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by advael 2y ago
You can already do that though. There's a massive essentially unregulated market full of "supplements" and "alternative medicine" and "faith healing" you can play in if you're dedicated to the busines
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by advael 2y ago
Nah, I actually think the effectiveness standard is far worse than the safety standard due to what a "block" means and how "effectiveness" is tested. An RCT, the gold standard by which medicines are often tested, can eas
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by advael 2y ago
I mean, if you have an aggressively terminal disease with no known cure, I think the risk-reward calculus is somewhat different from the average drug The issue, as comes up incessantly in all manner of situations, is the way we regulate dru
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by advael 3y ago
Honestly platform-locking has so frequently and consistently been the intent of security-washing rhetoric and major breaches have become so commonplace that I now view "security" in the press to be a euphemism for lock-in first an
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by advael 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if your experience hadn't changed: Net neutrality rules were gutted at the same time as the internet has been largely consolidated, so major players paying for "fast lanes" and the ISPs throttling
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by advael 3y ago
I see this shift as a tech hype wave finally having its bubble burst under how shit a deal it is for everyone but the middlemen. Then again, I guess a lot of people actually like streaming services for music? This is alien to me. I just str
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by advael 3y ago
I have no idea where you get this impression. Municipal fiber projects have by and large provided consistent symmetric fiber broadband at reasonable prices, while ISPs have invariably gouged people, provided both inconsistent and outdated s
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by advael 3y ago
That's such a ridiculous argument on its face. If the government can "cheat" and give you a better service, in what way do you care if they don't turn a profit doing it?
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by advael 3y ago
Your example is too vague to make much of, frankly, but in theory I'd believe perhaps it's possible for lobbyists' positions to align with or at least not contradict the public interest, though recent decades have shown preci
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by advael 3y ago
I really think the fact that this kind of thing can be known and reported by a newspaper means we should have some kind of anti-corruption law triggering at least an investigation in cases like this. The fact that "lobbyists for [compa
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by advael 3y ago
Unironically yes. Auditable software is inherently more secure, especially over the kind of timescale relevant to governments
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by advael 3y ago
The government relying on private contractors is a threat to national security Proprietary software is a threat to national security "Switching vendors" does nothing to solve the core problems here
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by advael 3y ago
I know it's not the point of your post, but I think it's worth pointing out that you're misunderstanding randomness (albeit in a very typical way). Although randomness is likely eventually (over a lot of instances) going to b
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by advael 3y ago
Right, the missing niche is the fast piecemeal service AFAICT. Not "look through all my stuff and try to sell it" but "take maybe as little as one item I want to sell, today, seamlessly, and appraise and sell it"
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by advael 3y ago
I'm currently trying to help a relative who's a hoarder, and I have to say, reducing the friction of getting rid of things without just mass-dumpstering them would be a godsend I think this is one of those ideas that needs scale t
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by advael 3y ago
I think there's a huge and fundamental difference between the assertion that a computer program has malfunctioned and the assertion that a computer program does not accomplish what it intended to do at all, that the algorithm is incorr
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by advael 3y ago
It seems like most of those layoffs are a rather cynical ploy to create a temporary stock boost and pay for a buyback, maybe with some labor market manipulation (specifically, scaring developers into accepting lower wages, not unionizing, a
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by advael 3y ago
It's inevitable that people with power will use that power to their advantage. But the degree and the ways in which this is possible permit a vast spectrum of degrees, and adjusting this is a feasible problem of mechanism design. Limit
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by advael 3y ago
I think a lot of how companies behave is defined by how they are constructed in law. For example, limited liability allows shareholders of companies to to be shielded from the consequences of "externalities" that their companies c
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by advael 3y ago
I both think this is a really astute and important observation and also think it's an observation that's more true locally than of people broadly. Modern neoliberal business culture generally and the consolidated current incarnati
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by advael 3y ago
Gonna give it like two weeks before tech bosses posit that users don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their private messages
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by advael 3y ago
There's a degree to which (senior enough) programmers still have more leverage than some workers, but the leverage of landlords has been ratcheting steadily toward stronger and has moved considerably in the last few years, and that&#x2
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by advael 3y ago
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArcWords
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by advael 3y ago
Dang I was like 10 paragraphs into this thing and realized I couldn't even figure out who it's mad at. It seems like the kind of invective that's more about saying enough Arc Words that people are righteously indignant than t
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by advael 3y ago
It's a lot more like... abstractions and associations become more malleable. This can inform perception even if you don't visualize, which can parse as visual distortions even in your "actual" vision, but might not. I th
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by advael 3y ago
As with many complicated analyses, we can introduce hypothetical artifacts or simplifications to serve almost any hypothesis! For example, most skydiving is done in a guided and controlled way, with participants paying a professional instru
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by advael 3y ago
Unfortunately, the plot requires that you're taken by surprise by tomorrow's weather. Test audiences were 68.4% more engaged in those scenarios
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by advael 3y ago
I can't spoil the weather tomorrow (it's a major plot point) but I can tell you that fortune has been tweaked to favor the bold by an additional 10%, just for tomorrow. Laundry service is complimentary, but our records show that y
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by advael 3y ago
I mean from your perspective I'm just a name making more words on your screen, right? Don't worry too much about it, buddy, you're doin' great :)
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by advael 3y ago
To anything, that's what "fully-general" means

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