advael

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by advael 3y ago
People - including some people who hold positions like CEO or sit on a board for a company - can care about things other than money. Companies can't, essentially by definition. This is intrinsic to how they are legally constructed
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by advael 3y ago
I, like you, am in the tech world and know plenty of founders who are great people who have visions and want various things. Once they are running a company, it doesn't take long for this to matter less and less. Even in the early stag
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By preventing independent repair, Apple can indeed prevent you from holding on to your device longer by just deciding it's totaled with no one keeping them honest about it. It can also gouge you on parts and service even if it doesn&#x
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I mean they do already sell much of the same telemetry data to their own data broker customers. They just prevent their competition from doing the same on their hardware. It's not just gonna be a lie someday when it's convenient,
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Considering how many people have to work multiple jobs wherein they're mistreated and given no leeway to even do stuff like take work off when sick or see a doctor regularly, I think the reason they aren't participating in the dem
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So if I'm reading this right, they're banning something that is too underpowered to run the exploits people are using to steal cars (which are only possible in the first place because car companies' threat model is mostly abo
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Making copies isn't fancy. It's just illegal because IP brokers have too much power and made it so. It's a commonsense measure that you could do with most forms of purchased media, increasingly trivially until said IP brokers
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Having repeatedly moved the goalposts in your favor (People who are food insecure will frequently describe themselves as "starving", but this was apparently unsatisfying), I produced multiple sources, where you have produced none,
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So the figure I got from some simple googling came from an estimate that was claimed to be based on food insecurity statistics. 10K in a country with a population of 330M is pretty low compared to much of the world. But we can probably do b
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Statisticians really like using dry descriptions that often border on euphemistic in their work, not unlike psychologists. I think this reads to them as more objective or serious. That said, figures I can find about how many starve to deat
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Here's what 10 seconds on a search engine provided from a fairly official source https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/107703/err-325... Roughly 10% of households being food insecure, defined as
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A bizarre claim given that so many are, in practice, starving. Maybe they're just holding it wrong
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An often-cited example is the considerable investment we've made into spread-out living spaces that require that people are doing long, daily car-based commutes. This kind of planning creates a situation where an increase in the price
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Your framing is designed to make that outcome inevitable. Of course if the proposal is keeping everything else the same but raising prices people would vote against it. Mitigating the catastrophic biome collapse we are already experiencing
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It's bizarre how easily we got to the Goodhart's Law event horizon in our comparisons of complex fields to AI models But this is what happens when industries spend a decade brain-draining academia with offers researchers would be
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It'd be great to see how democratic support might be different were it not for the concerted, expensive effort to deny and downplay the problem by multiple enormous industries that have repeatedly captured governmental institutions in
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Competition clearly isn't exerting those pressures on the market, and there are good reasons to believe it can't, which I've already outlined: The failures of an insurance company are too infrequent, ruinous, and obfuscated f
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I just don't think it's ever going to reach a threshold where the cost of litigation in practice will ever make it not more profitable to harm people by denying claims. The economics simply don't work out
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So our check against making the financially obvious decision to try to get out of the obligation to save people from disasters they paid into a risk pool to mitigate because they are infrequent enough that adequate individual preparation is
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When you get to decide what claims are valid and profit from deciding they're not, the incentives just don't stack up to actually covering people adequately, and by this same property as well as the obfuscated nature of the intern
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Let me know when there's a free market somewhere
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Insurance run for profit has to be a scam by definition. You can't turn a profit from a risk pool without ensuring that you can avoid paying at least a good chunk of the time. It should be as illegal as ponzi schemes
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I kind of wish the knight was more of a tetris L, but I like the idea overall
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As the article points out, Peterson's use of words does more to position himself as a pompous elite than to contend with them in some intellectual sense. It's also nonsense to say that no one repeats old conventional wisdom an
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Your last example is the crux of the matter. Consider: As a percentage of the population, fewer people (in the US at least, though I get the sense this is true elsewhere too) own their home now than any time in living memory. Shocks to the
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Only takes one to make an anecdote
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Unemployment never pays your full salary, and how much it even scales with your salary caps at a number much lower than is relevant for about the top 75% of software engineers in most states. Assuming you're not straight up lying, then
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It really seems like a lot of little complaints people have about little technological choices (like QR code menus) are increasingly complaints about the larger technological context they exist in (like the mobile ecosystem, controlled by t
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I can't help but read this as a severely pessimistic take on the capabilities of markets, since we can trace trying to "optimize productivity" back to essentially the earliest things even remotely resembling the modern econom
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Poiice unions are not the same as professional unions in almost any meaningful sense. They are not organizations independent from the leadership of the departments themselves. They are not similar in organization, function, or origin. The u

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