TimPC

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841.
by TimPC 6y ago
If we get enough global privacy laws with sufficient teeth, it may be possible for paid models to offer a low risk alternative to spying where you would be constantly at risk of fines for poor decisions on how you implement your data collec
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by TimPC 6y ago
cable tv always had ads because the cable subscription goes to an infrastructure provider not the content provider. If the infrastructure provider was the content provider there is a substantial incentive to reduce or eliminate ads a la Net
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by TimPC 6y ago
I'm hopeful that this is a step towards getting an injectable on a longer time scale even though it's likely the treatment technology would be different. If we could get to something on a 2-year or 5-year time horizon we may just
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by TimPC 6y ago
The claim doesn't logically hold together: it assumes a monopoly in medicine. It might not be profitable for the company with a treatment regimen to develop a cure. But for the company without the treatment regiment to develop a cure
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by TimPC 6y ago
I think the answer for everyone is different. Never pushing yourself enough that you don't know how you respond to that type of stress is clearly too conservative if you're hoping to accomplish things that require hard work and d
846.
by TimPC 6y ago
Everyone has to be trusted to think for themselves. We can put barriers in place to harmful actions resulting from those thoughts but I would not want to live in a world so dystopian and authoritarian that we intentionally take away someone
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by TimPC 6y ago
Also worth noting is are they censoring content that is at the level of "Democrats rigged the election". Or are they censoring all content relating to the election that mentions anything to do with out-of-state voters, dead voters
848.
by TimPC 6y ago
Normally I'd agree. But if you read the article the government already chose to settle this with Montrose Chemical Company. I think it's a very dangerous precedent to be able to go after corporations for things they've alrea
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by TimPC 6y ago
Also if there was a real zombie virus none of the movies so far have captured the sheer absolute terror of hard to defend transmission vectors like mosquitos, which would be likely to get the virus. Brings a whole new level of issues to no
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by TimPC 6y ago
They aren’t switching though. They are given a choice between A&B then if they choose A they are given a choice between B&C. The choice between B&C should be 67/33 but instead it’s around 75/25 and the authors claim t
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by TimPC 6y ago
There is good reason to reform section 230. Right now courts are applying the liability so broadly that companies aren’t liable even after they are notified about illegal behaviours on their site. In a court case involving Grindr refusing
852.
by TimPC 6y ago
I'm fairly sure most people wouldn't put intentionally getting fired in order to sue an employer in an advertisement for their services.
853.
by TimPC 6y ago
I think your oversimplifying here. I think economic growth is strongly tied to stability but it's also strongly tied to mechanisms. Pricing as a vehicle for measuring supply and demand simply outstrips everything else we've tried
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by TimPC 6y ago
This C2H approach seems to ignore the fact that companies have a genuine preference for paying with stock options that they can pay for by issuing new stock rather than expending cash on hand in the US, something which can be a scarce resou
855.
by TimPC 6y ago
Impostor syndrome is most present in elite environments though. It's a syndrome because someone is genuinely talented but surrounded by high talent for each person it's easy to identify an area where they are better than you. In
856.
by TimPC 6y ago
Paid trials also have the issue that they might interfere with unemployment earnings while also being too short to earn unemployment afterwards. So they probably don't work for people with a job and don't work for people without a
857.
by TimPC 6y ago
It's very complicated, some of the greatest successes in catching up to 'developed nations' have relied on open markets and others have been far more protectionist. Protectionism has huge negatives in exchange for the benefi
858.
by TimPC 6y ago
I'd argue it's not mechanized agriculture that they have a hard time competing with but rather Western practices around agriculture subsidies. If agriculture subsidies weren't in place, much of food sales would be considered
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by TimPC 6y ago
Many investors are also opposed to giving the poor equity in the company. Richard Garfield encountered significant opposition when he gave equity to roles like cleaning staff in Wizards of the Coast.
860.
by TimPC 6y ago
The problem with more equal systems is that no one has that immense power to do good. So you end up needing to solve huge coordination problems that historically we are very bad at in order to achieve such projects. Governments have a bad
861.
by TimPC 6y ago
Inequality has positive consequences as well as negative ones. It's more likely to create venture capital and a market for high risk investments that have a significant chance to lose all the capital invested. Venture capital is a ba
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by TimPC 6y ago
Wealth taxes are horrible because they'd require doing a balance sheet to determine all your assets. Things like pricing all your collectibles accurately or determining the present market value of art pieces is a huge pain in the ass.
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by TimPC 6y ago
50,000 may even be an underestimate as the reduced commuting from lots of work from home and reduced employment leads to fewer traffic fatalities and this hasn't been accounted for. These things are really hard to measure well.
864.
by TimPC 6y ago
I find Greg Egan is also very good in small doses. I highly recommend his short story collection Axiomatic, where each story explores a different idea in brief. It's still hard sci-fi but it's chunked smaller so if you're les
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by TimPC 7y ago
Agree with that. I just think it's sad that the state of the art for gaming in non-specialist stores is Catan and Ticket to Ride. If places like Indigo were a bit more ambitious in their title selection many people would be playing mu
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by TimPC 7y ago
As a resident of Toronto I feel less bad about the visual display of the city and worse about the outflux of artistic talent. So many artists I knew a decade ago are living far out in the burbs, where it is harder to find events and develo
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by TimPC 7y ago
Toronto is fairly encouraging of building as well. It's just that it's the fastest growing city in the western world so demand is growing faster than supply. Most cities have problems with staying creative in the face of high rent
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by TimPC 7y ago
Most renewables aren't viable for base load power. Nuclear is viable only for base load power. Realistically they are competing for different parts of the power utilization and shouldn't be infighting at all. You want nuclear for
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by TimPC 7y ago
Settlers of Catan is a deeply flawed game. It's far better than monopoly but is definitely too dice-heavy and kingmaker oriented. Dominion is in a lot of ways among the worst games in the genre it created as most of the variants that
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by TimPC 7y ago
Catan can get pretty uninteresting due to dice variance. I've had games where two players made lots of resources on 9 and two players made lots of resources on 5. Five got rolled 14 times and 9 got rolled 3 times. Even with good spot

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