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by cbsmith 3y ago
Most public transit isn't driverless, and that's actually one of it's key negatives. Perhaps think about it this way: driverless cars are effectively driverless buses sized for the flexibility and efficiencies that come with
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Seriously, even TM can't replace TM. ;-) They keep buying ticketing companies in hopes of ditching all their technical debt and switching to a new ticketing platform. Every time they try to do it, they fail. So most tickets for concert
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by cbsmith 3y ago
But that doesn't answer the question as to why Ticketmaster had exclusive deals with the venues. Why would every decent venue go with Ticketmaster?
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So LN's market share in venues and acts is smaller than TM's market share for ticketing, and LN tried to use their venue/promotion business to launch their own ticketing platform and couldn't compete with TM... but right
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by cbsmith 3y ago
No, LN was spun off from CC and after years of trying & failing to compete with TM, then acquired TM. The point being: TM already had the market power before LN was on the scene, and all of LN's market power wasn't enough to g
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by cbsmith 3y ago
It was formed to compete with TM, because TM had too much market power. In other words, you didn't need to use TM if you were using CC from a business/monopoly standpoint --in fact it was against their interests. However, CC&#x2
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by cbsmith 3y ago
There's the infamous "Garth mode" (named after Garth Brooks), where the inventory for multiple performances in the same venue is effectively consolidated into one pseudo-event. Some of the performances are kept in reserve, an
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Right, but now you have to ask yourself why do the venues have exclusive ticket agreements with TM rather than another ticketing vendor?
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Yeah, no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Nation_(events_promoter) "Founded in 1996 by Robert F. X. Sillerman as SFX Entertainment, the company's business was built around consolidating concert promoters i
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Honestly, it's not what the rhetoric tells you. The entertainment business is not very technical. TM serves as their IT department. By the nature of the business, everyone wants to differentiate themselves from everyone else. So litera
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Not accurate. TM already had a lock the market before LN acquired them. In fact, LN created their own ticketing platform to compete with TM... and failed miserably. Take a look at the largest venues in the country. Most of them aren't
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Ah, you mean before it was called Google. Honestly, the non-profit engine was not nearly as good as the one the subsequent for profit business created.
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> I mean Google started as a non-profit and basically defined the search engine and it's tools. Then it went private, continued briefly, and has slid more and more into yet another corporate rent-seeker ever since. Wait, when was Go
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by cbsmith 3y ago
You honestly believe that government funded work didn't "make much difference" with dealing with COVID?
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> What work is that? Unnaturally bringing bats and pangolins together in a meat market? The only "real world" excuse ever offered. GoF research in virology is specifically to replicate what happens in nature in hopes of forecas
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> Well we spent over a decade and millions of dollars studying SARS coronaviruses and yet none of that work was of any help in fighting the pandemic. Wow. Just wow. It's statements like this that make me think we should indeed halt
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> This would have to not happen regularly. The researchers would need to stay for many months at a time, and undergo a separate quarantine before they re-enter society. So you would add months of delay, significantly impaired observabili
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> Nature has a more limited tool kit and has limited ability to bring together virus genes that would otherwise not occur in the same nucleus. Would that that were true. I'm curious how you explain how your perception aligns with th
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I'm not sure I followed your reasoning entirely. You mention rapid sequencing, rapid wastewater monitoring, PPE stocking/distribution policies, and more effective local lockdown procedures/policies. Those would all be factors
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> I don't associate the term "NIMBY" with either scenarios, just housing. You might not, but the broader population associates NIMBY with any scenario where a neighbourhood pushes back against some kind of change in that n
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> Sequencing is something done by many types of biologist, there's nothing special about virologists there. Sequencing can be done by a high school student in a lab. Of course, to obtain a sequence for a novel virus, you have to do
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> I assume the biological samples need to get transported at some point anyway. The researchers would need to live on-site. Yes this would dramatically increase the cost. If you're worried about lab contamination, the risk is from t
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> Viruses and bacteria are unique in the fact that they can harm the whole globe as opposed to chemical and other disasters that will likely only harm the immediate area. First of all, you added in bacteria, which are not viruses. Howeve
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No, but it does equal a people being concerned about the effects of making a change while completely ignoring the effects of NOT making a change.
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Describing NIMBYism as "narcissistic assholes" is a gross oversimplification, and misses the point I'm getting at. In the US, you'll reliably get a lot more NIMBY response from "set up a nuclear power plant in the n
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You might expect they'd have contributed a lot, what with the being shut down and everyone and everything involved being subject to endless accusations and calls for investigations. Now tell me, how did all of those accusations and inv
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> Crazy virus comes from where said crazy viruses are literally made and studied. "Crazy" is an odd characterization, but let's go with it. Where are "crazy viruses literally made"? Well, more often than not, in
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by cbsmith 3y ago
It's not a court case. There's not a burden of proof. What there is, is a risk analysis, which means you have to consider the risks of any particular action as well as in NOT taking the action. I've seen literally no discussi
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> Why the hell are we putting biological virology institutes in the middle of the major population centers instead of the middle of nowhere? Have you looked at the answers to these questions?
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NIMBYism isn't exactly a good measure of whether something should or shouldn't be done.

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