schalab

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by schalab 6y ago
Lets say I have a club I own, but I need to keep the riff raff out. I cant openly ban poor or low society people from entering which would be considered "evil". But what if I mandated every service from a staff must be tipped with
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by schalab 6y ago
You have natural talent which becomes exponentially better with training. But a guy who struggles to even find words will be trounced by you 9 times out of 10. Regardless of who is right. Interestingly those type of people will rarely ventu
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by schalab 6y ago
The deepest separation of labor is female and male. The female energy is associated with empathy for the child. Male energy is protecting territory. Some combination of both these energies exist in all of us. You can say humans have the cap
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by schalab 6y ago
The allure of free speech and debate is that the best ideas win. But what I have often found is that the best debater wins. And some debaters are so good they can win both sides of a debate. This wouldnt be that much of a problem if you ass
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by schalab 6y ago
I am guessing its because the hackers are not gaming fakespot's detection systems. If amazon adopted fakespot's algorithm, the hackers would circumvent it within a week. This would also happen if fakespot reaches a critical mass o
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by schalab 6y ago
I am reminded of a story in Three men in a boat. A couple go out on a picnic with a young man. The moment they set out, the young man begins predicting rain. The couple begin to hate him for his gloomy disposition. They meet an old man on t
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by schalab 6y ago
Just make the whole service distributed. Cut out Uber. Connect me directly to a driver through open source software. Person A exists who is willing to drive from point a to point b for x price. I am willing to pay x price. An open source so
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by schalab 6y ago
Imagine if the internet was started by one corporation. Instead, the internet is an open source set of protocols. The answer lies in converting companies which abuse becoming the standard due to network effect, to an open source set of prot
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by schalab 6y ago
I have found if you have nothing constructive to do, then twitter sucks you in and is very addictive. But after a few years or so of constant nonsense, you become adapted to the addiction and just ignore everything on it. Atleast thats what
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by schalab 7y ago
Explanation 1: Lauren Sanchez(bezos' new girfiend) along with her brother Michael(who is also her agent), leaked the story to force Bezos to divorce his wife and get along with her. Explanation 2: The crown prince of Saudi Arabia perso
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by schalab 7y ago
The problem is, most methods you propose to correct for individuals getting burned, may create more systematic problems, which may result in more individuals getting burned in the long run. These are incredibly complex systems which are not
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by schalab 7y ago
Isnt this a self correcting problem? I guess the first time advertisements were introduced, people were incredibly susceptible to misleading advertising. Overtime you learnt that almost everything they claim could be wrong and you tune them
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by schalab 7y ago
I dont think ownership is the main problem. The larger problem seems to be global. The ability to be expressive comes with it certain biological traits and dispositions. These traits may determine your viewpoints on matters. So, if I hire
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by schalab 7y ago
>What are you basing this on? It should be fairly obvious if you look at any issue the left focuses on. Blacks vs Whites. Rich vs Poor. Women vs Men. The double standards of how they talk about christianity vs islam. Israel vs palestine.
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by schalab 7y ago
I love how people are worried about the far right in these comments but not on the impact of propaganda on themselves. This recent Kurds vs Turkey is an example of this. The left usually hates war. Why? If you break down to the lowest level
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by schalab 7y ago
Seems to me a large part of growing up is keeping up with the herd. Like a pack of zebras in the savannah. If you stray too far behind or show weakness, you get picked off by the roving lions. Now I can see utility in behavior divergent fro
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by schalab 7y ago
What was wrong with US's response to 9/11 attacks? Tunnel vision, moral and patriotic grandstanding, group think, not thinking about the long term consequences of actions. Yes, Saddam Hussein was evil, but the consequences of remo
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by schalab 7y ago
I dont think its a cultural thing. Men on average show less empathy and emotion than women. For obvious reasons, child rearing vs hunting. But most writers and journalists tend to be on the feminine side of the spectrum because that correla
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by schalab 7y ago
Maybe its not an education problem. Maybe the idea that everyone can be an engineer/coder is just as ridiculous as everyone can be a musician.
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by schalab 7y ago
Yep. The idea that you have one unit while the landlord has multiple units is not true. You have the choice of a hundred units. And its their responsibility to fight with each other to make you choose one of them. Thats what keeps them hone
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by schalab 7y ago
Twitter needs to be a set of open source protocols and standards like the internet. Imagine if all of the internet was owned by one company and they had this kind of power. This is more power than many governments around the world.
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by schalab 7y ago
Imagine if the internet was owned by one company. Or email was owned by one company. Instead we have a non profit set of standards which divide the internet into different layers. So you can have your ISPs, your web hosting providers, your
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by schalab 7y ago
The talking heads point is deeper than that. Not only are they paid to be interesting. The very ability of being good at talking might be co-related with other base attributes. For instance being good at talking might be co-related with tun
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by schalab 8y ago
Maybe the solution for centralization is decoupling the data architecture and the interface. Like in the net neutrality debate everyone understands that the hardware providing bandwidth is separate from the websites which run on them. Lets
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by schalab 8y ago
Why dont western companies band together and threaten a boycott until some kind of IP laws are enforced? They just keep getting picked off one by one.
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by schalab 8y ago
Its a game of diminishing returns. Assume there are 80% included in a game and 20% frozen out. Here it makes sense to change the rules of the game to include the other 20%. Yes it might slightly inconvenience the 80% but the switch from not
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by schalab 8y ago
People are suffering from taking too many pay day loans. I think I will donate 2 billion dollars to my local pay day lender. There, problem solved. Now people dont need to be worried about paying it back. I am sure they wont use this guaran
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by schalab 8y ago
The basic problem is astroturfing. In politics if I create a bot network to artificially boost the more divisive tweets, over time the entire political network may become more polarized and toxic. And it would necessarily elevate fringe can
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by schalab 9y ago
There used to be a lot of natural factors which worked against monopolies. Every new market you introduced your product in brought along with it a layer of bureaucracy and middle management, which left you more bloated and unwieldy. This al
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by schalab 9y ago
You are blaming unethical people for profiting from a flawed system. I would say fixing the system is a easier problem, then fixing humanity as a whole. For instance, what are the consequences for the mid level government bureaucrat who acc

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