eerwrq

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by eerwrq 8y ago
His problem isn't that he's hard to understand. His problem is he loses his point halfway through a chapter while he rants against eggheads, bureaucrats, and anyone else he doesn't like. Like, I get his point that experience
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by eerwrq 8y ago
Good news. You can already put the band on the end. I just went to DDG, and searched "cats !gi" and it did a google image search. As for results - I find DDG has good results for most things. Sometimes it's better than google
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by eerwrq 8y ago
>Silicon Valley will remain to the IT industry what Wall Street is for the commerce. Yes, it will remain a metonym. > I am not American, nor live in US and never been or worked in/for Silicon Valley and yet this is how I feel abo
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by eerwrq 8y ago
>Musk is currently claiming that he will not need public funds for this. I don't have any reason not to take him at his word. He just lied about having "funding secured" to take tesla private, like, a few days ago.
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by eerwrq 8y ago
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. I'm sorry for being a jerk today.
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by eerwrq 8y ago
I, too, love externalities when other's bear the cost, and hate them when I bear the cost.
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by eerwrq 8y ago
How is banning AirBnB detrimental to the housing problem if it's also contributing to the lack of housing supply?
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by eerwrq 8y ago
> To me privacy issue is better solved by radical transparency for everyone. Human societies don't work like this, and never had. People aren't meant to live in a world where everything is public. You are advocating for a very
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by eerwrq 8y ago
> Cities can ban it if they want, but I'd rather they focused on allowing more housing to be built. Why not do both?
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by eerwrq 8y ago
Ok. So does that change the argument in any way? Or are you just being pedantic. [edit: yeah i'm being dumb. i felt the discussion was being derailed, but thats no reason to yell at strangers on the internet.]
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by eerwrq 8y ago
Globalization has nothing to do with this. The problem is that AirBnB reduces an already-tight housing supply by turning homes into hotels. This would be an problem regardless of whether the tourists were international or domestic.
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by eerwrq 8y ago
This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. - Jazz didn't begin to die on Kind of Blue. That was a popular, well selling jazz record. Rather than setting Jazz on a path to irrelevance, Kind of Blue reinvigorated the genre
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by eerwrq 8y ago
> I doubt they have any legal standing to regulate search algorithms The first amendment would prevent them from regulating search results. The problem is, many authoritarian countries have something like the first amendment in their co
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by eerwrq 8y ago
> I personally don't care because I don't use Venmo By that logic, you shouldn't care about Mozilla because you can just download another browser. But that's not true. Venmo and Firefox have an impact on the larger wo
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by eerwrq 8y ago
He doesn't just complain about Google. In the tweet, he threatens that the issue "will be addressed." This shouldn't happen in a country with a free press. We're (yet again) moving into authoritarian territory. So w
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by eerwrq 8y ago
No, they didn't miss your point. You missed their point. You're not criticizing the message, you're criticizing the messenger. Maybe Mozilla shouldn't be the one saying this. But are they wrong about Venmo?
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by eerwrq 8y ago
The download link for each sample collection points to an entry on archive.org which lists the license of the samples.