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by stvswn 10y ago
And to carry forward your good point -- black people are committing more murders, but also being killed by murderers more often, as well as growing up in neighborhoods where murders happen and losing family members -- etc. Communities with
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I think it's reasonable to remember that Blacks (and especially young Black men) commit proportionally more violent crimes; it is also useful to remember that black people in general are much more likely to be the victims of crime. Th
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I'm certain it's bad, regardless of the outcome.
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Why is it obviously dysfunctional or consumer-harming? Can you imagine Apple, Google, Facebook existing without the model? Because each needed large capital investments before turning a profit. Equity investment was the only obvious soluti
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This seems right to me. A cynical view of why he wouldn't want to go public would be that neither growth rate nor profitability paints a rosy picture, and filing for IPO would force disclosure -- the hope is to accelerate growth usin
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by stvswn 10y ago
Have you observed anyone interact with Alexa? I have, and it seems like people really love it. So, is there a big difference between Alexa and Google Home that you find dealbreaking, or do you challenge the notion that Alexa has been succ
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by stvswn 10y ago
Who is arguing that listeners be "forced" to hear hate speech? The question at hand is: do we want to be permitted to hear hate speech? Twitter and Facebook (and the law in some jurisdictions) are saying: "no, you may not
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by stvswn 10y ago
No, the Google Display Network doesn't let advertisers target search queries of users. If you want to access the search intent of users, you have to target the queries themselves with ads on the Google Search Network. The Google Displ
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A wheelbarrow can be used for 100 years or more, because it's a simple mechanism. Why the focus on reliability? With an outside view of the past couple of centuries -- an iPod Nano is basically magic. My point being, I think we'r
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It's competition for the Google Display Network, for which there was already intense competition from many players
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Not only actively opposed to FOIA requests -- unresponsive to subpoenas, including the Judicial Watch lawsuit's subpoena which requested all emails related to Benghazi and Libya. Judicial Watch didn't get her emails about Libya wi
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You're acting like the NSA told her she couldn't have any smartphone, which isn't the story. The story is that the NSA said she couldn't have that smartphone. Second, it seems to be your argument that she didn'
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When you say "it's time to incentivize," where would the incentive come from? VCs should change? Fine, be the VC who only invests in ideas that have social impact. There are tons of VCs like that. They don't get a lot
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by stvswn 10y ago
Yes, this! Too many entrepreneurs are building things people like to use, instead of things people need . What if there was a committee of experts -- leaders in the field -- who decided what startups got investment? They could truly weigh
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This is absolutely true, but it's not only about being risk averse in hiring -- it's about outsourcing your selection process to the universities. If you had to find 100 young people to be the next class of analysts at your fancy
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Are you arguing that "rich kids tend to have more resources" is justification for cheating, or is it the case that you reflexively comment on articles that don't explicitly criticize the "1%" with a non-sequitur abo
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by stvswn 10y ago
Can you try again and post a screenshot of your results?
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by stvswn 11y ago
I think it's obvious we have to abolish the profit motive. I mean, what has it done for us lately?
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by stvswn 11y ago
You don't have any responsibility for what you build? Maybe it's on you, too. (As a PM, I HATE when engineers are full of confirmations and feedback loops but cop the 'not my fault, I just build exactly what you tell me&#x27
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by stvswn 11y ago
"Silicon Valley" is not centrally planned, and thus cannot effectively stop unimportant projects. As a result we live in this terrible dystopia where some ruthless people make products that other people might want to buy, with no
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by stvswn 11y ago
There are several examples in history of succumbing to hte logic "we need a single-party state in order to finally listen to scientists about the best way to run society!" It doesn't end well. I suppose if the scientists wer
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by stvswn 11y ago
"I tried to read Shakespeare, but the storylines were so cliched... like every romantic comedy..." "I don't like the Beatles, I've heard that pop style a million times before"
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by stvswn 11y ago
I think it hinges on whether the private prison industry is lobbying for more funding per prisoner or tougher laws that result in more prisoners (or longer sentences). If they argue for safer prisons, better rehabilitation programs, more s
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by stvswn 11y ago
There's not room in my two-bedroom house in Silicon Valley for bulk versions of normal staples. I do not have a basement or attic. I have two closets; one has my clothes in it, the other is full of my daughter's baby stuff. Toi
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Do you think it should be?
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Why are payday loans a real killer? Is it because you think short-term, high-interest loans to people with poor credit is bad for the people with poor credit, or are you OK with it in principle but think they should be more upfront about s
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This analysis ignores inventory costs. Those who can afford to buy in bulk accrue a cost to holding inventory in their dwelling. This can manifest in two ways: 1) the storage space physically necessary to hold the TP and 2) the capital tie
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First, you'd be creating a penalty for hiring people who are likely to have children. As a father of young and yet unborn children, I wouldn't appreciate it.
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What if it's the case that preferences are different among men and women? Why do we assume that the women surveyed would prefer to have the higher paying but more demanding career paths? My wife is very smart and capable of making a
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I don't think this proposal qualifies as "too big to manage." But I disagree with your examples. Freeing the slaves was necessary and proper, but far from immune to the original argument. We screwed it up, big time (I don&#

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