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by stvswn 7y ago
This is Chris Hughes trading on the only credibility he has left, which is that he participated in Facebook as an undergad and Harvard (but never quit school to pursue it full-time), amd by virtue of luck and his early contributions gets th
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by stvswn 7y ago
I think your point ignores that there's a mandatory federal pension system w/ a minimum benefit that people who don't save in private pension plans or who may only have temp jobs do contribute to, and will draw from in old ag
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by stvswn 7y ago
Yeah the article goes through the mechanism, but it's not a new story that private equity firms buy companies with debt that the target company ends up owning. It's a little bit interesting to read about how it's done but it
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by stvswn 7y ago
I wore this everyday for 5 years, including in Iraq, and I always felt that it was horrible at actually camoflauging anything. One main reason was that it would get brighter and brighter over time, as the colors tended to fade -- a well wo
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by stvswn 7y ago
I wonder what the rate is at places which skew towards similar entry-level positions; for example, what % of people get fired annually in the fast-casual restaurant industry, or in retail? I don't know. I do think that in these sorts
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by stvswn 7y ago
I don't think I'd argue that emotional pain isn't "real." I have felt negative emotions before, I know that negative emotions actually make me feel bad. I also don't think it's some kind of good thing to
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by stvswn 7y ago
Your argument seems to be that "since some speech can be prohibited, it isn't correct that corporations have absolute free speech rights." That's absolutely true. Neither a corporation nor an individual can engage in li
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by stvswn 8y ago
This is precisely not the reason there's a distinction. The problem is that the $15,000 bribe went to the pockets of someone who was subverting the process (mainly the coaches), robbing the university.
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by stvswn 8y ago
Legality aside, "corruption" implies fraud. Fraud implies personal gain by dishonest means. The allocation of spots at a private university to the children of wealthy donors would only be corruption if it were dishonest, but it&
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by stvswn 8y ago
This is an example of a NYT reporter filling in context so that they don't get pubicly shamed. It seems like a lot of reporters think it's their job to stop readers from reaching the obvious conclusions of their reporting, lest a
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by stvswn 8y ago
The "regular joe in Queens" may not get the SWE job in Amazon, but they most certainly can understand that with 25,000 well paid workers comes lots of other economic activity. Do you think that retail owners, restaurant owners, c
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by stvswn 8y ago
So it's false consciousness, then? You know what's best for them?
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by stvswn 8y ago
Big ticket? Of the abatements, only $500M (the portion related to construction) wasn't available to any business that met the state's requirements. Giveaway? These are tax incentives that are part of the state's tax code -
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by stvswn 8y ago
This is, honestly, quite ridiculous in context. It might be true that, say, someone launching an ICBM might be shielded from the horror of the violence with clinical terms. When you are in urban ground combat it's not as if you say &
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by stvswn 8y ago
It makes a lot of sense -- it's possible that this ends up being a very viable, scaled business with low margins. If the margins are lower than Alphabet enjoys as a whole, and if there isn't an argument for synergies with existin
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by stvswn 8y ago
Do you know for a fact they only had access to those messages? If that's the case, Facebook should be very clear about this in their response, and I'm not sure why they wouldn't be. Copying from their response: "Did pa
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by stvswn 8y ago
I'd agree if the facts were that the 3rd parties only had read/write access for messages that were coming from their platform. The NYT article implies that the 3rd parties had read access for all messages, including messages unre
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by stvswn 8y ago
I agree, and I think your point can be even more generalized -- businesses can collect information about their customers, there's nothing wrong with it. The key difference is that, while a website may know from your ad click that you w
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by stvswn 8y ago
I assure you that there's no real way to spend Google's money on ads and then somehow make it back on rev share w/ publishers (or on the money you didn't collect from the real advertisers who didn't win the auctions
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by stvswn 8y ago
If someone in the EU buys it while they are in the EU, you just imported something to the EU and the EU's laws apply to you, yes. If that person buys it from you in the US and then carries it back to the EU, they have the liability fo
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by stvswn 8y ago
Article 4.1 itself, as it goes on, defines personal data in a way that it relates specifically to that which can identify someone, so it doesn't mean literally anything about the ad placement simply because a person is seeing the ad.
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by stvswn 8y ago
So the publisher, through a platform, issues a bid request to an exchange with a lot of information in it. The parameters of that bid request contain all kinds of context like the site, the browser or device, etc. Critically, it also incl
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by stvswn 8y ago
As a general rule, in most jurisdictions, you cannot do business across international borders in this way, no. As soon as someone from the EU pays Google while they are physically inside of the EU, that business is subject to the EU's
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by stvswn 8y ago
I went to a military academy (and now I interview a lot at Google, too). Doing a lot of soul searching now... But seriously, I agree with the top comment about interviewing at Google, and as far as the military academy "hazing" i
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by stvswn 8y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. Are you literally saying that art must remain geographically located at its origin forever? That seems insane.
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by stvswn 8y ago
While everyone is pointing out the practical, long-term benefits of pure mathematics, I disagree with the premise that there needs to be a practical pursuit associated with mathematics or any other theoretical fields (including the humaniti
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by stvswn 8y ago
One more example of why income is not the right measure: Naples FL is always on these lists, a place I'm very familiar with. There are a few hedge fund types using Florida as a haven from state income tax, they have big houses on the
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by stvswn 8y ago
Many who argue this point are usually the ones who would be doing the distortion when the time comes -- for example, when Yanis Varoufakis argues that there needs to be more income redistribution across Europe or else the pitchforks and tor
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by stvswn 8y ago
The Gilded Age refers to the last several decades of the 19th century, and yet the article compares today's data to 1928. That would be "the Roaring Twenties."
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by stvswn 8y ago
Also, if a group of urban westerners WERE to stop eating such a large quantity of meat en masse, it would have the effect of lowering the price of meat and not the effect of simply reducing the meat eaten in the world. Most of that meat wi

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