throwaway-571

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by throwaway-571 7y ago
« I think when this all comes to an end, China will be one of the countries that dealt with the virus the best. Countries without authoritarian governments likely don't have the means to effectively quarantine major cities and shut dow
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by throwaway-571 7y ago
The first duty of public companies is to the shareholders. Users fuzzy feelings figure very little in the incentive structure. Sideloading is probably too damaging to the short term profits of the company to be on the table. Or it might not
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by throwaway-571 7y ago
Positive Tinfoil hat on: The police would have used / were starting to use presence of the app as evidence that users were participant in the protest and arrested them. Or the police would have been able compromise the users, the app o
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by throwaway-571 7y ago
The Trump / Johnson play.
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by throwaway-571 7y ago
When everybody stink, you loose your freedom as anybody can pressure you. It’s not because everybody stink that you know they/their stink or can exploit it.
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by throwaway-571 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nightmare-of-human-organ-ha... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camp
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by throwaway-571 7y ago
I thought the Uber goal was also to drive the competition out of business via any means necessary and then raise price.
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by throwaway-571 7y ago
Teranos could have been worth it if it hadn’t been a scam. If you can lower the cost of insulin that would be boon to humanity, but good luck bootstrapping that. Better glucose monitor. Lots of medical thing are worth it from an ethical poi
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by throwaway-571 7y ago
Well maybe not everything should be funded, and maybe we could put moral above money? It’s not because doing immoral things is legal that it should be done, or that it will stay legal forever. Also, there are ethical things that are illega
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by throwaway-571 7y ago
Advertising is people too. It’s people all the way down. We decided child labor was morally unacceptable, so why not advertising?