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by ajross 3mo ago
Well, yes. They're the ones who actually employ the hundred lawyers and PR staff. But that's what it takes, and it's not about clicking some buttons on a Web 2.0 Day Trading UI.
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by ajross 3mo ago
This is a micro/macro mistake. You obviously can't dump a 6% stake at strike price on Robinhood. "The Market", at this scale, means "You find the buyer(s) yourself and work up the deal with a hundred lawyers and PR
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by ajross 3mo ago
Genuine apology if that's the sense you got. I'd love to hear the nuance. Please deliver it.
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by ajross 3mo ago
> To be honest, it is quite scary that Google is able to remotely roll out an app like that to all GMS Android phones. Are any commercial mobile phone vendors not able to do such a thing? Do remember that this giant kerfuffle is all o
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by ajross 3mo ago
As mentioned, if you want to talk nuance bring the nuance to your comment. Don't try to fake it with "Even Bush and Biden" to make yourself feel smart on HN. You aren't, that shit's dangerous because it excuses fu
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by ajross 3mo ago
Exactly. General opposition to the war on terror and the US in general has blinded you to obvious analysis that things were basically OK seven months ago and they're shit now, and there's a reason for that that isn't anythin
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by ajross 3mo ago
This is absolutely 100% true, which is why deliberately destroying all the pre-existing structural deterrents to their bad behavior was such a disaster. Iran did bad things, but not as much as they could. Now they're doing more bad th
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by ajross 3mo ago
That seems like a strawman. Upthread you were pretty clearly arguing from a libertarian perspective (I genuinely thought that your "only NHS" quip was humor, not that you were being literal -- the article obviously doesn't s
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by ajross 3mo ago
> My point was there are lots of models available, not just 2. My post above wasn't endorsing one in particular. Yeah, so... my question stands: name one you're thinking of, even if you qualify that it isn't an "endor
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by ajross 3mo ago
Arguments about words are a little woke for my taste. Fine fine, pretend I said "convince" and then reply to that. Thanks.
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by ajross 3mo ago
> There were affordable catastrophic coverage plans available Not for anyone who needed them! If you were already sick, you would die poor without coverage. Are we really continuing to have this discussion?[1] The market failed in this
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by ajross 3mo ago
With all respect: what exactly is the alternative you're imagining? The market emphatically did not provide accessible private health care to individuals, largely because of the wellness trap (no one buys insurance until they need i
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by ajross 3mo ago
You are the second reply that seems to have misunderstood what the article is about. The point is that the current metric is not a measure of how many people own homes, even though everyone thinks it is.
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by ajross 3mo ago
> distributing land ownership is one way to distribute wealth Right, so you want to know how many people own homes, not how many homes are "occupied" by an owner[1], which is at best a proxy, right? Sounds like you're agr
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by ajross 3mo ago
> If however you care about the housing development decisions that will incentivise owner occupancy Genuine question: who, precisely, cares about "incentivising owner occupancy" as a policy goal? What interest does that serve
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by ajross 3mo ago
I'm talking about economic activity more than the passports of the individual artists. And no, TikTok is a software product (a social media platform), not popular culture. There's absolutely popular culture being created and dri
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by ajross 3mo ago
> the last 20 or so years of US/Chinese economic competition Only with some industries, mostly electronics and light manufacturing. The rest of the history of software products doesn't look like this at all. China cloned Amaz
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by ajross 3mo ago
What's interesting to me is the part of this design that isn't junk: the single wired-through-to-the-host USB3 port. Why don't more hubs do this? I'd love to have access to a cheap port expander that lets me plug my ju
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by ajross 3mo ago
That depends on "repeated" and "nuisance". My experience in a Tesla is that the attention monitoring never has false positive alarms at all. And it 100% has caught situations where I'm head down in the cockpit on
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by ajross 3mo ago
Very different threat model though. Commercial aircraft aren't sensitive to keep-your-eyes-on-the-road failures with seconds-scale latencies, airlines require autopilot use, there is a copilot present at all times, the FAA very stri
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by ajross 3mo ago
Same protocol for a burning pile of tires at your favorite bumrocks exurban service station, amusingly. Yet no one loses their shit on HN about that horrifyingly dangerous technology. I give up. This is a proxy war for something else. No
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by ajross 3mo ago
How much more likely are you to be injured on an eBike vs. getting run over on a Schwinn, though? Have you ever been afraid of the bike? The presence of a different failure mode isn't the question at issue. Yes, they're new tech
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by ajross 3mo ago
And gasoline fires and high speed collisions aren't? This is the bit of paranoia around EV deployment that I genuinely fail to understand. Personal vehicles are by far the most dangerous apparatus with which we interact, already.
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by ajross 3mo ago
You can, but people don't as a general rule. It's a traditional food prepared traditionally. And importantly, another thing early Alzheimers cases don't do is learn new cooking hacks.
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by ajross 3mo ago
> if you're talking about Star Trek, the MCU, Taylor Swift or the Legend of Zelda series, the most reliable source is probably not going to be either an academic journal or the New York Times. You lost me here. I mean, yes, there&
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by ajross 3mo ago
> The most reliable source about a topic nowadays might not use their real name when writing. They might not have a journalism degree, or work for a mainstream media outlet. They might not have an academic background. I really don't
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by ajross 3mo ago
That's very much missing the point. It's absolutely true that the "approach" was similar (the bit encoding was software-generated in a timing loop and fed to non-ASIC hardware to send to the drive). But the Disk II card
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by ajross 3mo ago
Again, we're not having an argument about health care, and I'm not trying to dismiss the book you cited that pertains to the argument we're not having. I'm saying that book is clearly partisan , as is your argument. An
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by ajross 3mo ago
FWIW: Defense in depth is a security technique, and abuse detection isn't part of that domain. Security starts from the premise that the system is supposed to be undefeatable but might have holes, and then asking where the holes might
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by ajross 3mo ago
> [my comment] was not partisan, and was based on reality and cold economics rather than ideology That's what all partisans think. Nonetheless you put needless scare quotes around Medicare for All, dismissed it as a "total fan

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