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by soyiuz 11y ago
Nor should they be profitable. Public goods are an expenditure, like clean air or public libraries. We want to spend money on them, that is the point.
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by soyiuz 11y ago
Good point. Still, the city budget is in some sense tied to the market. The unemployment rate almost halved since 2010. Per capita income almost doubled since 2000. Apple revenues alone tripled in the last five years. You'd expect the
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by soyiuz 11y ago
Looking into the links you sent. Not sure if I am on board with "whether or not something is a public good is a matter of technology." I would say it is a matter of shared values and ideals. When you describe trains, you are talki
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by soyiuz 11y ago
Agreed! The cure for mismanagement should be more transparency and more algorithmic government (along with testing)---a topic for another conversation.
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The market more than doubled since 2005. An increase in the city budget from $5.3b to $9b is not that impressive in that context. They would get that if they simply held an unmanaged index fund. You would expect more growth in the bay area
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by soyiuz 11y ago
1. Yes, that was just an example of potential beneficial effects of public transit. My point was that some things in the "public good" just cost money, and should not be expected to monetize themselves. 2. True. Upvote for Jane Ja
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Probably right, but we are talking about municipal taxes.
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Two footnotes on this article: 1. The problems it highlights can be reduced to low tax revenues. Our infrastructure is crumbling because we do not collect enough taxes to subsidize it. Things like roads and trains cannot (and should not) pa
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by soyiuz 11y ago
Markdown is a virus. The virus shows you how you don't need markup at all.
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My HP LaserJet 1020 has been chugging away for 10+ years on $11 refilled cartridges that yield around 2k monochrome pages. It just might last ten more!
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Woah, I never thought I'd see the day when Mayakovsky is quoted on HN. Thank you, good sir.
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by soyiuz 11y ago
Yes, that is true. But the filtration mechanism you are describing happens through the work of editors and peer reviewers who also get close to nothing. The value is extracted by content aggregators who don't contribute anything except
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My friends run Rikers Bot. Get in touch. http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/public-discourse/rikersbot.html https://github.com/xpmethod/rikersbot
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At the same time "The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people": http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-pr...
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I am confused. How's the app logo nowhere on the homepage? Did they go with UBER, black square, and the weird backward C thing all at the same time? In addition the font for Uber front page does not match the Uber logo once you log it
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Competitive Photography and the Presentation of the Self(manovich.net)
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Academics Muse about Twitter(chronicle.com)
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The New Correct: Freedom of Expression on Campus by LARB AV(lareviewofbooks.org)
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IT Highest-Paying Sector in India, Manufacturing Least: Study(profit.ndtv.com)
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Predicting Social Trends from Non-Photographic Images on Twitter(manovich.net)
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Twitter is in trouble if they are on a path to competing with Facebook. They are fine if they manage to reflect on what made them successful in the first place: information constraint and a small(ish) but passionate community. The culprit i
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by soyiuz 11y ago
From a practical standpoint, why would you not try to pass the certification process first with a bare-bones, minimally viable service designed specifically to pass certification? Then iterate on top once it is in.
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> The BMJ “should carefully think about what it wants: to remain a top scientific medical journal, or to transition into a public-opinion publication that seeks to attain the highest ratings possible based on one-sided positions that are
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by soyiuz 11y ago
"How can I get published" part of the incentive is fine. The problem is that the journal infrastructure does not always embody values that lead to "best science." Things could be fixed on a systems level, with better pee
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Is there room for a constrained text-only Twitter clone?
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Basically he is saying "we allowed pictures, but now people are taking pictures of long texts, therefore we should lift the limit." The photos were a mistake in the first place! The path for Twitter is now to become a Facebook clo
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by soyiuz 11y ago
I've said it elsewhere, but I'll say it again: Uber's endgame is not in the disruption of the taxi industry. They are really a logistics company. Once the regulations catch up with them, they will be providing a logistics ser
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Great piece. I also thing it is not a great idea to have students follow along with the demo. Just ask them to watch and ask questions first and then leave as much (if not more time) for them to go through the tutorial at their own pace. Fo
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by soyiuz 11y ago
I feel like the OP highlights a problem common to the new breed of "marketplace" platforms like Uber, Airbnb, and Udemy. All of these substitute open, public, regulated markets (taxis, hotels, universities) with closed, private, u
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by soyiuz 11y ago
First, it is not clear if a web "surfer" is in a contractual relationship with a random site s/he visits in a way that a Blizzard gamer is (by the virtue of buying the game and clicking through the TOS). Second, Blizzard game

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