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by bduerst 5y ago
Yep. Galileo got himself into trouble not for his work on heliocentricity, but for publicly attacking an authority figure in the church. It's interesting to see how we today project our science/fundamentalism schism onto culture o
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>Why are we so upset when people decide to refuse treatment? The anecdotal evidence you gave (hospital abuse) is an outlier, not a norm. A better question is, why wouldn't you be upset when a family member refuses life saving trea
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by bduerst 5y ago
I don't know how many of these conversations you've tried to have, because the confirmation bias is very real. We're not discussing skepticism of nematode behavior, but of the politicization of a pandemic, which makes it opin
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Not sure if poe's law but that's basically the way things are today.
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Do you mean Common Carrier laws? Kind of like how FedEx won't care that you're shipping to their competitor, like UPS. This could happen, but it would also mean overhauling some of the finance laws that hold credit card companies
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by bduerst 5y ago
The legality isn't relevant to choosing to kowtow to government spying. It would have also been legal for Google to operate project Dragonfly, but they chose user privacy instead.
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Right, but your personal preference doesn't change the fact that Apple is complicit with CCP government spying, counter to the claim that Apple isn't.
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> It was illegal to connect any equipment beside Bell's equipment to the US telephone system. Right, but IIRC Bell was considered a common carrier. That means Bell could enforce this because they already had to give equal play on th
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by bduerst 5y ago
Except it is a complete 180 from the claim "Apple's been fairly prominently resistant to government snooping", because Apple hasn't . That whole article is about how Apple is giving in more and more to demands of the C
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That's much different than making a positive claim the autopilot has parity with human drivers for casualty rates, as there are a number of different reasons that is the case.
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>Apple's been fairly prominently resistant to government snooping of this nature, to the point of getting in a public fight with the FBI over it. Eh, that was 2016. Half a decade later and Apple has since kowtowed to the Chinese gov
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by bduerst 5y ago
In a perfect world, no, but lazily someone could skip salting and/or use common hashing functions. IIRC this was a problem at Sony not too long ago.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Anti-meme is one of the original SCP: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-055 Also written by qntm!
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It's about extending the agreement despite the rules being different now. It's also not good that they mention the Apple TV app in the same email, because it acknowledges they know they're competing with Netflix and it has b
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Acid ketosis is linked to increased GABA levels in the brain, so you could always work out or go on a keto diet to get similar effects.
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by bduerst 5y ago
I would bet money that there is one awarded in the next 10-15 years. Nobel prizes are notorious for not being reactionary, and waiting for the full effects of the work to be realized - i.e. GFP tagging awarded the nobel prize 16 years after
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by bduerst 5y ago
Only if you assume efficient market theory is correct. It's more likely that this information will be withheld by incumbents since it is a valuable pricing signal.
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Small and medium businesses would suffer as well, since many use WhatsApp as a sales channel now.
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It's a well-known business strategy to let smaller players in the market shoulder the risk for new ideas/innovation, since they have less to lose. Patents exist to protect the rewards for the success of these smaller players.
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Most antitrust rules are in place to protect the consumer, not the competitor. You might be thinking of patents with the USPTO.
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It sounds wonderful when waxed praises from a crypto enthusiast. The people who know better don't care to refute it enough, IMO.
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by bduerst 5y ago
It's almost like an authority is needed to enforce contracts. This decentralization for the sake of being decentralized doesn't solve the problem fully.
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by bduerst 5y ago
So just offload ~35% or whatever it is to cover the taxes in anticipation that they're reporting it to the IRS. Not sure if it qualifies as a gift though, which may be taxed different than income.
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Their question was a textbook tu quoque fallacy.
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I think any innovation we'll see is 5G wireless towers going up.
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Also the state government stepping in to block city governments in the name of "stopping government expansion" is actually government expansion. Let the municipal governments dictate how they govern themselves with their own infra
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Competing internet providers still need to invest in last mile costs, which are prohibitively expensive (just like roads). Why is competition the goal? Because it ultimately lowers prices for consumers? That is what municipal internet ach
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> Municipal broadband is a government handout. It artificially lowers prices. - This is a feature of muni broadband and other natural monopolies, like water, electricity, transportation, where economies-of-scale cost savings stimulate ec
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I would even venture to say the tangibility of precious metal-backed currencies in the 1800's made them still a step above cryptocurrencies currently.
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For U.S. Domestic it is. I've heard EU is doing better.

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