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by chmod600 3y ago
Are tornados a threat to skyscrapers?
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by chmod600 3y ago
Doubling or even tripling in ten years is not a ridiculous rate of growth.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Are there other examples where the law crushed fundamental technological shifts? (Not just delayed briefly by starving investment or something.)
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by chmod600 3y ago
"what kind of (productive) gatekeeping the society brings to the table that is not and cannot be fulfilled by a peer review process" I don't think "cannot" should be the standard. If the same or better standard of p
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by chmod600 3y ago
"But obviously free access is better for science as a whole" That's not totally obvious without sorting out the details. Similar to copyright, it seems to be inefficient (in the sense that it artificially restricts supply) bu
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by chmod600 3y ago
But there is a lot of regulation and supervision. It kicks in late in the cycle, though, because doing so early is a hard problem (e.g. detecting rot in the engineering culture).
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by chmod600 3y ago
Competition makes a lot of things better, but it's not super clear that safety is one of those things. I mean, sort of... but with something as complex as aviation, the feedback cycle into the market is slow and noisy.
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by chmod600 3y ago
The root of the problem is that it's hard to quantify engineering quality. That means it's hard for shareholders to hold it to a high standard to preserve long-term value. But it's just as hard for socialist planners to do th
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by chmod600 3y ago
How many times must we re-learn "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick Two"? The two of those that are easy to measure will always get chosen. It's not that people don't want "good", it just takes a lot of effort to figure
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by chmod600 3y ago
This new orientation was encapsulated by something that Harry Stonecipher, who had been CEO of McDonnell Douglas and was CEO of Boeing from 2003 to 2005, said: “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that
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by chmod600 3y ago
"That might be more a result of capitalist motivations" People wanting to get more stuff faster is a universal motivation not limited (in theory or in practice) to capitalism. To the extent that anyone is exploited, that's ju
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by chmod600 3y ago
It's evidence. What it means is up to interpretation, but I doubt it would be blocked entirely. It would be up to the prosecutor to challenge the assumption that you and your phone are in the same place, or that there was some other fl
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by chmod600 3y ago
I wonder how long before "Electronics" is no longer a useful categorization because everything other than food is electronic.
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by chmod600 3y ago
One of the best ways for me to avoid procrastinating on task X is to have some other task Y, and to procrastinate on Y by working on X. Obviously this requires some mental gymnastics to eventually complete both X and Y, or to come up with s
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by chmod600 3y ago
The XY problem is poorly-framed. First of all, it's often a false dichotomy: you can answer the X directly and dig deeper to find Y. Second, it places the questioner in a "normal" bucket: surely they must have the same boring
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by chmod600 3y ago
What's USP?
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by chmod600 3y ago
Isn't copyright tethered somehow to a notion of "expression"? That is, the same ideas and facts expressed differently are a different work? Sure, when something is clearly derived, or just expressed in a new medium, then I&#x
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by chmod600 3y ago
How do you differentiate between a "reaction" and a natural consequence? Maybe as religion / superstition diminished, that left an identity vacuum which was filled by nationalism?
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by chmod600 3y ago
The concept of memory address needs to make sense, first. The idea that memory is a big array of typeless bytes, and that all data exists in there somewhere. That an address is just an array index into memory, and you can use it to point to
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by chmod600 3y ago
That may be true for Cisco specifically; I don't know. But some acquisitions really go well and make sense for everyone. I don't think YouTube was profitable before acquisition. Now it's profitable and a great product.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Much like different companies need a different set of people, the same company at different stages needs a different set of people. Some people are great at the research / experimentation phase but not great when it comes to scaling up
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by chmod600 3y ago
Are we supposed to tell the prosecutor that they can't ask the police witnesses questions about how their legal, warranted search went? Or that the police can't answer?
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by chmod600 3y ago
If I were SCOTUS, here's how I would settle this question: The accused can't be compelled to produce a password, and the prosecution can't use the defendant's silence as an argument against them. BUT the police can expla
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by chmod600 3y ago
They had a warrant. It seems less like a 4th issue and more like a 5th issue.
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by chmod600 3y ago
My mistake. My question stands, then: does "legalize and regulate" mean that there would be regulations preventing the stated problems in Portland, and that they'd be actually enforced? Or is it essentially just the same as p
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by chmod600 3y ago
"what has the war on drugs really ended up accomplishing?" A lot of comments here have a "Portland was a lot better before decriminalization" theme. So at least some people might think the war on drugs was working out be
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by chmod600 3y ago
You're the one who proposed the regulation ("particular establishments or at home"), and now you are already second-guessing whether it should actually be enforced (asking if it's "genuinely dangerous... maybe"
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by chmod600 3y ago
So you'd arrest all of the homeless addicts and put them in jail for consuming in an unapproved place?
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by chmod600 3y ago
150 years ago was very different. If you didn't do useful work, you and your family could be in serious and immediate risk. Now there's more of a safety net (money, foster care, and ambulances/ERs) which is largely good, but
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by chmod600 3y ago
"To do that experiment and do it right, it needs to be nationwide." I'm immediately skeptical of any idea where bad results become evidence that the idea should be deployed more widely.

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