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ETHICAL short sellers. Reddit is after naked short sellers. Big difference.

Someone previously illustrated sceneries where the algorithm hiccupped on your data and erroneously labeled you as a pedophile and/or terrorist (at the same time!).

If you think about it, bad ML (or your words: "...ML isn't magic.") is just as bad, if not worse, than infallible ML.

"I still despise it..." - you seriously did not understand that statement? And you took it to mean his own INTERNALIZED struggle?

In addition to all you said, you mentioned your car...do they also pay you for your commute time? Of course not.

Say you have a 1hr each way...2 hours/day, 5 days/week, 48 weeks/year, $100/hr: $100 * 2 * 5 * 48 = $48,000. WFH literally just saved you $48k of billable time.

Buying a 4k monitor (that you can also use for non-work activities) on your own dime is probably reasonable.

I do this too! It's especially great when I'm starting to doze but don't want a full nap...I can hop up and do a set of whatever. After that, I'm good to go!

Can you take your Bitcoin out of Robinhood? Of course not.

You do not actually own any Bitcoin at Robinhood.

There's the "middleman" in your scenario without a middleman...just a different kind of middleman.

That sounds...really wasteful.

Perhaps a happy medium? Maybe not $1500 Damascus knife, but maybe a nice Wüsthof so you're not throwing so much out, and damaging the environment.

That's a curious take.

Source?

If all they are doing is allowing color changes and slight UI tweaks (and the undo button), why not take a page from online gaming's playbook and just sell cosmetics?

There is pretty much no limit to what could be sold as a cosmetic...add "flair" to the twitter bird (googly eyes, hats, etc) ($5.99 - $25.99)...make circle logo on your profile an octagon ($1.99), a triangle ($1.25)...with a blue border for an extra $.99....etc

I bet they'd make gobs more than a $2.99/mo.

But that is the whole point of the parent. Who is to say it is a "propaganda effort"? FB/TW/YT? Why? How would they know (unless they were part of that effort, ironically)?

"Whenever someone like me gets called a "white supremacist" for defending someone's right to post a job opportunity without being subject to attack, it devalues a term whose meaning is indispensable to retain so that genuine instances of racism can be identified and rightfully addressed."

Wow, this is basically what all us "crazy alt-right" people have been worried was going to happen since day 1.

Second and third order consequences are not always that hard to foresee.

I find it fascinating that Hollywood is doubling down on this type of writing after it's been shown to drive away audiences.