ElComradio

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by ElComradio 8y ago
This should be entitled “A Treatise on Why My Personal Infrastructure is Amazing”
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by ElComradio 9y ago
Generally speaking Republicans tilt fiscally and socially conservative. I'd be fascinated (no sarcasm) to hear an argument on how party platform and most members are social liberals. To put another way, if you averaged out the beliefs
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by ElComradio 9y ago
I agree that the dynamics you describe account for some of the reason Trump's base is primed to latch onto him. But as far as Trump himself goes, he's not really a Republican. He is solely concerned with receiving praise and feeli
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by ElComradio 9y ago
This decision has zilch to do with whether it's good environmental policy or will create jobs. All it has to do with is Trump's desire to feel like Alpha Man of Action when he goes to some rally/playdate in Iowa and can prese
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by ElComradio 10y ago
UBI still will have some short term profiteering effects. A slum lord who knows his tenants are uniformly $1K/mo richer is going to raise the rent short term. You seem to be assuming everyone is automatically acting in their long term
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by ElComradio 10y ago
You are basically saying that what happens in the short term is not relevant, but as taxpayers, a lot of people will be upset by profiteering in the manner I described, even if it is only for 1-3 years. Or from another angle- what will prev
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by ElComradio 10y ago
It feels ambitious to suppose an equilibrium state for schooling to be met within a year. I'd buy two or three. Is it the case that existing private schools have much excess capacity? Frequently the argument for private schools is smal
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Long term this may indeed happen but in the short term, it seems unlikely. Like with school vouchers, if I ran a private for-profit school and knew my students suddenly had an extra $X,000 to spend on tuition, my short term move would under
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Also today is the 23rd anniversary of the premiere of DS9.
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Don't forget that as CEO, likely it is true that if he had a question about direction or implementation, a hundred engineers would almost immediately respond to him. This 100 hours' investment isn't like you think of some lon
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by ElComradio 10y ago
What is juvenile is having policies that treat adults as a whole as incapable of making their own decisions about who to get into relationships with.
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by ElComradio 10y ago
The idea that a company can have values is absurd. A company isn't a person. It cannot have values any more than it can have a religion. What the term really means is more like "the CEO's values" or "values as defin
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by ElComradio 10y ago
It is totally fine to take action against a business; that the business is comprised of people who have no direct input into the actions of the entity and may face consequences of the actions against it should not be an important considerat
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Boycotts are designed to force a _business_ to change behavior. If we extend this into the realm of the individual and political speech, it is a totally different animal with clear dangers for freedom of expression. I am not myself sure if
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Fair enough re: employment, but if we shift "employed by" to "do business with" it's still the same discussion. A theme going on here is a binary state regarding how we should treat individuals and consider their po
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Almost nobody will agree with the idea that in an ideal world built upon the "marketplace of ideas" that someone should be constrained from expressing political opinions for fear of losing their employment. In fact this being so i
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Occam's razor _supports_ my take. Regarding Stern, CNN had as "BREAKING NEWS!@ ! " that Trump told Stern it was OK to call Ivanka a piece of ass. Possibly CNN was lying about presenting this as something they just discovered;
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by ElComradio 10y ago
I find it preposterous that it took this long to hear that Trump bus tape as well as the Stern recordings. If you were connected to either of these shows, wouldn't the first thing you did when Trump started to become a story was go loo
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by ElComradio 10y ago
The ego hit risk is only an issue because you have mentally internalized them as being on a pedestal. Don't do that. They are not final arbiters of either talent or success.
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by ElComradio 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with any of that, but you can't complain if your audience follows your lead. Not that Musk was complaining (to the best of my knowledge) but others on his behalf. If I chair a board meeting wearing a clown no
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Well, this is coming from a guy who apparently thinks the height of subversive humor is naming cars to spell SEX and sending people into fits of giggles that it's called the BFR. A frat house environment does not seem all that out of p
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by ElComradio 10y ago
In the same way nerds got beat up because the jocks are just jealous of their brains? There can be criticisms of a plan to send a few people to die in a metal box millions of miles away at incredible cost that do not require jealousy as a m
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Ask yourself what the real subtext is; what most people are going to think when they read "But actually almost all my time, like 80% of it, is spent on engineering and design". Is the mental image that of Tony Stark, single-handed
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by ElComradio 10y ago
This situation highlights the elephant in the room- People are not much interested in paying for online services, even one as large as FB. Their growth and DAU would suffer dramatically if they had to charge even a nominal fee for use. Peop
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by ElComradio 10y ago
If you read Gawker apologia, you continually see the claim that this is going to stifle journalism. Some people aren't able to distinguish between writing a story about a sex tape and actually showing the sex tape, when the latter beha
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by ElComradio 10y ago
The social contract is such that people can reasonably be assumed to be ok with a minuscule increase in risk in order to get a dying person to the hospital.
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by ElComradio 10y ago
This is one of the many reasons why Texas is filled to the brim with happy and well adjusted people.
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by ElComradio 10y ago
If in fact there are other viable cases, in the absence of Thiel the injustice would then be that Gawker can behave badly indefinitely because most of the victims will not pay the necessary amount to litigate.
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Gawker is not liable for publishing a story about Hogan's sex tape. They are liable for publishing the actual explicit sex tape without his consent.
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by ElComradio 10y ago
You make him sound like someone who is filing frivolous lawsuits. The Hogan case involves an outrageous invasion of privacy of extremely dubious newsworthiness, nothing at all like, say, outing a lesbian congresswoman who supports tradition

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