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by gwright 6y ago
IANAL but I think a major component of contract law involves ensuring that the contract is "reasonable". This is what I meant by "play nice". I realize that the definition of "reasonable" is complicated (thus
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by gwright 6y ago
You are constructing a false choice. We have a general principle of due process and contract law that can be applied here in insisting that "massive corporations" play nice. Reigning in "massive corporations" doesn'
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by gwright 6y ago
Their automated system/review process is broken with respect to apps that render user generated content. I've had several requests from Google over the last couple of years to make changes to my app to remove user generated conten
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by gwright 6y ago
I don't think transportation is a good analogue because it is very easy to make substitutions. There are lots of ways to get from point A to point B with no single entity blocking your path. How many ways are there to publish a mobil
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by gwright 6y ago
Good ideas but not currently feasible at grid-scale and so can't be really considered today as viable components of a power grid.
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by gwright 6y ago
It is "played up" because that is how the physics/science works right now. Grid-scale storage is required to smooth out grid-scale intermittent generation.
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by gwright 6y ago
It doesn't matter that if solar/wind is cheap (or even zero) because you still have to have an alternate power source for when your intermittent power has gone AWOL. You need cheap grid-scale storage, which doesn't exist at
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by gwright 6y ago
Godel, Escher, and Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter
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by gwright 6y ago
You have made the false assumption that I'm talking about this particular situation (Amazon/Tim Bray) when I was simply responding to the more general comment about making judgements based on generalities and not on particulars.
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by gwright 6y ago
All I said was that the particular facts of a situation are relevant. Hard to believe that is a controversial point.
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by gwright 6y ago
You seem to be asserting that all that is needed to determine who is right or wrong in any particular situation is to assign some sort of "power" metric to both sides and then conclude that the powerful entity must be wrong and th
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by gwright 6y ago
So your asserting that without understanding the specifics of the situation that a "lesson from history" should be applied and should guide your opinion about a particular situtation? It isn't important to you what the nature
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by gwright 6y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but how can you know if your principle ("one side has all the power and the other side has none") is relevant without understanding the specifics of the issue at hand? You seem to be suggesti
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by gwright 6y ago
The actions of big corporations are the actions of humans.
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by gwright 6y ago
How about considering the facts of the situation and not generalizing and applying a pre-conceived narrative?
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by gwright 6y ago
In your mind what has happened to those "shitty jobs"?
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by gwright 6y ago
> Half of the people I know are working from home and stocked up on 1-2 months of food at the outset of this. This surprises me if for no other reason than it takes a lot of space to store 1-2 months of food. Might be true, but is certa
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by gwright 6y ago
$449 doesn't seem particularly expensive for something that will last 3+ years. That is $12.50/month (or less). Your data service is easily 3x or 4x the cost of the phone. The value that you get from that device is extraordinary c
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by gwright 7y ago
I'm not going to tackle #1 other than to say I do agree that health insurance shouldn't be provided by your employer. But for #2, you seem to be asserting that there is some method by which it is possible to determine that a parti
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by gwright 7y ago
Mandated? If you grant government the power to mandate this sort of thing (in the absence of an emergency), you have granted government the power to micro-manage everything. What would be the limiting principle to government power? This is
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by gwright 7y ago
I don't think it says that at all. You can't cherry pick two particular institutions and draw some sort of conclusion about "society". In this particular case it seems like the entire conclusion is based on nothing othe
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by gwright 7y ago
What does it say? It seems to me that pretty much every society has struggled to deal with this. Perhaps because it isn't something that has many reasonable direct analogues in our collective experience? It is very easy to spot defic
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by gwright 7y ago
There is a shortage right now and we are collectively trying to address that but it is strange to say that this particular product and the safety practices you describe is the "reason why we pay federal taxes". Your more general p
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by gwright 7y ago
> Do you think that the price an insurance company sets for risk in advance is by definition correct? The question doesn't make sense. The price is neither correct nor incorrect, it is just the price. It may or may not lead to fina
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by gwright 7y ago
The US strategic oil reserve is stored in "artificial caverns created in salt domes": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(U...
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by gwright 7y ago
The comment was in reference to South Korea, not to China. At least that is how I read it.
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by gwright 7y ago
The economic theory is extensive on this. You have to let the price float if you want the market to find the optimal way to increase capacity. If you insist on the price remaining steady even when the market conditions have changed radical
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by gwright 7y ago
The market solution is to just let private cargo companies rent the government's cargo capacity. Even better would be to auction the capacity off to get the best price. Of course while the left hand is doing that, the right hand can b
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by gwright 7y ago
> Best to let the experts in government decide on how capitalism should play out I'm having a hard time parsing that thought. It seems self contradictory, at least if you view capitalism as primarily defined as voluntary trades free
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by gwright 7y ago
Well, if the price for cargo delivery keeps going up I would expect that it would become profitable to un-park some of those planes.

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