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by baddox 7y ago
> Those retailers aren't going to pull it themselves and shove it backwards up the distribution chain to be redistributed to storm country -- that's just not how distribution works. Why isn’t that exactly how FEMA or similar ag
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by baddox 7y ago
It's not unreasonable to expect Forbes' editorial control to extend to everything they host on their domain.
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by baddox 7y ago
> I respect people who commit civil disobedience, especially in reaction to injustice like the Espionage Act. It's a credible signal that someone finds some particular law wrong. But this is not that scenario. You’re just saying tha
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by baddox 7y ago
My understanding was that many-worlds could be tested experimentally if we were able to set up large objects in superpositions, and I thought that there is no reason to expect that it isn’t physically possible to do so (we just don’t know h
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by baddox 7y ago
Probably second in the US to NYC right?
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by baddox 7y ago
This argument seems more relevant to intellectual property laws. The complaint was about Apple stealing ideas from their app developer community.
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by baddox 7y ago
That seems to make the assumption that creative ideas and experimentation are more important or more valuable for product innovation than having the resources and scale to actually mass-produce or "productize" new innovations. I d
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by baddox 7y ago
Or the debt collectors haven't caught up yet. That happened to me around 2012 in the US. Went to the emergency room, had some tests done, got the hospital bill and paid a few hundred bucks. Then like 9 months later I get calls from a d
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by baddox 7y ago
Is there some guarantee that containment measures which are actually too early or too aggressive are "much, much better than the alternative?" It seems to me that such a claim is ignoring that there are actual costs to containment
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by baddox 7y ago
If everyone’s going to go to the same place to buy groceries you might as well keep the cafeterias running. Serve meals in shifts if you think that’s necessary.
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by baddox 7y ago
I think what you're describing is close to scientific fallibilism. As a fallibilist I can maintain that there is objective truth, and that I can learn objective truth, but that I can always make errors, and there's no technique th
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by baddox 7y ago
No, I think that some news outlets do have that and some do not. Do you think that every modern news outlet has a consistent, left-leaning, anti-Trump agenda?
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by baddox 7y ago
The whole “people don’t understand exponential growth” thing isn’t a very good explanation, considering that it applies to any contagious disease for which every person tends to infect some constant number of other people.
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by baddox 7y ago
Are you saying we should stop blaming the other side because you think the other side isn’t to blame? What if there’s reasonable ways to explain how the other side is to blame? Or are you making an epistemological claim that the other side
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by baddox 7y ago
Now long would you maintain that quarantine? Is there some amount of time after which the virus will go away? Any call for drastic measures, even when drastic measures seem like common sense to some people , need to explain why the measu
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by baddox 7y ago
I could have left out the training part of my comment because it's not important to my argument (although my guess is that you'd be very surprised how many people who wear these masks in public use them extremely cavalierly and im
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by baddox 7y ago
Presumably there are lots of medical devices that are very useful to trained healthcare workers that are not useful for other people.
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by baddox 7y ago
I thought the nuanced explanation is something more like "technically it's possible that a bit of material in front of your face could stop a droplet carrying a pathogen, but unless used as intended (which generally requires train
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by baddox 7y ago
> The Industrial Revolution was a terrible period for workers up until the labor movement began fighting for putting basic protections in place. Yes, and that's why the labor movement is important (I'd like it to be much strong
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by baddox 7y ago
Isn’t the fact that some people will be unable to afford them (or some other potentially lifesaving product) when they need them a problem that needs to be addressed either way? I feel like we’ll be talking around the problem forever if we
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by baddox 7y ago
There’s nothing particularly strange about it. There would be probably be some measurable heat that would eventually make it to the final gear if you had an ideal setup for measurement. I haven’t done the order of magnitude estimation, but
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It’s not so simple to say “closing before a case is smart.” It’s always before a case.
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by baddox 7y ago
The argument that you should always tip food service ~20% is generally based on the claim that "quality signal mechanism" is not actually the intent of the tipping system, but merely an excuse (that was perhaps true at some poin
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by baddox 7y ago
Can you think of some innovation that might replace review systems in the same way that refrigeration replaced ice transportation? This seems more like a cycle where review systems will be nice until they inevitably get gamed, at which poin
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by baddox 7y ago
> In that case the company should not be obligated to pay you. Perhaps not, but in California the company is never obligated to pay you except for labor you've already done. > There's a good chance your employment contract
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by baddox 7y ago
According to what system of vehicle classification? I would have guessed crossovers to sell more, if that's considered a vehicle class.
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by baddox 7y ago
While you're looking out for laughably low vehicle utilization, count the number of cars that only have a driver and no passengers.
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by baddox 7y ago
Light trucks abounded in my experience long after that tax. I thought the big change was that, starting maybe around 2000, full-sized trucks started getting nearly the same fuel economy for casual driving as compact trucks. I always suspect
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I'd like the article to provide an example of a modern stock vehicle that doesn't fit in a relatively modern standard garage. The article claims that American garages "tend to be seven or eight feet high." The article al
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by baddox 7y ago
You can look at it that way. Another way of looking at it is if my company (or the government) refuses to let me access my office, I should not be obligated to work. Do factory workers have to take home textiles and sew them from home? (I h

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