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by tchalla 5y ago
I know you probably didn’t mean it but I still want to state it. Your personal simplification of life or the amount you personally care or not doesn’t define monopolistic behavior. The entire population may not care about something but it c
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by tchalla 5y ago
I am more sure if I’m the only one here but why should anything be enabled automatically? The crux of the issue here is “Informed Consent”.
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You're essentially describing the Cantillon Effect :-)
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A slightly different take from me would be to have multiple metrics that kind of cross each other out making the tradeoffs explicit instead of implicit. It's fine to temporarily optimise towards anyone but at least we know which trade
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by tchalla 5y ago
> The company's defence is that if people feel progress towards cutting emissions is too slow, they should lobby governments - not Shell - to change policies and introduce financial incentives. Do you agree with Shell's defence
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by tchalla 5y ago
From the medium article > It should have been unnecessary that we expose these evidence and challenge the result of the investigation, if the committee can drive a responsible, transparent and thorough investigation An interesting questi
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What science says about lifting mask mandates(nature.com)
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Are you telling us that ALL pandemic viruses are the same and there would be no differences between them? What do you mean by “people/media simply ignoring the past”?
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by tchalla 5y ago
I am sorry but this is a slightly frustrating conversation because we are losing the forests for the trees. In both cases, an aircraft was grounded based on a suspicion. In one case, the official reason was "technical reasons", i
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Plane was not forced to land, but landed due to technical malfunction Belarus also claims that the plane was landed due to a bomb threat. France and Spain apologised to Morales/Bolivia after that incident.
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by tchalla 5y ago
Here’s a Benz Victoria from 1894 in Germany with a legal status https://youtu.be/bQ4vB55z0RE
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by tchalla 5y ago
> I have to tell myself every day not to go do the POC What is a "POC"? Side Rant : It's really helpful if an acronym is at least expanded in the first use. I don't find the acronym in the article or the parent commen
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> If you have been creative with algorithms then you will have the fundamental ones in your head. You can be creative with algorithms without having the "fundamental" ones in your head because you know where to look them up. Th
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> I think PG is trying to justify some kind of assholish behaviour in his past by reframing it as a virtue. I wonder how much Bill Gates triggered this write up.
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by tchalla 5y ago
> I check out /r/chodi (a sub full of memes and random talk) That sub seems to be regularly featured on r/AgainstHateSubReddits Misogyny https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments&#x2
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The Myth of A-Players(talentism.com)
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> I can’t see why it would be devastating in practice. Why can’t the servers that deduce every little thing about the users be also based in EU? It's devastating to their "cost of doing business" not "conduct of busin
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by tchalla 5y ago
Another Source - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-11/facebook-... > Johannes Caspar, who heads Hamburg’s privacy authority, issued a three-month emergency ban, prohibiting Facebook from cont
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Spotify urged to rule out 'invasive' voice recognition tech(reuters.com)
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Mother Theresa ran a hospice, not a hospital.
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Geoff Crowthe – An early author for Lonely Planet is Dead(nytimes.com)
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Frank Abnagale's Comments on the movie and book (2002) [0]. I don't know if his story is true or not. But regardless of his story, his talk at Google is one of the best ones I've heard [1]. > I was interviewed by the co-wr
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Efficiency Is the Enemy(fs.blog)
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The core issue here is Apple favours their own product over competitors as they control their store. In this case, the product happens to be Music [0]. > The Commission is concerned that users of Apple devices pay significantly higher p
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EU charges Apple with breach of competition law(dw.com)
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In your opinion, what “benefits” should someone have when working 2h a month?
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What Is the Price of Science?(mbio.asm.org)
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by tchalla 6y ago
> I think with all the concerns surrounding it it's better to just agree to cancel the contracts and move to better vaccines. That's exactly what EU is doing. > Former German defense minister von der Leyen said the EU would
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Let's assume the "innocent people get killed" argument abolishes death penalty today. What are the second-order effects of that argument which can be detrimental to the society that you can think of?
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by tchalla 6y ago
> This circus of incompetence and dishonesty is the real issue with the death penalty. First order thinking. There's a time to argue with first principles and there's a time to make arguments via "back door hacks" in

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