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by roughly 8mo ago
I’m curious if you’re able to comment on the IMEI question raised above - rotating the IMSI is good, but are the towers still collecting IMEIs?
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by roughly 8mo ago
50 years ago anti-social behavior included homosexuality.
303.
by roughly 8mo ago
Unless you blind this, I’m not sure it’s possible to get past the correlation or causation problem. Weed use is not yet so destigmatized for teens that usage itself is not a marker of deviance (in the math sense, not any kind of judgement).
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by roughly 8mo ago
> There is absolutely no requirement for consistency in geopolitics. There is in morality, though. The US is a state, but you are a person.
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by roughly 8mo ago
> If the system is broken, this is actually a good thing. And the system is always broken. Reality is messy, systems are rigid, there always has to be a permissive layer somewhere in the interface.
306.
by roughly 8mo ago
The thing that is missed in most efforts to replace people with machines is how often the people that are being replaced are on the fly fixing the system the machine is intended to crystallize and automate.
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by roughly 8mo ago
Ironically, this sort of mindset that, eg, homelessness and drug use are weeds to be trimmed, as opposed to the output of the whole of society and the economy - that homelessness is a personal flaw, not a social failing - is why America can
308.
by roughly 8mo ago
I mean it sounds like you live in the UK, which seems to be doing everything it can to depart civilized Europe
309.
by roughly 8mo ago
This is a thing that you don’t notice until you experience it. No more compelling argument that we’re doing something wrong as a nation than that first time stepping onto an American street after visiting a civilized country.
310.
by roughly 8mo ago
Influence isn’t all about the raw numbers - if yours is the browser of choice for developers, that’s going to give you a stronger voice than just being the fourth best browser. Think about Twitter - by all accounts, Twitter’s user numbers w
311.
by roughly 8mo ago
> they probably want to cater to the average person, and not just security conscious tech savvy people Why? The average person is well served by large existing players, whereas security conscious tech people are extremely underserved and
312.
by roughly 8mo ago
> But it isn't 'economics' as there is no actual data or science here, just a wild guess Welcome to economics.
313.
by roughly 8mo ago
Halide is such a great example of how to make a business serving a niche audience with a high-quality product. They very obviously care deeply, and that's reflected in the product, and that makes it a genuinely unique hard to replicate
314.
by roughly 8mo ago
> However hypercars are not purposely limited Are you serious? Pricing theory includes both supply and demand, and limiting supply makes the remaining items more valuable by dint of rarity. Companies absolutely limit supply on items to m
315.
by roughly 8mo ago
So they externalize the cost of their own incompetence and you’re suggesting it’s bad to internalize that cost.
316.
by roughly 8mo ago
Humans have been artists and show offs as long as we’ve been human. I don’t know if the craftsman who cut that thought people a millennium later would still be impressed by it, but I’m sure they’d be happy as hell that we are.
317.
by roughly 8mo ago
Yes, but that’s indirect violence, we’re fine with that. Calling for someone’s death directly - as in, by name, and not via a complicated policy recommendation? Well, that’s just rude.
318.
by roughly 8mo ago
I think it was Teller who said the secret to a good magic trick was to put in so much effort that no reasonable person would assume that’s what you’d done.
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by roughly 8mo ago
> This is why cops don't boost their citation numbers by shredding your driver's license. The cops are issuing a citation, which you can contest in a court with a reference to that agency record. ICE has a habit of snatching pe
320.
by roughly 8mo ago
Not without an army
321.
by roughly 8mo ago
Wait, are you suggesting we _shouldn't_ treat billionaires as a collective action problem to be dealt with via policy? So you're suggesting what, individual violence?
322.
by roughly 8mo ago
This also shifts over time - new users, especially people sophisticated in the field your tool is addressing, need to be convinced the product is doing what they believe it should be doing, and want to see more output from it. They may beco
323.
by roughly 8mo ago
First they came for the product managers, and I said nothing, because I was a coder, and we're invincible and can do everything and also deliver value unlike all those other slackers, so they'd never come for us.
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by roughly 8mo ago
> Laws are supposed to be crafted to be as applied by anyone, anywhere and at any time. This is why lawyers and politicians are supposed to have foresight and be prudent. Except this is both impossible and a bad idea, which is why we hav
325.
by roughly 8mo ago
I’d bet money if you uploaded a person’s picture as your “dog” it’d work.
326.
by roughly 8mo ago
Also, what church do you attend? Is it the right one? Who’d you vote for last time? Who do you plan to vote for this time? Is your spouse or romantic partner the right kind of person? Are you sure? What hobbies do you have? What books are y
327.
by roughly 8mo ago
Yeah, so - the whole Calm Technology(™) feels like someone looked at the dopamine casino of modern tech and said "well, this is all wrong" - which, yes - and then proceeded to try to treat it like a design problem, which it is emp
328.
by roughly 8mo ago
I think “The word for world is forest” is criminally underrated.
329.
by roughly 8mo ago
The “Calm technology” thing always annoys me, because it skips every economic, social, and psychological reason for the current state of affairs and presents itself as some kind of wondrous discovery, as opposed to “the way things were befo
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by roughly 8mo ago
AND YET YOU PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY

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