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by wfo 11y ago
When a group of people get together to create something of value in a venture we call a 'business' who decides which person gets which proportion of the profits? The people who did the work? The person who provided much of the wea
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by wfo 11y ago
You mean like what happened when we had >80% taxes on the highest bracket of income? Instead of leaving or whining they bought the government and changed the taxes to something they prefer. Every cent they earned is off the back of the i
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by wfo 11y ago
People voting define social good, obviously. That is the conceit of any 'proponent of Democracy'. Whoever has power decides where resources are spent. You're suggesting whoever currently happens to have money should have powe
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by wfo 11y ago
Actually they are the biggest welfare recipient on the planet. They pay workers so little and abuse them so that they must rely on government help, provided by the taxes they avoid paying. They are a parasite.
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by wfo 11y ago
If we leave the money with private wealthy capitalists, they might do something good for society on accident as a side effect of their ego-aggrandizing or wealth-concentration efforts. If we tax it, we can actually do something good for soc
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by wfo 11y ago
Introduce 'discounts' for participating in loyalty programs/giving company plenty of data it can sell. Raise discount prices to current prices (it's not like things are priced too high -- people are buying them as is). R
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by wfo 11y ago
It's more like getting a "warrant" (it's not really a warrant if it's absurdly general as this one was) that since bank robberies were happening, gives the police the right to send a SWAT team to break into the hous
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by wfo 11y ago
At this point it's not a 'partnership' -- industry has co-opted and taken over academia to a startling and troubling extent. Universities are expected to pump out software engineers trained in industry best practice, not thin
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by wfo 11y ago
Most of the time for grad admissions they use the subject GREs and almost entirely ignore the basic ones (though they require you take them). Math PhD programs don't even care about any part of the basic GRE, just the subject test, whi
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by wfo 11y ago
If you're doing industry-relevant research and you're in academia, leave. Your work can be supported by corporate profits because it is in essence for corporate profit. Get a job in industry, make more money, and make room for aca
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by wfo 11y ago
It's already happened with CS education for undergrads, why not have industry dominate the research arm of CS departments as well? If we don't bend over backwards pandering to industry and completely restructure academic thought t
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by wfo 11y ago
We don't look at the lack of bridge failures as a sign that there's something wrong with civil engineering or that it's ripe for "disruption". We just realize that if you aren't building the next "instagra
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by wfo 11y ago
It's fairly well known and accepted that regulations and rules in western countries are FAR stricter than those in Asian and Indian countries. If you care about privacy EU > US > everywhere else (any non western country has liter
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by wfo 11y ago
Sure but you shouldn't be connecting as distinct psuedo-identities during the same Tor session (mentioned in the article); if a custom browser size is associated with a one-time-use anonymous session then it shouldn't be a problem
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by wfo 11y ago
Language can be used in a rigorous, technical way with definitions and as close to accurately as possible. Like in a technical manual or programming language. Or it can be used in an expressive way, the way that normal people write and talk
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by wfo 11y ago
Of course everyone believes that all lives matter. But the context is important. If someone says "black lives matter" and your response is "ALL lives matter", you're not just saying you think all lives matter, you&#
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by wfo 11y ago
There is nothing wrong with the people who have wealth, it is with people having so much wealth. Wealth is economic power; we split power in the government so it is not hyper concentrated in on person for very, very good reasons taught to u
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by wfo 11y ago
'Check the power' is a naive and impossible solution that has been attempted by essentially every human civilization since the dawn of time and has never, ever worked. Sometimes you just need to recognize truth when it smashes you
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by wfo 11y ago
Wow I hope you never have any amount of power over any computer system that handles data. Even for the brief moment before you are fired, what a disaster.
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by wfo 11y ago
You earned however much the state says you've earned legally; the state makes the laws. Every cent you've made is off the back of the state and at the state's whims, so the state gets to decide how much of its money it will t
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by wfo 11y ago
Unless the company goes out of business, or you decide all of a sudden you aren't okay with the new "cloud-enhanced food profile" your refrigerator builds about you with the newest cloud-pushed update that records everything
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by wfo 11y ago
When people are desperate for something they don't have they'll accept any deal to get it, no matter how bad. It's not classist, it's necessary to have as many people as possible consider this deal for them since if it&#
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by wfo 11y ago
Buzzfeed has begun to do some serious long-form journalism and much of it is quite, quite good. It's kind of unsettling looking at the URL but it's not the first real article from them. I guess they've found a way to fund jou
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by wfo 11y ago
It really highlights a truism we sometimes forget if we read too many inspirational biographical one-of-a-kind success stories: businesses, in general, are soulless and will lie, cheat and steal to pad their profit margins so long as they d
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by wfo 11y ago
There is a strong tradition of physicists (scientists of all stripes, really) assuming they have some deep understanding of the natural universe and logic far beyond that of philosophers and stepping far outside their expertise to say laugh
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by wfo 11y ago
If you don't want the NSA to invade your privacy, it's easy. Just don't use the internet or email. That isn't a real solution, just like "opt out of google" or "opt out of facebook" isn't a real
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by wfo 11y ago
Most organizations, especially private ones are trying to invade your privacy. If you think it's only the NSA you are kidding yourself. She thinks corporate surveillance and censorship is a bigger danger than government surveillance. W
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by wfo 11y ago
Not to mention a sense of superiority and arrogance when it comes to the metrics which measure success in those challenge. I'd say it already has, particularly easy to see in our very own engineering crowd
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by wfo 11y ago
Here's one way: once you release something publicly enough it becomes part of our culture. You don't own our culture, any part of it, even if you created some of the art in it. Your work lives in a context surrounded by other work
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by wfo 11y ago
"Rediscovering" 19-20th century philosophy and massaging data to fit it describes much of modern research psychology.

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