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by bpt3 10mo ago
Why do I care as a website owner whether someone uses a brand name (e.g. cocacola) as their username on my site? Same question, but for place names which seems completely innocuous? Instead of us telling you why this is a bad idea, can you
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Ignoring the available data indicating that it is the case, I'm curious about why this seems dubious to you in the first place? Starting and maintaining a functioning business is difficult; the default outcome is failure (the end of th
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Businesses have no issue with their suppliers making reasonable margins as long as the value offered is acceptable or better. I'd rather know a supplier is healthy than scraping by. I just got an email from one of mine saying that they
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Fellow small business owner here. Just as a reminder, discussing any successful (where successful is defined as not failed) business is a lesson in survivorship bias. Most businesses of all sizes, shapes, and forms fail within 10 years.
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And China's lower class is nearly double the size of the US population, making a median of $150 per month. India's demographics don't look as bad as China's, so I'm not sure why you're less optimistic about the
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> No UBI. Just basics for survival guaranteed. That's why I called it a "highly regulated UBI", which might not have been clear. You're proposing that all citizens receive the basics for survival in kind instead of th
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It does, thanks. I'm not sure how much I agree with your premise, but I'll think about it.
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It doesn't sound all that similar on the surface to OP's response based on my initial read of both. It seems like you're proposing a regulated free market in parallel with a highly regulated UBI?
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Thanks for the reply. I agree that regulating capitalism is necessary, but I also think the "where it's needed" portion of your thesis is a real sticking point. I would be interested to know what industries you have in mind
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> socialist-capitalist What is this? Are the existing examples you mentioned considered examples of democratic socialism, or are you referring to something else?
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I'm not at all, but if I had to leave it behind I'd just keep building offline exclusively instead of doing both.
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Did you mean to say "But China will likely become old before it gets rich"? Their population is declining already and they have a very long way to go before being considered "rich", so I haven't seen many projection
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Some form of building things in the physical world rather than the digital; probably working in construction since I already do it on the side.
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When "we" = "developers we imagined when using LLMs to generate this marketing slop based on a contrived scenario", then sure!
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Except of course that you're sharing the contents of that PDF with a random online service.
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Mozilla has lost the trust of its users by making decisions that their userbase doesn't approve of repeatedly, and then partially walking them back after the backlash. That's not the fault of their users, at least not directly. If
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Ah, sorry I missed that. Academics, whose entire careers are based on publishing knowledge, only publish a fraction of their total knowledge obtained over their career. Estimates are that only 10-20% of all knowledge is explicit.
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I don't disagree, but lighting money on fire hyping NFTs and whatever other random fad strikes them as interesting doesn't seem to be the way to accomplish that. My actual guess is that they got way too big, both in terms of headc
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WTF happened to a16z? They used to be at the pinnacle of the VC sector, and now they seem to actively seek out the most toxic portcos possible.
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In addition to the content available on the platforms we're discussing here (Coursera and Udemy), you have things like: https://ocw.mit.edu/ https://onlineeducation.caltech.edu/courses/certificate-
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They have not, because a large portion of the knowledge obtained by subject matter experts in any given field has never been published. Also, hallucinations are still a thing, and there's a reason why LLMs do not outperform subject mat
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They are faster, but I don't see how they are vastly superior to a course designed and offered by a subject matter expert in the field.
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by bpt3 10mo ago
> So? I know what I mean. No one else who has responded to you does, so you'd think you'd care, but I guess that makes the chances of a meaningful dialogue very clear. > Aside from all the patents, trademarks, copyright, etc
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The facts are that we have been paying for Medicare since the 1960s and are legally obligated to continue paying for it indefinitely, as pointed out in one of your citations. That's literally all I said in my last post. In the previous
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This is the second time you've just stated that the US is the source of "heavy regulation" in the tech sector without any explanation of what that means. Given that virtually no one else on Earth agrees with that claim on its
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We have been paying for the expensive part for decades and have no plans to stop, so your claim that we can't afford it is interesting. Is there a reason you are so argumentative about basic, seemingly indisputable facts related to thi
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I believe most people would incorporate the value received into their satisfaction rating. Most people also don't have any idea how much their insurance costs in total or how it compares to alternatives, so that would be a challenging
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I read the rest of it as well. When the first statement is false, the rest of it isn't particularly meaningful. It's clear to me that they were just looking for a launching point to complain about capitalism and didn't really
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Yes, it's noted in the poll I linked (which is the same one as your first link) that the highest satisfaction is with government run insurance. Not enough people are on ACA with subsidies to move the poll results that much, and Medicai
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From yesterday, after a 2 second google search: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5650010-survey-aca-cov... Feel free to look at the many, many, many alternative polls over the years. This is well known to any

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