cvet

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by cvet 11y ago
Cynicism like this only leads to self imposed amorality. It makes stagnation a self fulfilling prophecy. You're basically making a bandwagon argument that humans historically have abused power, so this frees anyone in tech from any obl
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by cvet 12y ago
Good points—the only thing I'd say is that we're talking about a really capital intensive industry where the incumbent may be able to drop prices to compete with a newcomer. Example: If company B comes to a town where company A is
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by cvet 12y ago
I love the ideal, but the reality is that a lot of people are getting a half-assed effort from one company that has no economic incentive to improve. Even the threat of governments coming in can provide some of that incentive to make servic
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by cvet 12y ago
"unfair competition" is all you really need to hear to understand that these companies hate the free market. so do the politicians that make laws to secure oligopolies. the doublethink on this issue is amazing: the telecom compani
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by cvet 13y ago
As a student in a Ph.D. program, I can't help but think I'm caught in the grant-driven world and am being steered away from deeper consideration of big ideas. It's an easy track to get stuck on, mostly because grant-proposing
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by cvet 13y ago
That data is aggregated. You have everyone from a CEO to a college student with no financial support from her parents on there. It doesn't show who's buying which phone, nor does it show the shift from "feature phones" t
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by cvet 13y ago
This is a really interesting bit of speculation. Obama's consistently "just off" statements (i.e. saying an executive order that hadn't been implemented yet would have protected Snowden) make me think that Obama & hi
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by cvet 13y ago
I'm in a well regarded sociology department and there's a huge gap between the sociologists who take technical things seriously (programming, stats) and those who don't. People have actually rolled their eyes in classes when