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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, I know, but it doesn't matter. Spending more on vaccines now probably won't help us create more vaccines 'the next time'. Other things, such as government support for spending more on vaccines overall - this might h
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by jariel 6y ago
If tech workers are 'moving in' then they are 'residents' the same as the other 'residents' - who collectively get to decide what kind of community they want to have. People from outside SF have really no say i
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by jariel 6y ago
??? They're 'extortionists' for wanting to live in their own homes? Nobody 'needs' to live in SF, and nobody has a right to live there either.
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by jariel 6y ago
??? There cannot be more people in SF today than SF can already house. So there cannot be '51' already for '50' homes (by your 1:1 analogy). If Google wants more workers, they can open up more offices elsewhere, even som
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by jariel 6y ago
Because the need for massive, acute production capacity for a specific variation of vaccine is short-lived. What's the odds that we're going to have another pandemic in the next 10 years that has nRNA vaccine? There's no need
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by jariel 6y ago
"That’s not the natural order of things!" It's exceedingly arrogant to tell residents of community what the 'natural order of things' should be in their community. The 'natural order of things' in SF is wh
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by jariel 6y ago
Here is a interactive chart showing various nations [1] Israel will be #1 by far. They have apparently paid $65/dose or something like that, far ahead of what others have paid, moreover, the dealing looks a little problematic. Obviousl
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by jariel 6y ago
Victoria, Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, LA - all have similar problems with homelessness and it has a lot to do with climate. I think if someone has a 'constant and grinding' exposure to homelessness, like they work near 5th and M
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by jariel 6y ago
Whatever change an advocate wants is 'progressive and moral' everything else is not.
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by jariel 6y ago
There is no housing crisis. On average, America has very affordable housing. The only 'crisis' is that there are a lot of people that want to life in SF. But that's not really a 'crisis'. If the residents of an area
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by jariel 6y ago
Another way to put this: "Data available to anyone, that might otherwise require a warrant"
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by jariel 6y ago
The middle class are just workers, who are paid more. The preformative aspects come from competition with their peers. It's why white collar workers are so bent on doing public speaking things, TED Talks etc.. It's hard to be a VP
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by jariel 6y ago
I appreciate the fact that the Security Model may have been 'simple' - and frankly 'simple' is usually better with these things. However - it doesn't abnegate the fact that no matter how you slice it the 'Secur
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by jariel 6y ago
It's neat although I'm not sure how 'right' it is. This is also possibly just a re-articulation of age-old delineations between working/middle and upper class sentiments. I think the working/middle class are th
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by jariel 6y ago
The argument is that they are not even in the same category of technology complexity. Which is very reasonable. Tesla's real-world deployment of autopilot is frankly probably an advantage of sorts. And maybe starting with those realiti
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by jariel 6y ago
Musk's propensity for risk tolerance, projected into the consumer market, with some weird hubris about this, might just end up killing a few people and a few lawsuits. It may not impeded Tesla in any way though.
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by jariel 6y ago
Why would something so existentially important such as a 'security model' be blocked at the code-level, let alone 'code being checked in'? Would that be something discussed long before anyone implements anything? It touc
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by jariel 6y ago
I support law enforcement using tech where it is necessary and proportional, but completely against it when not the case. This seems to me like a dragnet and I would hope the ACLU takes this up and hopefully the press can start to make some
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by jariel 6y ago
So often you get to these charts and figures and they could be bothered to explain anything. What is 'total money' vs. 'hard money' vs. 'outside money' and why don't they bother to explain it. Edit: the an
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by jariel 6y ago
That's irrelevant if the group is breaking the rules. If they are causing violence (though I doubt this) then they are going to get banned and that's that. It's very well within reason.
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by jariel 6y ago
Noise pollution is a real thing. All of our industrial equipment should be designed with this in mind. Back up beepers are considerably louder than they need to be. Weirdly, the police sirens in Germany towns like Frankfurt are incessant -
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by jariel 6y ago
They have no legitimacy in this case, and just because an agency exists, doesn't really give it legitimacy either. The UN is a grab bag of patchwork things, some for the better, some for the worse. This is the last thing we want the UN
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by jariel 6y ago
Because it's not an attempt to interfere in politics and they are assuredly not being banned due to their political views. Facebook bans groups and people all the time, it does not imply that it's political. It seems FB has no giv
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by jariel 6y ago
QAnon has almost nothing to do with Epstein. QAnon exists because 10-25% of the US population will believe total fantasies, especially those that are biased towards their worldview. It's about 55% in uncivilized countries. We are anima
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by jariel 6y ago
Actually it's a good first step. Basically, FB is punting the responsibility of making the tough-call ban decisions to a 'neutral entity' - which is actually a very good idea. Bad on the whole, because FB ultimately I don&#x2
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by jariel 6y ago
Definitely not, the UN has no legitimacy here, let alone the judicial framework. Ideally, there would be 'very simple and clear regulation' put forth by the government, and then it should be 'easy' for FB's 'in
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by jariel 6y ago
Standard Oil owning the railways did not stop anyone from buying oil from many of Standard Oil's competitors either. And yet, Standard Oil put them all out of business somehow. Your comment fails to address market structure and externa
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by jariel 6y ago
Our media industry industry operates this by virtue of Twitter. "People are saying such-and-such" and then showing a Tweet from some random nobody (i.e. 'weak man') to validate the fact - is how so many narratives are cr
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by jariel 6y ago
Structural barriers are 'real things' even in free market economies. The size, complexity, barriers to entry, massive government subsidies, geopolitics are all part of the equation at that level. If this was about 'wheat&#x27
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by jariel 6y ago
Neither of your examples illustrate the nature of monopoly, even by technical definition. There are basically zero markets in which there is one completely dominant player due to the nature of 'product quality' alone, there are

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