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by fossuser 6y ago
Arguably in app purchases have already corrupted a lot of the game space into slot machines. Tokens take that a step further and make it worse. Incentives create the world. On one side you have Apple Arcade trying to align incentives for a
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a16z? They "Why" being massive financial return. The most charitable interpretation is that it's a way to reward artists for creating digital art in a new way. The HN article for this comment thread shows the risk here though
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Those screams exist in Palo Alto too - just mostly in the city council meetings.
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The equivalent of painting reproductions with unique IDs on the back. The whole things feels like a scam to me. Taking the best part about digital goods (that they’re non-rival) and attempting to hack on scarcity for the purpose of exploiti
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by fossuser 6y ago
A few hundred dollars: https://www.galeriedada.com/ This is supposedly the company the movie Ex Machina used for the CEO’s Jackson Pollock. I’ve been tempted to get one from them. :-) https://www.quora.com/D
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by fossuser 6y ago
Therac-25? There are so many other examples, this comment is just wildly wrong. Trying things has some inherent risk of failure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth working on hard problems. It just means you do the best you can to account
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by fossuser 6y ago
For every useful reddit post that helps users get a shitty product working despite its useless official documentation (recently for me, this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/WeMo/comments/k2gem9/easiest_wemo
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, that's what gets to me. A loud ten second car? Whatever. Constant leaf blowers every morning for hours? They drive me crazy.
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Yeah, I just recently moved to SF and it's a lot quieter in the city than it was in the suburbs.
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Yeah - even regular 1gbps down/35mbps up gigabit was hard to get when I first signed up. I called and asked the guy if it was available, he said not in my area and they'd contact me when it was. This seemed wrong since I'd re
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Blower noise is way louder than cars if that’s what you were referring to. The reason I’ve been hesitant to complain is it feels wrong to go after the (mostly working immigrant) landscape companies the Palo Alto NIMBYs have all hired to do
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I think this has been banned in Palo Alto for years, but is never enforced and there are a lot of them running all of the time. The suburbs are surprisingly loud because of this, louder than the cities I've lived in.
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With Starlink I think the competition will get more real for them. In the rare markets with actual competition the shitty cable companies provide at least okay service. In Palo Alto I can get 1gbps down/35mbps up on Comcast for $89 (wi
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The bay area M/F ratio is extremely skewed and the dating market is extremely competitive - (has way too many men). I would guess that in cities with high skew (in either direction) this creates a disincentive to staying together for o
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by fossuser 6y ago
> "In any case, the desire to kill an animal to show off one's hunting prowess is rather on a different level to biological needs. Nobody _needs_ to kill an animal for sport in order to stay alive. Everybody needs to eat. That
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This framing is just this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-deb... "Politics is the mind-killer. Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you’re on, you must support all argume
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I’d argue it’s the presence of neurons, brains, nervous systems that make the difference.
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Probably because I’m new to it (about a year), it’s hard, and I’m imperfect. Cutting milk I think would be easy (decent alternatives), but losing cheese would make things a lot more difficult.
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I agree with this more than you might think. It’s basically the position I used to hold too. The main issue I have is that I think you can’t get the killing without the suffering. There’s another piece too, about killing intelligent life (e
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This issue with this reasoning is it’s after the fact and not on the merits itself. If someone were to think killing animals for amusement is good or moral (even though you don’t) and they pointed to animals that do it as justification, tha
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I think your comments are earnest and I wonder if in person I’d be able to maybe change your mind. My argument would be that we shouldn’t determine mercy based on what something else would do to us, but on what we can do in pursuit of a wor
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I did say “relatively” easy. Not just easy. It’s hard, I like eating and would rather eat meat than not. Sometimes doing something you think is the right thing is harder than doing the status quo easy thing. Humanity has changed over time t
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Yeah, I go out of my way to get eggs from pasture grazed hand collected chickens via goodeggs because of how they're tortured otherwise ( https://www.goodeggs.com/sfbay/home ). I learned about the difference between
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I can offer up a stronger one than that (though remember I did decide to stop eating meat). The strongest argument is that (some) animals don't have a sense of their own self/mortality or make future plans beyond not experiencing
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> "I am arguing that if pigs were more intelligent than we are they would do to us exactly what we do to them, including keeping us in farms to eat later etc." I don't think this is necessarily true. Throughout our own his
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Just because something is evolved behavior doesn't make it moral: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QsMJQSFj7WfoTMNgW/the-traged... Natural selection doesn't have morality as a goal, only passing on geneti
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> "So why should I not eat them? What kind of superior morality am I supposed to claim for myself to think I'm morally better than a pig? None. A pig would eat me, so I eat a pig." This just isn't very strong reasonin
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> "If at some point in the future we discovered a way to identify and measure "suffering" in all creatures, and (given this) further found that the animals we eat do not experience it, then what?" Then I'm okay w
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by fossuser 6y ago
I don't think being a health food is Beyond Meat's (or Impossible's) goal and it really shouldn't be. I think they're trying to get the experience of eating meat right, they don't care (much) about the health p
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I'm not perfect, I probably shouldn't eat fish either. Maybe I'll stop at some point. Just because you don't do something perfectly doesn't mean it's not worth doing at all.

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