CityOfThrowaway

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by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
Do you have a source for that claim?
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by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
In a surprising turn of events, bureaucrats believe that bolstering their own bureaucracy is the panacea they’ve been looking for! More seriously, based on the level of digitization that has happened in the financial sector over the last 20
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by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
This is very impressive! OpenAI’s tech opens an ethical Pandora’s box: 1. It’s clear that the raw inputs to all of OpenAI’s outputs originated with real, human creativity. 2. So, in a sense, OpenAI is laundering creativity. It reads in crea
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by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
This statement denies reason. There are plenty of ways in which we can technology our way out, even if we accept your premises (which, to be clear, I don’t but I’m willing to play ball). Indeed, our only option – save for some type of gen
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by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
Yes, this is the right answer
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by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
To be clear, I am by no means a market-maximalist. I'm claiming that markets are an extremely effective way to govern the production of goods and the allocation of labor, compared to their alternatives. Further, I'm claiming that
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by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
Most of our global economic activity is governed by markets. We also happen to have the largest, wealthiest, and healthiest human population in history right now. So I agree with you, but also not sure where you’re disagreeing.
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by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
> even thought markets have been proven time and again to be self-harming and unstable unless closely regulated to limit social harm, inequality, exploitation, and the development of monopolies - it's not going to be positive about
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by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
The _existing police_ is a banded together mob. Citizen and all other private security firms operate under the same laws as any other individual or company. It’s not like these guys went out and started committing violent felonies...
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by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
The existing local police is a coalesced group effort. In some regions (like SF) the existing institutions are no longer effective. There is nothing surprising or particularly heinous about an attempt to create alternatives.
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by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
Do you have any data to back up the claim that CA’s homeless problem is driven by in-migration? The data quite resoundingly shows that the “tired argument” that many homeless people have addiction and mental health issues is correct. Nobody
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by CityOfThrowaway 6y ago
In the United States, the measures we use for income inequality are outrageously flawed In almost all measures of the Gini coefficient two significant flaws exist: 1. Incomes are counted on a pre-tax basis 2. Incomes are counted on a pre-go
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by CityOfThrowaway 6y ago
This method is desirable in that it is a generalizable and automatic correction mechanism. There is no need for a group of people to come together and decide to prevent it, figure out how to prevent it, and then stand up the infrastructure
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by CityOfThrowaway 6y ago
It is a significant reduction in scope and cost if you: 1. Make it online only 2. Let people use computers for free at city hall and libraries 3. Have folks around who can help if they get stuck
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by CityOfThrowaway 6y ago
This approach is likely to produce better experiences if it could be seen through to the end, but also likely to go nowhere inside a large organization. Change is hard. Radical change, all at once inside a big organization is near impossibl