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Profits. Liquidating MS holdings would also increase profits for a short term gain.

As someone who worked in AdTech and Advertising, AdTech is just the technology of automated identification of online visitors and the sale of that information. There's no need for a whole article, you can comprehend it from the term itself.

> wouldn’t that suggest that males would have a much higher selection pressure to become more desirable than females?

I would think they would want to be more variable as conditions are variable (and therefore fitness criteria are variable). This is such a chaotic theory, that no amount of mathematics could categorize it in a definitive way.

> if you're actually following your words with meaningful action that could directly impact the problem, it's not virtue signalling.

Wouldn't the opposite be true?

If you are doing it, you are signalling your actual virtue. If you not, it might not be, but that's missing the point. Signalling you support a philosophy by stating a related behavior is the whole point. Actually doing it or mentioning an intent, is functionally the same.

> Some insults are simply worse depending on who they are targeting.

That's just an ideological step that is unwise to adopt. Taking that as a philosophy, anything you say is an intolerable statement because of who might get offended by it. This is antithetical to free speech as prior restraint. I don't know why anyone would subscribe to such a viewpoint. Every philosophy has boons and banes, but that doesn't mean the philosophy is absolute nor moral.

I had my surgeries in the middle of Los Angeles (Kaiser - 4867 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027). My insurance covered 7 days, but I paid for additional recovery time at about 2k a day.

In regard to your friend ... his 7 x 2 = $14k. That's a LOT for basically a bed, blood draws daily, limited TV and cafeteria food, but in the center of Los Angeles, that's what you get.

> I find this comment extremely offensive.

Probably because it is. The reverse of NIMBY is something like OWICAM - Only What I Care About Matters

> The definition of noon is when the sun is at its highest point.

A historically tenuous regional decision about naming, does not influence global reality beyond being contextually incompatible. So what?

> since AOL was known universally as the worst tech company

When it started to fail, it was lamented, but technically? It was exploitive and full of dumb subscribers, but the tech was fine.

> except the lowest-of-the-low in terms of tech knowledge.

Used yahoo for decades, since I was around when it started. Still do, for one email address.

> It’s not a rebuttal though.

So what? Discussion doesn't consist solely of logical arguments (or arguments in total). There's a salient difference between "whataboutism" and a non sequitor. One has no way to continue the discussion (it changes to something else) and the other has an underlying set of issues that are likely beyond articulation of the poster, but exist nonetheless.

> I can just say “Yes, Y and Z are also doing that bad thing and should also stop.”

Then why not say that? The underlying issue is that there's reasons people are objecting to Google and not others.

Responding with a dismissive reply devoid of content is a nonsequitor. Implying that the assertion is without merit because you object to the syntactical presentation, avoids the issues raised.

e.g. Google helps steer culture and would necessarily have to actively enforce totalitarian and oppressive rules in China.

Paying 300-500/mo for decades, as a chronic heart patient here. I've had multiple open heart surgeries and nothing sweeter than paying 6k for the recovery room and 0 for the surgery (along with sweet receipts for 1mil in aggregate surgery costs). The separate billing is a pointless red herring, in context of the article.

$10,920 for room charges is absolutely ludicrous.

I think this is a perfectly appropriate critique regardless of the newly constructed "fallacy".

If a problem is systemic, "whataboutism" is an appropriate critique (in lieu of being able to articulate the underlying issue) as it typically makes reference to something that is a populist concept, to be effective as a recognizable objection.

In this case, the objection is apt and needs to be addressed with more than hand-waving because it's troubling.

Saying "google is different because it helps shape culture" as opposed to Amazon's Chinese presence. Amazon's service is an opaque service-oriented mechanism...is an appropriate response.

TL;DR This wasn't much of a writeup, more of a nostalgic media-piece.

The redesign looks fine. Most people, seeing the log, will never have visited a Library as they fade into obscurity beyond obsolescence. It's good to get ahead and set up the idea that it is THE Library.

Just because they make the AK-47, doesn't mean they know anything about mechanical innovation or even vehicular engineering. They definitely don't know anything about marketing from the look of the car.

I have, on more than one occasion, resigned saying "I don't do this kind of work". Nothing more and nothing less, mostly because I'm usually deep enough to see what's happening at the implementation level I rarely get in that (unethical or distasteful) situation without knowing.

> When did I say it was going to save the world?

> If only lsd was legal.

> Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-income countries

You didn't qualify what you were saying, so don't be surprised when someone ascribes a meaning for you. The topic was about a western-societal problem, so effectively...the world for most readers and your comment implies something about it.

> earthquakes every other week

Ridiculous hyberbole is right.

I don't think that's true at all. Let's set aside all the improvements Sun made to the ()nix ecosystem, which includes dtrace and filesystems and network protocols, among others.

Most servers were migrated from Sun to Linux (with minor hiccups). Sun basically set the standard for security and reliability that led to the successor instead of OS/2 or MacOS or ReactOS or whatever. Microsoft HAD to change their OS to meet the needs of the users (ANY security, more interoperability between ()nix and windows, etc).

The statement is either poorly phrased or wholly inaccurate, depending on your point of view.

What does it look like with people?

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sept-14-2010-long-beach-ca...

> Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.

This seems out of place. Expressing my beliefs as a function of my experiences and understanding, is a fundamental step in adulthood (along with pragmatically taking charge of your life). Many of the other steps, listed, require the understanding that your views are that and not some other abstract truth.

That was a result of the incorporation of one of these reserve armies. Over time, new centers of industry will be born to serve the decentralized burbs that aren't cost-efficient to serve by existing infrastructure and the cycle repeats. We just happen to be living in one part of the cycle.

Cheaper than Irvine, CA as well.

> Bill is a guy who made more money on Microsoft Stock than on Sun Stock because he sold the latter and bought the former, recognizing that at the end of the day Microsoft would have a larger impact

That's an interesting revision of history to fit a narrative.

It's not even so much about the rarity of events, but the violation of Informed Consent. The fundamental assumption in modern society is that you know there are dangers and their relative frequency, so that you may make decisions based on that for you to reach a mental equilibrium of risk vs reward. Someone/something acting psuedo-randomly to violate that equilibrium to an extreme (where there are brutally less choices available due to paralysis or fatal event for an individual or group) is what people react to. They want to incorporate these semi-random events into their daily equilibrium in the form of perceived patterns. This eventually leads to more extreme views (some form of theoretical pattern that fits), in lieu of data.

Don't be dense. How a controller in an MVC framework maps to a url and provides an execution path through the framework is an algorithm. The fact you plug in multiple values to make that happen (including the executing function) is the idiom that results in a consistent algorithm. You can alter this, which isn't a compelling argument.