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Comment #47225517
Hopefully this causes Meta to be more transparent about what data is sent to their annotators. It seems like even the annotators didn't know whether the person explicitly hit recor…
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Comment #45818865
Unfortunately that's kind of the reality for NYC. Since Bloomberg left it's been a one party city and ranked choice voting is implemented in the primary but not the general electio…
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Comment #43041586
This argument reads like whataboutism. If you believe it's immoral to force Americans to pay for foreign aid then I don't see how the argument "well that money could be spent worse…
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Comment #42236438
Do you have any examples of libertarian candidates that did not support individual rights?
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Comment #42231471
What's your concern with people choosing to use Starlink?
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Comment #41790402
This seems silly. I hate backwards compatibility but this change will just cause people to use `except BaseException` everywhere which seems even less idiomatic than bare excepts. …
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Comment #41495100
I 100% agree but unfortunately most people outright reject the moral argument
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Comment #41494678
Your premise is wrong. The point of a free market is to allow supply and demand to accurately determine pricing. It is not a desired effect of the free market for production costs …
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Comment #39466793
I'm getting one in May so I gave this a watch. The discussion on safety starts at around 6:30 with the concerns being over harvesting of donor areas, scarring, poor growth, and pot…
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Comment #36344400
Subreddit posts per day is really not a great metric to track engagement. You probably want comments or votes per day.
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Comment #35804832
I see, thanks for the clarification.
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Comment #35804230
That sounds a lot like profit, no?
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Comment #35157670
Is Source 2 out?
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Comment #34509715
I'll admit I was a bit snarky but my thanks was genuine - I enjoy learning why people believe the things they do. Anyways, my final argument is if an individual asset of a company …
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Comment #34508474
That's an interesting misconception of what capitalism is. I had not seen that one before. Thank you for sharing.
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Comment #34508159
Private ownership and the protection of those property rights are exactly what capitalism is. As long as there is no coercive entity dictating what YC can and cannot do with it's c…
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Comment #34507767
How is this not a straightforward example of capitalism? This site is privately owned, therefore it is free to flow in the capital market.
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Comment #34081955
You described exactly why this law isn't necessary. Property rights already exist and can be enforced without infringing on another's.
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Comment #33898219
I enjoy how you jump to the defense of ravers and entrepreneurs and in the same sentence call a roadhouse located in Idaho "low class". There's something very poetic about this cog…
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Comment #33779907
"3rd party repositories Third party repositories are not under our control what so ever. If you think a 3rd party repository is violating your rights you will have to get in contac…
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Comment #33512355
This argument seems tautological. - If he's charging for the service now then he'll clearly do anything to maximize profits. - If the service remains free then he clearly needs to …
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Comment #33512019
That reason might be a nice scapegoat that they invented after criticism because it's mentioned nowhere in their official announcement. >There are three big reasons why we’re remov…
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Comment #27239278
I don't know where you got terrorism from. The definition under question is "domestic extremism" which is not well defined. Depending on who you ask an extremist can vary between a…
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Comment #27150118
America has an enormous obesity problem which contributes to a significant number of Covid fatalities. When we tell Americans to get healthy it's mostly targeted towards those peop…
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Comment #26904525
Could you please explain how an optional feature is user exploitation?