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by fivestar 9y ago
That reads like a Bruce Sterling novel.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I think Tesla rolled it out too soon and marketed it as something it is not yet capable of and people died because of it.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Watching the Youtube videos of Teslas getting confused while on Autopilot made me immediately realize that the tech has a ways to go--there are roads that have odd paint or other odd features that confuse the car and make it choose a path t
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by fivestar 9y ago
I disagree with that statement--it is abundantly clear that the desire was for self-determination and not meddling by some unelected body which is not what the Brits signed up for with the EU, or at least not how it was sold to the public.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I hope you're right because it flies in the face of what every other government institution wants to do about crypto these days. What is it with the UK and their Orweillan nonsense? They need to get over the idea of backdoors that we
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by fivestar 9y ago
I can tell just from the postings on HN that SV people need better ethics training.
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by fivestar 9y ago
One reason why I think management in the US is so bad is because the entire corpus of managers went to the same few groupthink institutions and that is why they are so bad--no real risk takers, no real anything. It's like that in poli
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by fivestar 9y ago
Stop taking digs at libertarians--for the most part, market based systems succeed where every other plan conjured up by fallible man fails! Most of the other "working answers" involved force and in this case, eradicating the huma
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by fivestar 9y ago
Yes, I do find it interesting what gets downvoted and why. There is a great deal groupthink and foregone conclusions and not enough critical thinking. We are all subject to our own biases, but if those biases close up our minds to new ide
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by fivestar 9y ago
It makes no sense unless we truly have way more carcinogens in our modern world. Something doesn't add up--either the stats are skewed because modern populations are so much larger, or record keeping was bad, or...something. Also, you
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by fivestar 9y ago
A tontine isn't really a modern thing--they were all outlawed. The only ones I am familiar with are from pop culture and literature. I think they are old world in origin and usually exist within a family or a small group like a frate
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by fivestar 9y ago
An annuity is not a tontine. It is a guaranteed payout for a certain period of time. I'm not a fan, but I suppose they can make sense to some people? Like reverse mortgages, they may help someone keep a certain standard of living at
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by fivestar 9y ago
Funny thing about that: In my dad's pension plan he got an increase because so few of his fellow pensioners live to collect much of it. They typically retire and live for about two years and that's it. So the pension fund was a
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by fivestar 9y ago
Tontine? Not a new concept.
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by fivestar 9y ago
The article is not as focused on infant mortality as the post title suggests. Am wondering about the statement regarding cancer being rare. Is that only because people didn't live long enough? I went to a Wal-Mart this past weekend, I
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by fivestar 9y ago
There is a debate raging over "right to repair" and the consumer is losing. Honestly, I can't continue buying $1000 smart phones. It's just not worth it. And no, I'm not going to insure them, either. That whole
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by fivestar 9y ago
The problem with pharmacy is that it is a (an overly) regulated business. That isn't necessarily something Amazon can easily tackle anymore than anyone else can. Target has struggled with it for years. Target puts pharmacy managemen
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by fivestar 9y ago
But if you read the article, you will note that the "paper" is made from limestone and polyolefin, which is a plastic, which is also not good for the environment.
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by fivestar 9y ago
You have to negotiate your salary based on these assumptions. Or get paid hourly (as a consultant or contractor). I'm not currently hourly, but I am also not getting exploited, either. Most places I have worked didn't give a da
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by fivestar 9y ago
Of course it's not--you just have to have leaders who don't want 100X what the average employee makes! It's about greed, it's always been about greed. And it's so much worse than that, really. A lot of public comp
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by fivestar 9y ago
Intelligent people capable of negotiating their pay in a market such as that for software development would only be encumbered by unions. Are there warts? Sure there are. Nothing is perfect.
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by fivestar 9y ago
What's not capitalistic about it? A company can be setup with any number of metrics that determine success besides just pure profit. That most don't is a matter of who is running them, not that capitalism doesn't allow it t
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by fivestar 9y ago
I might add that many times over the years notable people have mistaken Onion parody as real news.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Because this shit has been going on a long, long time! That's why--you can't discuss fake news and then not bring up the key examples put out by official media sources. It's like talking about just Nigerian scammers when sc
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by fivestar 9y ago
Google has abdicated all sense of objectivity, as have all the major SV tech companies. Not even a pretense that their technology is politically objective, but rather aligned with the far left now. It is disturbing, to say the least.
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by fivestar 9y ago
The fact is that there was a pedophile scandal in the UK. You believe that, correct? People were prosecuted, yes? Also, you realize that US Catholic priests, and very likely priests in other nations have been involved in innumerable cases
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by fivestar 9y ago
Chomsky talked about agenda setting.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Ha, I bet that is annoying to deal with. The things are fun, but they are basically toys.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I suspect, after dealing with many men of this type, that they are simply juvenile frat boy types who believe they are alpha status males. Some get away with it because they're rich. These are men used to getting everything they want
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by fivestar 9y ago
While I don't condone that banker's behavior in any way, I want to mention that I pretty much refuse to speak to any women where I work unless I absolutely have to. It's really the only way to remain safe in such politically

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