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by zeruch 4y ago
"a disproportionate amount of healthcare costs come at the very, very end of life." One might ask why that is; while some is surely due to natural decline in later years, one could likely also posit that the cost-fears leading up
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by zeruch 4y ago
"is quite puzzling" Is it? The financialization of every aspect of life, in this case with for-profit hospitals through multiple layers of insurance middle-men, the exodus you describe would seem one of the natural byproducts from
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by zeruch 4y ago
"I remember people not joining it (after its glory days) " That's just the obverse of leaving isn't it? The site loses any momentum, becomes stagnant, and peters out, or in the case of Friendfeed, became ripe for acqui-h
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by zeruch 4y ago
"As if people ever leave their social media." Friendster, Orkut, Google+, MySpace, Vine, Flickr, Friendfeed...they absolutely do.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Not sure you can separate the two. An underlying presumption is that if power/control is acquired, that allocation of the spoils inevitably follows and that everything will fall in line. I'm not disputing your statement per se, ju
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by zeruch 5y ago
misinformed is worse, if only because in many cases those who are misinformed WANT to be that way, and ergo don't care about facts or reality, just their normative preferences. uninformed is passively annoying, misinformed is aggressiv
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by zeruch 5y ago
"I can’t tell if it’s funny or worrying." Honestly, both. In most industries, you have a lot of decent, normal folks and a handful of lunatic ball-dents flailing about. Big Content is the opposite, almost all leadership is nuttie
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by zeruch 5y ago
"To my knowledge (I was very young during the period when sourceforge was still good) sourceforge never really attracted private customers by offering value adds to CVS/SVN so it didn't have a reliable non-donation revenue mo
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by zeruch 5y ago
"But the incentives to monetize the site ever more aggressively is probably the most important factor." That itself was forced by the dot com fallout that killed the parent company hardware business and made SF a more critical leg
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by zeruch 5y ago
Disclosure: I worked in the "anti-piracy" industry for 6 years at one point. It should be renamed the Big Content Fluffing Contingent, but that position is itself revealing on my part. It's all just anti-competitive and bully
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by zeruch 5y ago
...they'd be investors.
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by zeruch 5y ago
There is a significant difference between snarky jabs at a regime and open support of groups who have in the past (and seek to again in the future) commit violent international terrorism. If you openly support those kinds of groups, you abs
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by zeruch 5y ago
"Apple is the biggest company on earth and out of the FAANG companies" A pointless metric given that over the last 5+ years, Google/Apple/Amazon have had and lost that spot back and forth. It's a vanity metric and
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by zeruch 5y ago
Le Carre wrote about the fact that espionage or s an allegory for all human interaction) is "all gray" with lots of moral ambiguity and nuance. Clancy's stuff makes for a decent plot for an action movie adaptation, but his id
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by zeruch 5y ago
"RMS has serious faults, but his virtues have an immense value in my opinion." And I wouldn't disagree with that as an abstraction, but being in direct contact/proximity with him is an utterly dreadful form of masochism.
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by zeruch 5y ago
"what does stallman think gamers are like?" He doesn't care, and likely has never given a single iota of thought to it, as he assumes what is best is to think like him. And dear RMS acolytes who will almost certainly bristle
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by zeruch 5y ago
You are asserting a critical thinking skill that really, most folks don't have. You are John LeCarre, most are Tom Clancy.
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by zeruch 5y ago
"I'm not convinced" I'm happy for you. When I was at Uni, the previous extradition agreement between the US and UK was lopsided but still the UK was able to get US citizens extradited under sufficient evidence. As far a
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by zeruch 5y ago
It always depends on several factors, including how much of a trade relationship runs between the two, or regional defence agreements (among other things). And while IANAL, I suspect given the relationships we have, the Bahamas almost certa
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by zeruch 5y ago
Extradition treaties work in more than just the direction of the US, and serve a functional purpose, for the same reason that foreign nationals who commit crimes in a jurisdiction CAN be adjudicated in that jurisdiction AND/or in their
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by zeruch 5y ago
"I don't recall much outrage over Amazon's Jeff Bezos, a billionaire, buying the Washington Post" I do. Everyone from Jacobin Mag to Forbes was asking "Why?" and the implications. Was the tenor as furious as Mu
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by zeruch 5y ago
If you are in certain states (e.g. California) non-comps are almost wholly unenforceable and many folks will happily sign them knowing even a company like AWS won't be able to do squat. Jurisdiction matters, as non-comps are common, an
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by zeruch 5y ago
History shows an endless parade of examples where sufficiently charismatic and/or cunning leaders/regimes/movements (e.g. Mao, Reagan, Trump, Salazar, Ghadaffi, Khan, Gandhi, Seko, Savimbi, etc)...kept large populations in cu
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by zeruch 5y ago
Everyone applies bias at some level, period. That said, the threshold for lazy loading bias can be significantly different for people, and trying to become a Vulcan-Mentat combo might not be the most ideal goal. Actually applying some re
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by zeruch 5y ago
"Because you're seeing it through the lense of western media." No, I'm seeing it through taking a series of factually established premises, and comparing them. Critical thinking (however anecdotally a position one launc
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by zeruch 5y ago
..does anyone else find some small irony in this, given that China is also the country fixated on CCTVs and social scoring of its own citizens in a panopticon of its own design? I don't disagree with the premise of people > algorith
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by zeruch 5y ago
"Cities aren't loud, cars are" Happy city dweller here...no, cars are indeed loud, but so are cities. People, trains, the buzz of lights, the rumble of skateboards, chatter, endless motion at all hours, etc. That's part
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by zeruch 5y ago
"and be kind to other people." That has long been some of the best, and least adhered to, advice anywhere.
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by zeruch 5y ago
"John Coltrane is only good on paper" Which is still a warmer sense than the room temp take you just attempted. Your entire comment was either trolling, or some seriously petulant, and gap-laden understanding of both Miles AND Tra
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by zeruch 5y ago
"but the "pseudonymous artists" bit seems like a pointless distraction." I think what matters here is motive. RDJ used/s pseudonyms to suit an artistic purpose not unlike what Fernando Pessoa did with his heteronyms

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