hand at entrepreneurship, since you've got a net. Or write a book, which you turn into passive income. Or, or, or...
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by rosser 8y ago
Not to imply that there aren't strong feelings around the subject, but don't you think calling it a "religious issue" might preemptively poison discussion a bit?
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by rosser 8y ago
And people wonder why some of us talk about the unclean hands of the online ad/tracking/modeling/ &c industry...
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by rosser 8y ago
That's also a good reason, thanks! If I'm blocking trackers from those sites in all of my browsers, though, are they ever even seeing my IP outside the traffic I deliberately send them?
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by rosser 8y ago
Do you really need the Tor browser to do this? I just sign into Facebook, Google, &c services using one browser, and do everything else in another — all of which all have µBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, whitelist-based cookie managers
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by rosser 8y ago
The point is less what she won, than it is that she won.
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by rosser 8y ago
>>>> I was imagining a scenario where... Isn't the point of an imagined scenario not to be like current society in some way?
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by rosser 8y ago
Yes, let's blame the person that structurally has less power in the dynamic for having that power imbalance used against them. Of course you can try to negotiate for more. Enough people want to work at a startup however that if you a
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by rosser 8y ago
Remember when AT&T blocked FaceTime because it competed with their own product? I do.
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by rosser 8y ago
I mean as opposed to, say, Netflix or Hulu. AT&T can, under the present legal regime, perfectly legitimately say, "Here's all this 'free' content for you. You'll have to subscribe to the 'Not Our Content&#x
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by rosser 8y ago
It also seems to matter as a diversionary tactic, employed to curtail discussion of the dearth of meaningful competition in broadband. And it ignores that TWC was acquired by another ISP , meaning that sale, whenever it happened, also cur
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by rosser 8y ago
What? The almighty market doesn't solve the Principal-Agent Problem? [0] Like, say it ain't so, man. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
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by rosser 8y ago
Sloppy and emotionally-driven phrasing on my part, sorry. I hope my edit and follow-up to yours have clarified my position.
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by rosser 8y ago
It has plenty to do with the broadband market, if you happen to be an AT&T subscriber, and especially if they're your only choice. This, coupled with their no longer being restrained from the kinds of shenanigans that NN barred, po
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by rosser 8y ago
I'm so glad the end of Net Neutrality has ushered in an era of unprecedented competition in the broadband market. EDIT: Yes, this acquisition is of the content division of Time Warner, not the ISP, which was previously acquired — by a
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by rosser 8y ago
...and many of the rest were killed, because they were resisting, and/or to cow others who might have tried to resist. You're missing the point: telling victims they're victiming wrong (literally, as in, "You're doi
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by rosser 8y ago
I'm going to assume you mean well, but this is unambiguously the wrong way to talk to a survivor about their experience.
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by rosser 8y ago
See also: Why didn't the victims of the African slave trade rise up against the plantation owners? Or: Why didn't she fight back? General form: Why don't victims behave the way I think they should, in circumstances I'
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by rosser 8y ago
A few years ago, I visited Tibet with friends. One of our group was a T-Mobile subscriber, and was able to leverage their roaming agreement with the PRC (and its bypassing the Great Firewall) to read and post on Facebook, among others.
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by rosser 8y ago
I think we've been agreeing right past one another, then. I'm reminded of the Joe Rogan quote to the effect that "the sooner we can all realize we've been taught how to live life from people operating on the momentum of
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by rosser 8y ago
The lack of meaningful systemic mitigation for "bad luck" is what I'm talking about with "punishment". It's why I quoted the word. You're drawing a stricter meaning than I think is apparent in my position,
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by rosser 8y ago
Field trips? "Homeschooling" doesn't mean "never leave the house".
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by rosser 8y ago
I don't think it matters how exceptional or unlucky the specific situation is. A system that "punishes" bad luck like that is at some level fundamentally broken.
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by rosser 8y ago
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” ― Herman Melville

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