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by bumby 5mo ago
The main reason I don’t consider it pilot error is because the pilots did not get training on the system. So the proper mitigation required quick understanding of a system they did not know about, which is incredibly difficult with an inter
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by bumby 5mo ago
Check the previous note I left above with the * on why that is considered a poor mitigation. Administrative procedures are bad mitigations in general but especially bad when a) it’s a safety critical issue and b) the hardware for an engin
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by bumby 5mo ago
> at Boeing on airliner design. The guiding principle is "what happens when X fails"...Airliners are safe not because critical parts cannot fail, but because there is a backup plan for every critical part. And yet creating a c
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by bumby 5mo ago
> I assume the sensor is designed to detect its own failures. Bold assumption. I would be willing to bet this is more the exception than the rule on most sensors/systems. > The point of a NaN value is it does not require sophist
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by bumby 5mo ago
Doesn’t this completely depend on the sensor failure mode? Eg if a voltage sensor internally shorts to ground, the failure will read 0V, not NaN. Or are you using “failed sensor” to only mean “not reporting” here? I think your initializatio
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by bumby 6mo ago
The court case found SO used local aggressive price cutting until competitors were driven out. That’s why they were broken up. I don’t think there is court evidence whether they lost money (although there’s speculation) in those cases becau
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by bumby 6mo ago
Chernow is more of a laity source than an academic one. Fun to read, but it’s not a strong source. He tends to over emphasize the efficiency side and neglect the logistical barriers to entry and many would consider Chernows thesis incomplet
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by bumby 6mo ago
Falling prices is not always indicative of a well-functioning competitive market. Rockefeller was known to deliberately lose money to undercut his competitors and put them out of business. With enough scale, a near-monopoly can provide irra
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by bumby 6mo ago
I think you are in agreement. The poster you replied to seem to insinuate that immediate revenue (in the Americas/space) isn't the best indicator of latter successful pioneering markets.
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by bumby 6mo ago
What happens when the only way to reduce spending is to reduce your assets? Seems like circular logic at that point. I suppose the market isn’t expected to be rational all the time, but eventually it is.
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by bumby 6mo ago
You said it better. I think the idea is that certain "paper" economies are disproportionately valued in the economy when the dollar is strong. A strong dollar leads to offshoring manufacturing, which leads to an over weighted &quo
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by bumby 6mo ago
I agree, depending on what services you’re speaking of. Although I don’t know that it meets the explicit aims of the heritage foundation (which was the OPs question).
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by bumby 6mo ago
I believe the idea is to support the “real” economy vs a “paper” economy. The “real” economy manufactures stuff in meat space instead of making value through abstractions like financial derivatives. The real economies are tied to a stronger
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by bumby 7mo ago
What makes you think these are mostly students? I may have missed that in the methodology
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by bumby 7mo ago
In addition to being a reviewer, they also submitted their own research to this journal. So it leads to the question: if they were willing to cheat on the side of review with less incentive, why wouldn’t they cheat on the side that provides
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by bumby 7mo ago
> If you can get high quality medical advice for effectively nothing This is an area where a confident, but wrong information is extremely costly. It’s like saying an LLM can give you high quality directions on how to tap into a high vo
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by bumby 7mo ago
I think the issue is that someone working in public office had influence to affect that probability, and their relatives stood to gain from it. I don’t know enough about the ethics laws to know if it was strictly illegal, but it does create
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by bumby 7mo ago
I understand that, and I was trying to be helpful and foster an discussion instead of snark. I clearly pointed to costs as well, but it didn’t seem to sink in. Saying “revenue doesn’t equal profits” is superficially true but lacking any rea
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by bumby 7mo ago
This is bordering on a non-productive discussion but: Yes, revenue provides cash flow, not profit. And costs provide the other part, as was already mentioned. But if it increases cash flow without increasing relative costs, it increases pro
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by bumby 7mo ago
If you could identify where fees get decoupled from profit in finance, I’d be open to the position that they aren’t related but you didn’t share anything along those lines. Considering the costs like cash-back programs that would erode the
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by bumby 7mo ago
Interchange fees seem to be a sizable portion of revenue. Discover has listed them as 29% of revenue, BoA at ~$10B annually…
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by bumby 7mo ago
They lack all the essential amino acids, but you can easily circumvent that by combining sources. People have been doing so with combinations like rice and beans for generations. But the question is whether the calories cited come from enou
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by bumby 7mo ago
> Consuming less meat and shifting food production away from meat would be very good for the environment and instantly solve the issue of the amount of calorie produce. The problem with this statement is that it implies all calories are
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by bumby 7mo ago
Where are you seeing that value in the link? The average per capita is closer to 2,600 kcal/day. Not sure how that breaks down when normalized by the individual country population. It also doesn't include waste. In the US at least
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by bumby 7mo ago
It’s been a few years since I looked deeply into it, but I think we produce enough to have everyone survive but not necessarily thrive. At the time, it came out to something like 1700 kcal per person. Even if we did have enough, the next pr
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by bumby 7mo ago
I didn’t read the OP as being entirely dismissive, but rather making a point about relative impact. You could make the case that a neurosurgeon is contributing to the field by being a full-time reviewer of a research journal; like a quant,
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by bumby 8mo ago
Your point isn’t wrong if you take an extreme libertarian view of things, but it’s not quite how it’s usually interpreted colloquially. “When the people who make the rules say there are no rules, that means they’re making rules” is an oddly
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by bumby 8mo ago
There is some irony here that you don’t want to perform the most cursory of a search because you already have a highly biased conclusion rooted in rage bait. https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/02/28/googl
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by bumby 8mo ago
Your question was “Was there actually a case of a model saying "America's founding father were black women" Whether someone else is injecting different bias is whataboutism. So it seems you are trying to make a different po
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by bumby 8mo ago
True to an extent, but those regulations tend to downstream of bad things happening. The exemption means “self-regulation” which is what the OP was speaking to. There are industrial standards, for example, but that’s not a governing body. Y

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