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by advael 3y ago
I think there are people for whom the fundamental assumption that someone will want "more" of stuff they already like does not hold, and that while those people are a minority, recent developments in the media landscape toward a c
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by advael 3y ago
As many who study it have noted, this issue is fraught with misinformation, as for example police engaging in prostitution stings like to claim that people they're arresting are "victims of sex trafficking" because it gets be
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by advael 3y ago
In practice the so-called "technical nuance" has huge impacts on what spaces can be used for and what guarantees can be made about the permanence of these arrangements. These factors matter considerably more to most people than th
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by advael 3y ago
I have learned over the last few decades that bills with synonyms for "child" in their names are almost guaranteed to be authoritarian power grabs
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by advael 3y ago
Yes, this is another great demonstration of how we can tell any story we want with choice of metric. I'm referring to the binary variable of home ownership, whereas your measure probably either excludes non-homeowners entirely, is only
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by advael 3y ago
Right. So my point is that if we define a non-technical user as "someone who doesn't know how to do the thing yet", and any amount of teaching them to do the thing is thus implicitly deemed an unacceptable cost, then the prob
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by advael 3y ago
Again, the answer you get out of the exercise of delineating "financial periods" depends a lot on how you choose to define them. I'd say for example that good candidates for "previous financial periods" could be pre
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by advael 3y ago
I agree. The state of mobile tools is severely hamstrung by the fact that the overwhelming majority of the ecosystem is on closed platforms I'm not sure how you would propose to solve the other problems, such as "the computers can
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by advael 3y ago
Indeed, we can choose any metric we like really, as evidenced by the current reality where most people can't afford a house but we still claim that "the economy" is "doing well"
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by advael 3y ago
That's fair, the duopoly on the mobile platform is such that you are only allowed to do what google or apple deigns to allow, so I suppose one must take it up with them
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by advael 3y ago
Off the top of my head, there was a story on here about cars crashing due to axles failing months after they rolled off the lot, and a more recent story about the bodies of cybertrucks rusting from small amounts of rain exposure This is jus
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by advael 3y ago
And the vast overwhelming majority of them are not being paid comparably to jobs that require similar workloads and levels of education, due to the "vocational awe" of working on a movie. This is so pervasive in the arts that it&#
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by advael 3y ago
It's bizarre to me that Tesla gets cited as an exemplar for operating as an American manufacturer for physical goods, given that it's been the subject of numerous scandals regarding quality control of the physical components manuf
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by advael 3y ago
The whole AI risk vs accelerationism debate strikes me as an intra-bubble squabble between two groups of people who want to define an overton window about the tech industry that focuses on the tech part Personally, I don't think the wi
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by advael 3y ago
Neat. Floor as in the lowest you could liquidate for right now?
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by advael 3y ago
In this case, refusing offers to sell in favor of a strategy that simply wastes the time and effort of everyone involved in the production with no recourse. This should at the very least not allow them to write it off their taxes. Admittedl
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by advael 3y ago
This has become my favorite comment on hn
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by advael 3y ago
Since this respawns really fast and there's no life limit, I wanted to see how far I could get through the mere persistence strategy of holding the up key. I automated this with an ethernet crimping tool whose weight and shape is ideal
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by advael 3y ago
Is that $60,000 measured by what you paid for them, or what you can get for them?
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One argument is that that particular kind of subsidy is incredibly easy to game, and so you tend to create more reward-hacking than actual benefit
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by advael 3y ago
Revenue implication makes sense as a priority for a business, it should be considerably less of a priority for a government. The degree to which the tax code subsidizes whatever a business cares to try regardless of the outcome is already c
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by advael 3y ago
Again, eliminating a perverse tax incentive doesn't "force" anyone to do anything. Why is it self-evident that we should subsidize failure at the level of a corporation to prevent balance sheets going negative, especially whe
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by advael 3y ago
The argument isn't that WB shouldn't be able to scrap projects. The argument is that the tax break for doing this is bad and should not exist
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by advael 3y ago
I think the tax writeoff should only be available for doing something like that. It's insane that corporations failing at ventures is so incentivised that they'll fail on purpose, and we shouldn't be offering tax breaks for
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by advael 3y ago
Ostensibly a government service is supposed to be modifiable by the will of the electorate or someone representing it. Of course we don't expect them to relinquish power voluntarily. When people propose changing policy to modify how an
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by advael 3y ago
So I'm confused here. The poster you're responding to here says "this shouldn't work the way that it currently does" and your response is "this currently does work that way"? Like are you saying a change i
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by advael 3y ago
Sure, and as with other optimizing systems, as the process of growth continues, the degree to which those priorities are correlated with ROI will gradually increase, selecting against aspects of them that are anticorrelated from the getgo,
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It's a population of mostly tech workers, a population of which a large segment has mostly never experienced the labor market as others do, and of which an at least significant segment has been inundated with messaging that implies tha
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Then why does criminal liability not propogate to the owners? We have a good mechanism for that in criminal law, it's called "conspiracy"
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I predict that Amazon's war chest is such that this kind of abuse with impunity will continue indefinitely unless some powerful countries start seriously acting to break them up. Abuse of labor, distortion of markets, distortion of law

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