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by imgabe 3y ago
I’ve had the opposite experience. Offer stuff for free and you will have to deal with the flakiest, most unreliable people in the world. They’ll say they’re going to come pick it up, leave you waiting all afternoon, and then just ghost you.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Nobody wanting old wood furniture is a boon for people looking to get nice furniture on the cheap. Check Facebook marketplace, craigslist, wherever people sell used things near you. Furniture doesn't really wear out, so other than a fe
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by imgabe 3y ago
Or we could have the government require that everyone wear a loudspeaker that constantly announces their presence so that nobody can sneak up on anyone. Citizens are required to purchase their own loudspeaker and anyone caught not wearing o
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by imgabe 3y ago
There are two avenues to deal with a hazard. You can try to manipulate the environment to eliminate the hazard, or you can try to strengthen people to make them immune to the hazard. I think we should prefer the latter over the former whene
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by imgabe 3y ago
Housing interprets regulation as damage and routes around it.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Saw Stop initially tried to get other companies to license their patent. They all declined because they didn’t want the extra cost. It was only after Saw Stop started manufacturing their own saws and proved there was a market demand for peo
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by imgabe 3y ago
I think the issue is that in some cases the information is inaccurate and there are sometimes limited avenues for a customer to object if their insurance is cancelled based on inaccurate information. To the extent that the information is ac
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by imgabe 3y ago
The whole point of insurance is that there is a relatively low probability of a relatively high expense event happening. In all likelihood, the thing won't happen to you, but if we all pool our money together and you are the unlucky pe
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by imgabe 3y ago
At some point the cost of insurance would approach the cost of simply self insuring. Why should I pay the insurance company to maybe replace the roof if I can just keep $20k in a savings account in case I need to replace the roof?
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by imgabe 3y ago
> This needs to be applied to more significant risks, like fire flood and storm. It is. The NFPA (National Fire Protection Agency) writes the National Electric Code and other safety codes that get adopted into law as building codes. It w
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by imgabe 3y ago
I think the Goodreads challenge is silly. Every year I set it to one book. I'm already beating it by 600%! Why create fake tasks to stress yourself out? Reading should be enjoyable, not a chore. And not all books are created equal. If
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by imgabe 3y ago
You should hire the very smart people to figure out how to make the jobs doable for average people. Surely there must be a way to configure line work to not require a PhD...
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by imgabe 3y ago
Or just stop selling it altogether and focus on some other more profitable industry. LVMH can find another supplier or tend Vicuñas themselves.
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by imgabe 3y ago
They make other things besides this one sweater though, right?
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by imgabe 3y ago
If you’re smart you’re not going to spend it yourself. You need to launder it, which means you need to know some criminal organization that can do that for you. They will pay you about 30% of the face value, so it’s not really worthwhile to
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by imgabe 3y ago
In the long term it is probably good. Let’s say you own an amusement park. You charge people to come in. But you never lock the back gate. Nobody knows about it though. Once in a while someone sneaks in and you kick them out. Then someone p
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by imgabe 3y ago
It is incredibly hard and expensive to make realistic counterfeit money. The limiting factor is not the lack of instructions from an AI chatbot. The printing presses and plates cost tens of thousands of dollars. There is only one legitimate
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by imgabe 3y ago
I listened to a podcast (Darknet Diaries) that went into great detail about a money counterfeiting operation, including how they had to source the paper from a specific place, and how to pick up the shipment without being detected or making
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by imgabe 3y ago
It’s a moot point that you can use it without permission if you can’t obtain it without permission. This is a distinction without a difference. That’s why it’s actually a big deal and a Good Thing that museums are making these images availa
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by imgabe 3y ago
Just because someone has an image that is in the public domain doesn't mean they're obligated to share it with you. They can simply say no. Your options are: 1. Hire a photographer to take a photo of the artwork that you want to u
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by imgabe 3y ago
My wife is an art historian, she's currently publishing a book and collecting permissions for all the images she wants to use. Why? Because if she doesn't the publisher won't publish her book and she won't get tenure. Do
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by imgabe 3y ago
In practice, you still need the museum's cooperation to do anything commercial with it, for most people who don't have the resources to defend a lawsuit.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Maybe if you have money to burn taking it to court. In practice if you want to publish it you get permission. The publisher is not going to go to court for you.
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by imgabe 3y ago
The artwork is in the public domain. The photo of it is not. You can take your own photo, but if you want to use a photo someone else took, then you need their permission.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Even if the artwork is in the public domain, the photo of the artwork that someone takes still has a copyright and you need permission to use it.
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by imgabe 3y ago
All of the construction related solutions to housing problems are missing the point. Housing is not expensive because it's difficult to physically build. We are pretty good at construction. A single family home could probably be put up
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by imgabe 3y ago
I can't help but think of this Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/man-on-internet-almost-falls-into-w...
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by imgabe 3y ago
Depopulation is the last thing we need. We are carbon based life forms. We can just sequester carbon in human bodies.
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by imgabe 3y ago
No, absolutely not. I would calculate their error percentage and make combative replies, because that's how I enjoy spending my time.
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Food is cheaper and easier to produce than at any point in human history. Most humans were subsistence farmers or hunter gatherers until relatively recently. Indeed, the main problem we have in developed countries is too much food. People

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