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by handmodel 5y ago
Previously, if cities did upzone, a neighbor could still sue their neighbor to stop them from building. In places like SF this means every project is tied down for years and hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal fees. Now, you are effec
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by handmodel 5y ago
Agreed. A bit embarrassing she doesn't even mention that Sunny Balwani is charged with the exact same crime as Elizabeth Holmes. I feel like it would be legitimate to ask why the media covers them differently. However, very silly tha
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by handmodel 5y ago
While I 100% think that SFH has often been used for this reason I think larger reason that "my house will go up in value if I restrict all other building" is more accurate. Keeping out black people was one of the early use cases w
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by handmodel 5y ago
The FDA is making the rules that the only way to take a vaccine is by their approval. By FDA rules, there is no in-between of being illegal to administer and being recommended (aka no "up to you" zone) Right now, for instance, the
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by handmodel 5y ago
You are right about the current role. But I think the frustration with the FDA comes from their textbook following of the rules without any apparent concern for trade-offs beyond their immediate purview. Their algorithm for decision making
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by handmodel 5y ago
Pao seems to conflate separate issues rather intentionally. The trial of Elizabeth Holmes is because she misled investors by doing stuff such as sticking Pfizer logos on reports her own staff generated and overtly lying about the kits being
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by handmodel 5y ago
These takes did not age well. Buybacks are a logical way to distribute profits back to shareholders so the attack on them was always a bit off. The biggest knock on them was probably that companies had lots of debt which made these not wort
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by handmodel 5y ago
There's no evidence that having the vaccine stops you from developing natural immunity if you have a breakthrough. If the vaccine fails you then you will get covid (like you would have in the same situation without vaccine) and will de
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by handmodel 5y ago
I suppose my point, knowing a few people with online followings, is that 60k followers does not translate to 800,000 marketing dollars as the article claims - or even 80k. Even if your had a really profitable niche (which she doesn't).
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by handmodel 5y ago
Anyone with more knowledge know how much of this is BS? She has 60k followers on Instagram which (even if all real) isn't that much. Certainly not anywhere big enough to make 800k a year that the creator claims he plans on making. They
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by handmodel 5y ago
Artists receive a fraction of their profits because the distribution network is immensely valuable to them. The 30% is pulled out of your ass. If I did all my own editing and released songs on Spotify without any assistance I would get a mu
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by handmodel 5y ago
Jumping the fence at a concert and sitting in an empty seat is not stealing. But that doesn't mean it is moral, legal, or to the benefit of the musicians + concert venue that invested in the act.
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by handmodel 5y ago
Do you think Google is having someone go through the tens of thousands of street names? Or do you think they had a team (on a completely different project or perhaps company) write a text to speech function that wasn't well suited for
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by handmodel 5y ago
I 100% agree that the person in the car is only thinking of themselves and wants traffic time reduced. But I don't think that is the goal of the people building the highways. They are thinking of how to maximize the economic output of
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by handmodel 5y ago
I am a huge proponent of better public transit but I think pointing out induced demand and saying extra lanes has no benefits is misleading. If four lanes can handle 10,000 cars an hour at 45mph and six lanes can handle 15,000 cars an hour
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by handmodel 5y ago
I am saying that even if you think it is extremely reasonable for them to act this way - then you have to admit that in pretty much every college town/renter town in America it is reasonable to act this way. If every single town acts t
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by handmodel 5y ago
The problem is one of coordination. If everything is determined by local control like this then every single college town will come to the same conclusion. I can empathize with the homeowners there - but obviously bad for society as a whole
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by handmodel 5y ago
I think the model of giving away Joe Rogan to all users of Spotify (even if not paying subscribers) is worst of all worlds from a business POV. Think how many people still subscribe and pay over ten dollars a month to listen to Howard Stern
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by handmodel 5y ago
I would love to see their metrics. I would imagine, like most things, they have a ton of whales so that even if a minority of guys subscribe to 50 girls there probably are plenty of people with addictions shelling out $500 or $1000 a month
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by handmodel 5y ago
Is a cashier/bagger physical labor? Is stocking the shelves of a grocery store? What about a truck driver or unloader? I would say all these jobs would be automated but 0 of these would be automated by a humanoid. Driver/cashier&#
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by handmodel 5y ago
Ok. I am wrong in my predictions a lot but this seems way more complicated than just having a computer interface on a bulldozer or whatever - especially given a lot of the cost to operate them is already one of liability
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by handmodel 5y ago
I've been wrong many times before but still have trouble believing this would be more efficient than just having two separate buildings. Even in places where land is very expensive. How many dark stores would you have to run in a city
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by handmodel 5y ago
I'm sure there are but why would another robot be better? If the problem is something like the dexterity of a stationary arm machine isn't good enough - I'm having trouble believing the dexterity of a moving humanoid machine
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by handmodel 5y ago
The vehicle thing is exactly what boggles me about this. Are you saying that the humanoid will be driving cars/forklifts/bullsozers? What exactly do you mean that its important that a robot interacting with a vehicle is humanoid?
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by handmodel 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE I feel like a lot of factories are going to go in this direction. Lots of complex automation but ultimately very simple mechanisms with a strong framework to make sure nothing goe
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by handmodel 5y ago
I could be wrong but I dont think it is reasonable that a humanoid would ever track in price with a washing machine. A washing machine only has a few moving parts while a humanoid is going to be more similar to a car in terms of complexity
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by handmodel 5y ago
The quantity is the quality. If you can take a restaurant that used to have to have 10 dishwashers and fire 9 of them because a machine works fast - you can keep one guy around to do the tricky stains. Sure is a lot cheaper than buying 5
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by handmodel 5y ago
I suppose I see the computer as different as it doesn't try to copy anything in nature or existing in tech. ie Google isn't setup like a library, YouTube isn't setup like TV was, etc. I could see a multi-use robot being used
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by handmodel 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s17IAj-XpU There are bricklaying robots now I don't think they are used en masse but I think if we do get to the point of some type of brick laying robots being used it will surely be s
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by handmodel 5y ago
I'm still befuddled what the industrial applications are. At some point a car factory had people moving stuff around and screwing things in and out. Now we have arm robots and conveyor belts and other machines which do not resemble hum

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