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by steego 10y ago
FYI, there was a tongue-in-cheek implication of women as property. Consider the context. I'm making a point that property rights are not an unimpeachable moral imperative. What I was embarrassed about was callously invoking domestic
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by steego 10y ago
> I highly doubt it's a majority of people who distrust Google products because they might get shut down at some point in the future. I used to think that, but I found myself questioning using certain Google products because I quest
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by steego 10y ago
> but they may not represent, despite their loudness, a significant barrier to adoption in Google's experience You might be right, but I'd argue that measuring for this is probably trickier than it seems. Complaints from loud g
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by steego 10y ago
The fact that you're tired of people complaining about Google discontinuing products tells me that Google may have a problem convincing people to adopt new services. If the majority of people don't believe Google is really in
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by steego 10y ago
You shouldn't buy into the hype, especially from that hyperbolic story with silly blurbs like "The DAO is a paradigm shift in the very idea of economic organization." However, I don't think we should be flippantly dismis
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by steego 10y ago
> If tomorrow, Safeway stopped charging money for groceries and instead had extremely intrusive ads all throughout its stores, their product would still be groceries. From an accounting perspective, their products would be ads. The groc
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by steego 10y ago
> A bloodshed, at least as much as today. Bloodshed has been steadily going down for the past hundred years. Besides, Facebook's precognitive security system will anticipate and humanely neutralize dissent before blood is shed. ;)
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by steego 10y ago
The author isn't struggling to fathom new job types, he's merely working under the assumption that there's a point where machines will literally do every job better. He's also arguing that automation will outpace the ma
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by steego 10y ago
I've argued in the past that making prostitution illegal fuels human trafficking because it finances criminal enterprises by incentivizing the exploitation and enslavement women who have little protection from the law. Personally speak
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by steego 10y ago
> I would argue that internal narratives like this are inherently anti-statistical. They're not. Those narratives are based on what they experienced. In this case, what they experienced are stories in the form of movies, TV, vide
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by steego 10y ago
Clearly tablet sales performed better than critics expected, but they never matched the phone because owning a phone significantly diminishes the value proposition of a tablet. Sales may get better as manufacturers figure out new ways to a
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by steego 10y ago
You didn't miss anything, I misspoke. I didn't mean to imply he held that that specific belief.
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by steego 10y ago
I'm not necessarily convinced statistics is the ultimate language of the brain. Like you, I imagine there are a number of legacy systems in the brain that coordinate in interesting ad-hoc ways. What do you think I should read?
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by steego 10y ago
> For example, the time that the prophecy of a teenage girl convinced a tribe of people in present-day South Africa to kill 300,000 - 400,000 of their own cattle, leading to the starvation and death of 20,000 - 40,000 people. How does a
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by steego 10y ago
I really don't think people will be the irrational holdouts they claim to be. People say a lot of silly things they don't actually mean. While many of us enjoy the feeling behind the wheel now and then, it's actually a nuis
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by steego 10y ago
You don't have to go back that far. In 2007-2008, I remember polling friends and coworkers about smart phones. Just as you suggest, most said they were fine without it and didn't want to carry around a computer. I'd just re
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by steego 10y ago
I'm sorry, but that's a lousy answer. It's lousy because you don't trust him or other people to give your perspective a fair chance. When you tell me, "I'm happy we can reflect publically" and then clam u
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by steego 10y ago
I'm glad I could make your day incrementally better. Every once in a while I need a reminder that my loose tongue can make people feel marginalized. What you do is thankless and I know people resent you because they feel like you&#x27
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by steego 10y ago
Let's not fool ourselves. It wasn't long ago that matters of love were treated as matters of property. While it may not happen in our respective countries today, there are many countries that assemetrically protect a husband'
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by steego 10y ago
I deserved that. I have a great capacity to become an asshole when I'm being glib. I would like to add that there's nothing impressive with how well casual prejudice becomes internalized because that is literally the easiest and l
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by steego 10y ago
I respectfully agree. Property rights do have a moral component as well as a pragmatic component. > The problem is that we've been manipulated to believe privacy has no real moral claim. I agree. We've also been manipulated t
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by steego 10y ago
> I still maintain that there is never a reason to steal from your fellow man. * Stealing something back * Stealing Hitler's secret plans * Stealing a portion of everybody's property/income, but providing vital pro
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by steego 11y ago
BTW, I'm actually a very social person. I've literally spent years in coffee shops socializing in the days before cell phones, the World Wide Web and Facebook. In the mid 2000's, I discovered Meetup and spent 4-5 nights a w
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by steego 11y ago
Facebook is beholden to its shareholders first and foremost, then it's customers (advertisers, not you). Lastly, they want to make the inventory happy (that's you), so they can dish up ads. Now, if Facebook manages to release a s
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by steego 11y ago
I'm really ashamed to admit it, but I am addicted to Facebook. As much as I despise the lack of depth in the average content, I feel confident that Facebook has stumbled on something in our animal behavior that draws us closer to it.
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by steego 11y ago
Visited the page and ran this in the console: $("code.locked").after($("<code class=\"locked\">I circumvent you!</code>")).remove() Clearly this doesn't prevent scripts from chang
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by steego 11y ago
> All this will accomplish is making sure that tax preparation is back where it was two decades ago Nonsense. The tax preparation software did fine in the 80's and 90's when doing your taxes on your computer was a niche thing.
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by steego 11y ago
You're right, I meant to post this: https://aneconomicsense.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/minimum-... Also, I don't mean to imply that these events correlate. I was simply saying we have data that shows
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by steego 11y ago
Here you go: http://bloomberg.github.io/bucklescript/js-demo/
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by steego 11y ago
FYI, raising the minimum wage is not an unprecedented event. We have data that shows how it correlates with unemployment: https://aneconomicsense.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/minimum-...

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