JoshTko

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by JoshTko 3y ago
Deterring criminals requires consistent, accurate, fast reporting by customers which will never happen since customers have no incentive at all to report (not even considering the level of effort of educating the iPhone customer base abotu
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by JoshTko 3y ago
This.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
I love that Apple is doing this. Making thieves not want to steal my phone is 50x more valuable to me than having a slightly easier time repairing my phone.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Love this. I would switch to retailers that did this.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
I think this sequence is sufficient to infer that their approach to safety is not commensurate with their engineering skill. https://youtu.be/Z6JvAZHJCAo?si=y-nWawnkC_mIAvVM&t=123
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by JoshTko 3y ago
I definitely experienced this as well. Like conversation context is soo quickly forgotten these days.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
PVC is quite toxic in a variety of ways. I would never heat, cut PVC voluntarily, especially without full breathing protection
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by JoshTko 3y ago
This might be most plausible theory. Presumably going to US public also can leverage entire us population as a surveillance mechanism. Granted there would be a ton of noise. Timing also seems to make sense in that there has been heightened
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by JoshTko 3y ago
ChatGPT4 performance has gone down to GPT3 levels quite often for me making the output unusable.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
This is great. Kind of crazy that price transparency isn't available for healthcare yet in the US.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
If the change happens at a rate faster than most life on earth can adapt then the end effect is the same. Just will happen over a decade vs. over a month.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Studies like this seem to confirm my hypothesis that humans are truly just like LLMs and parenting is alignment.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
To add to this, the supreme court was the only check on the prime minister so removal of court would make Israel like a dictatorship.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Harvard is obviously a problem. Does any institution work against the interests of the people that fund it? Rich people fund Harvard. Harvard will work in the interests of rich people. Meritocracy is not in the in the interests of rich peop
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by JoshTko 3y ago
TLDR the strategy - "Let's add attention grabbing signs on poorly designed roads that are know to be dangerous instead of improving the road themselves" does not work.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
The benefits of capitalism.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Thank you. I think I finally grasp what's going on now.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Are you seriously asserting this?
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Requiring users to toggle a setting in order to achieve normal expected behavior is defacto a dark patten.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Apple likely makes more in profit from App store games than Sony does overall.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Seems to be a discoverability issue.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Twitter is Musk's hobby. An expensive hobby, but nonetheless a hobby.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
What FSD issues are the most problematic?
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by JoshTko 3y ago
By the time your battery needs replacement it will cost a fraction of what it costs today. Battery prices have been falling fast as the volume production of these batteries have scaled up.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Linda Yaccarino's wiki: The CEO that never was.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
"Remote work increases productivity by nearly a trillion dollars for businesses by reducing costly office space overhead costs" Should have been the title.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
That would be great. And given that Ivys use a wide range of other criteria, mostly subjective, means that the wealthy kids have a massive advantage. SATs are probably the least differentiating criteria for Ivys as everyone is already at 14
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by JoshTko 3y ago
I'm referring to admission. Athletic achievement, high impact volunteer work, high impact internships, high SAT score, number of AP, essay writing, all of these require $$$ to be compete at the top level. A poor kid that has to work su
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Private colleges fundamentally drive inequality. Access to elite university is essentially pay to play because all admission criteria advantage the wealthy.
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by JoshTko 3y ago
Research papers seem to be fundamentally flawed in that the person who has most to gain, is essentially the person measuring the results - classic conflict of interest problem. The peer review is clearly ineffective against a highly motivat

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