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by spanktheuser 6y ago
Not for you it isn’t.
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
Whenever someone says “liable” I know they’ve stopped arguing about justice and begun arguing about proper application of laws lobbyists purchased from Congress.
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
I love your phrasing... “soften the blow.” I’m trying to imagine this 45 year old CVS VP of Product stuffing the channel with opiates & hiding the analytics on one hand. And on the other hand feeling real bad somebody somewhere ODed.
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
Moral absolutism has been out of vogue for 50 years, but I encourage everyone to give it a spin. It’s provides such wonderful moral clarity and said clarity is surprisingly effective at rooting out the sort of poisonous people who ruin frie
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
Current Affairs strikes me in some ways as the anti-Economist. Brilliant and even if you disagree with their politics their critique of the current state of capitalism is well-researched, well-argued and insightful. Jacobin is the house pub
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
What a mess. In small tribes social control can be directly maintained as members have perfect knowledge of any individual’s reputation. This mechanism doesn’t scale beyond a few hundred individuals so institutions such as hierarchical orga
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
> This is parenting vs schooling, ignoring the fact that many schools are really glorifed babysitting services. While this may exaggerate the case, it will continue to largely be true so long as we relegate huge portions of our populatio
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
- TikTok would seem to be an existential threat to Facebook. - Acquisition by Facebook is problematic given current scrutiny of their market position. - Facebook has been Trump’s media ally since 2016. - Trump is intervening clumsily to kil
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
Before the internet devoured print, journalism segmented itself as follows: - daily newspapers, which rushed important news into print as fast as possible (multiple daily editions, “hold the presses”) - weekly news magazines, which focused
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
My sense is medicine has for some time neglected chronic symptoms from acute viral infection. During my lifetime, chronic fatigue syndrome went from a psychological malady confined to malingerers and depressed women to a physical malady ass
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
The Acting Deputy for Homeland Security admitted on CNN that they’re using the threat of losing international students’ immense tuition to force universities and colleges to fully open in the fall. https://twitter.com/tcmass
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The Car, Reinvented(mondaynote.com)
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
• Firms like this manage a large amount of capital but do so with relatively few employees. The actual loss to the Seattle economy is small. • They certainly seem to want to threaten workers - unionize or otherwise show solidarity and we’ll
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
Imagine if the market incentivized intelligent people to build useful things rather than lotteries on top of known cognitive weaknesses. As one commenter pointed out, the trick isn’t identifying or executing this strategy. It’s having the a
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by spanktheuser 6y ago
I think all of the comments are very helpful and are tactics I’ve used quite successfully to manage similar difficulties. But I wanted to add that your symptoms are also consistent with ADHD without being sufficient to merit such a diagnosi
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by spanktheuser 7y ago
So much of this conversation accepts the government’s anti-crime message is made in good faith. Is isn't. What‘s more, you all know that. Everyone agrees the act is unlikely to to stop dedicated pedophiles and terrorists. The Republica
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by spanktheuser 7y ago
I was working in college radio and writing for The Onion back when OK Cola came out. I think the money that went into this makes most sense framed as a type of generational panic combined with technological transformation. The early Gen Xer
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by spanktheuser 7y ago
I must be reading the introductory paragraphs incorrectly. Because it seemed like a wealthy landowner was complaining that the virus was preventing them from exploiting the desperately poor to do the actual work of producing a crop (and o
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by spanktheuser 7y ago
Guess we’ll have to do something drastic about our billionaire load if we want to get rid of Trump.
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by spanktheuser 7y ago
Of course not, but these are not relatively modern. They're now part of traditional fabric of society for current conservatives. I think it's more apt to look at how conservatives of the time felt about new and paradigm shifting
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by spanktheuser 7y ago
“Modernism is the problem!” harrumphed the American Conservative, forgetting as usual that X was also once very modern. ◔_◔
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by spanktheuser 7y ago
When can we start imprisoning people for this sort of activity? It’s clear that fines are a non-functioning solution in a capitalist system as they are subject to cost-shifting to future leadership / shareholders / society. Within
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by spanktheuser 7y ago
I'm also aware of a project from a major automotive supplier to attempt the same thing. From my understanding it's unlikely to succeed because manufacturers view suppliers as commodity producers of components they find boring like
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by spanktheuser 8y ago
Given that only a few type designers are even prosperous, let alone wealthy, my sense that this is the necessary price. I assume you like you get paid for your labor. Or is it only type designers that should work for free because you have s
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by spanktheuser 8y ago
I'd like to see some real teeth in their implementation. For example: * Rather than merely forbidding biased uses in their TOS, an internal team should review relevant source code & use cases of anyone implementing MSFT facial rec
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by spanktheuser 8y ago
That’s a rather extraordinary claim. Can you cite evidence to support it?
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by spanktheuser 8y ago
> $75B value and it still faces the most basic question. Makes me feel I don't understand business at all. Business journalism really does a disservice when it pushes the "they have no revenue model" angle for these massiv
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by spanktheuser 8y ago
When I was younger I thought of the course of knowledge as steadily advancing. Because that was my experience as a beginner. Now I think of generations of knowledge, each a circle in a venn diagram, messily overlapping one another. Not an a
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by spanktheuser 9y ago
The benefits are to me as a consumer, of course. Just because companies would prefer to treat data and security as burdensome doesn't mean that I should let them. As an argument to reverse this regulation, this seems unconvincing.
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by spanktheuser 9y ago
It's not more invasive for the subject but it is more invasive for a population. The limitations imposed by the laborious nature of an investigation meant it could only be applied in cases where there was already a high degree of sus

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