Retric

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by Retric 3mo ago
No, Money, Votes, etc has value because the general public gives it value. All billionaires could be instantly broke if the general public decided they were broke. Votes are ultimately a method of control not an inherent power unto themse
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by Retric 3mo ago
That hardware costs GW of electricity at scale. So barring major disruption in R&D you hit a cost curve cliff where new hardware is simply more cost effective even if existing hardware is free. Some workloads may make sense running for
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by Retric 3mo ago
20 year old fiber can have another 10-20 years of useful lifespan remaining, I think compute is going to be valuable for a while but even a 7 year cycle doesn’t change much. Most compute isn’t going to be new at a potential crash and recove
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by Retric 3mo ago
Most of the cost in a fiber rollout is actual fiber in the ground which could be upgraded by simply swapping a few relatively cheap bits of equipment. Data centers and electrical infrastructure has a similar long term value, but most of the
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by Retric 3mo ago
Caterpillar sells way more than tracked vehicles, and very much uses CAT as its logo. Nintendo could have named itself after playing cards, but that wouldn’t have kept up with its current business model.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Companies can be named after random nonsense, ‘pink catfish’ could easily be the world’s #1 supplier of firearms and nobody would find it strange. Caterpillar, Apple, Kellogg, etc really don’t have anything to do with the underlying product
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by Retric 3mo ago
Not quite, you can get them changed if you’re willing to announce to everyone that your stock is wildly overvalued and is going to crash.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Houses don’t shrink as they age. When everything is built huge you don’t end up with homes that are cheap to heat, cool, or maintain. That’s why building affordable houses is actually a real issue. What’s really dumb is the average number
129.
by Retric 3mo ago
You can enter arbitrary characters easily on a US keyboard, English still doesn’t use quotes like that. It’s a mistake nothing more.
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by Retric 3mo ago
The day after your physical doing another physical provides next to no benefit. Healthcare is a world of diminishing returns at ever increasing costs. But that doesn’t mean the low effort first steps are less valuable.
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by Retric 3mo ago
I think the only metric that matters is total medical care provided on a national / global scale. It may take vastly more training but on average a full annual physical provides less benefit on average than a 30 second vaccination requ
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by Retric 3mo ago
“Understanding” without being able to use that knowledge for anything isn’t useful for getting stuff done. The flip side is even more interesting. There’s a great number of electrical engineers with significant physics backgrounds who don’t
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by Retric 3mo ago
Travel / multiple homes confuse the issue because nobody spends much time on their 5th house they use less than a month per year, so the decoration is mostly outsourced to 3rd parties. The portion of rich people homes they actually use
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by Retric 3mo ago
Fair point, there’s many types of corn but for anyone interested. Sweet Corn: For Fresh Eating and therefore harvested with a high moisture content which hurts preservation without freezing and total yield. Dimple is a Field corn, harvested
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by Retric 3mo ago
Filed corn is harvested at a different time resulting in a dryer product. But yes if people get hungry enough, field corn easily qualifies as actual food.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Cost plus isn’t nearly as common as it used to be. But you still run into similar issues regardless of the contract structure. Try and build a rail network without anyone in government wanting something changed from the initial design for
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by Retric 3mo ago
There’s a transition point where things stop being micro plastics, then nano plastics, and become specific chemicals. Those molecules may be toxic but the interactions are distinct from microplastics or nano plastics.
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by Retric 3mo ago
The options increase when you’re already breaking the law.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Many CC let you generate one time use CC numbers if you’re actually concerned about manufactures information security.
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by Retric 3mo ago
3.1 wasn’t a flat UI as the shading represented light coming from the top left on a 3D button, windows 2 used a flat design. https://www.custompc.com/wp-content/sites/custompc/2023/06/W...
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by Retric 3mo ago
I’ve never seen a single instance of flat design without any significant usability issues. A core issue is UI is a language and by reinventing things from scratch you ended up with some designs choosing A to represent something toggled on,
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by Retric 3mo ago
It’s not that it’s impossible to make a useable flat UI, it’s that people constantly forgot critical functionality. You need to denote a button is different from text. You need feedback that a UI element was interacted with, and for toggle
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by Retric 3mo ago
There’s effectively no universal list of UX warts people agree with. The Flat UX fad was objectively terrible on just about every metric I was taught, but people were actively pushing for such designs.
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by Retric 3mo ago
People have zero obligation to be able to hear their surroundings. Listening to music on a walk is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. It’s very slightly less safe for them, but they aren’t risking other people so that’s fine.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Legally have “sex with me or lose your job” is considered coercion without any direct threat of force. Sleep with me and I’ll pay you 10k isn’t. The difference is leveraging something else in the transaction not just payment.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Finding the actual value has nothing to do with forcing the sale. The point is Elon can’t price Starlink at 1 billion dollars a month then give a 999,999,900 discount if you give up your privacy. At that point the bundle is coercive.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Demand scales with population, if the average person talks to a bank teller for 10 minutes a month having 10x the number of people doesn’t lower that number. If automation doesn’t cost jobs, then growing the population shouldn’t change the
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by Retric 3mo ago
One of the major things courts do is price stuff, ie how much is a lost leg worth. The question isn’t what’s the value of not being tracked, the question is what’s tracking data itself is worth. Here what the company actually makes selling
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by Retric 3mo ago
I am curious where and what they ordered. That said, 8pc meal is a discount, you can get charged more for the same food if they aren’t all ordering the same thing. Also, don’t forget the extra side of biscuits I mentioned, teens can be shoc
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by Retric 3mo ago
Yes. Paying the money the data is worth isn’t coercive, linking some other transaction to selling your location data is. This includes having a discount larger than what your location data is worth. IE: I’ll sell you this car for 50k, o y

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