throwaway9980

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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Ugh... paywalled. It seems like the frequency has increased for tapping a link and smacking one’s forehead on a paywall. It would be nice if there was a warning flag on the headline.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
It takes one to know one?
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Could you explain this in a bit more detail? Are you suggesting that there are powerful stakeholders who gain greater power outside the company through the success of the company?
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
I think the most underappreciated story of the last year is the humbling of Jack Ma and Alibaba by the CCP. Imagine the same thing happening to Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg or heck even Mark Cuban.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
It’s not all Gen Z. I have heard from several friends who are older Gen X guys that they’ve done cash out refinancing to dump money into the stock market. The reasoning is that they’d be idiots not to borrow at 2.5% and put it into stocks.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Nike has a market capitalization of over $200B. I’d guess if they could do away with human labor for $500M they would just do it. Cut labor costs and eliminate their sweatshop labor practice PR problems in one fell swoosh.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Yes, I agree that we can all do better, be better, strive for good things for all, etc, but this language borders on religious. And it’s everywhere these days. It’s as if not always living up to a set of ideals is the modern original sin th
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
Something like 0.000000001% of the process.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
This sounds like the kind of equality that communism created in the 20th century. The sort where all but a few are miserable and impoverished. Of course, that’s most of human history. Until very recently life was nasty, brutish, and short.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
The bad actors with the most incentive to keep the bugs in place are the same people that put the bugs into the system: lawmakers. They might occasionally close a bug, but they are not interested in preventing them being introduced. They se
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
This anxiety about being able to join the club is the key to keeping the 99% imprisoned. We are all just temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
I recall Bezos making some public statements a couple years ago pushing back on internal objections to working with DoD. Something to the effect of “I understand the concern, but if you think the US doesn’t need a strong military, you’re mi
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
In this context sight has a couple of meanings. The first is like the sighting of land from a ship. The sight of the house is a glimpse of it. The second is simply the condition of the house. I might tell my kids, “I can’t stand the sight o
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
The Internet also enables bad actors to participate anonymously. Obviously plenty of the people screaming on the Internet are “real” people. But how many are paid to manipulate and agitate? What percentage of inflammatory posts on both side
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
"they're clearly profiting" This is the purpose of for profit corporations.
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
I don’t think you’re going to be able to secure the blockchain without those governments and militaries. Maybe you replace the massive banking industry with a new massive crypto financial industry? “The creatures outside looked from pig to
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by throwaway9980 5y ago
I think this is also the explanation for American success in the 20th century. The United States as we know it is, like all empires, built on the spoils of war. The United States was able to capture the best and brightest scientists. These
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
I don’t always want my wants either. The point is that needs usually produce greater motivation. The alcoholic who really wants that drink describes it as a need and works to satisfy it as if it is.
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
Needs are wants with greater urgency. Demand is ensured by the ongoing widespread death associated with the virus. Government should stand ready to pay a large price to ensure supply and provide subsidy for those with less means. Regulation
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
Yes. See the sibling comment about Merkle trees.
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
I think these topics are deeper than that, but the way they are presented and discussed in modern society is shallow. The arguments are caricatures and merely tactics in a game of argumentation. They are not good faith discussions about imp
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
Pretty sure there was some personal interest at play. She was married to Sergey Brin. His mother has/had Parkinson’s and I believe I read that based on genetics he almost certainly will also. 23andMe is a data play original conceived,
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
I’m starting to feel like this perfect or nothing attitude is a massive amplifier of the problems we’re facing. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the d
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
Pardon me for being old and married for decades, but what in the world are you talking about? There’s always somebody for somebody. Unless we’re talking about polygamy or China’s one child policy. Those definitely create a lot of single men
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
Not sure how the article is using the terms because it’s paywalled. Generally “conservative” means maintaining the status quo. You could see how “progressive” might be the opposite if that. It’s interesting when you apply the older “liberal
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
This is such a spot on comment. I think the trouble is that you can’t pick the way that opposition to very bad things finds it’s moment. We have had decades of horrible abuses and creeping police state totalitarianism. It affects everyone
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
YouTube. Honestly it’s pretty scary how perfectly they tailor the echo chamber to fit me.
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
You don’t think it happens with books? My dad has a house full of books. He isn’t a talk radio guy and doesn’t do the Facebook that the kids are into these days. Instead if you look closely at his library you will find plenty of titles by R
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
The grace to be wrong has been increasing replaced by some sort of fight or flight response to being challenged. It’s not wrong to say that there are life and death consequences w/r/t to the important issues. That said, the increa
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by throwaway9980 6y ago
You're right, they aren't the first. That said, when I use accounting software, it's pretty obvious to me that I am going to be sharing my transaction history with the accounting software. When I connect my bank account to Ve

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