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by bduerst 5y ago
Same. No more paging through aggregate results from different search engines.
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by bduerst 5y ago
TikTok doesn't even exist in China. The parent Bytedance does, and their Chinese equivalent is Taiotao. Even the TikTok data servers exist in South Korea. This is an important distinction because there has been zero proof that TikTok
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by bduerst 5y ago
There is no reason to believe that driverless cars will be driven more than regular vehicles, and even if they were, you'd be able to regulate fleet pricing to stem overusage. There is still no comparison between electric vehicles and
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by bduerst 5y ago
It sucks, but most consumers are rational actors that don't care about those externalized costs (hence why we have tragedy of the commons). It's especially so for the price-sensitive demographics that GP was describing above, who
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by bduerst 5y ago
>If I could be driven, I’d be far more inclined to do that sort of thing The same way a taxi or ride-share would drive you right now?
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by bduerst 5y ago
>Fatalities are the metric Waymo uses every time they give a presentation. Source? Because since 2020 Waymo has been primarily touting their "contact events" metric, which is what most people consider to be accidents. Simulate
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by bduerst 5y ago
>Yes, but that doesn't automatically mean all that power is made with renewables. Electric vehicles are consistently more carbon efficient than individual combustion engines, except for specific outlier instances in developing count
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by bduerst 5y ago
Wouldn't it be the other way, through fleet network effects? For example, your fleet of low- or zero-emission vehicles would greatly offset the average vehicles that people would have been using instead. Also, zero occupancy vehicles n
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by bduerst 5y ago
>500k driverless miles in Phoenix Waymo has 20 million miles IRL driverless, and 15 billion miles in simulated driving. Fatalaties are not the only metric. Accidents are much more frequent and driverless cars have already proven they&
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by bduerst 5y ago
Luddites to the weaving loom, Blacksmiths to the steel mill, farm hands to the combustion engine, secretaries to the email, travel agencies to the search engine, etc. Technology has a robust history of displacing jobs, and humans have a rob
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by bduerst 5y ago
Underlying cost doesn't matter to markets when it's priced the same as luxury cars. It's the same customers with the same disposable income and different expectations than mid-range.
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by bduerst 5y ago
>Further, I expect the number of cars on the road to go way up because suddenly so many more people can use a car. You're assuming that the cost will be much less with self-driving than ride share or cabs. It likely won't be a
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by bduerst 5y ago
Tesla self driving is scary for everyone . There's more than just a few crashes and concerns regarding it's capabilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot#Safety_concern...
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by bduerst 5y ago
Just look directly into the Lidar. That way we'll know when the uprising is close.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Top comment calls out why. Tesla is a luxury brand, not a mid range car. Price differences bring different expectations.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Whitewashing UBI as a "win-win" is pretty bold considering I just showed how UBI disproportionately benefits property owners and discriminates against everyone else. There are ways to achieve all of the above that doesn't req
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by bduerst 5y ago
The covid checks weren't UBI, only people under a specific income range were eligible. Also keeping businesses afloat solved stagnation (worst) at the cost of inflation (bad, but not the worst). I'm critical of UBI but using a gl
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by bduerst 5y ago
Eliminating complexity for the sake of eliminating complexity is not an effective solution, especially when it introduces new problems like inflation on income-elastic priced goods like housing. UBI is the epitome of a cocktail party idea:
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by bduerst 5y ago
There are goods and services with income-elastic pricing, like housing. UBI indirectly and unfairly benefits only the people who control those goods and services. If everyone made $1000 more per month, housing prices would raise up to that
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by bduerst 5y ago
New construction is unlocked by increased income-linked demand and rents only marginally increase.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Worth noting the artificial sweetners found to have correllations with increased risk of cancer are aspartame and acesulfame-K. Sucralose, stevia, and others were not found to have an increased risk, but they were only present in a much sma
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by bduerst 5y ago
That doesn't necessarily mean that breast cancer can be dismissed. It seems that there are increased numbers of women in both the control and artificial sweetner/cancer populations.
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by bduerst 5y ago
What would be a good boundary here, in your opinion? The 95% CI lower boundary for most of the cancer risks are still > HR 1.00, which seems significant enough to call out an increased risk correlation.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Yep, it's survivor bias to assume Satoshi's methods were effective, because he could be incarcerated or kidnapped or traced with his methods and it would not be general knowledge.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Art embezzlement is just an additional way NFTs are used to the ways described above.
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by bduerst 5y ago
If you have $200,000 in ETH, you can sell yourself a $200,000 NFT. Externally it looks like some anonymous person gave you $200,000 for an NFT, rather than you just trying to legitimize illegal cash flows. Or alternatively, you can double
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by bduerst 5y ago
People also turn to drugs because they were irresponsibly prescribed opioids and developed a chemical addiction. This idea that addiction is something that only happens to people who "just can't deal with life" needs to die.
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Human cultures nave also historically adapted slavery, misogyny, and other "tools". That doesn't mean that shame is an acceptable nor an effective form of addiction treatment.
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Sure, that aligns with the authors, but what do you do when your winner heavily criticizes your sponsor and portrays them in a bad light? It doesn't necessarily mean the story is correct - it is science fiction after all - but how wi
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by bduerst 5y ago
There are many sub-genres in sci-fi that criticize technology for it's downsides. How do you plan on impartially dealing with stories that criticize the technology being promoted by your sponsors?

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