epistasis

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2491.
by epistasis 3y ago
Cars are one of the main causes of death in the US, and we just accept it. So perhaps DOT can get away with it. But we do not accept this tradeoff in, say, approval of medical devices or drugs. I doubt Boeing is happy with the tradeoff of c
2492.
by epistasis 3y ago
You continue ignore that money was illegally taken from safety funds to pay executive bonuses. This is not an engineering tradeoff decision. That's not even relevant, and it's weird that you would invent such a situation.
2493.
by epistasis 3y ago
It's not $100M savings, it's $100M paid to executives, illegally , instead of on the safety repairs. As far as whether trading $100M is an appropriate tradeoff for 8 lives, well.... let's hope you never are in a position to
2494.
by epistasis 3y ago
IMHO the problem is that utilities are like no other company in that they have a monopoly but are supposed to be reigned in by regulators. But the vast majority of regulatory bodies are either captured or incompetent at regulation. Public v
2495.
by epistasis 3y ago
One of the many times they have killed: eight people in San Bruno in 2010 due to a gas pipeline explosion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion > On January 13, 2012, an independent audit from
2496.
by epistasis 3y ago
I hope this gets a lot more attention. De-pickling objects is as dangerous as running random Python code, for example when installing packages from PyPI. But the malicious pickle route is probably not checked as often as the malicious packa
2497.
by epistasis 3y ago
There's a tradeoff for sure, but to fully evaluate that tradeoff you must also take into account the future time spent on the code base, including the amount of time needed to debug future features, adopt a new build environment, allow
2498.
by epistasis 3y ago
With Schulz's truly strange behavior in stalling support for Ukraine, and involvement in the Wirecard and cum-ex scandals, I truly wonder if there might be some kompromat hanging over Scholz's head around this.
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by epistasis 3y ago
So funny that you are downvoted, this is exactly right and perfectly clear to anyone who is remotely familiar with the area, or Russian society.
2500.
by epistasis 3y ago
Thanks, that's very helpful, I had not seen the diagram on OpenAI's website before. It explains at least three of the entities, but I do wonder about the purpose of some of the other entities. For example, a limited partnership i
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by epistasis 3y ago
Oops, that's a bit embarrassing! Thanks for the correction.
2502.
by epistasis 3y ago
The defendant list is a bit bewildering. How usual is a corporate structure like this? Which, if any of these, is the nonprofit? OPENAI, INC., a corporation, OPENAI, L.P., a limited partnership, OPENAI, L.L.C., a limited liability
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by epistasis 3y ago
Ukrainians, who have more experience with democracy than nearly any other European ethnicity due to their tradition of not having aristocracy, have a saying, that can be roughly paraphrased as: we elect our hetman, but the next day we compl
2504.
by epistasis 3y ago
What are you talking about when you say "people do not feel like it affects them"? Because all across the political spectrum people are furious about this today.
2505.
by epistasis 3y ago
The owner is an old friend, I think they might have gone to the same school. Edit: found a source here > Flynn, who attended the same high school as Newsom, has been involved in business dealings with the California governor, according t
2506.
by epistasis 3y ago
That doesn't sound like a prison at all, it sounds like there are different tradeoffs. The closest thing to a "prison" is not being able to hunt/hike/etc. which I can assure you is simply not true and people in citi
2507.
by epistasis 3y ago
The poor aren't buying oversized vehicles, because those vehicles are the more expensive option already.
2508.
by epistasis 3y ago
We can agree on this! Would you be in favor of changing the system such that homeownership is no longer such a profitable endeavor, where it leads to unaffordability for future generations? This is the core of the problem in my view, and c
2509.
by epistasis 3y ago
No, not at all, it doesn't make any sense. The closest I can think is that you do not have a solid connection from a value system to a reason that corporations should not own single family homes. I don't have to agree with the val
2510.
by epistasis 3y ago
This is a completely unrelated issue, but I do support rent control. Rents were completely unaffordable before the corporate story entered the picture, and at only 11% of the SFH market, it's not the main issue, and perhaps most impo
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by epistasis 3y ago
Every single home owner is an investor, and often it is there primary asset, that they put all their effort into maximizing financially, as much as possible. We do fundamentally disagree, I do not view homeowner profits as more virtuous tha
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by epistasis 3y ago
> Housing that is owned by corporations have no price controls. They will charge what the market will bear That has nothing to do with corporate ownership, that is all housing in the US except for the tiny tiny fraction of deed-restric
2513.
by epistasis 3y ago
How are people who need housing harmed by renting the housing? My best possible understanding is that it helps people that need housing. In particular, these are single family homes, which usually require a 20% down payment in order to have
2514.
by epistasis 3y ago
Can you define the political problem? Who is harmed by this?
2515.
by epistasis 3y ago
This is an inauspicious start... would your answer change based on how I answer? I have lived in rental housing far longer than I have owned a house, and my personal politics are such that I don't think that land should be private prop
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by epistasis 3y ago
Can you explain why this should not happen at all? From the renter's experience, corporate landlords are more likely to follow the law. From the perspective of homeowners, I can see that this adds another competitive player, and allows
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by epistasis 3y ago
The closest I have ever gotten to somebody articulating how it makes the world worse was a homeowner saying that they didn't like it because it allowed renters into their neighborhood. But I'm guessing there's some other re
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by epistasis 3y ago
If so then antitrust laws kick in from three different companies colluding on this. However, I'm skeptical of much pricing control. Few other markets have such widely distributed market share. There is some stickiness in that people d
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by epistasis 3y ago
Having rented a single family home from a "small" landlord, and rented an apartment in a large building owned by a corporate landlord, and having had far worse experiences with law-breaking and exploitation from the "small&qu
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by epistasis 3y ago
I'm not a mathematician, and don't have a ton of use for geometry in my work, but was learning GA for fun, and have similarly tried to learn quaternions in the past. GA is fun, quarternions are not fun. I think I understand GA,

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