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by bko 2mo ago
Heavy handed? How about light handed. You're not allowed to sell illegal drugs on the street? Why do we allow this? Do you just not believe that there should be no laws that prevent people from posting up convenience stores on street c
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by bko 2mo ago
Flock provides technology. They don't set the laws. It's like complaining about the CEO of Ford bc a police Ford vehicle damaged some property
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by bko 2mo ago
I'm pro technology. Being pro something does not mean I'm arguing it will always be used for good. What kind of standard is that?
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by bko 2mo ago
It doesn't have to be like this. Why do you accept it? Serious question. You don't need a surveillance state. How many indignities do you stomach for what exactly? Some false sense of freedom? Freedom to buy illegal unlicensed unt
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by bko 2mo ago
I think using technology to capture alleged criminals is a good thing.
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by bko 2mo ago
Maybe they can start enforcing the law when it comes to blatant offenders that terrorize large cities. Illegal blocking of sidewalk selling fake handbags, selling untaxed marijuana on street corners, violating traffic laws on e-bikes. A lot
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by bko 2mo ago
An entity provides a service to people that necessarily produces a consumer surplus. Say you pay $2 for a cup of coffee, you obviously value it at least $2 otherwise you wouldn't buy it, but likely more. Suppose you value it at $3 (i.e
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by bko 2mo ago
What value do they extract? They provide a good or service to denizens. Unless of course you believe in a serf model of government in which people are an asset of the state and everything should serve the states goals.
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by bko 2mo ago
> Personally I think the tax authorities ought to take the line that a company posting serial losses like this is clearly not a viable, ongoing concern and ought to be wound up. Tax authorities don't need to do this. Investors will.
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by bko 2mo ago
How is it convenient that they lost a lot of money in the past and it pays it's employees in stock? Yes, any company can pay 0 taxes by taking all the money that they made and setting it on fire, in perpetuity.
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by bko 2mo ago
This seems entirely reasonable. Suppose you're a company and you lost $100m over the last few years, so naturally you have a sizable tax deduction from future earnings. Even if you're profitable now, over the life of your business
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by bko 2mo ago
Sure if you buy one stock and it goes up 1k percent it's possible. But that's unrealistic and being that concentrated is unacceptable for a fund. Any sophisticated investor that read that a fund they were invested in a single name
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by bko 2mo ago
This fund returned 47% in its first 6m and over 400% prior to the downturn. I don't understand how the investors didn't realize this was going to blow up. Returns like that are not asymmetrical and can only be produced with levera
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by bko 2mo ago
I see police ignoring people blatantly violating the law every day. I have never seen them randomly arresting someone for no reason. You're living on a different planet dude. But I'm sure vox will have some article about the one i
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by bko 2mo ago
I don't know, I see protestors pretty regularly and they're a huge disturbance to 99% of people that are just trying to get on w their lives. Wish the police did more to prevent them from terrorizing the rest of us.
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by bko 2mo ago
> administrators of state power capitalizing on their execution of it for fame Aren't the administrators of state power the prosecutors? Police are more rank and file dealing with the issues. Then it gets kicked up to prosecutors an
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by bko 2mo ago
> If you end up programmatically layering class names, you're looking at a code smell. Why wouldn't you? Suppose you have Button class with `btn btn-primary`. The Button accepts className override so you can do <Button class
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by bko 2mo ago
> Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. What on earth is Google doing? Check my latest post here: We're back to nerfing Google's pr
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by bko 2mo ago
I've heard about similar regulatory barriers especially in finance so this does not surprise me. A long time ago I remember reading about banks that want to provide incentives for saving that amount to basically lottery tickets. The id
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by bko 2mo ago
It's good to look back historically to 1-2 years ago. Originally LLMs were not connected to the internet. When web search was exposed as a tool, the doomers lost their minds. Here Yudkowski: > “So, ChatGPT is not going to destroy th
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by bko 2mo ago
YES I am vegan and YES I eat meat. We exist
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by bko 2mo ago
Agree completely. Its hard to tease out what percent is a cheating response due to increasing accommodations and actual pathologizing. Some personal observations, I would say about 90%+ of "emotional support dogs" are fake. And I
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by bko 2mo ago
If you consider Candy Crush as productive I guess words just don't have meaning anymore so there's no point arguing. I highly doubt you actually believe this, but I have been wrong before.
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by bko 2mo ago
> Hard disagree tbh but that's more of a personal values discussion I'm curious about this. Do you have children? Do you look at someone who does nothing hard in his life with indifference? Someone chooses to spend their life p
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by bko 2mo ago
> Reading the classics is productive because it's enjoyable, even though it doesn't help with your work It's productive in that it is hard and a sign of high intelligence. Don't believe me and swap it out with Candy C
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by bko 2mo ago
> Make them study themselves? How do judges get informed on topics they attempt to pass judgement on? They get expert witnesses. They certainly don't "do their own research"
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by bko 2mo ago
https://archive.is/D87tN
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Stop Pathologizing Ordinary Life(nytimes.com)
3 points by bko 2mo ago|1 comments
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by bko 2mo ago
How should politicians be informed on these topics for which they are attempting to regulate? What's the alternative? I think its entirely reasonable that the industries affected by regulations spend money to combat incorrect informati
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by bko 2mo ago
Referencing a blog is fine. But when you're on a forum discussing ideas just forwarding a blog link is bad taste. Summarize the key arguments. Do some work. It's like if someone is arguing free markets and I just provide a link to

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