brownbat

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by brownbat 8y ago
Your analogies are missing the key thing people are actually upset about here: one company got special treatment through private bidding. The class of beneficiaries has only one member. If carpool lanes were built for the exclusive use of P
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Headlines like these make me wonder if MoviePass was some kind of brilliant performance art.
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My issue is not with Amazon. This is about the game, not the player. Though now I'm misquoting Ice T too...
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Who cares? Amazon is a great company in a lot of ways, not great in some other ways, and none of that has anything to do with my opinions on local governance. Or as Yogi Berra might have put it, this Amazon story isn't really about Ama
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by brownbat 8y ago
The linked article at the bottom is a really great way to discuss policy and technology with a broad set of readers. https://apps.bostonglobe.com/ideas/graphics/2018/09/equity-m... My only complaint is t
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by brownbat 8y ago
I love how he extracts the underlying beauty from these "ugly" pages... > They look according to the viewer's browser settings. This reveals the belief of the early 1990es that any visual design should be left at the discr
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by brownbat 8y ago
Fascinating link. In it, Amazon lists the FAA first in its list of access to key stakeholders. They must be really serious about drone delivery...
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by brownbat 8y ago
> Please tell me what about this is bad. Opportunity costs? You list several benefits, but benefits don't tell us where a choice ranks in the list of possible alternatives. For example, the alternative where we get all those benefit
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It's daunting to think of how many words have been written in titles he cocreated. He quite possibly helped create the largest piece of fiction humanity has ever written.
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by brownbat 8y ago
Malcolm X nailed one of the most salient features of democracy in his ballot or bullet speech. All forms of government have periodic changes of power. Democratic revolutions involve considerably less blood. All forms of government are event
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Free Flow of Information and International Trade [2010] [pdf](google.com)
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It always seemed to me that if we could populate Mars, we should be able to populate a self-sustained under-water or subterranean colony. Such a colony would provide practice at designing biospheres, and could be pretty robust against space
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by brownbat 8y ago
Killer feature for me is that the same amount of physical mass can hold any amount of value. Spending some cash sometimes increases the complexity of my pocket considerably, which is fine in practice and all, but just feels wrong to part of
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by brownbat 8y ago
I meant something like "information and communications technology company," but apparently made up a new acronym that doesn't even match to that. Sorry for the confusion, ITC is not a thing, except in international trade cont
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Laws should have some kind of escape clauses that kick in should unintended consequences start dominating the impact.
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In our world, it's considered malpractice if you have the option to include double blinding in your study design, but opt not to for convenience. In some alternate universe, it is considered malpractice for those who design the study t
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by brownbat 8y ago
Would be interesting to compare office drinking in other regions. I've heard stories about Korean chaebols that are hard to believe, but I'm sure there are intense workplace antipatterns worldwide.
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Another agency, the FCC, was founded on the premise that we need to ensure some communicators don't degrade the communications of others unintentionally. Spectrum needs management. It's funny we lack the same conviction when ITCs
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by brownbat 8y ago
Inflation adjusted were the key words. Even your link admits poor performance during periods of high inflation, and gives several other example periods. But here was my original source: http://www.multpl.com/inflation-adjust
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Investing in 1968, your S&P holdings would take until 1992 to regain their inflation adjusted starting value. The S&P has not always generated positive returns relative to inflation. Sometimes there are 30 year long dips.
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Imagine green and purple instead of red and blue. If you give a state to green, with the power to turn it back purple any time green threatens your workers, you have the policy leadership in a bit of a hostage crisis. Ideology is flexible i
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by brownbat 8y ago
I found the NPR coverage much clearer: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/02/663417341/judge-rules-native-... Filing: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5026639-Complaint-Cl... Ruling
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by brownbat 8y ago
I'll take that as a no? I don't have a strong position, just that it would at least an interesting engineering challenge. AB testing human flourishing... Would be a bit like the Foundation.
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Beyond blocking misuse of the platform... is there some news feed algorithm that would maximize the spread of human rights? Should fb actively promote stories about real humanitarian crises? Should they promote stories of integration in are
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The best hedge against regulatory risk wouldn't be jobs in DC, but jobs that turn a light red state purple, or a purple state blue. Maybe that's partly why Northern Virginia is a leading candidate, but it seems like there might ha
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by brownbat 8y ago
> You probably mean... I was just quoting someone else's use, I didn't really mean anything by it. I've read about Anthony Flew's framework, but it still seems like unnecessary architecture to me, since I still haven&
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> Presumably he wouldn't cite the convergence towards atheism if he'd consider it mistaken. Same could be said of agnosticism, which he also specifically mentions. Probably an atheist if you're just listing that as a more
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by brownbat 8y ago
Modern neuroscience wouldn't tell you very much that's useful about external forces. All Hobbesian free will is committed to is that being chained to a wall changes your circumstances. Being kidnapped deprives you of meaningful
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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a great resource for common sense and exhaustive coverage of these sorts of things: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/ Classical free will, going back to H
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It sounded like he agrees he just doesn't think it is that interesting or meaningful. He's probably primed by the frequent misappropriation of Gödel to support radical skepticism in pop sci contexts, something I'm not sure Gö

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