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by motoko 17y ago
Oh, I mean that I don't agree that Peter Thiel and his investment group is "equally responsible" for the decay of ethics online because I don't think Peter Thiel believes in money. I'm sure Peter believes YOU believe in money, but he himsel
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by motoko 17y ago
I don't include Peter Thiel as equally culpable. As far as I know, Thiel failed to invent a state-free currency with Max Levchin, and over decades, he witnessed the defeat of uncompromising humanity over unconditional growth, and now Peter
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by motoko 17y ago
Don't need to be celibate to go extinct. Remember Nixon? Hoover? They used to run America from colonial times until... well, know any Quakers? "Although official Quakerism may not have abided the activities of many of these feminists, the Q
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by motoko 17y ago
Degenerate diseases don't kill you before you can have children. "Those changes we predict for 2409 could be wiped out by something as simple as a new school-lunch program." Stupid. African nations have both the highest birth rates and the
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by motoko 17y ago
"The bastard science of eugenics, [Jones] says, will haunt humanity as long as people are tempted to confuse evolution with improvement." "confuse evolution with improvement" I agree. "bastard science of eugenics" What an appropriate slur:
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by motoko 17y ago
People will look like the people who most have children. Do you have children? If not, then the people of the future will probably look less like you and more like the people who compounded faster than you did.
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Lessons Learned About Designing Business Cards for a Medical Practice(docs.google.com)
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by motoko 17y ago
If you were a man of titles and wealth from a family of the same, and you overheard a lean stranger say to a man of some skilled employ to you: "The best servants burned down estate once..." how would that make you feel? ...Especially, if y
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by motoko 17y ago
I worked at McDonald's. It helped make me the man I am. Mark, have you also considered advice to burn estates? It is analogous from the under up as your flipping burgers is from the over down.
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by motoko 17y ago
I remember asking engineers at deCODE about building server centers in Iceland. They said it was too expensive to build and staff a server center and that there was no surplus bandwidth to depress costs. They said that limiting constraints
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by motoko 17y ago
I don't understand how a more powerful message system will make email as "asynchronous queue of messages" obsolete. As far as I know, gmail is a surface abstraction of wave between Google's private servers. I do understand that most email t
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by motoko 17y ago
OP did tell the truth. Your interpretation adds judgment. The relevant facts to the listener (prospective customer) are: - "This is a picture of software to buy" - "This software to buy will solve your problems." Here is what you added: - "
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by motoko 17y ago
zero minutes: microbes die at temperatures below boiling, by the time the water is boiling, it's pasteurized enough
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by motoko 17y ago
That is: if it were true that expected talent/dollars is greater in women than in men, and this is widely known public knowledge, then why do no tech companies select for women over men in their own self interest? Possible answers could inc
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by motoko 17y ago
You are paying for $299 worth of emergency room, not $1 of oxycodon. However, I do agree that distribution of drugs in the USA has become a franchised back office sales game of all rent and no responsibility. I don't like that.
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by motoko 17y ago
"The problem is that in my country you cannot get a prescription without a doctor’s appointment." Acute viral bronchitis: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_0_9?url=search-alias%3Dhpc... "They actually do that to make money (see above)." I
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by motoko 17y ago
> The problem is that doctors charge ridiculous amounts even for simple treatments. Assuming you are a programmer, why should I pay to use your software? I would prefer to pay nothing because it doesn't "cost anything" to copy it. Oh, w
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by motoko 17y ago
I know the primary care outpatient business, and I support "Walmart medical care." (We call them "counter clinics.") People who don't want expert medical advice go to the counter clinic, we don't have to serve resentful patients, and we can
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by motoko 17y ago
It's honest for TechCrunch to broadcast their own sincere celebration in Mint's success. It would be suspect if TechCrunch did not emphasize its own participation in Mint's headline success in a TechCrunch headline. TechCrunch doesn't deser
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by motoko 17y ago
Do technology startup founders get paid too much? And: if you think doctors do get paid too much? What are you going to do about it? Offer to pay less? That would be reasonable, but do you pay your doctor?
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by motoko 17y ago
What is the tell between a spam site from an authority?
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by motoko 17y ago
1. Why does my country have the right to be occupying Iraq? A1. Because if the country just thinks about "rights," then the people with means can have what they want, while the people without want the meaning of have. 2. Why should my count
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by motoko 17y ago
> Apparently, Google has decided that its formal complaint system is "the Internet." Apparently that works if you're Google.
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by motoko 17y ago
That is simple, but Google explicitly states that they will not do that. Instead, Google linked to: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=... Which states: "Why was my account disabled? Can you tell me more about the
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by motoko 17y ago
How do you know? What if, according to Google, the problem was the customer? How do you tell a publisher that their website is not appealing to advertisers such that the publisher will satisfied? Isn't that implicit in the account cancellat
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by motoko 17y ago
"your input" => "general customer complaint", I mean.
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by motoko 17y ago
It's not evil to fix a machine when its users publish that the machine not working as expected. It's not evil to refuse a human conversation regarding that machine. You want reasons? What, some phone operator is going to be able to know the
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by motoko 17y ago
The advice was "do something worth being sharp." The attitude communicated was relevant. It was good advice. It was: "don't be such a pussy." It works. If it didn't, then athletic and military leaders wouldn't use it.
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by motoko 17y ago
OK, but what about eye telescopes for healthy eyes?
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by motoko 17y ago
But, at minimum, that university student would need room and board ---plus income to service debt--- to work with you. Not all people have trivial access to that even small income ---particularly if their family does not live in the metropo

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