tabeth

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by tabeth 8y ago
Is it that error prone? Could people not just submit what their own opinion and then you aggregate it systematically?
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by tabeth 8y ago
Is there any company that fits your criteria? I can't think of a single company that pays "very well" and does not do questionable things. EDIT: I do not necessarily mean "questionable" here in a moral sense, more s
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by tabeth 8y ago
Aren't you just begging the question here? Personally I don't see why people take pictures of a lot of things. As for preservation -- if you remember it, is it not preserved? And if you somehow forget, could you not forget that yo
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by tabeth 8y ago
Unfortunately, in a classist society no one wants to do what they perceive to be "grunt work". The good news is that there's a natural equilibrium that will be met as the waves of graduates see their ROI decrease, save for th
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by tabeth 8y ago
Why does it matter if I have kids or not? Everyone has friends and family. The question remains.
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by tabeth 8y ago
I'm curious -- why do you want to record the moment?
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by tabeth 8y ago
A bus is about 2 to 3 times as long as a car. Unless you're assuming these buses would only have a single passenger, no, they are not a negative. And even if all of these people lived in walking distance of where they worked, the place
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by tabeth 8y ago
Sure, but how would they get to work if there were no buses? A fraction of them would drive, no? Buses are a net positive.
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by tabeth 8y ago
How would buses contribute to the problem? Assuming every person who takes the bus would otherwise drive, a single bus would wipe out dozens of cars on the roads.
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by tabeth 8y ago
Is it not possible to do hub-and-spoke with buses? That would cut the commute drastically without any infrastructure required. Buy the buses, find the optimum routes and go.
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by tabeth 8y ago
> Another problem is how we're supposed to decide what people need. Why not just give people money and let them decide what they need. You'll need some system to handle those who fail to satisfy their basic needs due to problem
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by tabeth 8y ago
> All you need do is prove citizenship Isn't this ripe for fraud as well? Your rebuttals are implementation details. The questions remains, as an abstract idea, is it better to give everyone money or give those who need things the t
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by tabeth 8y ago
Thanks for the reply: 1. This is an implementation problem. Hardly inherent to the idea. 2. Sure there are administrative costs. There also costs to giving everyone X amount of money, especially when a large percentage of them don't ne
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by tabeth 8y ago
> Forgive me if this wasn't your intention, but it seems like you're asserting that poorer people are uniquely unable to determine their needs? I'm asserting people in general are unable to determine their needs. Every yea
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by tabeth 8y ago
Nothing about what I said inherently disincentivizes work.
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by tabeth 8y ago
I've never really understood basic income. Why give everyone free money? Why not just give the people who need things the things they need? Is this really an economic problem or a cultural one? Just decide on what everyone should have
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by tabeth 8y ago
Not going to lie, I totally forgot about him. Nice catch!
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by tabeth 8y ago
Is Barbara the only person in history to have blood ties to more than one president and live through both of their tenures as president? I looked at Abigail Adams and co but it seems that she didn't live through both her husband's
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by tabeth 8y ago
Perhaps the internet must know, but must it remember?
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by tabeth 8y ago
This is a cool tool. Though this tool reminds me of a dilemma I have with Google: what do you think about the fact that Google has effectively extracted value from the authors of these books without paying them, yet Google itself does not a
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by tabeth 8y ago
What exactly is your point then? Do you not think "great" people occasionally have "fundamental misunderstandings"? Who determines what is simple? Who determines what's fundamental? I also find it strange that you g
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by tabeth 8y ago
So, is your point that if someone can't do something that's "simple", then they're not "great"? I've seen Nobel Prize winning physicists make trivial math errors. I'm talking adding 8 + 9. If you
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by tabeth 8y ago
What do you believe is so special about swapping branches of a tree? Couldn't you just as easily say "if you can't make and maintain something more than a few thousand people use reliably, then you're not a great develop
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by tabeth 8y ago
I've been thinking about this for a while and have an interesting idea -- feedback welcome! Imagine a fully open company -- code, tools, library, marketing data, strategy, etc. Literally anything about the company you can think of is a
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by tabeth 8y ago
I recommend the book The New Jim Crow if you'd like to read more about this, particularly on how it relates to extending pseudo-slavery.
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by tabeth 8y ago
An interesting thing to consider is that even if you believe that the "rich" people deserve to have all of the assets, and consequently all of the risk, when something does happen they conveniently do not take the disproportiona
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by tabeth 8y ago
The premise seems to be that popularity is what's important. I'd say the useful metric is whether or not you can be productive with the tool at hand. Popularity is sometimes something that can make a framework more productive (as
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by tabeth 8y ago
All of these issues can be solved with pretty straightforward economics. If only there was an impartial, non-corrupt entity that could price externalities, which would then propagate to consumer product prices and therefore minimize this ki
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by tabeth 8y ago
What I'm really curious about is the psychology of people that makes them engage in this whataboutism that's present in almost every post about Facebook and this data issue. By the way, both Equifax (American based) and Experian
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by tabeth 8y ago
I agree that Google is competitor, but I'm not talking in terms of monetization spaces, I'm referring more to the core solution. In fact I'd amend my statement and say Snapchat isn't really a competitor, either. Facebook

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