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by kbenson 3y ago
But you aren't, because there's really only a few stores, not thousands, so people congregate at the same ones, and if there's nobody in those aisles continuously, they stop getting stocked (people create less content if nobo
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by kbenson 3y ago
The problem I've always had is making it habit. I've created different play lists and added videos to them and watch later, but forget about them and then notice weeks later I have stuff in my watch later list I never watched. Put
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Ignoring the international community is one thing, trade deals are another thing entirely. That's taken very seriously by all involved because it's about money.
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Is it really on you to sort and sift, or is it on you to find a good guide? In the hobby store example, there are other people around to ask, and I think that is similar as well. The future is more content, not less, so finding mechanisms t
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by kbenson 3y ago
> A Broadway musical for a family of 4 costs about 800$. A good mattress costs about that much, but lasts for 20 years. Am I the only one that read that and thought "Since when does a mattress last 20 years?" That certainly doe
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I think you misunderstood the point of my comment. If indeed it is an order of magnitude less deaths, then it probably doesn't matter if the demographics shift, but we actually have to see that change and know the demographics to actua
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by kbenson 3y ago
Yes, there is no evidence. The point I was trying to make is that gathering that evidence and knowing what is happening is important. It's not enough to just assume any drop in deaths is automatically better than previously, when what
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by kbenson 3y ago
> The details of their deaths are no important. Saving 25 lives per day is clearly the right thing to do. I think it's clear that if we were talking about saving 125 people 90 years old or older or 100 children, the clear choice is
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by kbenson 3y ago
Plump picard, rotund riker, dumpy data. Might as well get some alliteration going on while we're at it.
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The trick is finding justifiable, reasonable reasons that don't cause havoc with our economic system, which IMO necessitates they they not target an arbitrary employee size or specific market percentage, or revenue. What is "larg
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Because usually precedents are not so narrow as to apply towards trillion dollar companies only, and even if they are they can be expanded upon. If you would be against a trillion dollar company forcing a small competitor to open up, you sh
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I think it's irrelevant what people "know", if that's not how they act. It doesn't matter that people know a fruit isn't human if they act like it is in ways, because how people interact with the world is the
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It's very hard for me not to initially reinterpret headlines such as these as "person stupidly doesn't take care with important personal property and loses it." That doesn't mean the other party in these stories isn
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I agree, but I'm not sure why you don't think that is at least relevant if not partially responsible for people seeing humanity in a language model. If we anthropomorphic animals and even vegetables regularly, what happens when so
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> I'm hoping we get to realizing that a computer isn't a human regardless of the eloquence of its "speech" or whatever words we use to describe what it does, but I guess we'll see My anecdotal experience with how
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by kbenson 3y ago
If you need an arbitrary point of reference to count time from, what's simpler, making a new one or using the existing predominant one that everything else does? Making a competing standard and then having to deal with interop between
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by kbenson 3y ago
Probably most the world, since as a company they're probably larger and more wealthy than the individual, so where there's a strong rule of law the legal system handles it, and where there isn't they can just grease the wheel
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You just don't take it on the freeway, you use regular streets. I assume that's the point of having a 45 moh max, so you can go the speed limit on the vast majority of urban streets you would be traverse.
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by kbenson 3y ago
The way Beeper-mini addressed the "criticism" that Apple would shut them down in their show HN post to me seemed like their were either completely naive, or far more likely that they understood that it would only last a short time
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by kbenson 3y ago
It gets recommended because much of the time coax is not available, so the options are use powerline, use wifi, run cabling around walls, or run cabling through walls. The first two are far easier and less costly in time or money than th
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by kbenson 3y ago
Depending on the why and what you ultimately want, you might find powerline adapters useful, or the flat ribbon ethernet cables that are so small that you can actually fit it easily between the baseboard and carpet. You could probably run t
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Plenty, but I suspect most of them already have millions of dollars so it's relatively much less of a sacrifice. But for someone who's not a millionaire that looks at the situation and doesn't know how it will shake out, and
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Apple with iMessage onthe iPhone is about as similar as you can get, and was actually at the forefront of my mind when I wrong my comment. It's a chat platform that you have to use their product to be able to utilize.
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by kbenson 3y ago
We should envy people that stand firm on their beliefs and are vindicated, not those that may experience backlash in the future because people that had a different view won in the end. Suffering hardship for doing what you think is right is
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by kbenson 3y ago
> No, not all companies try to exploit their strength in one area to make me use some other product that I have no interest in. I'm not sure of any large one that doesn't. The incentives are aligned such that it's hard for
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> or Youtube "Open Video". Compared to a curated video service like HBO Max, Hulu, or Netflix, that's an accurate way to describe the relative differences. We aren't used to using that terminology through, so yes, it
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You'd enjoy most his talks, even if you don't understand the source material. They're half anecdotes and bashing Oracle in a very entertaining way.
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> Whether or not we should bother with improving it, is a matter for another debate. My take is that we've tried it for long enough, and small improvements simply don't work anymore. Millions of people need/want something
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> There's no such thing as a "well functioning free market". It's an utopia. It's relative. You seem to be confusing "well" with "perfect". Depending on your point of view, no economic syste
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You jest, but that is how a well functioning free market would handle this problem, I think. As long as the information about the payments is public (and information being available is an integral part of any free market, which some peop

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