losteric

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by losteric 7y ago
If they are reducing competition, they are hurting consumers. Competition breeds innovation - lower prices, better customer service, new ways of doing things... none of those things happen without competition, because there is no incentive
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by losteric 7y ago
Why is that a more appropriate term for behaviors that reduce competition?
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by losteric 7y ago
General understanding of monopolies is quite arbitrary because the general public is ignorant, perhaps by design. Wikipedia has a long but layman-accessible section on Europe's competition laws: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by losteric 7y ago
There is substantial prior research into those questions, some of which made it all the way to law. It's an interesting topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Law
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by losteric 7y ago
Pack an HDMI cable? I usually stream Netflix or play video games on those TVs
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by losteric 7y ago
* Biodegradable is just, ya know, degradable by organisms within a relatively short timeframe * The process of refining plastics and manufacturing products is generally NOT carbon-neutral
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by losteric 7y ago
Gut flora - you likely have a healthier microbiome, or at least one that was able to adapt to a vegetarian diet. Microbiome variance is a relatively new area of research but studies have already highlighted links to IBS/IBD, autoimmune
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by losteric 7y ago
Fox predators, aging, and/or direct competition (fighting) could be an interesting lesson in dampening feedback to reduce those oscillations. Simulating grass carrying capacity, other herbivore competition, different predator niches, e
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by losteric 7y ago
The US doesn't need to lift a finger. Climate change will severely disrupt China and India's populations, and likely lead to the collapse of some neighboring nations - it's an existential threat they are motivated to address.
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by losteric 7y ago
Cosmic Crisp supposedly has the Honeycrisp taste without the fragility... so, in theory, lower prices. imo, the coloration is much more appealing too.
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by losteric 7y ago
It's a global platform with billions of users, with many users follow hundreds of people, some users followed by millions, huge volumes of media tweets, broad distribution of posting frequency... even with those basic scaling concerns,
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by losteric 7y ago
Either hard to efficiently implement at scale, or they want users to forget about reverse chronological ordering in hopes of monetizing feed rank
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by losteric 7y ago
> You can't train for a marathon while also putting in the long hours to be at the peak of your technical field for example. Why not? I always try to tackle big challenges at work, switching teams / companies when finding chall
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by losteric 7y ago
Yes. I've been working on an corporate internal RoR tool that launched in 2010. Various engineers over the years continued releasing new features and updating language/framework development... when I earlier this year, development
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by losteric 7y ago
My (not "the") utopian ideal is one that actively minimizes suffering of sentient life... aiming for zero socially inflicted suffering (war, famine, coercion, etc) and in harmony with the environment (sustainable environmental e
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by losteric 7y ago
Well, I have principles based on logically reasoning backward from a subjective utopian ideal. No oral tradition or religious dogma here. "What is right" and "what is wrong" are good questions - ask yourself that repeate
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by losteric 7y ago
Kids are naive, not stupid. They will ignore the camera until someone gets caught... from then on Big Brother will be lurking in the shadows of their mind. I grew up in an environment like that, my paranoid parents were a fan of security ca
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by losteric 7y ago
Nothing wrong with that, but it won't happen when analysts are the ones writing most of the material for those financial sites... of course they're going to claim Tesla "beat expectations" rather than "analysts unde
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by losteric 7y ago
It looks like they were heavily inspired by the new Reddit design, which is terrible and slow.
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Those were different plants, adapted for their times. Thousands of generations of natural evolution and human domestication led to the crops of today.
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by losteric 7y ago
They are distorting the truth, either parroting that narrative out of genuine ignorance or an attempt to start some goal-post-moving trolling. At this point, informed people that would have typically countered are tired of seeing the same b
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by losteric 7y ago
I think it's an American thing. My workplace (Seattle) keeps the AC set around 72F (22C). In the summer, I walk to work in a t-shirt around 7AM, then put on a thin hoodie at work... Feels weird to me, but college and people's home
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by losteric 7y ago
Virtue? For me, it's much more basal than that. Railguns, rockets, explosions, lasers... fast cars, fighter jets, massive supercomputers... all impressive engineering "magic" that spark some childish awe in a certain type of
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by losteric 7y ago
Most people here can avoid the impact of climate change - do you think we shouldn't talk about that either? These are societal problems. It's good to care about people beyond yourself, and to talk about the professional ethical
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by losteric 7y ago
I'm exhausted because the flow of information far exceeds and even inhibits any effective response. Death by a thousand paper cuts... the many public factions immobilized by each focusing on their most recent and painful cut.
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They're bulky because there is no demand for smaller devices.
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by losteric 7y ago
If you can imagine what a crowd of people waiting for Walmart's Black Friday sale behaves like... I think that's a great metaphor for America at large. Poor social cohesion, poverty traps, excessive materialism and individualism.
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I hope you can see the light in the world again, some day.
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Have you heard about transgenerational stress inheritance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_stress_inher... We are also still learning about the gut-brain axis. The human microbiome is inheritable, and m
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That's a blindfold, not a solution. If I told a personal assistant "I want any kettle", they would know there's an implied <among buy-it-for-life high-quality stainless steel in America with a non-garish finish>. T

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