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What celebrations? HN commenters hate money-printing schemes.

OS X / macOS has been ahead of Windows for a long time for anyone who lives in a web browser.

The solution if you really want to hear from the other side is to visit their echo chamber.

But most people who talk politics aren't really interested in changing their perspective. That's why these echo chambers exist.

Until they decide that they only support 2FA by app push notification.

There are no obvious threats to AdWords (aside from LLM chatbots) and YouTube.

The flourishing of pet peeve syndrome means that once you understand the hivemind, you can predict the comments just from the headline alone.

He saw AI as an existential threat to Google.

It'd be in stark contrast to Russia's attempted decapitation strike.

Even the slightest shadow of a "rules-based international world order" is dead. And all it took was some post-pandemic inflation.

People who even know what remote attestation is are an even smaller niche.

I often reciprocate. Receiving a gift triggers some warm fuzzies and I try to make the other person happy as well.

If they say or act as if there's something expected? I'm returning that "gift". That's a bargaining chip, not a gift.

Which facts are misrepresented?

The point is that the author picks some arbitrary critique and calls them fallacious, when the core of the disagreement is elsewhere.

This is exactly it.

I don't buy someone lunch with an implicit expectation that they'll buy me lunch in the future. That's tacky and gross. I buy lunch because I wanted to buy them lunch, and if they decide to buy me lunch, I happily accept.

Right, all the games that they think will be successful. Most games won't- it's a power law market.

There's nothing preventing a game dev from selling exclusively on their own site. It's not as though Steam has exclusive access to Windows customers like the App/Play Store do on their platforms. Steam earns its customers and their trust and developers follow.

Just skip the chapter?

What Steam brings is a firehose of gamers with their credit cards ready to all the games they think will be successful.

There's a reason why everyone launches on Steam.

If every gift one gives out comes with a moral obligation, it'd be pretty selfish to give gifts.

Indie good, big company bad

More details here:

https://www.smdp.com/waymo-beats-santa-monica-to-the-courtho...

Critics are typically saying that giving out scholarships limited by race is racially discriminatory.

It's better data than the people in one person's life.

You did say it.

with slots going to the rich and privileged) [...] AA just pushes against THAT

It doesn't give away the slots reserved for the rich.

And it's not a tiebreaker between equally qualified candidates. At Harvard, Africans who performed in the 4th decile were admitted more often than Asians in the 10th decile. [1]

[1]. See page 11 (by document numbering). https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1199/169941/202...

None of my arguments require any assumption on why. But I would say that it's because of prestige and signaling.

AA doesn't prevent the rich from buying admissions. It redistributes slots from middle and lower class folks with the wrong ethnicity.

And many against affirmative action will agree that there have been massive historical injustices for certain demographics that have lingering effects. The difference between these two sides is which value they prioritize.

It's only positive sum if they grew because of affirmative action. And if affirmative action caused net friction, it'd be a Moloch.

Are there any designers here who can explain when the differences between Public Sans and Roboto Sans and when to use one or the other?

Even if some critics of AA are committing that fallacy, debunking a weaker argument when a stronger argument exists is ineffective.

The implicit argument is that AA's largest challenge is a coordination problem. It's not. It's a clash in values and a fight over zero-sum rewards.

It's about time.

Car doors should have an intuitive method to open even when the car is unpowered.

Lots of interesting insights, but their affirmative action take is a miss.

Critics of affirmative action often commit the fallacy of letting a failure in one area doom the entire enterprise. This ignores the interdependent nature of affirmative action. [1]

Affirmative action sets up a zero-sum game where fixed resources like university admissions and employment offers are redistributed to people with the "correct" demographics. The conflict is not a disagreement over effectiveness. It's a misalignment between meritocracy and equity.

[1] https://nonzerosum.games/unlockingsolutions.html