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by Guvante 3y ago
Science is very reproducibile by design, half the goal of peer review is to ensure that. The problem is the incentive structure is not aligned with that and so reproduction is never done. I would instead argue that consensus is the best bar
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by Guvante 3y ago
Except they do the same for non-new products which muddles things tremendously. If I don't see a price I assume it is out or they only have used ones. Certainly occasionally I have seen scalpers when I double checked anyway to see what
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by Guvante 3y ago
Say Amazon offers three items all equivalent: one is priced at $9 and two are priced at $9.50 all are Prime. If the vendor for the $9 offers it for $8.50 elsewhere and Amazon starts focusing on a $9.50 offer is that "better for the con
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by Guvante 3y ago
Historically you are careful with free shipping to ensure the loss is less than say a retail cut of the price. That is why minimum orders were so popular, if it cost say $8 to ship something and a retail margin is 15% I can do the math on a
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by Guvante 3y ago
Amazon Prime isn't the same as Costco Membership unless you ignore everything beyond "richer customers are willing to pay for it". Costco makes its profit off its membership. Amazon Prime offers a product at less than cost an
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by Guvante 3y ago
AI has driven 44 million miles so far. Americans drove 3.2 million million miles (aka trillion). Comparing things that have managed in total barely 1/100,000th of a years usage means anecdotes don't matter. Because there is at min
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by Guvante 3y ago
I think cash discounts and similar models can work to avoid paying the CC fee (now that vendors are allowed to do that)
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by Guvante 3y ago
I pulled up their financials previously and their gross margin was 1%. Net income is a weird number so I tend to ignore it for this kind of stuff. Certainly I could have missed the payback style stuff they do but I thought that was included
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by Guvante 3y ago
A Tesla drove under a semi because "that flat thing isn't moving it can't be a car it must be a billboard". A jay walker in Arizona got ran over because "people are only in crosswalks" (I don't remember th
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by Guvante 3y ago
Visa gets 1% and the bank gets the rest actually. Which they use to fund cash back programs...
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by Guvante 3y ago
Computers are worse. The only way we have gotten any semblance of safety is "slam on breaks if unrecognized" which happens quite frequently.
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by Guvante 3y ago
Are they actually safer though? There hasn't been a ton of data especially in areas where the risk is important.
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by Guvante 3y ago
Everyone is saying "is AI better" not saying humans are good. As terrible as humans are we do have a very important trait. Being able to handle unexpected information efficiently. All the current AI models do have ways of slightly
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by Guvante 3y ago
Waymo had 20 accidents by February of this year but categorized 18 of them as "minor collision events". Unless the authors similarly recategorized the driver data that is suspect. For instance 1.24 is the number of injuries per mi
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by Guvante 3y ago
Don't brake check someone and rely on this as you will end up partially at fault for creating a dangerous situation. But braking for safety is always allowed and the person behind you is supposed to leave room to allow that.
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by Guvante 3y ago
Can't even tell what the article is about when 2/3 of my phone screen is ads...
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by Guvante 3y ago
Most use it like that the post uses a limited form where only certain commands can be ran.
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by Guvante 3y ago
I mean NOSQL was hype with no substance but "you can scale more if you deal with not having ACID" is just generally true. Of course ACID scales to well into the Fortune 500 scale so...
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by Guvante 3y ago
Prop 13 says they can't do that. Only the county can charge 1%. Irvine CA wanted property tax and so they get builders to force you to an extra fee but it isn't technically a property tax. Not to say there isn't sometimes a f
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by Guvante 3y ago
1% property taxes are ~15% of my mortgage payment in CA. I would pay 50% more if I upgraded with the same debt amount due to interest.
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by Guvante 3y ago
California has a 1% tax rate. If you can't afford less than $1k per month you could just sell your $1 million house. Those numbers aren't being dramatic. You need a $1.2 million house to pay $1k a month in property taxes.
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by Guvante 3y ago
By most metrics used to measure economic success the economy as a whole is most "healthy" (aka productive) with little if any saving going on. Obviously that isn't true on smaller scales, living paycheck to paycheck isn'
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by Guvante 3y ago
The wealthy are never software developers. Software developers can hit upper middle class but that is it. The wealthy that were software engineers founded startups and became CEOs. (Yes Silicon Valley salaries seem ridiculous but cost livin
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by Guvante 3y ago
There already exists rules for certainty in law. After all just because you were seen by fourteen witnesses found with the murder weapon and admitted to the crime doesn't mean you are 100% guilty. It could have been your identical twin
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Not everyone agrees that touching is an option. Be it legal, moral, or religious reasons it isn't uncommon for touching to be considered off limits but anything before that is a grey area.
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What US negotiators? Pretty sure the US cannot negotiate most drugs and instead has to pay market rate. So Insurance companies/Pharmacy companies set the price and the US government pays it. If you see the problem you are more aware th
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by Guvante 3y ago
The edit queue was sitting at over 40k at one point. Unfortunately people trying to game the system creates enormous work for those who can review. (Not saying you were doing anything wrong just pointing out why there are automated guards)
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I think keeping the committee was partially to avoid accidentally cutting off the stream of new writers. If you can't get started doing grunt work writing you have to get started somewhere.
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by Guvante 3y ago
Elevator operators were not replaced by buttons. Elevator operators were replaced by very complex computers with many redundant censors. You had elevator operators for safety not convenience... Similarly you seem to have the common misconce
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Small businesses having insufficient margins to pay taxes doesn't mean they are inefficient. It sometimes means they don't have enough leverage to get the margins other businesses can get. The goal is to have the bigger company pa

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