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by _red 8y ago
>If your Toyota malfunctions and you hit someone, you get sued. You may sue Toyota afterwards, but you're going to get sued first. You extrapolating that future markets will work exactly like the past, because "its a car".
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by _red 8y ago
Yet, when a bakery wants to "curate" what cakes they bake, thats a civil rights infringement, isn't it?
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by _red 8y ago
So true. Further Das Kapital is still for sale on Amazon, even though when put into practice it routinely kills millions.
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by _red 8y ago
300M people x $1000 per month. Where does that money come from? (taxes?). What will stop inflation from just negating that 1000 gain? UBI doesn't have a political problem. It has a math problem.
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by _red 8y ago
>retraining these fifty year old guys who have been truck drivers or coal miners While thats true, I think the premise is wrong. Techno-types love to imagine that automation is just going to sweep through these industries. The devil of t
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by _red 8y ago
The same happens with 3D. Every 15-20 years, manufacturers and content producers seem to think "this is the year people will want to watch X in 3D". I'm a little skeptical that either will become mainstream daily-use technolo
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by _red 8y ago
Thats true. One benefit of the old days is you knew all other participants were sitting in front of a desktop, with a full keyboard. You knew they weren't say: driving, or boarding onto a flight, or paying a restaurant bill. A problem
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by _red 8y ago
A couple of interesting questions: 1. Is being Jewish a race or a religion? 2. Being Jewish is also strongly correlated to class. 44% of Jews earn 100K+. Thats compared to ~20% for Christian, 19% Catholic, 20% Islam. (Interestingly Hindus a
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by _red 8y ago
I really like the fact that they acknowledged the problem with a name like "PAN" is that it becomes impossible to search for on internet. It can sometimes be a problem with names like ".net" or "go", certain us
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by _red 8y ago
The redefinition of the term 'monopoly' to just be 'large marketshare' is very dangerous. However, as a bit of schadenfreude, its nice to see the leftist big-tech receive the unintended consequences of their beliefs. Sad
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by _red 8y ago
As an aside. Are you posting via a throwaway because: (a) You worry about HN attacking you with downvotes, or (b) You have a somewhat publicly identifiable username and worry this type of wrongthink could be punished by the modern-stasi mov
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by _red 8y ago
Colleges are turning into 'adult daycare centers'. Encouraging people to go into six-figure debt, so that they can get a degree that has zero marketability (except of course to continue on in college), is a deeply cynical enterpri
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by _red 8y ago
Thats a good solution. For 15 years or so I just used the user.site@domain.com approach. But in the last 4 or 5 years, the spammers have gotten smarter and now are stripping off the site and just emailing user@domain.com. Yours is a good so
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by _red 8y ago
>"Running a Business" The WSJ either intentionally, or unintentionally, is subtly trying to cast this narrative that he is a mafia-boss who is still running is illegal mafia-crew from behind bars. They are doing that simply bec
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by _red 8y ago
I share many of your feelings. However, I think you should think of this in a different light: Purism's real problem is: How do we bootstrap this device? That is to say, there is simply not enough money / engineering talent to
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by _red 8y ago
Great. But you seem to have missed that I was just providing an example. However, to further the requirements. These days many people throw around the term "ATM" sort of indiscriminately. So, they call everything from a simple 3rd
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by _red 8y ago
My company does some embedded work. The problem with your analogy is that edge-cases drive CPU purchase decisions far more often than you would normally think. A simple example: You have designed an ATM using a lower powered ARM CPU. 99.9%
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by _red 8y ago
You may be an older person, but for anyone with teens an interesting aspect is that they hardly use it. FB is turning into a "how to talk to grandma" network.
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by _red 8y ago
>its clearly possible. * As a percentage, what share of single-parent homes receive some kind of government assistance? * You deliberately neglect that most single-parent homes receive ongoing child support from other parent.
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by _red 8y ago
Who says the ability to "reboot the computer" is avail to the user? (ie. remote RDC connection or a locked down retail POS terminal). Also, the "real purpose" of L1 tech is to categorize and prioritize incoming calls for
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by _red 8y ago
We do retail / light industrial automation stuff. Every so often (rarely but say once a year or so), we bring some members of dev team along on an install. Its always very very eye-opening for developers to see what 'problems&#x27
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by _red 8y ago
You seem to think that the efficacy post-inoculation remains static throughout a persons 80 year lifespan. That's a very unscientific assumption. Vaccines regularly lose efficacy, which is why 85% for the 'best' is reasonable
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by _red 8y ago
>As far as I know, no one is trying to force the flu vaccine. Yet. What do you thinks going to happen once they get the precedent set? Give it another 5 years or so.
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by _red 8y ago
So you're saying: We don't know if its effective, because its really really hard. However, we should make it illegal to refuse. Its bracing how anti-science you sound.
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by _red 8y ago
You like "science" but can't actually read the insert. Why?
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by _red 8y ago
Now this is just one vaccine, and its not wise to extrapolate wholesale. However, this one clearly states: there have been no controlled trials adequately demonstrating a decrease in influenza from using this product. Note: Its curious I&#x
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by _red 8y ago
Its curious because they've already "dumbed down" WF a bit since the acquisition. Lots of the higher end products have been slowly disappearing from the shelves. I used to make the trek to go to WF in the past essentially for
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by _red 8y ago
Its more than that, banking is a legally granted monopoly license (ie. Federal Reserve). So they are enjoying all the perks of being government backed (protected monopoly + full bailout privileges), yet must endure none of the restrictions
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by _red 8y ago
Because Tesla, as a company, is actually majority owned by the shareholders that make up 80+% of the company. A very small move of the SEC can destroy those investors chances of ever being paid back.
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by _red 8y ago
How many different sub-variations of "intent" are there? So if I plan to kill Person A, but miss my shot and kill Person B whats the charge? What if I was under threat by Person A? Who should even be charged for Person B's de

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