jolfdb

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by jolfdb 7y ago
"Middlebrow dismissals" like this are discouraged on HN.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Why girls?
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by jolfdb 7y ago
The Green New Deal is a mishmash of left wing talking points, not a coherent proposal.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Not every bad thing is authoritarian. Sometimes you have people powered plagues, such as racism and bigotry, which have been part of human nature for millennia.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
When joining the party is required if you want to get a job in your career field, you'll join the party.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
"it's for a popular audience" is a bad justification for publishing misleading or wrong information that teaches people a wrong headed view of what a science is. It's not just poor quality, it's a actively harmful t
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by jolfdb 7y ago
> fiduciary responsibility to lower costs and raise profits to their shareholders. This is a thoroughly debunked lie
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by jolfdb 7y ago
That doesn't work at all. Are you going to fill your network with people who aren't really your friend? Visit locations you don't want to visit? Devote more than have your time to this disinformation?
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by jolfdb 7y ago
You are saying that people like the banks more than they like tech companies? Or that credit companies had anything nearly approaching the data that is available today -- 24/7 location data, all purchases, all associates, and more?
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Be real. You are saying that data should not be collected at all.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
That's a boring complaint. Any tech can be used for good or evil. When is a movement and movement, and not a guerilla terrorist cell network?
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Gluing batteries and similar techniques make products more robust to damage. Apple hardware is absolutely famous for surviving far longer than competing products. A 10 yr old functioning Mac is not unusual.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
You don't need all those weird rules, all you need is a recycling tax on the product, and let market forces sort it out.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
China is catching up on USA's special talents.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Humans also have an irreducible error rate.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Explain how your proposal would fix Equifax
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by jolfdb 7y ago
The problem you describe was solved in 1792 by the US Constitution, but has not been deployed everywhere.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
The source of your confusion is your conflation of a criminal government with the country itself.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
It should be obvious that that Constitution doesn't apply to people who aren't even in USA at all.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Assange was snatched from a foreign country.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Food isn't hoarded, it's wasted, because no one pays for deliver it where it's needed.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Law is in service of all the people. Rule of law is preferred over rule of lawyers.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
That seems wrong. For only 4% revenue tax a company could just completely ignore the laws and just pay the fine as a cost of business.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
It's impossible to anonymize; that's the point.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
That's because when a targeted ad is general enough to be useful, you misclassify it as a nontargeted ad. Nontargeted ads are pretty much only punch-the-monkey mortgage an dcar insurance scams.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
So what? If you don't want some random person to know you by your email address, don't give them your email address. Or use a separate email address for them.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
See also playfun/learn fun, a game-agnostic AI that uses raw uninterpreted memory bytes as it's signal: http://tom7.org/mario/
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by jolfdb 7y ago
This was the topic of The Submarine paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by jolfdb 7y ago
What fixes frozen fingers?
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by jolfdb 7y ago
The CEO gave everyone a dressing down regarding dressing down?

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