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by bobthepanda 5d ago
I mean really we need to address the root cause which is that OpenAI, even with what is by all accounts massively negligent, will face little to no repercussions from the event; definitely not under current regulators, and probably not anyt
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by bobthepanda 5d ago
Generally speaking, there aren’t enough. If you wanted to find a shelter bed for every single person on the street in a major city like San Francisco right now, that’s not possible. And that’s just the physical space, not even the medical s
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by bobthepanda 5d ago
Well yes, and also we don’t currently operate enough beds to put people into on account of those high costs.
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by bobthepanda 9d ago
I say this because this country has a history of dismantling systems and then not paying for replacements. We did it with state institutions, which were supposed to be replaced by community mental health centers but that never happened. And
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by bobthepanda 9d ago
The problem is to stop spending money we need to spend some money to set up something like a mental institution. Prison, which was being used for that purpose, costs California $127k a year https://www.lao.ca.gov/policyareas
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by bobthepanda 9d ago
The problem is that we’ve wound up in an unhappy place due to the weird perverse incentives of ideology. Taking homeless people off the street, whether to a hospital or jail, costs a lot of money; so we lack something to do in a climate whe
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by bobthepanda 10d ago
The problem is that a core group of modernists kept doggedly insisting on it after it was proven to not work. For example, we know now that pedestrian skyways only work in limited contexts and have plenty of downsides; or that a large, conc
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by bobthepanda 10d ago
Modernist architecture certainly has its fair share of misfires, particularly where the postwar architects were attempting social engineering to be “cleaner” or more “rational.” The schools were often teaching ideals based in no empirical e
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by bobthepanda 11d ago
Also there is survivorship bias. The olden times were no stranger to slapdash, poor quality construction, but most of it has been demolished either due to having low perceived value or due to not lasting as long and people not doing the nec
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by bobthepanda 11d ago
But how would you enforce that, particularly against bad actors in countries that care less about enforcing laws and norms? Spam calls are still a massive scourge even with Caller ID, SHAKE/STIR, and not for lack of trying.
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by bobthepanda 11d ago
This is also solvable through regulation though. For example, NYC now requires all sold e bikes to be UL certified because of too many apartment lithium battery fires.
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by bobthepanda 12d ago
IIRC this dilemma was one of the things that was driving the Google antitrust case that unfortunately will not result in divorcing search from ads.
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by bobthepanda 12d ago
Tbh as someone who does not drive or own a car regularly, I get by renting those U Haul vans (not trucks). It’s not expensive and it’s a hell of a lot more useful than a truck for doing the random heavy odd job.
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by bobthepanda 13d ago
I think people have now become extremely wary of VC, startup and Silicon Valley because at some point there was a boiling frog shift from helping people and enabling new things to viciously eating anyone not participating.
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by bobthepanda 13d ago
The vast majority of pickups are not actually used for workmen like purposes. In fact, as carmakers have started pivoting more towards selling them to affluent suburban households, the usable cargo volume has decreased over time despite inc
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by bobthepanda 21d ago
it also could be one of those things where in this specific context or dialect of English, plasma was generalized away from the term strictly being a technology to a generic term for that general shape and form factor. after all none of us
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by bobthepanda 22d ago
Even that is a bit of an advanced step. We didn’t have paved roads or railroads until relatively recently, and so a good chunk of goods were being damaged on rickety horse drawn wagons on bumpy, muddy dirt roads.
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by bobthepanda 23d ago
It was both storage and transport. The development of international shipping logistics, improved infrastructure and refrigeration were all needed to make this happen. You can grow the food and you can store the food but that doesn’t do much
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by bobthepanda 23d ago
For most of human history calories in was way more important than nutrition since we could barely even manage that. Just the fact that you can buy fresh fruit and vegetables in the middle of a harsh winter is an incredible feat of logistics
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by bobthepanda 24d ago
i did recently see something interesting where if you look at buybacks from the Mag7, they basically almost entirely offset vesting employee RSUs. which kind of makes sense, those RSUs have to come from somewhere or they dilute the curren
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by bobthepanda 24d ago
this is already happening via asset price inflation. where i live (Seattle) small businesses are trapped in a death spiral as their rents are going up, the wages they have to pay are up to even attract workers who also need to pay rent, but
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by bobthepanda 26d ago
Don’t really know what that has to do with my comment
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by bobthepanda 27d ago
Unfortunately the current administration is also weaponizing the justice system and trying to suffocate its opponents in legal fees.
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by bobthepanda 27d ago
Realistically speaking, it is also because the nature of law and society has changed since the Constitution was drafted. Congress is not set up with so many experts in all the fields of society and cannot literally line by line specify all
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by bobthepanda 27d ago
Underground cisterns are generally the way to do it and even the Romans were building them
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by bobthepanda 29d ago
An interesting feature of Trump 2.0 is that his party has essentially entirely keeled over. Presidents are not historically all powerful within their own parties and the nature of the big tent systems means usually it is fairly difficult to
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
you could say the same thing about AWS or Cloudflare hosting anybody and everybody. Spain actually started blocking a bunch of their IP blocks during football matches due to a poorly thought out legal decision.
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
Basque would be truly weird since it is one of a few known language isolates
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
To be fair, restaurants have always had very high failure rates (something like 75% close within the first year.) Keeping a restaurant open is more about managing costs than having good food; many die because of not great inventory and supp
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
while the seven day week is arbitrary, it is also worth noting that the French Revolution had experimented with a metric ten day week, which ended up being a total bust because laborers only got one week in ten of rest rather than one in se

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