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by foerbert 5y ago
To be fair, I don't think your soldier example is a counterexample. You would have created a better army if you could sufficiently motivate them without using yourself. If you do use yourself, you suddenly become an even bigger vulnera
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by foerbert 5y ago
This seems like an overly pedantic approach. How many children younger than 5 are around posting on HN? Granted, people here may have children of that age. But we're also talking about the expected value of vaccines as well. While I ha
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by foerbert 5y ago
I think it mostly comes down to having way too much cognitive overhead. All the options I've seen presented just require far too many value decisions too frequently. Once nice bundle I can be quite sure of is just requires so much less
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by foerbert 5y ago
Maybe I worded my original post poorly then, as that was the idea I was trying to convey. And you're right. As I said, I don't think there is a perfect way to view these things. However I do think that viewing those taxes as pre-a
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by foerbert 5y ago
That's not a workable position. By that measure a new industry that blows up significant fractions of major population centers for pennies - but pays taxes on those pennies - is a net producer of new tax revenue and should be considere
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by foerbert 5y ago
No, it's not. These are relatively new problems posed by specific companies. If we say part of their taxes go to solving this problem they caused, then what about all the other things their taxes were going to before? It's roughly
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by foerbert 5y ago
They said carbon neutral, so I'm assuming the idea would be to use carbon dioxide and hydrogen to make kerosene to begin with. Then you can burn it and get the carbon dioxide back to start over. It's not carbon from the process en
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by foerbert 5y ago
How so? Apple isn't in the ad business, are they? Now if Google were to do something like add a default adblocker that blocked all non-Google ads... yeah, that'd be anti-competitive. But if Apple isn't even competing, how can
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't think you're correctly understanding what is being asked for, and even if you do, I don't your analysis is correct. First of all, nobody is asking for detailed instructions on how to produce all the parts from some ba
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand why a schematic would violate a patent. As far as I'm aware, patents do not exist to make information secret, but to provide a temporary exclusive legal right in exchange for making the information public
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by foerbert 5y ago
The specific situation being pointed out here is that the software is/was used in public schools. It doesn't really fit in the category of "if nobody knows, nobody cares, and nobody wants to know" that you'll find o
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by foerbert 5y ago
Again, we're talking about a civilization that is colonizing the galaxy here. They would presumably have habitats and people strewn all over the star systems they colonized. What do you see wiping them all out entirely so regularly tha
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by foerbert 5y ago
You yourself mentioned there were additional reasons 'lumped in' that I imagine answers your own question. I have to say I'm a little baffled by the tone of this response. It feels to me like you're implying physicists,
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by foerbert 5y ago
That's not particularly accurate. Dark matter isn't just a thing people thought would be cool if it existed. We've got a bunch of observations that, combined with our knowledge of physics, indicate there is more mass out ther
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure why you see this as so bizarre. This seems like a fairly conservative estimate across the board, intended to be used to produce some kind of lower bound, rather than be an expected case. This is a pretty common and normal
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by foerbert 5y ago
The problems faced at a certain level of wealth are so alien that it's not uncommon for their solutions to sound totally nonsensical - even actively harmful - to anybody outside of that demographic. In light of this, I don't think
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by foerbert 5y ago
You may well have simplified/stated things more absolutely for the sake of this point, but... I think in this very post you make the exact mistake you're talking about. You yourself even identify a simple lack of knowledge as a po
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by foerbert 5y ago
And here we get to the real issue you have. It's not that they started by introducing an example, but that they didn't 'both sides' it... or just pick exclusively on the left. I don't think even this needs to be pol
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by foerbert 5y ago
If you'd gone a little bit further into the article, you'd have seen why. It's context. There's a whole discussion included where the event you're attributing to malicious priming is used as an example. What's
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by foerbert 5y ago
This is why I specified significant amounts, but the exact details of my highly contrived example are obviously not that important. If you phrased it the way you phased this response, I think you would have gotten a better response. You did
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by foerbert 5y ago
This is one of those things that sounds bad on first glance, but doesn't withstand deeper scrutiny. It's largely either a good thing or else not true. If the 1000 lives were not in imminent danger or else could have been saved by
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by foerbert 5y ago
Can't even downvote myself, but my guess is that it's related to the extremity of your position. It sounds a lot like you're saying since we know cyanide is poisonous by itself, it's very strange to be able to win a laws
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow. If a dogecoin is minted, so what? I don't know why bitcoin or other crypto in particular would care so much more than anything else in the world. They work differently, record different information, and are
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by foerbert 5y ago
Not a big crypto person, but my understanding is that a part of the "digital scarcity" problem is addressed by the consensus mechanism. You can go create a fork, but (without sufficient processing power) that fork won't be ab
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by foerbert 5y ago
There are multiple good reasons. Relative pain. The same amount of money has far more substantial effects on an individual than Google. You could live in complete squalor for amounts that Google might not even notice missing. Ability to con
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by foerbert 5y ago
Okay? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
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by foerbert 5y ago
That's assuming PoW cryptos would remain attractive to smaller operations and hobbyists. I'm not sure that's a given. If no business can change your coins to fiat, and no business could accept your coins in the first place (n
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by foerbert 5y ago
> I don't think in the article I wrote about forcing people. Not explicitly, but it's essentially the consequence of not increasing language diversity in FLOSS. If you want to get involved, learn English. That's the "
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by foerbert 5y ago
This is not the whole story, by any means. Those who buy it are those who can afford it. They also (think) they need it, for some reason. That can include the intention to legally resell it. Buying suddenly comes with even more time pressur
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by foerbert 5y ago
Sure. I'd guess it still adds enough friction to help result in a better distribution of goods in the end. The time, effort, and (legal) risk you are willing to take to acquire something should correlate decently with how much you real

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