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by jjk166 6mo ago
I'm not saying Youtube ought to own it, I'm just contrasting youtube and disney's business models. Youtube doesn't have any equivalent to Mickey Mouse. Mr. Beast may generate tremendous ad revenue for Youtube, but Youtub
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> The problem isn't that production is literally zero, it's that production is non-trivially below average for an extended period of time. That isn't a problem though for precisely the same reason. > Continent-spanning
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More likely it was the 1979 supreme court case Reiter v. Sonotone Corp which instituted the "consumer welfare standard" which shifted antitrust enforcement from focusing on protecting competition in markets to "protecting con
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> The problem is that it's occasionally neither and that doesn't have to happen very often to cause a lot of trouble. The odds of it being neither everywhere (grid) for an extended period of time (storage) is astronomically low
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Radically different sorts of business. Youtube's income comes from engagement, and it's value comes from its network effects. Youtube doesn't own any of the content on its platform, and you could replace every video on Youtub
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I am also talking about political violence. Specifically I'm arguing against monopolizing violence under any entity, as it leads to injustice.
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I'm surprised the FAA is making a decision on this. They don't typically have rules about military aircraft defensive countermeasures, which are instead regulated by DOD rules. Further, while military aircraft typically follow FAA
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> The is just survivorship bias. Violence sits at the root of ALL human societies. The vast majority throughout history have failed or are currently failing. That only strengthens the argument that violence is sometimes the answer. It do
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And it may be, but the important thing is we don't have priors that lead us to expect it to be fair. We are not dealing with the tautologically true statement that we are assuming the 1/1000 estimate is correct and thus the odds a
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It's worth noting that Magellan lived in a time of extremely high infant and childhood mortality. Approximately 30% of newborns would die in infancy, and the odds of reaching 16 were only about 50%. This wasn't just skewed by peop
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> Doesn’t change the fact that each coin toss is still 50/50. That assumes a fair coin. The fact is you don't know what the odds were of getting heads or tails for that particular coin, all you know is that you got 3/4 hea
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That cost being $0 would be the most extreme case of the issue.
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> Like, sure, sometimes you get popular nonsense like recovered memories or accidental fires can't be as hot as intentional fires or shaken-baby syndrome or bite-mark analysis. But a lot of times, everyone isn't wrong and you&#
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> There's also Cafecito, which is basically liquid crack. Is that a warning or an endorsement?
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> Regulations. If you have strong regulations on how you can make money, you cannot sustainably have biz antagonize user. If that's what the regulators are optimizing for.
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I mean sure the US provided intelligence, financial assistance, conventional weapons, and the ingredients for chemical weapons to Saddam for this war, but the US was also the one selling Iran missiles in response to Saddam. Though admittedl
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The big issue with alternative routes is that they don't really solve the problem. Ports in Oman and Yemen outside the persian gulf are still close enough to Iran to be subject to attack by drones and missiles. Saudi Arabia has investe
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The world still has the ability to track it, this guy was just calling attention to publicly available, unencrypted data. Further, Elon said he considered it free speech he was deliberately protecting.
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More than the cost of not posting on X.
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As opposed to built in neural pathways or pheromone responses.
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> We can introspect our emotions and discuss them with others. And theory of mind is how you can know what someone is thinking without them telling you.
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America will be to military powers what Argentina is to economies is not exactly a bright prospect for the future.
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Yes, exactly how you assign those assumptions to humans despite having no way of actually knowing that they have rich internal lives comparable to your own. It is the ability to simulate a mind foreign to your own and anticipate how it wo
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No, a psychopath is someone who can't empathize. Theory of mind has nothing to do with empathy. The overwhelming majority of people are capable of both, but they are two distinct skills.
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It just isn't both. Emotional intelligence isn't mirroring others' emotions or smelling their pheromones, it is using the mind to actually understand rationally what is going through someone else's. It's how you can
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Doing math, or telling a joke, or catching a ball, or carrying a tune are all normal human behaviors. People's skills at any of them vary, and we don't refer to those with lower skill levels in that category as mentally deficient
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Well if you choose not to exercise your right to a swift and speedy trial you're not signing a registry saying you will never exercise the right in future trials. The word waive does not necessarily imply permanent relinquishment, it o
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Post does not include claim in title. > Was the U.S. Pilot Rescue in Iran a Cover for a Failed Nuclear Retrieval?
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Probably either. And excluding non-paying users only further narrows the applicability.
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> Your right to a swift and speedy trial is likewise something you can choose not to exercise. Things would be different if the law was all trials must be swift and speedy.

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