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by dbspin 2y ago
Also pretty much guarantees flight of your former customer base to close compliments - who then have improved revenue to bring their products closer in alignment to yours. You'd better have a hell of a moat to follow this strategy.
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An under-examined problem is that one of the most successful products of capitalism is capitalists. Those selected for 'leadership' by the market are rarely going to be vulnerable to long-termism and empathy, or more generously ar
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"AI-induced unemployment just isn’t a problem." I'm not sure how you'd test this hypothesis, but it certainly looks like a tonne of the ongoing FAANG layoffs are based on assumptions about a decreased need for low-mid le
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Your criticism of this channel may be on point - I haven't watched it. But please don't make the mistake of equivocating scientific hypotheses, theories well supported by evidence and crank pseudoscience created for a mass audienc
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/s
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AI is already being used for picking targets in warzones - https://theconversation.com/israel-accused-of-using-ai-to-ta... . LLM's will of course also be used, due to their convenience and superficial 'intelligence
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Both points seem shallow and reactive rather than considered. a) Roads can be closed just as easily during a pandemic, attempted coup or major government crisis. Dependency on roads necessitates a car - an enormously greater barrier of entr
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In this case it's akin to the bullied child crying 'I'll kill you', from his puddle of blood on the ground. Israel's own conduct in Gaza and the West Bank is the primary threat to the existence of the state. Not two
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I might humbly suggest that architects and architecture should rarely if ever be employed to induce fear, disgusts, sadness, loss of control, smallness, oppression etc. That fact that it all too frequently does so, especially in public ho
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If you can't define a null hypothesis, you can't make a coherent or convincing argument. You're just restating your bias.
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Hard disagree. Lobbying is moneys end run around public debate, and public interest. Where conversations happen in public (aside - they can't currently in US, due to the near complete ownership of all media outlets by a few conglomerat
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Absolutely politicians need to be informed. No one would disagree with that. However the job of lobbyist is not to inform - explicitly. That's not the purpose of a lobbyist. The purpose of a lobbyist is to influence public policy in fa
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How or why are any lobbyists allowed to be part of the legislative process? It's understandable in the US with the total citizens united capture of campaign finance etc, but it's not normal or understandable in the context of more
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I'm sorry but this is a classic example of experts in one field (assuming CS by virtue of posting on Hacker News) assuming that they know anything worth saying about another field. There actually is a mountain of quantitative outcome r
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Just to make a counter point - you're suggesting a completely modernist tabula rasa view of aesthetics, which doesn't seem to gel with observed human aesthetic preferences, whether in fine art or architecture. Our reactions to aes
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What your describing isn't anything to do with what we traditionally consider forgiveness - either in Western or Eastern traditions of spirituality, or contemporary psychotherapy. You're describing self protection. Which is an imp
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The route of the word forgive is from early German, 'fragebaną'. Meaning to release or give up. Forgiveness is not about understanding the motivation of the person who's hurt you. Nor is it about their penitence - although bo
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Sure, I think the price is reasonable for the service. Calling it 'cheap' is a stretch however.
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That's actually astonishing. As so often it feels like the reactionary culture of the US is actively dragging the world down. Especially in relation to environmental protection, privacy rights and conflict escalation.
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Cheap? I just checked there and Austin to Dallas return is 270 dollars... On a bus. That's just incomprehensibly expensive to me (as a European).
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This is terrifying. I'm a writer, and all my work is backed up on Google. Some of it likely only exists there. I'm literally shaking my head here in incredulity. How could anyone at Google have thought that this was a good idea?
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by dbspin 3y ago
Thank you for this comment which mirrors my experience. Unfortunately CPAP seems to be considered the be all and end all of treatment, although the mask, tubes and reliance on such a bedtime setup can be enormously disruptive of sleep on it
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Can't speak to London, but abandoned buildings are few and far between in today's Berlin. It's not the city it was even five or six years ago due to massive redevelopment. As regards forests, I guess there's the Grunwald
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You're not a foreign adversary - you're a colonial overlord. If a European or other US 'ally' nation attempts to act against American 'national interest' their government is swiftly toppled - https:/&#x2F
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NFT's as currently employed only immutably connect to a link - which is in itself not secure. More significantly, no blockchain technology deploys to internet scale content creation. Not remotely. It's hard to conceive of a blockc
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IQ tests are incredibly crude. The amalgamate a series of distinct measures of visual, verbal and mathematical reasoning - primarily utilitised based on ease of measurement, rather than completeness of assessment. My undergrad thesis involv
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> Another less talked about is how the US subsidizes most of global R&D for healthcare by virtue of the obscene amount Americans pay and hence make profitable that industry to the benefit of all of humanity. Health Disadvantage in US
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As ordinary subscribers, not crippling Netflix or Youtube resolution, torrenting a moderate amount of movies, downloading games etc, my partner and I regularly go over 1TB a month. I don't think that's particularly unusual. But ou
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Use a VPN to set up an account. Then you can use EU wide without a VPN. Doesn't require US credit card. You're welcome :)

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