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by theseatoms 8y ago
As if not letting people out is better than letting them out at a haircut. Need to maintain the illusion of safety I suppose.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
tldr; Eternal September: Restaurant Edition
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by theseatoms 8y ago
tldr; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
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by theseatoms 8y ago
> I expect more of politicians. You might want to update this prior.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
Cynical advice can be both.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
It's true that local police have become much more militarized over the past decade or two. Trickle-down military-industrial complex, so to speak. Radley Balko is a writer who's covered the issue thoroughly: https://www.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
To this point, I've looked for (and failed to find) year-over-year statistics for murders by police. I agree with the parent that technology is revealing existing problems in greater light. Whether or not the problem itself is getting
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by theseatoms 8y ago
All of the above, because it exposes vulnerability to bad faith.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
There's a funny irony in suggesting that one heard a dog whistle.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
Interesting. Are there IT consulting firms that specialize in this field of study?
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by theseatoms 8y ago
Can anyone quantify technical debt? Best case is something resembling a medical diagnosis.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
Exactly. Price has become divorced from end user value basically anywhere you look in the medical field.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
Presumably there's some way to take out bolivar-denominated loans?
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by theseatoms 8y ago
Someone should make a GDPR notice blocker. Edit, Haha, sibling comment links to it. Absurdity.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
I used to think the name "Infowars" was melodramatic, but I guess not.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
Publisher vs Platform. They're still trying to have it both ways.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
Last time I tried Brave, I was dissuaded from adopting it due to poor support for extensions. Hopefully that part's improving.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
What an odd indictment of republic democracies.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
The common theme here is "concentrated benefits and diffuse costs".
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by theseatoms 8y ago
Use a faraday bag.
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by theseatoms 8y ago
A deflationary currency regime would raises the bar for both investment and consumption. Investors would be choosier about speculative opportunities because the yield on the risk-free asset would be much, much higher. Consumers would still
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Part of the problem is how often they change the privacy model, from what I gather. So the API and/or any integrations would have to support those recurring changes. Not a frequent user of FB, though I still have a profile.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
> Note that this doesn't mean we like any particular politician. We despise many politicians. But the idea of government as a force for good still remains in Europe as far as I can see (UK). Coincidentally, this is how most American
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Someone who had no skin in the game.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Yes. Storing financial records themselves on the blockchain would be pure insanity. But I’m imagining a distributed reputation rating scheme. There’d have to be some PageRank-analogous feature (I think that’s how PageRank works), so that a
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by theseatoms 9y ago
You're right about the way these things currently work. But you'll still be able to volunteer information about yourself in pursuit of a loan. Exactly who will validate that information is another question. (Dare I suggest a distr
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by theseatoms 9y ago
> but it's ok if a corporation or family can acquire a Delaware-sized, Delaware-shaped parcel of land and enforce its decrees at gunpoint within those borders? Since "acquire" implies voluntary vacation of the premises by
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by theseatoms 9y ago
In what sense? ISPs are government-granted monopolies in the first place. More on the issue: https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-ju...
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by theseatoms 9y ago
> Its monopolistic aims are actually hobbled by the diverse ownership of the oil fields of its members. So, "competition"? Cartels in general are unstable because of these internal competitive forces. I get that corporations wi
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by theseatoms 9y ago
If you're engaged in a voluntary business relationship with a corporation, they're going to have their own terms, reasonable or not. And yes, the more asymmetric the relationship, the less reasonable the terms. Fortunately, workin

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