geppeto's comments

Okay sorry and I didn't realize you had that capability for moderation, pretty helpful that you can isolate child threads.

One thing I want to question is how to criticize and steer discussion away from certain directions on this site? HN is widely known for the pedantic and non sequitur directions that discussions go, as ridiculous opinions get elevated and non-comforming opinions get downvoted to oblivion but not based on correctness or relevance.

Thoughts? I often speak in hyperbole to highlight the absurdity of other people's opinions, but that doesn't seem compatible with the mod's ideals for this site

Why are you still trying altruism?

Aligning the economic incentives to promote an outcome is much more effective at getting that outcome

WE ALREADY KNOW THIS

you have to also show up and defend yourself.

many summary judgements on flaky arguments are made just because the defendant didn't respond. the judgements are collected from you bank in any jurisdiction that will reciprocate

The government's not getting involved, oh you mean the fact that a judge is going to be involved?

Civil courts exist to provide monetary damages if damages can be proved to exist. Yes, they can also compel arbitrary behavior as a part of governing body.

This is independent of any stance on Zillow and a state licensing regime. If the plaintiff can convince that the tool is making her lose money, the judge will award her money.

"but that means < cue completely uninformed legal analogy >" yes you can make a career out of litigation, many people have.

Thanks, the way reported salaries mask total compensation is very opaque between industries.

I didn't violate any comment guidelines, which one did I violate?

I think I added to the conversation and this is a also a reality I live in. Kickback and relax, emphasis on kickback, is way more effective in creating favorable political situations for me and everyone I know, than a popular vote. Some jurisdictions formalize it with synonyms, others don't. Do I have to write massive disclaimers and sources for accepted reality just to avoid being shadowbanned?

you make it sound like they have a chance

> And of course, their votes count the same as my vote.

But your political influence is much greater with money

The popular vote is for welfare clones

Tricky to win, but this would be more like a global sanction than a tax, semantics at this point

I think we could accomplish it but not at a local or state level

ah, I see, the real point is isolated to the flaws in American culture for cohabitation.

I can agree with you there, as the differences can grow without being addressed.

I don't think the US constitution would allow for that tax, written that way anyway.

To pass a court challenge, the laws as written and the discussions around them have to apply to everyone otherwise it would be too discriminatory (5th amendment equal liberty clause, & 14th amendment equal protection clause). Maybe you could write it as all homebuyers in that jurisdiction being subject to the tax, and then its tiered for certain variables.

Time to import a spouse from one of those traditional cultures!

Its actually free if you use your reward points, don't be stingy those points are there for this specific reason!

Just like in Romania, the meritocracy exacerbated realities behind academic advantages and revealed cultural quirks that weren't even considered.

There is a lot of literature behind what those exact quirks in New York City, if you'd like to read about it.

New York City experienced a similar reality.

They aimed to help poor and disenfranchised groups get into their specialized public schools, by forcing a meritocracy, as disproportionately wealthy and white families were accepted because admittance was previously too discretionary and lots of excuses were made about why (hm sounds familiar).

After the meritocracy was established it became disproportionately asian by a huuuuuge margin (stuyvesant high school being ~75% asian with the city having a ~10% asian population) while poor and disenfranchised groups are still poor and disenfranchised. Just even more apparently now.

This is no comment about meritocracies, it is about illuminating how far off base a governing body will be at promoting a particular outcome.

Great! Ive seen several communities move off of their own custom built sites into facebook groups

A crude solution driven by the people simply being there

Maybe a groups and events app would have a lot of utility.

They could probably bake it into messenger.

Just vocal ones. Not being on Facebook is met with bewilderment usually, so online its easier to find other people that are relatable by speaking up. Many people that are tied to Facebook share the same woes and may be looking for more inspiration about how to simply live without Facebook.

So there's simply value in saying that you aren't on it, when these kind of threads or sound boxes pop up.

Outside of Silicon Valley, people are marginally bewildered when you tell them you don't have Facebook. Inside Silicon Valley you'll quite often run into someone that works at Facebook and they'll switch to a psych analysis algorithm to understand how their service is not catering to you, while trying to mask their offense.

It must be good because of the daily active user number! Yeah well Tobacco has a high DAU too.

People have to come to that realization on their own.

There's a new sucker born every minute, and the way you target those suckers has to adapt to regulations.

The way I realized it was when I went through ten year old yahoo finance message boards, and compared consensus arguments on stocks with what happened in those stocks. It was 100% uncorrelated.

Significant overlap in the concepts such as avoiding companies into firearms, profiting from conflict zones, tobacco sometimes and other vices.

Thats the demonstration. Shouldn't bother you that much.