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by bumby 3mo ago
See: The Prisoners Dilemma. In some collective action problems, if everyone acts in their own individual self interest it results in worse outcomes for everyone. In those cases, it requires some central coordination.
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by bumby 3mo ago
I did talk to a corn/soybean farmer on this recently and they weren’t nearly as concerned as I would have thought. They said they pay JD to maintain their equipment anyway. The equipment is apparently so expensive and sophisticated tha
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by bumby 3mo ago
What kind of government vehicles are you referring to that are typically modified to legally avoid emission standards? Short of military or emergency vehicles, I’m not aware of This as a practice.
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by bumby 3mo ago
> Vendors’ compliance is not disputed, and you have produced no credible evidence of cheating. If there were demand for the smaller, more efficient engines that you’re fantasizing about, someone would already be building them with no leg
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by bumby 3mo ago
I think your general point is reasonable, but far too centered on emissions. There are other reasons to limit modifications beyond just emissions. As an example, most turbocharged vehicles are de-tuned to a much lower psi of boost. The can
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by bumby 3mo ago
Competence and conscientiousness are the ideal traits but I think I’d tend to prefer “true believers” over “inauthentic charlatans”.
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by bumby 3mo ago
Irrationality isn’t one of those big five personality traits though, unless you say it overlaps with neuroticism
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by bumby 3mo ago
What terminology would you prefer to describe that real dynamic then? I don’t know that you can hand wave it away when it’s a substantial portion of the real births. I’m not even claiming it’s a problem, just not something that should be su
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by bumby 3mo ago
Perhaps disagreeableness is a necessary trait for these kinds of results. Unfortunately, that can is also an innate personality trait rather than something easily turned on/off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Fi
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by bumby 3mo ago
The best I can tell, 7-9% of US births are to non-US citizen parents. Maybe you could clarify what exactly you mean by “citizen tourism?”
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by bumby 3mo ago
It is certainly difficult to have a productive conversation when someone refuses to engage in discussing their own point.
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by bumby 3mo ago
I’m the one who is trying to bring it back to the original point. I also brought up healthcare and aerospace. There are many examples of government limits on business that go against your thesis of “this has always happened externally and i
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by bumby 3mo ago
The strawman I was referring to was the binary option of "threatening to the survival of all living species...or not". Perhaps "false dichotomy" would have been a better description. The GGP point was that this level of
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by bumby 3mo ago
I can understand the sentiment, but that’s not how the govt has operated in the past. There are numerous examples of tech transfers to benefit a single company. It’s reasonably common in aerospace and health applications.
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by bumby 3mo ago
Sure, but it’s a bit of a strawman. Define what you think is the appropriate level of risk to society without resorting to the extremes and it becomes a more productive conversation. Is it just short of a model that can be used for bioterro
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by bumby 3mo ago
Eh, this isn’t new to the US either. You can’t, for example, buy a nuclear weapon on the open market because we recognize the broader societal risk.
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by bumby 4mo ago
To me, having safety features that cost nothing for the manufacturer to enable sold as an option is a gross practice. See: The software that enabled a secondary AOA sensor on the Boeing 737Max.
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by bumby 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_water
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by bumby 4mo ago
I would add it's also easy to misclassify when dealing with high-risk, low-probability events. The fact that someone hasn't witnessed something happen in their entire career can lead them to think any mitigation against that event
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by bumby 4mo ago
Sure, but the HN crowd cuts much wider than just people working on mobile business apps.
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by bumby 4mo ago
I don't think you need that dramatic of a strawman for the point. I think a more plausible one in a grey area could be a structural engineer who has experience in low rise commercial buildings being asked to quickly approve a steel sca
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by bumby 4mo ago
I can see that. The counterpoint is that it can create bureaucratic bloat. If the proper channel means coordinating with finance to allocate money, get it assigned to labor codes, and reflected in my bi-monthly time allotment, I think I&#x2
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by bumby 4mo ago
I do agree with you, and most jobs have a "and other duties as assigned" for that reason. But I'll equivocate by saying there are exceptions. If you work a union gig (technically a contract), you have to be careful to stay in
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by bumby 4mo ago
This is only true if you define efficiency as the inverse of redundancy. Sometimes efficiency is gained by reducing waste, not redundancy
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by bumby 4mo ago
Eh, I think it depends on how engaged your supervisor is. One of the last people I want to work with is the “it’s not my job” guy. I want to work with people who see a problem and offer a solution, whether it’s in their job description or n
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by bumby 4mo ago
Benefits are paid based on hours worked not on rate. You also seem to confuse marginal and effective tax rates because you don’t factor in the other tax structures in the US like FICA/state/local taxes. On the US healthcare side,
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by bumby 4mo ago
Median US income is $45k. Almost 18% of US household income goes to healthcare costs. So you’re saying healthcare access/quality, time off, and mortality are moot once you make $23/hr? Color me skeptical.
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by bumby 4mo ago
I’m not sure I follow. Are you implying $10 is the material value of the property?
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by bumby 4mo ago
To quote de Tocqueville: “I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men…”
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by bumby 4mo ago
That property was transferred multiple times after the farmer gave it away. I can’t tell if that save deed restriction followed those sales

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