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Limiting temperature change by every additional 0.1°C is not really about comfort. Either way rich people will be comfortable and poor people will be uncomfortable or dead. It's ab…

> IOW: I predict we'll see a resurgence of reputation systems, to some extent I think you're right that reputation systems are the best solution to a low signal-to-noise ratio. Con…

> have just accepted that business people have neither the ability nor desire to ever be honest about anything Another plausible explanation is survivorship bias: if businesses tha…

That's certainly part of the problem e.g. with airline seats. But there's also the issue that quality attributes can be difficult for casual customers to discern. Ethical attestati…

Doesn't that depend on the form of government the state has? (For example, state ownership under an absolute monarchy doesn't seem like a proxy for public ownership.)

The video goes into slightly more depth, and at about 1:30 into the video they acknowledge that the participants were not representative and that they would like to conduct further…

> Is only 10 people representative of the population of thunderbird users? For very narrow studies it is possible to get representative data with fewer than a dozen interviews, but…

To be honest it's also a little bit of rose-colored glasses. In the 2000s I probably spent the equivalent of thousands of dollars purchasing one-time commercial software licenses a…

As evidenced by Rent-a-Center, automobile leases, and rental properties there are plenty of non-software businesses that cater to customers who prefer a subscription to a larger on…

At least in my case, when I lament the fact that everything is becoming a subscription I'm not judging independent developers who charge a subscription for their mobile or web apps…

I once worked at a startup that did just that. Developed a system that was significantly better and cheaper than an existing legacy solution. One of the generals who saw the DARPA …

> There is no such price, because there is no way to sustainably develop a product without subscriptions Such a price clearly exists -- in an extreme case you could charge 50x your…

> What software companies need to do is sell versions, where the life time of the version usefulness is actually limited... Can the same not be found for many software products? So…

A majority of the parents I know are extremely concerned about the internet and social media and want tech companies to provide them with better parental controls. True, no one I k…

Agreed. Many parents I've spoken to want operating systems to provide a standard set of age and/or content flags that app stores and websites are required to respect. But various g…

> It’s not for the kids. That’s just the excuse. Is is an excuse for some, sure. But we will fail at pushing back if we ignore that there are a meaningful number of concerned paren…

> Have apps and websites declare the objectionable content they have, and let the device decide if it will show it or not according to parental controls. That would have been nice.…

> No one sets the thing. Based on the surveys from the wikipedia page it appears that 15-20% of parents used the v-chip feature on their TV. For an optional feature that has to be …

> kids will always find circumvention pathways I'd consider this a feature. I'd be proud if my kids find a way to circumvent the parental controls on the family computer or use the…

I've lived in a few US cities, but the example of NYC comes to mind. New Yorkers are happy to lend a hand if you're lost, struggling with a stroller on the stairs, or something fal…

That is my experience as well -- most people are basically good. But my personal experience has also been that the sort of people who ignore social cues and try and chat someone up…

> It's fine to start a conversation with a women wearing headphones, just take it in stride and don't be weird about it if she isn't interested in talking. I do this (with men and …

Different public spaces have wildly different expectations with regard to social interaction. Most people know better than to strike up a conversation with a stranger who is watchi…

Scientific progress is typically the result of outliers at the upper end of the normal distribution which doesn't inherently contradict a decrease in average knowledge. (i.e. a lar…

Whether it's reasonable depends on the distribution, not just the duration. A 2 hour onsite with the candidate being rapid-fire interviewed by six different different teams and a 2…