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It would be unsurprising to me if Amazon had buried this claim and didn't want it to be repeated, because in my opinion that would be clear evidence that they were breaking labor l…

> Your comment sounds like a rationalization from a middle/upper income person. In most countries that I am aware of, the tax rate becomes essentially flat at, or relatively close …

Everybody thinks we are in a golden age of television series, don't they? I don't claim that these examples have the same history as music.

> What evidence is there that Trump or anyone else had a financial incentive to untowardly push HCQ? I assume you are not denying that they did push it - so, I want to ask in retur…

If someone said "about fifty bucks" and it turns out to be $62.17, I'd immediately understand them to be scamming me.

> if you ask a perfectly reasonable scientific question, there's a good chance that it's somehow gotten associated with political party X or political party I don't think this is a…

I think this essentially agrees with my point (that there was more creativity in the broad space of 'pop music' when pop music was a newer phenomenon). I appreciate the reminder th…

>Source? https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 You can change the week yourself. If you pick a few random weeks before 2000, you likely won't find this pattern that I identified…

> Everyone says music "used to be better" but that's just survival bias. Not "just" survival bias. I think it's quite reasonable to take a position that there was more innovation a…

> You can't enforce a DMCA claim against an entity without ties to the US. This is less obvious than it might appear - the US has pushed to include DMCA-equivalent claims in intern…

This was a deliberate form of copy protection. A little bit sub-optimal in terms of communicating that they wanted you to purchase the game: if they told you this was copy protecti…

Maybe that there is a customs border internal to Norway?

Right. The result for headlines of 65 chars - shared 50,000 more times than 60 chars or 70 chars - seems too incredible to occur at random and suggests instead that a popular news …

You understand that you're characterising crypto as a pyramid scheme, I guess?

This is a tricky one. There is one route to revoke consent and another route to object to legitimate interest, and it doesn't seem that you can precisely follow both routes. I assu…

Citymapper at least tries, but is still bad for bike+public transport. I look at the options that Citymapper gives and then have to recalculate the route, in my head, correcting fo…

> it consumes the battery (increasing carbon footprint) Using web-searched estimates, the carbon cost of leaving this on constantly for a full year is approximately equivalent to t…

Gambling-adjacent reasons are: it's difficult to tax in a fair way (what proportion the capital gains due on crypto have been paid?), and has potential to be used as a front for or…

Considering that life expectancy for a 30 year old man is around 79.3 in Germany 2018, and you're reading it to be 76.9 in 1930, that's far less change than I have ever heard anyon…

One could argue this to be evidence that Apple is willing to disagree with an authoritarian government.

This is just saying that rich people are rich. Someone with obscene wealth can be imprisoned and still buy a yacht - even incarceration has a much greater impact on a poor person. …

That's a great business model if you have investors. You get a proven long-term return of 25% per annum. If you're doing it out of your own bank account, you'll bankrupt before rea…

> "Here's what I want to do" By saying only this, you might give me sufficient information to allow me to gauge how you value my service. I don't have to ask "what's the maximum yo…

> There are a lot of sharks swimming in the capital markets with deep expertise. I would argue that you have proven my point - if I have a bunch of money, I can pay for expertise/m…