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by xibalba 5y ago
I don't agree that what he did was ethical. For me, and I think many people, it is clear that what he lied and stole. The works that he stole fall under clearly defined and well established copyright laws and which have licenses to whi
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by xibalba 5y ago
I don't agree that "the system" punished a smart altruist. As this article makes clear, Swartz did something he knew to be illegal. This was not his first brush with mass copyright violation. He was then prosecuted for his cr
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by xibalba 5y ago
It may be in response to the general beatification and mythologizing of Swartz after his suicide.
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by xibalba 5y ago
What non-internet connected voice recognition/NLU system that integrates with light bulbs is available for sale?
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by xibalba 5y ago
Fair enough and understood. The problem is these numbers get reported in headlines as “inflation”. People are experiencing greater than 6% inflation in their pocketbooks. So I suppose I’m objecting to something different from what you’re ta
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by xibalba 5y ago
But housing costs money. If you're a homeowner, if you bought a house for $250k in 2019 vs. a homeowner who bought an identical house for $300k in 2021, its pretty hard to argue the second homeowner isn't comparatively worse off.
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by xibalba 5y ago
Hard to say. The problem with time series' is that you only get one realization ;) But I think reducing Amazon to an Ecomm/AWS duality goes too far. That said, I would bet that, yes, Amazon would still have been extremely innovati
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by xibalba 5y ago
Previously on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Antikythera+mechanism I am curious, is this device as fascinating to the average person as it is to the average HN'er? I suspect not, but I don't really understand why
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by xibalba 5y ago
> The two things could be completely unrelated Yes. Could be unrelated, could be related. We can't run a clinical quality controlled experiment to make that determination. My initial point was that Amazon has produced stunning innov
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by xibalba 5y ago
Yes. For instance, natural resources, financial & human resources, time, and physical reality come to mind.
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by xibalba 5y ago
> Or at the very least, it doesn’t hurt. I think you missed this part of my comment. I don't conflate cause and effect. No do I conflate correlation and causation, which is what I think you meant to write. > be even more innovati
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by xibalba 5y ago
Criticisms of Amazon need to overcome a fundamental problem: Amazon has been one the most innovative companies of all time. As a result it has grown explosively and is beloved by customers. All with this policy in place. In other words, thi
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by xibalba 5y ago
I will see you on the field of battle. When I find you in my crosshairs, I will weep for your family. I will weep for your wrongness. But I will do my duty. Long live yellow mustard, the Divine Condiment God King.
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by xibalba 5y ago
He was also known, among scientists, to be a charlatan and relatively stupid about the science (relative to his pretensions). So he probably wasn't allocating the funds very well. > Let’s see if he outlives Rockefeller lol
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by xibalba 5y ago
Ha! Your sarcasm didn't translate (for me) to text. Maybe next time use the new HTML6 tag "<sarcasm></sarcasm>".
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by xibalba 5y ago
I suspect I do not agree with many of the political opinions of this writer. Yet, I find myself strongly agreeing with the general conclusions. Of course, specificity and implementation is probably where the civil war breaks out.
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by xibalba 5y ago
Are you very familiar with teacher's unions? Here's an example of the great value they're delivering in the U.S.: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/31/the-rubber-roo...
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by xibalba 5y ago
Lots of "Amazon Bad, Union Good" sentiment in these comments. How is it that HN'ers look at entities like the UAW or various state teachers' unions and think, "Yeah, let me get some of that."? Is there an examp
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by xibalba 5y ago
Reminder of the HN Guidelines [1]: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." [1] https:&#x
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by xibalba 5y ago
> mass surveillance > rent seeking > first mover advantage This reads like an HN buzzword bingo card. But seriously, a lot of your claims are flimsy or misinformed, which goes to credibility. Cambridge Analytica was a huge nothingb
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by xibalba 5y ago
The article offers no new or inside information, just more armchair quarterbacking. I'm surprised that it is getting traction on HN. I think it says more about the zeitgeist than it does about the (lack of) insightful-ness of the conte
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by xibalba 5y ago
Hi, please read the HN comment guidelines. [1] Specifically, "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names." [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by xibalba 5y ago
This statement is inscrutably generic. Are there examples of behavior which went unaccounted? Or, what prompted this? Also, is it common for projects to have mod teams? This is new to me.
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by xibalba 5y ago
> drop correlates well against middle class wealth, which has plunged steadily, again, since the late 60's Another correlate, and IMO more compelling, is the size of the labor pool. Over the time frame you cite, the domestic and int
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by xibalba 5y ago
> I think the big problem here is that there's no inertia to keep the place clean. Huh? Isn’t the big problem the litter-ers and their littering?
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by xibalba 5y ago
> Integrated over time You buried the lede. Death per unit time is extremely important. And yes, huge numbers died of starvation as the result of revolutionary, utopian (and insane and nonsensical) policies. But the starvation deaths wer
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by xibalba 5y ago
> difficult to say now that those were necessarily horrific and needless The Khmer Rouge killed 1.5 to 2 million (or 25%!!!!) of all Cambodians. Pretty tough to argue that the deaths of 25% of any population is anything but needless and
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by xibalba 5y ago
> revolution Revolutions almost always result in prolonged mass violence. Most often of the horrific, needless, and soul shattering kind. A sampling of recent revolutions: the Bolshevik Revolution, the French Revolution, Cambodian civil
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by xibalba 5y ago
Rent control has been tried many many times. Point me to an instance that worked. Interfering with markets like this, particularly with price controls, almost always backfires in ways that end up hurting those who were intended to be helped
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by xibalba 5y ago
Are there any rent control policies, currently in effect or discontinued, that can be pointed to as working really well? My understanding is that economists across the political spectrum have concluded rent control doesn’t work and most oft

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