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by chmod600 6y ago
The other post just raised it as something to think about. It's a good idea to do a sanity check once in a while. More technology has generally been better, but not in all cases and it's not guaranteed to continue that way. Bitcoi
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by chmod600 6y ago
We may need to re-think fundamental concepts of software design For instance, code reuse. Should we really reuse that piece of code in a radically different context? Or versioning. Is the next version really better for all users? Or softwar
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by chmod600 6y ago
"It makes sense if you believe value to be an objective thing" Does any serious economic philosophy actually believe that foolishness?
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by chmod600 6y ago
I agree that the overall value that amazon is claiming is dubious at best. It's conflating consumer/producer surplus with net profits and conflating both of those with wages. But the whole point of the article is to debunk these d
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by chmod600 6y ago
While funny, that doesn't really apply here. We're exchanging an apple for an orange. That is a very reasonable barter transaction and I see no reason that it doesn't create value. In fact, the value is likely to be under co
906.
by chmod600 6y ago
Doesn't it take labor to facilitate the matchmaking, transportation, and transaction costs associated with barter?
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by chmod600 6y ago
"In a typical transaction, no value is created. If I give you an apple and you give me an orange, the total amount of fruit in the economy remains constant. We can’t create fruit by bartering with it. We can only do so by foraging or c
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by chmod600 6y ago
Is the open source community harder to escape from, if you are a victim? If it's just one company, maybe you can switch. If it's open source, you probably need to switch jobs and discard a lot of your expertise.
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by chmod600 6y ago
From your source: "...based on the best of the imperfect measures available." What are these imperfect measures? How imperfect are they?
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by chmod600 6y ago
"The problem is that only a tiny percentage of harassers and rapists are ever convicted." How can that be known? Why do you presume that someone is a harasser or rapist if they weren't convicted?
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by chmod600 6y ago
Until we get some kind of lid on complexity, I don't think real engineering will happen. If any abstract box in your diagram can be arbitrarily complex, then it's not going to stay in that little box. It will develop tendrils into
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by chmod600 6y ago
It seems we are increasingly leaving the scientific method out of science. The scientific method is the most powerful tool we have to determine causation. It's also very strict, which means that it's limited in applicability. It&#
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by chmod600 6y ago
We've only had much technology for a few hundred years. There's an argument that we should give it another few hundred to prepare a bit better. If we rush it, we might destroy valuable information or even forclose some opportuniti
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by chmod600 6y ago
Or a big gamble not to take, if you are vulnerable in a malaria zone.
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by chmod600 6y ago
My understanding is that only a couple species go after humans, and they don't have any important ecological niche.
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by chmod600 6y ago
Are any of the mosquito extinction approaches being seriously tried? Genetic engineering, etc.?
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by chmod600 6y ago
I don't see why that means there will be a tie.
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by chmod600 6y ago
If you use marijuana, you either need to lie on the form required to buy a gun, or the gun store won't sell it to you. Also, in theory, if you have a gun and use marijuana, you are a prohibited person in possession of a gun, which is a
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by chmod600 6y ago
Why do you think the Senate will tie?
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by chmod600 6y ago
Do we have the science to know how safe/unsafe it is to drive under the influence of marijuana?
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by chmod600 6y ago
That's not a reasonable comparison -- medical care is a much more complicated question, and people are much less likely to underatand what yes/no really mean.
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by chmod600 6y ago
It is becoming increasingly hard to justify a prohibition on gun ownership due to marijuana use. These two issues will clash soon.
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by chmod600 6y ago
Having someone to do the tracking and handle the decisions sounds like a huge help to me. Both of those things cause stress which is hard to sustain.
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by chmod600 6y ago
I always thought the "cell" in "cellular phone" came from the network topology, not the battery format.
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by chmod600 6y ago
I've wondered about the asymmetry of information someone finding a bunch of cards in the garage. Maybe worth a lot, but would cost a lot just to find out. A collector could just bid on bulk cards, but how would they know it's not
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by chmod600 6y ago
Does the affect account for considering different populations? For instance, maybe skilled people tend to compare themselves to other skilled people, while unskilled people compare themselves to the general population?
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by chmod600 6y ago
I have a similar problem. What's weird for me is that I feel totally useless and undisciplined, but when I look back, I actually do accomplish important things. But if you watched me day to day, it is obvious I'm wasting a ton of
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by chmod600 6y ago
I was referring to lower income people that a union would supposedly help.
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by chmod600 6y ago
I don't think it's terribly difficult to emigrate from the US to the EU. Aside from plane fare, what's holding someone in the US? And if it's just plane fare, there are probably a lot of places you can make it with a bus
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by chmod600 6y ago
Imagine 50 years from today, how will we look back on the 2020s? How culture, free speech, and big tech are intertwined may be the most significant. Covid and Trump will just be quaint "when I was your age" stories by comparison.

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