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by jmward01 2y ago
Farming is one of the most subsidized industries in the US. With the rampent belief that subsidies destroy other industries and are 'socialist' maybe the experiment should be made to remove subsidies for mega farms (not small ones
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So your argument is that something that takes in 500m in its useful lifetime shouldn't net the creator more than something that takes in only 100k in its useful lifetime? Yes, big content X that churns out mega movies that have more st
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by jmward01 2y ago
I mostly agree that there are assumptions built into IP law that may not be true. Are there good examples of history where a society that didn't have some similar system out-innovated one that did? Are there good parallels today?
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The actual text of the US constitution maybe? Article I Section 8 Enumerated Powers Clause 8 Intellectual Property To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the excl
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Patent, trademark, copyright, etc are all supposed to benefit society as a whole. The point isn't that corporations get to lock things away forever. The goal is to incentivize innovation, both technological and cultural. The more compa
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The problem is support. I am still shy of anything AMD. Pytorch is my primary toolkit and I still haven't seen many people say 'yeah, this is my daily compute and it is 100% able to hand off to a big NVIDIA GPU later'
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Ask HN: What is the best low power (not Mac) ML laptop?
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I wonder what tests car companies generally do to predict how durable a style choice is (how scratches, corrosion, etc will impact the look). Protecting your brand is also about what people will see in the future, not just what is on the sh
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Completely unrelated to safety, these vehicles don't look like they are aging well. They are all completely new but the ones I am seeing on the road already look a bit beat up. That finish on them and their general styling emphasize ev
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The data says otherwise. It says the lack of online interaction would spur you and your friends to meet up more in person, or for you to seek out friends that you could see in person. You can't take just one part of 'if this didn&
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> The short term, however, may be different. After decades of insubstantial change — all those alarms notwithstanding — a few indicators point to a genuine drop in numbers of friends, or activity with friends in the 2010s Seems a bit lik
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Yet again we accept the premise that we need 'more' security so it is OK to do these types of things. This implies without evidence that there is a problem and then jumps right to the, again, unfounded conclusion that this type of
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by jmward01 2y ago
There is definitely an argument that the ICC's actions showed independence. I was trying to imply that in what I wrote. Maybe I need to be a little more clear. If nothing happens, these warrants go away, no sort of trial happens, etc e
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by jmward01 2y ago
Reading the comments in this thread and reflecting on history a bit, the thought that comes to mind is that this is less a trial for the defendants and more a trial of the ICC and more broadly international institutions and their true indep
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by jmward01 2y ago
The parallels to global warming appear to be close enough that this could be a good area to study what actually changes behavior on a global scale for a global environmental problem. I suspect this is easier to 'fix' mainly becaus
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I won't comment on the broader point about how insular countries are becoming, but on this specific topic I'd say that the international reaction to global warming, which appears to be a very similar situation, shows exactly how l
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This is a really great bit of analysis. I wish more things like it existed. I wonder if something similar exists for a utility comparison of roads? Something like average economic value/waste generated per mile of road? Probably not th
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by jmward01 2y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Slack took up 50% of the bandwidth on those cables considering how many notifications and channels I alone get spammed with from work.
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Some do sound vaguely republican and some don't. All in all it sounds like one persons take on what they actually think combined with what they think may 'win' a next election. I highly doubt the Democrats will have a chance
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I wish discussions would focus on all source mortality instead of single stat x. If the all source mortality data comes back favorably you could read the interpretation of this data 100% opposite: regular calorie restricting diets fail to r
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by jmward01 2y ago
Completely aside from the cable discussion, I'm glad this was on bsky. I could finally follow the comments in the link again. I hope this trend continues.
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That argument doesn't hold for basically any industry on the planet. Early access often, by design, leads to lock-in in critical areas. SpaceX has a massive advantage (rightfully deserved) in an industry which takes massive effort to b
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by jmward01 2y ago
From a tech standpoint, what are countries doing to prepare for the possibility of future malicious cuts? Is there a minimum viable number of links that matter before things would get really bad? What does 'really bad' actually lo
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by jmward01 2y ago
I gotta call out this comment. I never said 'stop them!' I said I worry about space x being a gatekeeper. This is a valid point since it is obvious that they are building the gate. Please don't put words into my mouth.
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Science done well is distrustful of its own results. The key is to trust science practiced by trustworthy institutions and individuals and reported on in an accurate and informative way. Similar to good journalism, trust should be earned an
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I have grown grumpier as the last decade has gone on and it is probably me just getting older but there is a point where you say enough is enough. You are starting with the premise that researchers are manipulating things and ignoring thing
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This is cherry-picking. There is a raft of solid science from a large number of independent researchers looking at many different indicators that corroborate well with each other. The evidence is overwhelming, global warming is happening. P
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It is the rate of change that matters. Given time these disruptions would be integrated into society, but right now it is happening so fast that people can't adapt. If you are mid career and your whole field gets taken you really have
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The point about the insurance GPS is that they will eventually use it against the person. 'You were going 5mph over the speed limit before the crash...' that kind of thing. Giving them more information will just lead to the consum
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I always buy used so I have some time left, but not much. When I bought my last vehicle the person had one of those insurance GPS devices in it. I can't even begin to understand why anyone would do that. It is so obviously going to be

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