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I believe the broader context is that after Schmidt saw the iPhone demo at an Apple board meeting, he tried to double the salaries of the entire Safari team to slow down the iPhone project and kickstart Chrome.
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The broader context is a lot of the Western philosophy we rely on today formed around the same time we started building intricate machines, and those thinkers also wondered whether animals were just really intricate machines. Nothing nefari
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It’s an ADA-recognized disability. If somebody can’t walk, we give them a wheelchair. We don’t pontificate about the place of stairs in society.
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Problem is fingers are a bit more important than toys. Also there are tribes today still practicing this. Chop off the finger and eat it for good luck. Not hard to imagine the occasional psychotic shamanistic dude starting this practice fro
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It’s the other way round. See “getting the factory pregnant”—working with manufacturing partners in China and then delaying payment until after they’ve paid for your work to gain leverage over related work.
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I pay about 20 cents per cubic yard of water at home.
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I dunno, it’s just from noblesse oblige. If you don’t want to be generous to the people feeding you, then don’t tip.
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That article relates to self-driving, not faults. Reliability is a big enough topic that it’s hard to read this comment as much more than cruelty.
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The 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine suggests the medical field can probably do a better job at building trust with the public. It’s a two-way street after all.
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I’ve always wondered if a lot of the dismissive culture is an institutionalized mechanism to help people cope with the fact that some of what they learn and do is either very suboptimal or harmful. The history of medicine is long. You can s
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Come on. Given that the mucosal immune response is almost entirely compartmentalized from the systemic immune response, I’d say I saw magical thinking on all “sides,” and it’s better to move on.
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Having no opinion is a lost art. I’m also not sure what you mean by “skeptical of vaccines.” Skepticism means doubting knowledge claims, so you’ll need to put forth some claims to have a real discussion here.
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Yeah, the “just do single-payer” people have no idea that identifying that “single payer” will take 40 years of bureaucratic infighting before we can crown the bureaucrats to helm the largest bureaucracy in human history.
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The competition was very aggressive, escalating into several Anglo-Dutch wars. The VOC absolutely outcompeted the EIC most of the time. How do you explain the staying power of English given that “imperialism” is the more appropriate context
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I dunno, the whole point of a government based on natural rights theory is the government isn’t the giver of rights, so it can’t strip people of rights. If you’re thinking of privileges granted by a group of doctrinaires, that’s more like a
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Nah for venture-backed it’s to deliver results for investors.
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It’s a relatively safe neighborhood if you aren’t black or Mexican. Expect to be vigilant when alone at night if you are. The drug users are more relaxed than in other parts of the city.
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We’re talking about people who discuss their own compensation in terms of “bucks”—“10 bucks” is 10 million dollars. I don’t think people who sign these noncompetes for highly lucrative knowledge want the system to be broken, nor do they wan
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Both are hateful to many and both are protected from laws by Congress. Facebook can remove whatever it wants on their platform.
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I don’t even know what bias you’re referring to. It’s called the Venezuelan refugee crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis Like I’m not even sure what language you’re supposed to use.
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Never even heard of this guy despite living in New York. Tuned out last couple elections. I think it’s better we all move on from this kind of super-divisive rhetoric because eight years later, nobody’s listening. It’s not moving the countr
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Worth noting Birdwatch launched alongside the ability to report tweets for misinformation, a feature Elon disabled. For that reason it’s difficult to conceive of Community Notes today as a simple continuation of the Birdwatch effort.
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It’s China’s centennial celebration.
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I mean, we don’t have any details yet. What if the “defeat device” is something like “if $SENSOR is reading a little high, turn on service light and operate as normal otherwise” As a customer I’d be pissed if my truck wouldn’t run.
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I think the government should not force Apple to route customer data (messages) to third-party services.
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Only if you ignore case law. OpenAI seems to have done a lot of work around music—I now find it much harder to trick GPT-4 into outputting song lyrics verbatim.
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> Take taxation as an example. Simplified, Neoliberal = taxes bad. MMT considers taxation to be an instrument to control demand and inflation (by proxy). I mean oversimplifying is something we can do confidently after a set of ideas ha
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I’ve dealt with enshittification by buying Apple products. Enshittification is a property of two-sided marketplaces. Meanwhile, Apple mostly just sells to customers. Thus my phones and laptops have gotten better over the years. I’m perfectl
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> If everyone stops eating meat, and starts eating the proteins themselves, we win some 1000% to 25000% We’ve settled on a system of markets to deal with scarcity. I believe the 1,000% to 25,000% win might have some losers you’re not tel
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> If there's anything to fear about improved mental health diagnostics it's how this data will be used by insurance companies to exclude customers in countries that lack socialized healthcare (i.e., US). I dunno, I have a relat

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