losteric

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by losteric 8y ago
Cheaper than the competition? Maybe. Nothing that requires contact to get a price is "affordable" (if you have to ask, you can't afford it...)
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by losteric 8y ago
> an AI seems to always occasionally make some absolutely terrible decision that we can hardly even understand the rationale behind. This is a huge flaw. In the rare instance an AI makes a mistake, it's completely out of its mind (a
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by losteric 8y ago
For how long? Is there a saturation and pull-back at some point? Personally, I used my home gigabit extensively the first few months... but a year later I frequently find myself still tethered to my cellphone's 4G plan. It doesn't
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by losteric 8y ago
How will code of conducts stop that from happening?
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by losteric 8y ago
I think their expectation is that any small group of adults should be able to respectfully communicate with each other, especially a voluntary collaboration around shared interests. Formalizing rules in that situation usually means the grou
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by losteric 8y ago
> we'll have self-sufficient Mars colonies and space colonies in the next few decades. The funding is economics-based this time around rather than taxes and government projects, making it less volatile and less likely to be cancelle
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by losteric 8y ago
Nope, for the same reason we had photos of the Moon before we had photos of Earth.
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by losteric 8y ago
How are mechanical components tested against requirements in critical systems? What is the process for changing those components, like upgrading pipes to a fancy new composite? In my mind, we'll start treating silicon the same way... f
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by losteric 8y ago
> However there is an incentive for that 3rd part tax company to save their customer as much as they possibly can. lol. No. First of all, that myth already assumes a complicated tax code which requires a for-profit middleman. We should
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by losteric 8y ago
Blind faith in anything is wrong. The difference is scientific process invites peer review, reproduction, and alternative theories. > At least you can hold your local shaman responsible when you learn that he took money to feed you lies.
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by losteric 8y ago
A business transaction is mutual information - we both know it went down, and we both can share that information at will... ignoring legal and market incentives to stay quiet (eg medicine, sex toys). My problem is unjustifiable aggregation
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by losteric 8y ago
They are making it harder and harder to find their support page though, and as stellar as customer support is once I get hold of them... everything else about Amazon is going customer-hostile.
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by losteric 8y ago
And quite possibly a lack of interest from the customers of their site.
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by losteric 8y ago
It seems more likely a public perception problem - not enough people know the TSA is a waste of their money, so politicians keep the job subsidy rolling because the alternative is having to explain why they cut "security" funding.
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by losteric 8y ago
What complexity would a unified national system introduce which is not present in the byzantine world of privatized healthcare?
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by losteric 8y ago
Endurance is not disputed. We understand the bottlenecks of physical endurance, but mental bottlenecks are is still poorly understood. That study rejected the ego depletion hypothesis for mental fatigue.
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by losteric 8y ago
It's called human resources for a reason - maximize short-term profit while minimizing legal exposure... the same respect we give any other resources. The 40-hour work week was seen as a step towards ever shorter workdays and weeks t
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by losteric 8y ago
Sure but that doesn't require thousands of backend engineers unless they are reinventing everything... and I'd be left wondering what they are rebuilding since, over the past year, every one of my trips with Uber has been a bar-lo
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by losteric 8y ago
Yes, but if you're far enough that the housing pricing works out the density will also be too low - translating to many stops or areas feeling underserved.
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by losteric 8y ago
Bezos' real customer is shareholders. The people buying on Amazon have been products for a long time now.
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by losteric 8y ago
How much is enough for you?
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by losteric 8y ago
Some of those are good for moving towards an ecologically sustainable economy... but consumer "preferences" changing due to stagnating wages in the face of rising costs of living is not a good thing. Labor liquidity is vital for
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by losteric 8y ago
The problem is America as a whole. Democracy is governing through collective intelligence, reliant on strong public discourse. Our public discourse is utterly ineffective, and as a result we execute as well as a brain with a severed corpus
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by losteric 8y ago
Words are cheap. How are you taking action? Are you taking action?
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by losteric 8y ago
However, your boss's boss may care about the legal risks of potentially violating ADA - the regulation is very unclear on how websites are covered.
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by losteric 8y ago
It's like a wizard invents an incantation for a free and infinite supply of apples. They freely give away that spell, facilitate improvements from others, encourage the world to use this great spell. Then, someone starts selling apple
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by losteric 8y ago
Elastic was attempting to leverage open-source into proprietary vendor lock-in by blurring the line between proprietary and FOSS code. As far as I'm concerned, Amazon fighting the trojan horse is a good thing. FOSS should not be an adv
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by losteric 8y ago
puts on tinfoil hat - perhaps they were bait to draw an intense investigation which could be used to probe military capabilities?
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by losteric 8y ago
Truck?
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by losteric 8y ago
Those questions are exactly why a study like this is useful - we didn't know there was a problem, now we can ask the questions to find out what's going on.

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