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by brownbat 8y ago
> The AMA is a trade guild that restricts the supply of doctors. Technically the supply of doctors is throttled by residency programs, the numbers of which are determined by an incredibly weird dance between Congress and hospitals. Your
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by brownbat 8y ago
We had a case once where a guy kept breaking into a local business. Didn't take anything, just broke the door or a window and picked things up and moved them around a bit then left. Did it repeatedly despite a series of warnings and di
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by brownbat 8y ago
Hello New Jersey? :) I worry there's a sampling bias going on. When I commuted to work, I'd keep the same tight pattern everyone else used, and it felt like any time I let up, some jerk would take advantage. Then, for a while, I w
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by brownbat 8y ago
Yup. Don't argue about defining terms, just ask the defining terms people. Merriam-Webster: a : consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water) American Heritage: 1. Covered or soaked with a liquid, such
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by brownbat 8y ago
Mumble offers signal to noise detection that can be more effective than amplitude detection in many but not all situations. I'm surprised it hasn't caught on more widely. Edited for tone.
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by brownbat 8y ago
Mumble has a really great voice detection algorithm, so I never hear your parade of horribles. Not sure if discord has anything as good, that might be the difference.
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by brownbat 8y ago
Listen up, Brunei.
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by brownbat 8y ago
I'd add that there are competing constitutional priorities, one of ensuring states can regulate their own affairs, and another of ensuring a common market, and ensuring that the legal frameworks of the various states are interlocking.
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by brownbat 8y ago
> he has blocked people on twitter and RegFD is very clear that information can't not be disseminated in a way that isn't available to everyone at the same time. I thought blocking just prevented you from seeing their replies.
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by brownbat 8y ago
The Peter Principle suggests people are promoted to the level of their incompetence. The Dilbert Principle (which Harford also mentions) suggests incompetents are promoted to middle management to minimize their ability to do harm. The Gerva
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by brownbat 8y ago
I'd second and generalize to basically any area of research into expanding or applying cryptographic protocols. There was a fascinating area I read about in grad school focused on deniable database retrieval, an extension of oblivious
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by brownbat 8y ago
> makes you look like a government shill We're on a site where we strive to assume good faith, avoid name calling, reply to the argument not the person, take the strongest possible form of what someone is saying (iron man not straw
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by brownbat 8y ago
My first reaction is that Venus is awful no one would go there, but I really love that Asimov would never say no to a premise. Fantastic Voyage for example, he was like, ok, this is crazy, but here's what would happen at those scales.
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by brownbat 8y ago
It's weird how different graphics cards are from pharmaceuticals. Both have big startup and research costs, but GPUs are basically obsolete in a couple years, they run the supply out and constantly plan to move to the next model. Pharm
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by brownbat 8y ago
> While Japan had what could be called slavery, it was never at an industrial scale. The "but it wasn't industrial” is a vague and arbitrary line. Yes, the Western slave trade was massively horrific and incomparable. But in con
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by brownbat 8y ago
Google grew up in a services era by replacing a hugely human intensive service with an algorithm. Navigating local laws might be doable with their current expertise, but would definitely be human intensive, absent a real breakthrough in AI.
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by brownbat 8y ago
For the same reason Google shutters profitable projects, or why oil drilling companies often pack up but sell the rights to someone else to pull out the dregs, or why Annhauser doesn't make high quality craft brews. They aren't pr
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by brownbat 8y ago
> Who do you think has access to lots of subsidized electricity... It's a great question, and an incredibly quick reply! I would like some time to consider it carefully, but recommended you check out the article I originally linked
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by brownbat 8y ago
> Bitcoin doesn't help anyone since people don't have enough money to eat, let alone buy computers or mobile phones. It's not at US levels, but many already have mobile phones: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
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by brownbat 8y ago
When AT&T was forced by law to allow MCI switching equipment in their facilities, they tended to leave that room's window open, so pigeons could nest in the equipment. (I might have a detail wrong, this and a hundred other great te
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by brownbat 8y ago
Agreed, all those options are fascinating possibilities in their own way. A few months ago lidar revealed a lost Purépecha city that had more buildings than Manhattan. The Purépecha were contemporaries of the Aztecs that most people have ne
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by brownbat 8y ago
> When I talk to cryptocurrency advocates, they typically argue about private benefits but I want to hear more about the public benefits I find it easier to imagine cryptocurrency providing public goods in areas of hyperinflation or othe
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by brownbat 8y ago
I wish United would spend less time trying to learn my name and more time actually understanding my complaints about their website. Like about their online security questions. I don't have a particular favorite vegetable, and even if I
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by brownbat 8y ago
Kudos. The award seems familiar... a year of lifelock and identity protection, with other future damages still too speculative. Is lifelock sufficient to prevent malfeasance from stolen SSNs? I honestly don't know how effective it is,
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by brownbat 8y ago
Isn't this really gathering data about a nonconsenting third party, the business? Does GDPR generally allow you or your apps to collect information that helps identify legal and moral transgressions around you? What if you are watching
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by brownbat 8y ago
"Bain, KKR, and Vornado... will end up losing well over a billion dollars combined." A lot of retail debt will be renegotiated in 2019 as underlying interest rates are increasing, so the pace of these might be set to increase dram
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by brownbat 8y ago
Heartbleed was found though. Thinking out loud here, what's the best counterfactual on HB? I can imagine a ClosedSSL that gets hammered in a blackhat presentation. I can imagine ClosedSSL getting fixed, eventually. It's just hard
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by brownbat 8y ago
Politics is the mind-killer. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i...
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H G Wells wrote in 1933 that submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles loaded with some kind of chemical weapons would be a dominant factor in shaping future conflicts. He also predicted the international post service would
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by brownbat 8y ago
Citizens United discussions are a bit of a flamewar trap. So if you're reading this, instead of down voting everyone on the other side or yelling about democracy in a reply, I'd just urge you to leave this site of random pseudo an

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