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by trentnix 5y ago
And to be completely consistent with their censorship and account termination on Youtube, their app store, and ads, their justification for banning "misleading content" will be opaque and frustrating. And if they screw up, you&#x2
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But my employer does everything. There is no field that my employer is not involved in, somehow. You can guess who they are, probably, or just read my profile. And they say "You cannot do anything that competes with anything we do&quo
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I am not really harmed by the drug trade. I would be harmed by robberies on the street or in the home. The latter comes packaged with the former.
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That's maddening for sure, but not as maddening as the argument that it's okay to censor something that is wrong or fake news or misinformation . History is littered with wrong takes that turned out to be correct, fake new
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Who said anything about forcing them to run any ads? While the policies that prevent even insiders from finding out why some ad or another was banned to avoid special treatment , they also have the side-effect of being opaque to conceal ar
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Who watches the Watchmen?
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> There’s no bad intent here — nobody targets me personally, who even cares about me. It’s a constant error in the processes that came, probably, from a good place — but it’s no better for me. You got crushed all the same. The fact tha
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You can see it at the state level. Kids in Texas and Florida went to school in the fall of 2020. Kids in New York and California did not. And there are many other contrasts regarding policies on public events, mask requirements, restaurant
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The infection rates among adults should mirror the infections rates among children - Covid doesn't discriminate, right? But if there isn't any clear delineation between the infection rates of areas where schools shut down and thos
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you keep ignoring all the responses that point out that the primary reason for things like school shutdowns was to protect others from child carriers On the contrary, I specifically said: "We're already seeing very little differ
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Of course rich people pay for tutors. Of course some rich people have stupid expectations. But the whole setup reads like it's the start of a Chuck Palahniuk novel and that makes me certain the author is full of s**.
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It's not still wrong , because it was never wrong in the first place. The risk to children is exceptionally low as he pointed out, imprecisely as it was. If you delineate between generally healthy children and those with known co-morb
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He didn't say they were "immune". He said they were "almost immune", which is certainly unscientific but is another way to say they are at very low risk. Trump was often reckless with his words, but you're bein
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I only got two paragraphs in before my THIS IS FICTION alarm bells were too loud to ignore.
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And imagine how much better each of those things would be if they were held up to additional scrutiny!
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You are describing a "free for all" market, not a "free market". Protection for patents and trademarks is absolutely compatible with a "free market" economy. But that doesn't mean that all patents and trad
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I fixed our garage refrigerator just a few weeks ago thanks to YouTube. The freezer side was cooling fine, but the refrigerator side was not cooling at all. When I opened the refrigerator door, I could feel cold air venting into the refrige
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> Lawyers Don't, Doctors Don't. And both deliver abysmal cost-benefit and have obfuscated competence to the point that it is nearly impossible to discern good ones from bad ones, as long as the bad ones meet the minimum stand
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If you want the business to set effective priorities, you've got to provide estimates. You can't figure out cost-benefit without some idea of cost.
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I've consulted or been employed at both big companies and small companies over the last 20 years. And after those experiences, I'll just offer the anecdote that I hope I never work at a big company ever again.
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Well yes, because all political reporting is basically TMZ for boring, ugly people. It molds politics into some fantasy world of rap battles and gang fights rather than a productive discussion about making good policy. And if your first imp
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In 2009, I experienced burnout. I had just turned 30 and was doing management consulting for software teams. I thought it was the coolest job in the world at first - people paid to fly me to their dev standup to tell them how to build softw
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> Our teachers are woefully underpaid, in general, which means we’re not necessarily getting the students access to the best learning Throw as much money at the problem you want. But until the philosophy of education changes, you won&#x2
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> checked out by someone qualified to check their skills Well sure, we'd all like that. But those of us who have experience dealing with government regulatory bodies (even justifiable ones like building inspectors, fire inspecto
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The commission requires the legislature to act. It doesn't prevent the legislature from acting irresponsibly. But at least that irresponsible act will have some names on it that voters might recognize.
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Parents whose choices and behaviors have resulted in having raised a troubled teen make really poor choices in how they deal with their troubled teen. That’s not surprising.
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Because that’s where the money is, someone once said.
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7-minute-abs! </something-about-Mary>
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Art pieces don't get finished. The artist just eventually stops and moves on to the next assignment, next commission, next piece, etc. > Imagine the carpenters were like programmers. You bought a chair. There are volumes and volumes
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> "I don't envy the challenge that human resources faces right now," says Anthony Klotz, an associate professor of management at Texas A&M University. Maybe part of the problem is sitting right there in plain sight. Lo

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