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by ucaetano 9y ago
Oh, sure, I'm not saying he is a saint or anything. But Gate's actions are very, very different than "I'm donating to a company I own and calling it an 'initiative'" Zuckerberg. That's a whole new lev
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by ucaetano 9y ago
The issue isn't that the LLC doesn't give away money. The issue is that it is a LLC.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Yep, and not his first rodeo either. Remember the "Internet.org", a for-profit initiative that is part of Facebook? Putting ".org" in something for-profit that tries to achieve monopoly is as dishonest as it gets...
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> Doing it manually as you suggest is likely hopeless and more politically fraught. Yes, but, sadly, necessary.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
His and his wife's is a proper foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat... The money is out of their hands, and can't be distributed back to them.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> The research and development is already paid for. That doesn't even make any sense. They aren't paid for, they are investments with an expectation of future profits. Paid for with shareholder's money.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> You do realize that Zuck has pledged away 99% of his wealth? He hasn't. He has pledged to donate 99% of his wealth to a private, for-profit organization that he owns. I also pledge to donate 99% of my wealth to my bank account.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> Curious if this will result in a dump of more content or something else. Given how many times he has promised leaks and not delivered, most likely it won't.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> If you think those are the only solutions you're not thinking hard enough. Yeah, great contribution right there! If we haven't cured cancer is because we aren't thinking hard enough!
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Blacks and females are less represented in Google's (and most of tech) workforce, I don't recall seeing specific numbers for black females, but it is trivial to conclude that.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Try searching Google Images for "brazilian". Her point is quite valid, and also well recognized in at least some part of the tech industry: when you "blindly" optimize for a certain audience, you risk picking up the bias
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> Yes, but if you could get it for free that would be even better. It's a fantastic business model to charge premium for something that cost almost nothing. Cost almost nothing? How much do you think was invested in research and dev
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> The machines used to be the thing of value, but now it's the software. Not exactly. The machines were never the value per se, the work they could do was the value. If you can buy the work without buying the machine, it is signific
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Edited, made it clear I was talking about companies. But for most consumers, the same applies. Most people don't want to own records, or even own music. They want to listen to music. They don't want to own cars, they want to get t
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Except that no companies actually wanted the software in the first place, they wanted the service. [Edited: made it clear I was talking about companies]
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Google already does it with Project Fi + Pixel. https://www.androidcentral.com/using-project-fi-pixel-2s-esi...
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Does it fix Facebook's removal of exif/metadata from images?
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> This is the very sector that has only achieved its current status by automating away the menial tasks that you claim will overwhelm them. If humans can figure out how to make two rockets land autonomously and concurrently, I don't
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Ohm that's if you're starting a business, which will now carry a much higher cost. And if you have a business running, bad news, costs will increase significantly.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
And how will your costs increase when you have to provide data to dozens, hundreds, or thousands of letters like the one the OP posted, each one asking for different things? Managing the data is easy, managing the compliance and reporting w
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> By guiding their business to be compliant and privacy-conscious. That doesn't solve any issues. The cost isn't knowing how to be compliant, but all the operations required for compliance. Even if they have a business model th
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> For a little while, until there's more general support from third parties to help small businesses address this. By subsidizing them? By exempting them? Both are terrible ideas.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Yep, it will cost money, but the big companies will have compliance automated, and will continue business as usual. Now about the small companies, the ones that can will shut down European operations and continue elsewhere; the ones that ca
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Yes, which means inflation, which if countered with more money printing leads to hyperinflation. Printing money won't increase the stock of capital. That is so absurd that you're not even wrong. Have you ever lived with 4000% infl
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> Why not show it rather than asking for my permission? But since you asked, please do. And show me the one for argentina while you are at it. Here is brazil's external debt. Increased 250% in 10 years. That number is irrelevant, lo
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Japan is a developed country (low capital requirements) with a huge stock of capital which it has exported around the world. It can borrow plenty internally before there is a shortage of capital. It has $1.3 trillion in foreign reserves. Po
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by ucaetano 9y ago
https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21596582-one-hundred... https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21704824-battle-over... https://www.economist.com/blogs/ameri
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> Brazil and especially argentina's financial problems were a result of international borrowing, not domestic borrowing. Patently false. The public debt in Brazil has been almost entirely internal for the past 10 years. Should I sho
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> You also ask me to ignore important factors like property tax Property tax is highly variable from location to location. But if you give me an example of property tax, I can tell you which makes more sense. > an economics stripped o
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> (2) is where your argument falls apart. Everyone wants to buy houses nowadays- it's not illiquid. It is illiquid. How long do you think it takes to sell a house? The median home takes 60+ days to sell. Don't let your limited

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