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Well don't blame him so much, 8 people upvoted it so far.

And mankind is to blame for traffic. I hate getting stuck in traffic!

What is the conventional way to do it?

I beat the gods twice today! :D

I order my groceries from safeway, usually.

Unfortunately, the algorithms can't catch staged photos.

Rent control is one of the many well-intentioned Government projects that doesn't achieve its goals.

Government needs to focus more on 'social technology' (Karl Popper's term) -- on how to achieve the goals it aims for -- and less on arguing what the goal should be and then assuming that making it happen will be the easy part.

To those who disagree, I would appreciate to hear why.

I want my privacy :(

Don't complain until -5. It's just one random guy didn't like it. Doesn't mean anything! At least 10% of the lurkers here must be dumb -- it's just the averages.

> Can we stop screwing around with anecdotes and cite some sort of study?

But he said he has enough anecdotes that it feels statistical to him.

Every bias I've owned has failed me.

Because building viaweb again, the same way, wouldn't make any money. You have to do something a little different than pg did.

> undoubtedly there’s a genetic disposition for women to be more risk averse

There are some reasons to think that. But they are not beyond doubt. There are smart, educated people who disagree, and even if there weren't, one of the important things about science is keeping the ideas open to doubt.

It says you can prevent piracy by:

> writing a completely server-side application like World of Warcraft or Mint

But that is not true! World of Warcraft has lots of "private servers" where people play for free.

> nobody knows exactly what they did right

I think pg knows pretty much what he did right, and has explained it to us.

You're saying incredible irresponsibility is moral or morally neutral?

if it's so bad, why'd he finish playing it?

and the time he spent playing it is worth WAY more than the $160 (as he must know).

> I don't understand why anybody considers profit evil if said profit is not gotten through fraud or coercion.

For example, Marx said that more capitalism logically leads to subsistence living conditions for the workers. He gave arguments for this. I think they are mistaken, but if you are wondering why people think profit is evil, that's a reason. Marx said that without fraud or coercion, and just free trade, most people will have very bad lives.

And, yes, obviously one can live in the US for a lot less than minimum wage, and be doing a lot better than the subsistence conditions Marx had in mind from his own time period. So Marxism is blatantly, factually inapplicable to the US (whether that's b/c Marxism is false, or b/c the US has been saved by it's non-pure capitalism with govt intervention is not obvious just from the plain facts). Why people are blind to this is a tough question.

only votes on the story itself matter.

Some of those people, including poor people, pony up an extra $300 because they consider the value of the mac to be, say, $1000 higher. If you spend 1000 hours a year using a computer, and a mac is 50 cents an hour nicer to use, that's $500 per year.

Whatever you think of the mac experience, some people do find it significantly nicer, so for them it's worth buying.

Also, Macs don't necessarily always cost more.

The SAT is kinda boring and useless.

poowsa was a troll that got kicked from the channel under several names. zed should probably have found someone else to quote...

It needs to get the point across without watching a video.

umm i looked again. the top right and huge banner don't say what you share. but i found this in a list with some other stuff:

- Easily share photos, events, messages, and interesting links

ok, but i can do that with email. it's not clear to me what's the point?

what do i share with them?

it wasn't obvious what the app does, so i left.

Don't improve? Seems immoral.

Can you just say, "I have plenty of weaknesses, and I'll be happy to tell you about some, but I don't believe I have any that will prevent me from doing this job."

> Also: without porn, where would the internet be?

In church?

yes

scheme and common lisp?