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by avalys 6y ago
Those companies do have to convince people to keep paying them money, otherwise they would cease to exist. The government is unconstrained by even that requirement.
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by avalys 6y ago
The US government has no incentive to succeed in the way that you or I understand it: i.e. by producing something of value, operating an organization efficiently, or achieving a useful result. I mean, the government as a whole might in some
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by avalys 6y ago
Congratulations, you’ve discovered the idea of competition and why it makes the free market better! Failures fail and go away, and what you’re left with are the successful organizations that know how to do things! Unlike in government, wher
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by avalys 6y ago
Quick, look at a picture of the F-15 cockpit, and find the switch to set the LANTIRN pod from Day mode to Night mode. Now imagine you’re in a car and you can’t take your eyes off the road for more than a few seconds. Airplanes are much easi
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by avalys 6y ago
“Seeing more stuff” makes it harder to find the one thing you want without taking your eyes off the road. A touchscreen or similar interface in a car allows you to maintain a minimal set of buttons and controls for access to essential funct
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by avalys 6y ago
The point I’m making is that touchscreens can lead to a safer _system_ because they allow you to optimize and simplify the layout of the buttons that remain after you’ve moved the infrequently-used functionality into the touchscreen.
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by avalys 6y ago
> Especially those working in vehicle interior design - people need to realize we drive a deadly 2-ton machine on our roads. This sounds very smart and serious, which must be why someone makes the same point in literally every discussion
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by avalys 6y ago
How much money have you wasted on home and auto insurance?
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by avalys 6y ago
1. This is not a response to the climate crisis. 2. Ford is working on an electric F150. 3. The amount of fuel consumed is negligible compared to actually operating the vehicle in the first place. Using every little thing as a reason to int
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by avalys 6y ago
If that’s true, I’d say that’s the biggest underlying risk to democracy, not targeted advertising.
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by avalys 6y ago
Because voters are too stupid to tell fact from fiction, and need their betters to protect them from misinformation and make sure they are only exposed to approved viewpoints?
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by avalys 6y ago
> Facebook should be paying you for being part of their experiment. They are paying you - by giving you free access to multiple products and services which all cost money to develop, maintain, and host.
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by avalys 6y ago
Could you give me an example of a real-world software engineering task which takes “weeks” in Python and minutes in Lisp?
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by avalys 6y ago
I don’t get why the pay adjustment is so controversial. Facebook (and Google, and Apple, etc.) already have offices throughout the world, and they already set pay based on the local market and cost of living. Not sure why “remote work” inde
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by avalys 6y ago
That’s great! Certainly better than huffing glue or supporting communism or whatever most kids are up to these days. But it would be more correct to say he assembled his own telescope, since it seems like he purchased all the important comp
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by avalys 6y ago
Why do we need the FTC involved in this?
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by avalys 6y ago
That’s alarming. Sounds like an effective way to destroy every modern manufactured good.
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by avalys 7y ago
Do you have a link to this new order?
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by avalys 7y ago
This is not just medical tests - you use the same criteria to evaluate any binary classifier. “Precision and recall” are positive predictive value and sensitivity, respectively.
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by avalys 7y ago
Man, some people really think they're entitled to dictate how the world must be. The argument that easy access to product information online eliminates any consumer benefit of advertising misses a key point. I only do research online
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by avalys 7y ago
Argh! It’s not my fault, I was brainwashed as a child. I try to keep it down to just one space but I can’t help myself. I’m the victim here!
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by avalys 7y ago
My computer gaming has been pretty modest for the past 6 or 7 years. An hour here or there, mostly on the weekends. I don’t really get absorbed in games that much anymore. Factorio is something different. I started playing it on a Saturday
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by avalys 7y ago
Thanks for the responses. Personally all my hobbies (that cost money, anyway) are outside the house, so my discretionary spending has gone basically to zero. Good to know that some people are still spending on non-essentials though!
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by avalys 7y ago
Really? What are people buying?
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by avalys 7y ago
Haha, warranty, I guess? Plus confidence that they’ll actually accept a return in 90 days if I don’t like it, etc.
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by avalys 7y ago
I bought a Casper because I needed a new mattress, and I was already aware (thanks to ads they ran incessantly on my favorite podcasts) that there was a company with a quick and simple solution to my problem. I did a few minutes of research
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by avalys 7y ago
Sure, but having good margins in the first place gives you more room - you might call it, "margin" - before any of that results in you actually losing any money.
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by avalys 7y ago
One major difference between the Great Depression and the current situation is that the government has made it very clear that they will do whatever it takes to soften the economic ramifications of the pandemic. A huge contribution to the G
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by avalys 7y ago
The article suggests that the stock market hasn’t priced this in yet. I don’t think that’s true. Facebook and Google are both down more than 20% from their recent highs (along with the rest of the market, of course). No one thinks that a re
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by avalys 7y ago
Well, that’s great, but once again, it has nothing to do with “shared sacrifice”. What you’re describing is called “normal participation in the economy”, maybe at a higher rate than usual. But maybe I’ll take a page from your book and “sacr

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