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by burkaman 3y ago
I don't think they are actually lobbying in support of these things beyond including them in press releases. When things like congestion charges are actually proposed they lobby against them: https://nyc.streetsblog.org&#x2F
902.
by burkaman 3y ago
That's fair. Although it's partially (mostly?) offset by the preferred solution here of using Uber, which produces tons of extra CO2 from cars idling/driving around waiting for a fare and driving without a passenger to pick y
903.
by burkaman 3y ago
Yes it's a lifetime estimate, from here: https://www.parkhound.com.au/blog/australian-drivers-spend-o... . Extremely misleading quote from the Uber person, probably intentionally. Also basically a made-up number, a
904.
by burkaman 3y ago
> While the number of cars continues to rise, we’re driving them less: 2.5m cars drive less than 5,000km. “We wanted to find out who are these 2.5 million people who own these cars that don’t make sense. We found that most of them are in
905.
by burkaman 3y ago
That is a lot lower than I would have guessed (only 300,000 plant species on the entire planet?). I think the number of known species, 2.16 million, is the better comparison here, because we're talking about known extinctions. Also, th
906.
by burkaman 3y ago
It's a different species, I think a yellow-browed warbler (see here for example https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/yellow-browed-war... ). The Bachman's warbler looks pretty different: https:/&#x
907.
by burkaman 3y ago
There are subsidies in a handful of cities and states in the US ( https://ridereview.com/incentives/country/united-states ), and there are bills for a federal subsidy with a decent amount of support in the House ( h
908.
by burkaman 3y ago
Some languages just use integer versions, like Java.
909.
by burkaman 3y ago
I don't know the answer to your question, but the fact that the Google-AOL deal was never challenged doesn't mean it was legal. Plenty of illegal things are never challenged.
910.
by burkaman 3y ago
Presumably nothing because the code didn't exist when he violated it.
911.
by burkaman 3y ago
Yes they do. The words "engage in exchange" and "gather" are active verbs that obviously imply consciousness and consent. I'll give you another example. The definition of "purchase" is "to obtain by p
912.
by burkaman 3y ago
I would love that. The trip would take a few weeks though right?
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by burkaman 3y ago
No need to convince me, I would love to take a ship instead of flying. I still think airships could fill a niche that waterships can't though, because again they're slow and obviously they can only dock on the coast. You can'
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by burkaman 3y ago
> In economics, a market is a composition of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations or infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange. - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_(economics) > A mar
915.
by burkaman 3y ago
It just doesn't scale, there's only a few passenger seats available, and if we used the whole cargo ship to transport people it wouldn't be low carbon anymore.
916.
by burkaman 3y ago
It looks like that figure doesn't include ambulance charges, which is the example I had in mind when I wrote that sentence. It also doesn't include decisions made during non-emergency surgery, which still might be necessary to sta
917.
by burkaman 3y ago
I agree that someone is buying and selling, what I mean is that it doesn't make sense to talk about healthcare recipients as participants in a market. Obviously firefighters purchase equipment and sell their labor to the government, bu
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by burkaman 3y ago
The niche I'd like them to fill is low-carbon intercontinental travel. Right now the only option is hitching a ride on a cargo ship, which is very slow, expensive, and only low-carbon in a marginal sense, and the prospects for long-dis
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by burkaman 3y ago
> They have no idea what they are buying, and have no idea if the seller is scamming them or incompetent. It's worse than that, important healthcare decisions are often made while you are unconscious, and you just have to pay for wh
920.
by burkaman 3y ago
Also mentioned in this thread: Tumblr's ActivityPub integration (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716429 ) was apparently announced without any plan and then immediately cancelled once they started
921.
by burkaman 3y ago
But social security has been a constant ~20% of spending for 50 years. Inflation has not been constant at all during that time, and has even dipped below 0. How is that possible if social security is a major contributor to inflation?
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by burkaman 3y ago
Why hasn't that happened yet? Also, the government is going to continue indefinitely printing money whether or not we have social security.
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by burkaman 3y ago
> social security will very likely be insolvent/cancelled by the time that we're old enough to qualify for it This is not true, it's propaganda promoted by rich people who want to get rid of social security. It could be el
924.
by burkaman 3y ago
Isn't that sort of how GPT-4 already works? It's a Mixture of Experts architecture that bundles together a bunch of models and selects one for each query.
925.
by burkaman 3y ago
Can you really not think of any worthwhile uses of money other than investing in MoviePass or sitting in a cash pile and "waiting for an opportunity"? I can think of quite a few.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I'm guessing they would rather it be allocated to anything at all, rather than sitting in a "cash pile".
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by burkaman 3y ago
Why would it be opposed to that?
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by burkaman 3y ago
QALYs are a legitimate attempt to make these comparisons, but they are not the only method, and there is no way to determine an objectively correct method. It is not objectively true to say that a young life is more valuable than an old lif
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by burkaman 3y ago
In principle I agree, but it seems like in practice most religious people form their own philosophical framework like everyone else (mostly influenced by family/community and upbringing) and adjust their religious interpretation to mat
930.
by burkaman 3y ago
That's a value of philosophy, not just religion. Religion is one type of philosophy, but many people have a non-religious framework to help quickly answer these types of questions.

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