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Be careful what you wish for. If social media platforms are considered common carriers they will have a 'duty to serve." They will need to provide their service to anyone not judged by a court to be breaking the law. That includes
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I don't think there is a philosophical agreement on what constitutes "individualism", so I won't try to speak to that. However, for the purpose of this discussion, we are talking about a society's relative tolerance
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From the link you provided and countries you mentioned, the year when same-sex marriage was legalized: France: 2013 New Zealand: 2013 United States: 2015 Germany: 2017 Other European nations began legalization as early as 2001. Individual s
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> Freedom and individualism (however shallow) is emphasized. It's really not though. By Western standards, America is a very conformist country. You can see this in how schoolchildren are required to pledge allegiance to the flag, t
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> which search engine do you trust to surface the most objectively ranked results? What exactly do you mean by "objective"? This is not cheap deflection. The core competence of a search engine is how they rank results. I suspec
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> Changing your own beliefs is quite easy. At any moment you can simply choose to believe something else. Can you though? Can you easily change your current belief that it is easy to change your belief? Once you changed that could you ea
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This article is a very shallow take on an old question. I mean, clearly, yes, authority (and marketing) influence people's beliefs. Beliefs are hard to change in others and in yourself. But the core question of epistemology is very wel
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I've been based in Japan for past 30 years, and this is a huge area of research and active product development. On my podcast, I've talked with many of the CEOs making social robots and companion robots here, and there is a real b
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Thank you for posting that. I've lived in Japan for 30 years, and I've never seen the topic so clearly explained. Edit: BTW, in case you were wondering about the special zoning classification, "bathhouses with private rooms&
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Another way of thinking about it: I moved out of engineering year ago, but this is a great list of the skills senior staff need beyond whatever their core competency is.
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There is no question that Poe is one of the most influential writers in American history. It's an impossible question to answer, and the fun of these discussions is in establishing the criteria for the comparison. This article doesn&
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It's fascinating to watch this technology develop, but as a driver I usually feel more anxious using "autopilot" that not using it. With one huge exception: self parallel-parking. I don't understand why this innovation
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> So what part of falling in love with people in the lab, people in the lab falling in love with you, and that affecting concentration and productivity, is so evil as to get someone fired? Fundamentally, he is saying that since he has tr
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There is some truth in that, but I think HN is different, at least in how I use it. The overall quality of comments on HN is pretty high. I use the the comments to vet the article. If there are a number of thoughtful comments discussing wha
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This is really comparing apples to apple carts. The "research" narrowly defines Bitcoin energy consumption to include mining and node operation, but broadly defines banking industry energy usage to include even things like branch
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> so where does one draw the line between theft and just doing what the code allows? This is the heart of the problem with smart contracts. The theory is that the code is the law. There is no theft. There is no need to trust, authority,
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I've worked with (but not in) CorpDev in two large enterprises, and I've had a startup acquired via CorpDev. Paul is overstating his case to the point of it becoming bad advice. Just like there are good VCs and bad VCs, there are
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> I am open about being in recovery for alcoholism on FB but they still show me ads for hard liquor. Or perhaps you see the ads because you are open about your recovery. If the relapse rate is high, you will be blanketed with such ads.
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Salesforce is this generation's Lotus Notes. It's incredibly powerful software that when implemented well, can streamline processes, provide easy access to information, and make teams really efficient. However, it rarely seems to
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People usually view psychological safety from the manager- report lens, but that's actually the easy part. Some training and good intentions on both sides will usually get you most of the way there. Often the biggest challenge is team
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I've lived in Japan for over 30-years, read quite a bit about the events and internal debates that lead up to the decision to surrender, and been a part of more conversations on the subject than I can remember. The facts in the article
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> The incident occurred hours after a judge issued a temporary order barring the Minnesota State Patrol from using physical force or chemical agents against journalists They are kind of burying the lede here. How the hell did we reach a
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> both depend on new money coming in to inflate value This is true of all investable assets that don't produce cash flow. It's true for art, gold, comic books, baseball cards, wine, classic cars, everything.
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> I think this applies to Bitcoin because it’s payouts are solely based on speculation and new cash coming in. Bitcoin does not pay out anything. There is no cash flow. You can only sell it. It's true that price increases depend on
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I know it's a losing battle, but I can't help but tilt at this particular pedantic windmill. Not all financial scams are Ponzi schemes. Most are not. Ponzi schemes involve shady bookkeeping by the operator that conceals the source
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I agree. I don't think Amazon can continue this kind of legal equivocation much longer. The claim to be "a neutral market" when questions of consumer protections arise and "just one web store among many" when questi
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> Go to a store, this is what Walmart, Albertsons/Safeway, Costco, etc have been doing for longer than any of the FAANGs have existed. This one is substantively different. Amazon claims it is a market and not a store, and is there
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These are not so much "outrageous flaws" but conscious and reasonable choices. For example, not counting things like SNAP as income makes sense because a government policy targeted at reducing inequality is not the same as that in
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I used to really enjoy PG's articles, but these days he seems to be trying to publicly talk himself into something he already believes. His conclusions jumped out at me: > You would think, after having been on the side of labor in i
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> Whatever your stance on cryptocurrencies are, what is of little dispute is the business opportunities they have created I strongly dispute that claim. After a decade of effort, tens of billions of dollars invested, and thousands of cry

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