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by zpeti 6y ago
It’s funny how economists never talk about this (women in the workforce). Its adding 50% more people to the workforce. Yes, it’s less because women might work less or part time, buts it’s an insanely high number in terms of market effects.
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by zpeti 6y ago
There's so many questions that this raises. - Is it more infectious or just bypasses current immunities? - Will the vaccines basically be voided by this? - Is it less lethal? Could it create more general immunity in communities without
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by zpeti 6y ago
No, they have permanent effects. This is exactly why the court ruled this way. And in a touchy and sensitive topic like this I think it is reasonable to assume the courts looked at as many facts as possible to make their decision.
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by zpeti 6y ago
This is incorrect, and is exactly why this ruling has happened. It does have permanent effects.
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by zpeti 6y ago
I think it's had too much hype and too many expectations. Marketing did too good a job. I didn't watch much of the hype just a few trailer videos, and it's meeting my expectations. But I imagine someone who was really into th
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Yeah, interesting timing on this.
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What's amazing is how true this is culturally and for discourse as well, for me. With the amount of activism now happening in the western world, it's amazing that it's not against China or other abusers of human rights. No, i
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This isn't actually a lie. As much as you might hate FB using all your data for ads, that does actually mean that small businesses can hyper target their customers. I personally don't see any ads on FB for mass market products, li
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This is the million (or trillion) dollar question. I doubt its 1%. In fact I think its more like 2-3-4x revenue from personalised ads. Just a hunch. (side question - how do you do context ads for FB news feed? Because I can see it working w
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I am extremely torn about this thing, especially as I work in the privacy space. But it's hard to ignore the argument put forward by Ben Thompson that better tracking for facebook, actually tends to help small businesses. If you can&#x
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by zpeti 6y ago
The Paris agreement was not enforceable, and the US is one of the countries that has actually done most to reduce carbon output. But hey, at least the rest of world leaders are virtue signaling about their greenness, that’ll help the planet
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I wonder if close to the deadline somehow Apple and Facebook agree on some sort of revenue sharing like with google search on safari. In return for using idfa. Apples been so focused on revenue recently this could easily be just a shakedown
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by zpeti 6y ago
I genuine question I don’t know the answer to, what’s better, seeing completely random ads that are questionably relevant, and wasting my attention and time (and meaning specialized small businesses can’t compete, ads are for things like de
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Free press doesn't mean you can slander people or publish intimate details about them without them having a civil case against you. Anyone can sue anyone pretty much, that's what a free country is about. It's not the governme
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by zpeti 6y ago
And interestingly in many places there were excess deaths in the first wave, but not the second. So it is a big question just how many more would have died.
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by zpeti 6y ago
How about first we try and get back to actual capitalism? Like the stuff where the rich actually go bankrupt when their businesses fail, or where bankers go to jail for defrauding their customers? Believe it or not when a business goes bust
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by zpeti 6y ago
Just so we’re clear. You’re position is that the democrats in the 90s were far right? Like actual racists/ultra nationalists/believers in the superiority of certain races etc? What constitutes center right, center, center left in
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by zpeti 6y ago
Let's suppose you're between 20-30 years old, no health issues, and you see your parents/grandparents once a year, or never. You actually think you're a responsible person and if you ever got a temperature or whatever yo
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by zpeti 6y ago
How do you know what’s terrible advice and what’s not?
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You're missing the point though. Your built in emotions, hormones, drives, are still from your evolution. Yes, forwards humans might not evolve biologically. But you still evolved from systems dating hundreds of millions of years back.
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To just throw out the evolutionary workings of not only humans, but many of our animal ancestors is extremely naive. You are suggesting you know better than a system that millions of years of evolution have created. You are also assuming th
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You are ignoring the why, though. Person centered feeds simply make us spend more time on them. They are more engaging. And unfortunately until people start being a lot more conscious about whether this is a good thing, companies with perso
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People who cheer when "right wing" misinformation is censored, should think very carefully about what just happened here. And why, for 200 years, free speech and anti-censorship has been extremely important to Americans. There&#x2
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by zpeti 6y ago
How about the CEO refusing to align with far left politics? Whether you think that is good or bad, that could well be the reason for them leaving, but it doesn't actually mean that there was overt racism.
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by zpeti 6y ago
I think eventually market forces will take over in this situation, just like they did with tv, radio, newspapers. Twitter especially, but other big platforms have now taken sides and have lost all trust with the "right". It's
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And if they didn't, food would probably be a lot more expensive.
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I see this inequality increases poverty line every day. If people are specifically getting poorer, fine, you’re right. But inequality can happen and make everyone richer, it’s just the differences get wider. Please explain your trail of tho
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Some UK charities are sharing sensitive data with advertisers, say academics(ft.com)
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That doesn’t mean they don’t have a massive potential market. All the centre right people who see Twitter banning people for questioning unlimited immigration, or trans men competing against women in sport, and feel like current social medi
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by zpeti 6y ago
Seems like a good time to buy shares in whoever manufactures industrial sized extra cold freezers.

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