FredPret

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by FredPret 2y ago
What a shithole company. Also, how in the world is "civil asset forfeiture" (aka pure government theft) legal in the US of all places?
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by FredPret 2y ago
Those are relevant to the workings of government. The process of politicians debating and getting elected is going to have to be much more local. Just look at how easy it is to spread misinformation now.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I think AI + deepfakes will increase the value pressure on in-person interactions - ie, the only time when you can (for now) believe your eyes and ears. I wonder how politics can be transacted in such an environment. Old-timey first-past-th
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by FredPret 2y ago
> If I put a gun to your head and gave you 1 year to find out what, exactly, goes into a bag of Doritos and what the nutritional content is, you couldn't do it. > Sure, but keep in mind you understand, maybe, a fraction of a frac
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by FredPret 2y ago
1. Not your buddy. 2. Read my last paragraph, I agree that low-cost and low-effort regulation like outlawing meth and enforcing seatbelts can have a big ROI. Note though that the source of these regulations is The People, the same folks who
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by FredPret 2y ago
Companies make their offers and people are free to choose. I’m saying the people should have more power to choose, more options to choose from, more disposable resources to choose with. This will lead to better outcomes than if the regulato
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by FredPret 2y ago
“The people” are also the ones doing the buying. If The People are qualified to regulate matters pertaining to 4WD vs AWD, then they are capable of figuring out which one to buy. For what it’s worth, I believe some regulations are low effor
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by FredPret 2y ago
Still entirely possible it’s from his perspective.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Almost all regulation favors large entities who can afford the lawyers and consultants to deal with it. The exception is anti-trust regulation.
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by FredPret 2y ago
This notion of regulation is just the desire to offload your duties as a responsible and intelligent market participant to a third party. It’s intellectually lazy, and it should be blindingly obvious that, in a universe with more than one m
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by FredPret 2y ago
This is exactly why the House That Jack Built (GE) was made out of cards. To be fair, running a huge megacorp is really hard and there seems to be no easy answer to getting thousands of people to perform optimally, together, over the long t
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by FredPret 2y ago
Usually stack ranking is aimed at culling the bottom of the stack, no? Wonder how getting rid of the employees with the most agency and options will turn out for the office-heads.
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by FredPret 2y ago
It felt like the alarm was announcing the end times, but we couldn't feel the quake at all. It was a 5.x but far away
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by FredPret 2y ago
I was recently in Japan when an earthquake alarm went off. Turns out they have a ton of earthquakes - most days look to have 3-4, and as of this posting there have been seven today. https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quak
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by FredPret 2y ago
But isn’t that the lesson? Occupy while you rebuild?
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by FredPret 2y ago
We recently spent a month in Tokyo. It is ridiculously safe and law-abiding. I'm surprised they have any crime at all. In our entire time there, I saw one (1) individual piece of small rubbish on the street.
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by FredPret 2y ago
That's the worst possible interpretation of what that comment said. - If there's a shooting 100ft from me, I don't care if it gets reported or not. I'm worried about getting in the crossfire. - On the other hand, if ther
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by FredPret 2y ago
This is a blanket statement and is lazy in the same way as "all government is bad" or "all business owners are bad". Of course a small portion of all crimes is committed due to poverty. But it's super easy to come u
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by FredPret 2y ago
Instead of pontificating on the efficacy of the healthcare system, why not just look at the actual outcome? Lifespans are going up, including the length of time spent being relatively healthy; infant mortality is down; cancers are getting h
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by FredPret 2y ago
Some fields of study will always be art, not science. Literature, art, human psychology. A good writer, artist, or therapist can make a truly great contribution. But they cannot conduct disciplined experiments and establish truth numericall
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by FredPret 2y ago
Just don’t let them loose! We have lots of buried plastic pipes and cables.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Recycling is hard because different plastic molecules don’t always play nice together - and the same goes for metal. So you need to sort everything carefully. This is hard, slow, and way too imperfect. I wonder if a better approach could on
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by FredPret 2y ago
For breadth and content, there's no beating Wikipedia. There are some issues with one-sided moderation, but that's true of the paper encyclopedias as well. But having a non-internet reference is very good because it encourages lea
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by FredPret 2y ago
People get so confused. Person A wants good thing Y. But B, the creator of Y, wants Z in return. Does this mean B is forcing A to do anything?
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by FredPret 2y ago
Kelly Ortberg is a mech engineer who... > was credited by union leaders and analysts for the culture he developed at Rockwell and regularly walked the production floor. He ran Rockwell’s military and commercial arms, cementing relationsh
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by FredPret 2y ago
It's not a spaceship until it reaches space!
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Boeing Hires Kelly Ortberg as Its Next CEO(wsj.com)
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by FredPret 2y ago
Paper encyclopedias are a joy of discovery. It was important to have a set on the shelf so as a kid I had a playing field where I could randomly open one up and find nothing but good content. The internet has slop, distractions, and pernici
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by FredPret 2y ago
Today, a simple simulation at 60fps. Tomorrow: "When you gaze long into the simulation, the simulation gazes back"
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by FredPret 2y ago
Master of Orion 2 was the peak. Some games like Factorio have minimal content but endless combinations of it in interesting ways. One that stands out is Europa Universalis, which both encodes and presents a crazy amount of history. But even

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