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by ethbro 6y ago
In the example from TFA, Doordash says you can buy a pizza for $16 and charges you $16. The restaurant menu price is $24, and Doordash pays $24 for the pizza. That's... the starting place. (As screwy as it is) Now, if I order a dough p
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by ethbro 6y ago
> Using cars at all isn’t the best we can possibly do. Granted. But any solutions to that are several orders of magnitude more expensive. >> Very few people work at full productivity while driving their cars. > Very few people
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by ethbro 6y ago
> Having fines graduated by ‘skill’ would just be more of a declaration that it’s okay to break the law and speed if you’re a ‘better’ driver, whatever that means. You misunderstand. I'm proposing actual limits be different for diff
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by ethbro 6y ago
Nope. But I'm 100% confident I'm above the bottom tier.
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by ethbro 6y ago
(IANAL) My gut says coordination would be be evidence of both (a) premeditated intent & (b) knowledge that actions constituted fraud. One could place a personal order (or 100) innocently. One looks substantially less innocent when coord
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by ethbro 6y ago
It seems like it would depend on who's initiating the action. While the restaurant preparing "partial" pizzas to ship to coordinated orders is obviously fraud, I'm not so sure "Asking the restaurant owner about thei
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by ethbro 6y ago
The best news choice I made, as an American, was to get my primary news through foreign outlets. Because generally, they don't really care enough to implement systemic bias about another country.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Duck typing says they're currently a member.
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by ethbro 6y ago
As to an alternative, we've come a long way technologically since 1974. If we wanted to, RF enabling cars to be remotely interrogated, and encoding driver qualifications is well within our reach. As to skill level, the current system h
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by ethbro 6y ago
The pile of delivery services is effectively 3, right? And 2 of those are potentially combining.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Static speed limits that apply to all drivers identically are a joke. Because not all drivers are identically skilled. So either you recognize the absurdity inherent in our speed laws, or you think the system is reasonable. The Cannonball R
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by ethbro 6y ago
(IANAL) Believe the more serious charges are "reckless endangerment" [1]. Exact definitions vary state to state, but you can generally argue that reasonable circumstances precluded felony endangerment. E.g. Doing 120 mph on a stra
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by ethbro 6y ago
This sounds like a future that ends in the Amazon of food... bland, lowest-priced facsimiles of actual product. Which only seems compelling in a future in which people are literally unable to cook for themselves.
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by ethbro 6y ago
It would be insane for restaurants to build their own platforms. It would be crazy smart for someone to standardize an interface (e.g. REST API), let restaurants implement glue to their systems, and then allow a plurality of delivery servic
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by ethbro 6y ago
Or, this is more like TicketMaster and less like a free market.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Bailouts are effectively a constant in pluralist democracies. That's what I'm saying.
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by ethbro 6y ago
So Libertarianism cannot exist in a pluralist democracy?
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by ethbro 6y ago
I'm not sure this is the forum you're looking for, if that's how you structure your argument.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Say what you want about Amazon, but they've encultured the best approach I've seen so far. They constantly try to automate and make things more efficient, but they also assume they will constantly screw up for someone, somewhere
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by ethbro 6y ago
Last I checked, every American has an elected official. (Non-voting in the case of territories) Has something changed?
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by ethbro 6y ago
There's always been a lot of inside baseball with regards to international trade "rules." Countries always act in what they perceive to be their best interests. Ergo, there will always be tension over rules that further tho
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by ethbro 6y ago
At least in a democracy with a free press, you (the average person) can try to start a news frenzy and bug your elected government representatives to apply pressure on your behalf.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Good points. I'm curious if there's anywhere world-wide that's tried land swaps on a large scale. Maybe Japan? In the sense of "I give you my house + lot (and my neighbors do), you give me back X units in the more dense
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by ethbro 6y ago
Worked in a related field, where I interfaced with a lot of enterprise VMware VDI teams. ... to put it delicately, why do corporate VDI management teams always have such terrible ops practices? I have literally never run into one that even
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by ethbro 6y ago
The gold rush is a good metaphor. Few are willing to dash off into the wilderness for no good reason, but many are willing to do so for a chance at profit. The problem with profit potential is, after it becomes profit likelihood, the second
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by ethbro 6y ago
I think that's as accurate of a description as I can imagine. Most CEOs are nerdy business men trying to be cool. Jensen comes across more like a cool nerd trying to be business-y.
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by ethbro 6y ago
I'd say they aimed for the wrong market (graphics processing, where they were competing against very specialized and experienced competitors) and failed to partner. Maybe Intel ~1998 could have solo-launched a new architecture, but t
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by ethbro 6y ago
I guess this is fundamentally a homogeneous vs heterogeneous ISA question. I.e. is your ISA intended to operate one chip, or multiple cooperative chips / complexes?
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by ethbro 6y ago
Yes and no. When a kludged together demo fails and there's an awkward moment, sometimes a little more prep might be nice. But on the other hand, I feel better about a company focused on doing actual work rather than polishing demos.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Hypothetically, from an ISA perspective, why couldn't Intel and AMD extend x86-64 more fully with SIMD / MIMD instructions? (as in, way more fully than MMX / SSE / AVX) Naive question, because I literally don't know

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