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by Nifty3929 1y ago
TFA didn't really make the problem clear to me. I think it something like this, but I'm not sure. Can anybody clarify? Problem (?): We can't produce open hardware for things that others have patented. Chinese companies (and m
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
I imagine you use prices and rationing to restrict the number of permits to avoid this issue.
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Free, common-use things are awesome - until the tragedy of the commons sets in and ruins it for everybody. This is true of so many things that start free and then later require payment. And everybody gets mad about it.
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
I hope you're right.
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Indeed! Sure, maybe lithium orotate can be bad in high doses. You know what's super-bad for sure? Alzheimer's! If I have Alzheimer's, please let me try whatever long-shot you have. I'll be your gunnie pig.
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Why not just have a table charge? I think maybe a red light at your table, which you extinguish for a time by paying money. If the red light is on, then you start getting those dirty looks, and eventually asked to leave. If you buy somethin
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Sure they do - but maybe past the point of treating people like adults. I admit I'm not sure about Finland, but in some places they have hot-water stops on faucets that prevent you from turning it up to hot without additional mechanica
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
What is missing is: WHY? Why is it helpful or interesting to have an isomorphic piano? And what does "isomorphic" even mean here? As a casual piano player and techie, I can guess that it means that each lower key and each upper ke
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
I'd rather see it as a searchable database, which I would think is super cheap and no maintenance for Google, and avoids these privacy issues. You can input a known goo.gl and get it's real URL, but can't just list everything
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
No.
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Let's just remember that this is a ballot-box issue, not a payment-type issue. A lot of folks I'm sure will say this is what crypto is for, but if that ever gained enough traction then (the US) congress would clamp down on it. The
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Yes, but one usage is less ambiguous than the other. "French villages" - From two to all, with a bias to "many" "Some French villages" - From two to less-than-all, with a strong bias toward a relatively small p
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Landfills are remarkably environmentally friendly and safe, with plenty, plenty of room. Landfills are a GREAT place to put things we don't want to use anymore. Recycling is nice too, if it works out, which isn't as often as we&#x
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
I don't think your sarcasm was picked up here :-)
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
What a sad waste of talent in that case. A waste that could be mitigated by them finding a more productive way to help society than sticking to a pointless job.
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Two big problems: 1. For most people and most degrees, college does not make one more useful to society. 2. Even for those people/degrees that do make people more useful, that doesn't mean society benefits from an unlimited number
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
What would you do with all of the employees who are currently working in jobs or on projects or with skills not relevant to the company?
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Unfortunately, these laws are working exactly as intended. If they discourage all forms of sexually-explicit material, the laws are working as intended. They are not really about "protecting the children." They use that as an excu
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
What boggles my mind is that so many of us still thing more government is the way to address problems. The fact is, humans are human, and work in both government and in business. But a business cannot put you in jail or unilaterally freeze
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
"But without trying, you are guaranteed failure" >> But without trying you are limited to a relatively safe and certain affluent paycheck from your day job.
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Satoshi =? Jensen
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
I agree with you, but I think you have cause/effect reversed. It's not that a high concentration of wealth results in high assets prices. It's that the money has nowhere else to go except into tech/AI, so those are the o
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
There's a lot more immigration and diversity today, especially in urban and sub-urban America. While laudatory in many respects, I think it also reduces social interaction because there's less shared cultural background, beliefs,
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Let's keep this in mind as we read about whatever thing is ruining us today...
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
I just don't think NVidia cares all that much about it's gaming cards, except to the extent that they don't want to cede too much ground to AMD and basically preserve their image in that market for now. Basically they don&#x2
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
Netflix introduced an additional billing model to cater to those folks who would prefer ads to a subscription fee, but has not removed the no-ads model for a higher fee. I'm happy to pay for my ad-free Netflix, and I respect that oth
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
If I'm going to pay for something by watching ads, I much rather watch fewer, higher value, more targeted ads. Untargeted ads are less valuable (to me, the advertiser, and the ad publisher), so I would have to see a lot more of them to
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
I think the problem is more fundamental than this: When your monetization model is tied to usage, then of course you will try to maximize usage, rather than user benefit. It can't be any other way if your reward function is tied to pro
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
If you think the value of gold has remained stable, that's only because you're only measuring it during times and places of stability. See how much bread your ounce of gold buys you when there's no bread to buy. In a real cri
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by Nifty3929 1y ago
How? You cannot eat gold - and if you're in exile will anybody sell stuff to you?

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