liara_k

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by liara_k 5y ago
There are several of different options. The most obvious is an independent line of authority delegated from the state's legislature or governor. This is where the police get THEIR authority. Other options include close supervision b
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by liara_k 5y ago
Certainly, there's a libertarian argument made against requiring seat belt use, including mathematical economics models that can prove it... provided a few unstated assumptions are met--like rational agents, complete information, perfe
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by liara_k 5y ago
Reinforcement learning gets ignored again... :/
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by liara_k 5y ago
Likely because bots and troll farms are totally out of control, and they don't have a more accurate way of fighting it. IMHO, this is also the reason behind some of the heavy-handed moderation on some subreddits. AFAICT, as bad as it
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by liara_k 7y ago
If this is intended to make a §230 argument, consider that its reason d'etre is based on the complete impracticality of pre-clearing user generated content. The practical considerations differ by orders of magnitude when we're tal
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by liara_k 7y ago
Tunnel vision is a thing. Taking some time to zoom out is often incredibly useful. Also, the philosophy and sociology of science are a VERY different thing from "the humanities".
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by liara_k 7y ago
> not yet liquid stock that they would like to sell me That's... isn't that impossible by definition?
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by liara_k 7y ago
Diversity e.g., in higher education admissions isn't just about what's fair for the students, it's also about what's best for the university and the students. Universities are naturally xenophillic--both in their desire
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by liara_k 7y ago
Variables go "out of scope" (in at least one sense) at last use, but are not `Drop`-ed (de-allocated, etc...) until the end of the function. The difference is important because of rust's rule against simultaneous aliasing an
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by liara_k 7y ago
According to whom? The propagandists of their political adversaries, I'd wager.
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by liara_k 7y ago
"We apologize for the fault in the subtitles^Hjavascript. Those responsible have been sacked." "Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked" "The directors of the firm hired t
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by liara_k 7y ago
The problem with this is that consumer Internet access is priced based on the assumption that it will be "bursty". Heavy users are subsidized by light users, both on a moment-to-moment basis and overall. Reselling consumer-level
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by liara_k 7y ago
That's true in general now. Particularly in industries with high capital intensity, network effects, and/or monotonically increasing returns to scale. But that's a LOT of modern industries. It wasn't always that way...
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by liara_k 7y ago
The purpose of (most) speech is to create action. If the phrase "I'm going to kill you" is intended to alter someone's behavior. If property is involved, whether it's through force or threat of force, it's st
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by liara_k 7y ago
That only works if you're actually going to act on the intelligence gathered from having the discussion centralized. That's something the U.S. is clearly willing to do with, e.g., ISIS. But even what limited programs we had towa
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by liara_k 7y ago
The price of Amazon stock is ultimately supported by expectations of future dividends. The same is true for other stocks too, of course. Whether or not the company has paid out dividends in the past is a good predictor of whether they&#x27
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by liara_k 7y ago
Speaking for myself... The most obvious example was my response to emotional situations in fiction. Going from only being able to empathize with characters only on an intellectual level to also being able to empathize on an instinctual&#x2
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by liara_k 7y ago
While anecdotes aren't evidence themselves, they're extremely useful (1) when there aren't scientific studies available and (2) for generating theories that can later be tested. Whether they're interpreted as an invitat
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by liara_k 7y ago
There's more to "capital" than a physical machine. Compare the cost of creating software (often many millions) to the per unit cost of copies of that software (zero). Compare the cost of developing a new processor architectur
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by liara_k 7y ago
> Is it really high capital intensive? I make websites and i m not rich. If you work in the industry and aren't familiar with concept yet, it's something that you would greatly benefit by reading up on. Capital intensity is ab
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by liara_k 7y ago
> unless google+apple conspire to regulate the market to prevent others from entering Not to pick on you specifically, but this view is way too wrong to be so common. The information economy is fundamentally different from the industrial
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by liara_k 7y ago
One theory that seems plausible to me is that there's deliberate confusion and misinformation created to combat or discredit leaks. Imagine that there's an adversary who has access to "open source" accounts that make it
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by liara_k 7y ago
Yup, thanks. Will be more careful with that distinction in the future. =)
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by liara_k 7y ago
No, but Rust provides this memory safety without GC, which is AFAIK, unique in a mainstream language. The type system knowing about ownership and borrowing also allows the elimination of race conditions (outside of `unsafe`, of course...).
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by liara_k 7y ago
Yeah, but then you have to do orders of magnitude more transactions, creating a large paper trail in exactly the place you'd want to avoid that.
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by liara_k 7y ago
A few possibilities: First, the amount appears to be the total through a bank, where this number would be aggregated over a several (possibly many) individuals. Second, the amounts reported do not reflect the total funds laundered (illicit
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by liara_k 7y ago
I've had very similar ideas, and think this is really critical missing feature that's holding back a lot of progress. IMHO, what's needed is something like a document database (in that it allows arbitrary schema) but even mor
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by liara_k 7y ago
The FCC has a map app.[1] Go and plug in some random addresses. The link below is for a NJ suburb , and lists 6 ISP competitors. But three of them are just satellite services and two are Verizon. In practice, there are exactly two compet
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by liara_k 7y ago
Unfortunately, the FCC's tracking data for broadband availability is notoriously poor.[1]. Think "regulatory capture" and, if you'e seen The Wire, "juking the stats". [1]: https://www.theverge.com&#x
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by liara_k 7y ago
For a few years I've wondered about the viability of a "source-available" license with a lot of user-friendly terms (like being able to distribute modified versions which anyone else can use as long as they themselves have a

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