coffeevradar
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4 years ago
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on: Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing foundation's bank account
Hi there, if it's ok with you I'm going to address subsequent commenters for a moment. Anyone smarter than me, let's focus on this comment. Isn't this the type of social media post that would be immediately dismissed as self-serving propaganda that has the effect of undermining both democracy and the dollar? What is the essential difference between this post and the kind of nonsense that is now being patrolled on other social media platforms?
coffeevradar
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5 years ago
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on: Bitcoin Tops $24K, Setting New All-Time High
With the important distinction that most investment vehicles represent tangible ownership (of equity in a company, of a debt obligation, of real estate, etc.)
Bitcoin exists primarily as something people buy in order to hopefully sell to someone else, all with the underlying value intangible and arguably nonexistent beyond scarcity.
coffeevradar
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6 years ago
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on: Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use
Copyright is fairly applied to Disney. There were many beneficiaries to its extension, large and small. In any case, it is a matter of law, just like earlier, shorter copyright protections were.
It's totally legitimate to favor shorter copyright, but essentially any duration is an arbitrary one. It strikes me as odd that you would be interested in applying the law fairly while also referring to the law as a perversion.
coffeevradar
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6 years ago
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on: Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies
>The unemployment benefit extension and hack (unemployment + $600) was the real critical mistake that we'll spend a long time fixing.
What was the alternative? Existing unemployment benefits are insufficient for households to pay bills and the PP program at best would have saved a small portion of the overall jobs lost.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
I was responding to a comment that conflated the worst excesses of admittedly terrible communities on Reddit with the whole of the 'modern right.' My goal was to explain the thinking of those who are accusing Reddit of systemic bias against the right. Their assertion is that subreddits advocating violence against right-wing activists are tolerated, while right-wing subreddits are condemned for similar infractions. Whether this is objectively true I do not know. In fact, my interest in politics is minimal and I should probably leave these discussions alone in future. I hope Hacker News does not devolve into another online community overrun with political arguments and petty antagonism.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
You'll note that I said that there was an 'apparent' double standard. If may not be apparent to you, but it certainly is to some. You seem like you spend more time on the political parts of Reddit than I, so I'm sure you're well equipped to investigate this yourself.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
There are plenty of left-wing subreddits with equal measures of vitriol. Somehow they avoid earning the same opprobrium that the right-wing ones do. This apparent double standard creates the appearance of bias.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983
People that do any kind of data entry or work in finance learn to use it too. The number pad is not just for cashiers.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Can Germany Fix Facebook?
Without the Bill of Rights having already been drafted and clearly having enough support for success, the Constitution would not have had enough support to have been ratified because of opponents that were concerned about the very rights that the Bill of Rights enacts (including freedom of speech).
It is obviously true that the first amendment is an amendment, but it is not accurate to suggest that it is (or was viewed at the time as) less essential than the document it amended.
This is something that is covered in most U.S. civics classes.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America
Except that they charge $1.50 for everything.
Which is only annoying because similar stores in Japan (which for me are a highlight of any trip to Japan) only charge ¥100.
I don't know if it's because of proximity to China or because Daiso knows they're offering better stuff than their literally $1 competitors here in the U.S.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Training crows to pick up cigarette butts for food
I think they've solved it in Singapore.
Not that I'm in favor of the methods used.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: The Depression Thing
Is that when you store it in bottles for later?
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers
But vapor isn't smoke.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Average IQ scores seem to have been falling and population ageing may be why
There's already the WC test. Which as one gets older one is less likely to pass.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Physical recovery from binge TV-watching gets harder as we get older
To be clear, the hot coffee warning is there because a particular McDonald's franchisee elected to keep their coffee at boiling levels and then serve it to unsuspecting customers at the drive-thru. This practice resulted in extremely serious burns to the genitals of the woman who famously sued.
I take your larger point, but I feel your example is one better suited to Seinfeld or a comedy act.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
Reasonably sure their buying all three automakers would attract the attention of antitrust regulators.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Trump Strategic and Policy Forum, Which Included IBM and GM CEOs, Disbands
If you're suggesting that Hitler also placed all of the blame on immigrants, you must mistakenly believe that the Jewish people were immigrants to Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. This was not the case. The Jewish victims of the Holocaust were targeted for being Jewish, not because they hadn't been born within certain borders.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: First Human Embryos Edited in U.S
Life, uh, finds a way.
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: Why did AirAsia fly a crippled jet away from a nearby airport yesterday?
Some AirAsia pilots are religious!?
My word!
coffeevradar
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8 years ago
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on: The Holder Report on Uber
What's wrong with doing that"
