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by Retric 5mo ago
Nonsense the cost of physical surveillance is extremely prohibitive.
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by Retric 5mo ago
FDA: Food and Drug Administration By prescription only is a regulation . Without that Coca-Cola would still have coca leaves. > drugs never developed The way you get good data on that is to look at the actual drug discovery process a
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by Retric 5mo ago
0.7% * 1.28 = 0.9% market share today. A large fraction of the people using Google probably have no idea DDG exists. So the backlash is likely significantly larger than just the 0.2% who left to this search engine.
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by Retric 5mo ago
> Peltzman had 10 years of statistical data to make the case. Any subsequent study that does not take into account lives saved by drugs never developed because of regulation costs is not a useful study. You say that as if no such study e
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by Retric 5mo ago
I hope you can understand why a book with a “Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 31, 1974” might have some gaps here in terms of relevant research and current regulations. As to the leaded gas issue, that’s a function of less strict regulations
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by Retric 5mo ago
Net deaths is what matters here. Obviously they aren’t perfect, but no human system is. The market for effective drugs is global. FDA regulations have a significant but not that burdensome influence on drug discovery. At the other end, th
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by Retric 5mo ago
Your smart home has never failed? What brand are you using?
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by Retric 5mo ago
Only if you’re ineffective. One of the best ways to prevent people dying is promoting long term economic growth.
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by Retric 5mo ago
> we just look at their power bill We can’t look at next year’s power bill today. Hell finding their power bills from 1930 isn’t trivial either, thus we model the universe and test those models rather than just making up nonsense models
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by Retric 5mo ago
An alarm with a built in light does that slowly getting brighter thing just fine. These days a smart home doing that slowly getting brighter thing regularly fails.
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by Retric 5mo ago
> in a competitive marketplace … current situation. Lots of words to say you don’t understand what you’re talking about. At the most simple level monopolies extract profits through raising prices above that of a competitive market. This
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by Retric 5mo ago
> I've studied much more econ than you. Then try and justify why you say shit this clueless: > how much will it make next year?" is not answered by running a simulation of competitive marketplace with production functions. P
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by Retric 5mo ago
Yes, corrected remembered the fatalities but should have looked it up anyway.
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by Retric 5mo ago
That was a mistake on my part those are A320 numbers not A380.
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by Retric 5mo ago
Ops A320. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
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by Retric 5mo ago
Incidents that are over five years old have minimal impact in terms of current competition between Boing and Airbus. The airbus A320 family is associated with 1,490 fatalities, there’s just a vast number of flights daily so tiny risks add u
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by Retric 5mo ago
> one virtual mega company Free market efficiency is inherently tied to having multiple companies. Treating the entire economy as a single company gives nonsensical results because it fundamentally differs from what actually occurs. Yo
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by Retric 5mo ago
That’s an overly simplified model. AI companies spending results in infrastructure beyond the company such as manufacturing capacity, power lines, software systems, and even individual expertise. If they fail then the negative impact rippl
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by Retric 5mo ago
Better is an arbitrary statement. By number of jobs robots lose, by number of sexual assaults by taxi drivers they win. Pick the wights for very factors and you can select anything as the best in category. Safer, cheaper, etc are less arb
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by Retric 5mo ago
That hardware is costing him ~1$/hour over 3 years. Presumably having it answer math questions was a tiny fraction of what he was using it for.
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by Retric 5mo ago
Not just that, predictions also impact voter participation.
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by Retric 5mo ago
> Do you really enjoy a frozen pizza from the oven at home in the same way as a freshly made pizza from an authentic pizza oven? Yes absolutely. I even measure them on the same scale and sometimes the frozen pizza wins. I’ve literally go
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by Retric 5mo ago
My mother has started watching 100% AI generated stories on YouTube. They are good enough to be entertaining even if they include random errors like messing up the main character’s name. The thing is the creative economy is all about peopl
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by Retric 5mo ago
This gets into the question of definitions vs edge cases. Ebola like many viruses can be contagious without direct touching. It’s not well adapted to airborne transmission, but it’s very good at causing people to spread bodily fluids all ov
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by Retric 5mo ago
COVID spread didn’t break down into first world vs third world countries because first world countries infrastructure isn’t built with pandemics in mind. Instead a great deal of modern infrastructure like subway systems makes things more di
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by Retric 5mo ago
You have many constitutional protections that do apply in business relationships. Extending that list is at minimum worth considering.
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by Retric 5mo ago
If it was that simple Ebola wouldn’t ever spread and nobody would bother trying to contain it. Instead it’s relatively easy to contain but still requires active effort.
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by Retric 5mo ago
> But that's 95% of cars that didn't need to be tested. That would only be true if the government was aware of which cars were in the 95% ahead of time. The fact that so many cars fail means even the driver isn’t sure let alon
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by Retric 5mo ago
> I'm entirely unconvinced that regular testing leads to an overall improvement large enough to matter assuming sufficient requirements were imposed on the vehicle at the time of manufacture. Only ~95% of cars pass emissions tests l
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by Retric 5mo ago
State run liquor stores in the US don’t prevent companies advertising alcohol on TV. The US is really bad at allowing drugs without then also allowing drug promotion. A better comparison is probably countries where prescription drugs can’t

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