DuskStar

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by DuskStar 7y ago
You're right, you're not my personal tutor. Nor are you obliged to gain my approval. But when saying "you're wrong", a "why" is generally required to convince anyone - not just myself, but also anyone else
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Your suggestion was "read a few papers". Not "this part of what you're saying is wrong, and why", not "look at this paper that makes X argument", not anything of that sort - just "only someone who doe
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Yes, there was - but now that Airbus has small planes, Boeing's lineup "needs" to expand to match, and buying a smaller manufacturer is the easiest way to do that.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I think following supply and demand curves - whether that be Uber's surge pricing, gasoline during a power outage, lifesaving medicine outside of a crisis, or rent in SF - isn't evil. Evil would be denying those goods to someone b
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I think I need to repeat this: I'm sorry, what? Do you have a response, or only ad hominem attacks?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Also possible that they know what will cause the eyes of the government to turn in their direction - anyone price gouging in a crisis must be evil, after all. And of course the first store to start doing this will get media attention, amp
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I'm sorry, what? Do you have a response, or only ad hominem attacks?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Ah yes, the famine caused by having to grow cash crops to pay rent to a foreign empire, leading to overdependence on a single food crop that provided several times the calories/acre/year of anything else. Definitely the magic ha
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by DuskStar 7y ago
No, my point is that if the stores raised prices they wouldn't be cleared out for arbitrage or hoarding. You seem to think it's possible to eliminate all resale markets, and thus eliminate the arbitrage opportunity. Ignoring the f
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> The spokesperson added that eBay is also "taking significant measures to block or quickly remove items" on its marketplace that make unsubstantiated medical claims. > On the other hand, I think this is a far more sensibl
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Right - instead they just get a reputation for not having items in stock when you really need them.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Gotcha, and your reply to the GP clarified a lot for me!
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And now you've blocked me copy-pasting my novel's manuscript...
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I think his point is that he's targeting low aggregate uptime, too.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> > You assumed a lot about the parent comment's interpretation. " > No I did not. That the THE primary argument detractors make when they say that UBI disincentivizes work. Read enough on the arguments against UBI and yo
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by DuskStar 7y ago
When's the last time that someone tested a series of satellites (or launch vehicles), with a number of up-front failures? Prior to SpaceX, of course. To me it looks like that sort of iterative trial-and-error design process died with
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And does what? Mandates that hand sanitizer not exceed some price/oz? There'll still be shortages, because some whales will buy it all. Mandate caps on the amount that a person can buy? I suppose hospitals are fucked then, and tha
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by DuskStar 7y ago
However, trademark is not copyright.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
No offence, but that sounds like a really shitty school to me.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> China has demonstrated that disruptive steps have flattened the epidemic curve. Sure, China's demonstrated that "one person from your apartment complex can leave to buy supplies every two days"-tier restrictions can have
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Not to mention that taking extremely disruptive steps to minimize spread of the virus is only worthwhile (in any sense) if it actually works . I could certainly see the CDC determining that it wouldn't work, even with a month-long she
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by DuskStar 7y ago
From the perspective of the government, this might be literally true. 0.2% mortality rate for people of working age, so if we assume an average of 25 more productive years then that's losing (0.002 * 25 years = 18.26 days) a bit less
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by DuskStar 7y ago
This is my impression of the comment chain so far: The root said " The users of that forum have literally been linked to public shootings. ", as part of an argument that /r/the_donald is a shithole and deserves to be ban
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Imagine Mark Zuckerberg using FB admin rights to turn a "Donald Trump is the worst president of our generation" post by Biden into "Bernie Sanders would be the worst president of our generation". Would characterizing tha
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Didn't the Christchurch shooter also mention people like Nelson Mandela and MLK? Does this mean that their teachings are irrevocably tainted now? For that matter, look at the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting - should Pelosi resign
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I'm not sure that AgainstHateSubreddits is exactly an impartial observer here. Or anything close to it.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
All of those "Mature Subjects" sound like things that kids in schools should very definitely be allowed to access, IMO. And somehow I'd imagine that CNN's YouTube channel isn't limited in the same way. (Or Fox New
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And at the same time, Google claiming that prageru is "sensitive content" is kind of ridiculous too.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Does anything prevent the "offline" bits of your system from working online? Does anything prevent the information there from being compromised? Not "we keep it super duuper safe, we promise", but actual cryptographic gu
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by DuskStar 7y ago
That's what errors.Is() is for.

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