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by hugh4 11y ago
Got a convincing and well-sourced statistical argument on that one?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Regular car manufacturers making electric cars want to visually distinguish then from their normal vehicles. But any good-looking design consistent with their existing design language is something they've already built. So they make so
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by hugh4 11y ago
Meanwhile the people who buy 2009 7-series for $30K get a ridiculously nice car for the price of a Camry... but they pay maintenance costs which are a lot higher than the Camry driver's. There's a reason not everyone is buying che
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by hugh4 11y ago
Cancer and Alzheimer's are on the rise because life expectancy is increasing.
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by hugh4 11y ago
And remind me why I, as a farmer (hypothetically) who spent millions of dollars buying a piece if land and millions more to buy robots to work on it, then spends all his time worrying about maintenance and shipping and prices and pruning an
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by hugh4 11y ago
For starters, not every country is the US, we don't all have vast hordes of illegals willing to work for next to nothing. Secondly, and without wanting to start a political thread, the US might not either soon because President Trump.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I got fined $150 for breezing through a stop sign on a bike once and since then I've been stopping at every single goddamn one. So if they're changing the law it makes me happy.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Ben Affleck could easily pass for Hispanic.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Heh. Well, there's always an outlier.
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by hugh4 11y ago
It would be unreasonable if they were deemed to have liability, but that doesn't mean they don't. On the other hand, what's the worst case scenario? Some miniscule probability that one day he'll fall out if his bunk, bre
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by hugh4 11y ago
Journalists don't go to the oilfields of North Dakota and don't socialise with people who work there, so they might as well not exist.
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by hugh4 11y ago
C'mon man, I at least critiqued my own wild-ass idea, you can do the same instead of dismissing it.
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by hugh4 11y ago
No, my actual argument is that all arguments of the form "If the government is allowed to do X then they have to be allowed to do Y, Z and Z' " are a bit silly.
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by hugh4 11y ago
But not usually worthy of a White House invitation.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Why is it absurd? Whether it's true or false is another issue (I don't claim to know his motivations) but absurd ?
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by hugh4 11y ago
The government already entitles itself to do far worse things than bounce a few photons off me now and then -- eg every year they pry open my wallet and entitle themselves to a very large fraction of my income.
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by hugh4 11y ago
How rational is it to bet on Tesla continuing to dominate the electric car market once the electric car market becomes mainstream? There are much, much bigger players waiting on the sidelines for market conditions to change.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Yes, that's probably a better way of aligning incentives. Plus it could be trialled on a small scale at first with just a few prisons. The main thing you'd need to watch out for is that prisons didnt just start working hard to off
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by hugh4 11y ago
Ethics are not subjective. People merely disagree on what the right ones are. There is some optimal set of ethics which, if consistently followed, will lead to an optimal set of outcomes. We're not clever enough to figure them out, tho
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by hugh4 11y ago
Interesting talk. But I wonder, can evolutionary economics tell us anything we don't already know? For instance, the theory that guys buy fancy cars to get chicks is not, in most circles, particularly controversial or enlightening. Can
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by hugh4 11y ago
Never, really. When you've got ten to the forty something atoms jiggling up against each other on picosecond timescales, the difference between a rare event happening every million years and one that happens every billion years is pret
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by hugh4 11y ago
That gives me an idea: prison vouchers. Give each prisoner a voucher for a certain amount and let them choose where they want to serve out their sentence. Prisons will compete to offer tolerably humane conditions to inmates while still keep
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by hugh4 11y ago
I've seen this criticism in a few places, that Watney is a terrible character because he doesn't sit around writing about his feelings, he just gets on with the job of surviving on Mars. It seems to miss the point that this is h
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by hugh4 11y ago
Honestly it's pretty amazing that having a physical piece of paper collected, sorted , put in a plane, and hand-delivered to someone's door thousands of miles away is so freaking cheap. Postage stamps are crazy.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Some newer Fords, at least, claim to detect and adjust for the kind of fuel you're using, producing less power but avoiding knocking when running on lower fuel grades.
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by hugh4 11y ago
A video is a good idea for this product, but there should be sufficient text to tell you what it is and what it does without needing to play the video anyway, eg if you're in public without earphones or have severely limited bandwidth,
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by hugh4 11y ago
Theoretically (not that I think it's necessarily a viable product) could you tell if a woman is on birth control from a blood sample?
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by hugh4 11y ago
It's possible they're both being sensible. Roundabouts are certainly under utilised in the US (unlike those awful four-way stop signs which are particularly hellish for law-abiding cyclists) so putting more in is a good move. Howe
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by hugh4 11y ago
It should be noted that a "temperature scale" is a pretty non-obvious thing. The idea that the temperature we call "ten degrees" is as much colder than "twenty degrees" as that is colder than "thirty degre
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by hugh4 11y ago
No, we settled on temperature through years of careful, tedious experimentation involving the expansion of gases. Much later, we figured out what it actually meant in terms of atoms.

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