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by stvswn 5y ago
That experience isn't true in my experience. I was in college pre-Uber in an area unserved by public transportation and it was common knowledge that you cannot schedule a cab and expect them to actually come, and when they did you co
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by stvswn 5y ago
The author is mixing political arguments related to public transit funding, unionization and classification of workers with an analysis of Uber's financials and strategy, and I think it weakens the argument. Travis understood that Uber
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by stvswn 6y ago
As a PM at a large tech company, I often describe the value of my role as this: we pay engineers a lot of money for their specialized skills. It is great if they can meet with customers, but that can't be 50% of their time, or even 2
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by stvswn 6y ago
I don't really agree with you characterization of where our taxes go -- federally, 64% of the government budget is related to mandatory spending, almost all of which is social security, medicare, and medicaid. 15% of the budget goes to
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by stvswn 6y ago
I find it interesting that you frame income inequality as "wealth polarisation." Are you implying a bimodal distribution of some sort? My personal theory of "inequality" is that it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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by stvswn 6y ago
It says "some" lawyers expressed concern, according to interviews with 15 of them. Nothing about that sentence alleges that all 15 they spoke with expressed concern. Some could be 2 or 3 and all 15 were aware of the concern.
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by stvswn 6y ago
What burden of proof are you talking about? You're saying that a burden of proof needs to be met before what, exactly? I am not saying they have met a burden of proof, I'm saying that we don't censor news articles (even sens
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by stvswn 6y ago
The meta-story about how Giuliani got the emails aside, what portion of the actual story (related to Hunter's dealings) do you consider disinformation? What do you mean by disenfranchise, while we're at it? Even if we were to sti
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by stvswn 6y ago
This is often the nature of stories in the public interest. No one ever proved a single portion of Christine DeBlasey Ford's accusations against Brett Kavanaugh but the fact that she was making the accusations were newsworthy enough.
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by stvswn 6y ago
The provenance of the documents is fishy. They could have easily been hacked. But, what portions of the actual story are false? The Biden campaign's refutation was not to say that the emails were doctored. They only said that they h
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by stvswn 6y ago
I thought of this. The serial number of the laptop is included in the grand jury summons docs released by the New York Post. The serial number can be used to lookup the model. It was a mid-2017 macbook pro, the T2 chip started shipping i
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by stvswn 7y ago
Honestly, I don't think that there's a general expectation in the digital or brick-and-mortar world that when you buy something from a merchant the information related to that transaction is "your data" and they cannot u
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by stvswn 7y ago
Your point about childcare being difficult is absolutely correct, but I don't know if you're correct that a "LOT" of women (I assume you mean counterintuitively more than the commentor implied) would not want to stay hom
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by stvswn 7y ago
I agree generally (I believe you may be discounting that many women do want careers and the joys of motherhood and it's hard). I disagree with some commenters that this is an overly gendered idea: while it's true that there a
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by stvswn 7y ago
But you concede that some jobs would be automated if the labor prices were higher, and yet you think that's fine? Do you acknowledge a trade-off whereby fewer workers can get higher wages OR more workers can get some wages and pre
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by stvswn 7y ago
You are asserting that there is broad academic agreement that Piketty's major points still stand, but that is far from true -- in fact they never stood under serious scrutiny at all. Outside of simply describing tautalogies, his major
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by stvswn 7y ago
But, you like accessing content for free, correct? That content doesn't exist and then ads are layered on, the context exists BECAUSE of ads. Like, no one would produce the content without the plan to make their money back via ads. T
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by stvswn 7y ago
what's hard about that? When you are approaching your limit they give you a warning and link to this: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6374270?hl=en
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by stvswn 7y ago
Well, yeah, there's spam detection and similar features that are enabled by not having client-side encryption. If all of the features that are enabled by cloud-based email aren't worth it to you, fine, but most people like them a
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by stvswn 7y ago
It's amazing to me how much Europeans do not identify with management, as if management is a class separate from them and not just people who were like them before getting promoted. Do Europeans see themselves as confined in their car
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by stvswn 7y ago
You are attributing the profitability of software companies to what you think is the "underpaying" of its workers? And you think that unionization will lead to higher wages? I'm just trying to understand the argument. If th
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by stvswn 7y ago
It also has the issue of calculating negative externalities to add to the "cost" of fossil fuels without attempting to understand the positive externalities. The reasoning is "we will eventually have to pay for climate change
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by stvswn 7y ago
In the U.S. we spend the following on tax subsidies each year: 1. Renewable energy: $7.3 billion 2. Energy efficiency: $4.8 billion 3. Fossil fuels: $3.2 billion 4. Nuclear energy: $1.1 billion The subsidy number you're referring to is
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by stvswn 7y ago
This article calculates "fossil fuel subsidies" using an expansive definition that includes negative externalities and arrives at $649 billion. People might assume that "subsidies" means things like tax breaks for indust
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by stvswn 7y ago
The industry group that represents the publishers here is not talking about the sell-side ad tech, they're perfectly happy showing ads to their users. They have lots of choices for sell-side platforms anyway, it's a very robust a
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by stvswn 7y ago
I agree to the extent that many seem to acknowledge the transfer and remittance use case but seem to think that the market is already filled by niche players -- the fact that FB doesn't have to contend with network effects because ever
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by stvswn 7y ago
So you're saying you understand the value proposition and that it's been successful elsewhere, but you don't understand why Facebook would want to do it, or why it might make sense for the company who already has messaging ap
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by stvswn 7y ago
and to be explicit, the "we" is the FTC and the antitrust division of the DOJ.
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by stvswn 7y ago
It's not really, because the two (telecom and big tech) are in a fight for dominance and focusing on one will benefit the other. It's natural to wonder about the influence of telecom when the Attorney General, under whom the DOJ&
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by stvswn 7y ago
This is insane. No, you don't have to use it. You can reset cookies and device identifiers whenever you want if you don't want "phantom profiles."

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