losteric

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by losteric 8y ago
Ideas are a dime a dozen. The hard part is always the asking the right questions and collecting the right data to filter out bad ideas and refine good ideas into practical products.
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They also seasonally relocate, heading south in the winter and spreading out in the summer. Seattle's transient homeless population is largely gone by mid-December
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> Prices in big dense cities say otherwise, there is plenty of demand to be where all the economic action is, many people also prefer urban lifestyles. Prices just show urban areas are highly valued, there is no proof those areas defy su
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> Getting rid of zoning laws only works if you have a lot of extra land to sprawl out onto. Other way around. Zoning encourages horizontal growth by constraining vertical growth. Once supply has reached horizontal and vertical limits, pr
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by losteric 8y ago
Bypass paywall: * DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Your+Smartphone%E2%80%99s+Location... * Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=Your+Smartphone%27s+Location...
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by losteric 8y ago
Or maybe a supply chain man-in-the-middle attack.
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by losteric 8y ago
Communication friction, price and latency, has always shaped the structure and reach of our communities. Historically, friction that meant most people primarily interacted with "nearby" humans with differing perspectives... modera
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by losteric 8y ago
Buddy, I'm already a vegetarian. I was hoping rhetoric would lead to some critical introspection, rather than perpetuating the buck passing stereotype... Ethics is completely subjective. Slaughter isn't for me, but there are other
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> I'm not sure in what sense you mean this. It sure seems 'inherently bad' in just about every sense you could mean, to me. I mean it in the most fundamental sense: there are sustainable levels of meat consumption that do
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by losteric 8y ago
Meat is not inherently bad, but there is clear scientific consensus that the world's current meat consumption is unsustainable. Here's a list of problems with 105 sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environ
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Maybe that suggests we aren't engaging in dialogue? I think ubiquitous social media access is destroying the cultural "melting pot". The cost of communication, price and latency, has always defined the structure of our com
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> Take away any of those components and you no longer have Great Depression 2. The 2008 collapse was caused by parties unscrupulously seeking profit while blindly trusting the word of their dependencies... willful ignorance in a system o
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I think this legal arms race is a consequence of America's overly-litigious and profitable legal system. These EULAs are the equivalent of warning labels on soda bottles that loosely read "Warning: Contents under pressure, don&#x2
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You are right that Apple is complicit in Chinese domestic surveillance. I am not claiming otherwise. However, a hypocrite's stated beliefs directly contradicts their autonomous actions, often with intent to deceive. China's stat
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by losteric 8y ago
Do you want to live in LA? Because that's how you get LA traffic. People own cars for convenience. If they have to pay $$$ for garage parking or deal with limited street parking, many of those people will stop owning a car. Sure, then
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by losteric 8y ago
I have seen $K single-family homes get replaced by $K condos in SF, but only because the original home was uninhabitable (ie property value discounted to offset demolition/construction) while the new condos were legitimately luxurious.
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Why would supply and demand not apply to Seattle?
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Why is that hypocritical? Apple does not require that you upload personal data to their cloud, and Apple has no say in Chinese law. Additionally, Apple's participation in the market (or lack thereof) would have no impact on Chinese dat
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by losteric 8y ago
Uh, QA? The source nation isn't the problem, is that Amazon is listing those crappy products over quality items. Although, I would LOVE if Amazon let me filter out products not made in America.
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This is the quote you responded to: >The older folks with the desk jobs are often quite literally sacrificing their own well-being for their family's, "deprioritizing their health" for another priority. We are not talking
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by losteric 8y ago
Apparently, family planning is rocket science. What is your rational definition of "appropriate resources"? Public school? Public school in a better but more expensive district? Extracurriculars? Tutoring? Private school? Fully su
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by losteric 8y ago
Not debating Apple's overall trajectory, but I think it's cynical to call this a step towards lockdown. Mitigating certificate forgery attacks ultimately increases trust in software distributed outside Apple's walled garden.
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Officials were already aware of the range of possible opinions. The distribution of those opinions among the general public is informative, and bots were used to intentionally distort reality.
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In specific fields that have always been regarded as less scientific (social sciences and pharmaceuticals).
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I'm sure some agree, but yes the list never saw the complaints or demands.
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tobacco/fossil fuel companies come to mind - it's never explicit, but there is nudging to disprove certain claims. You can see how well it's working - money delayed but did not change the truth. Science is very difficult to p
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by losteric 8y ago
Your statement reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the scientific process. If you watch things carefully in the scientific world, you'll notice every domain has hundreds or thousands of people actively researching in the field.
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The letter sounds like something written by a small number of radical employees, because it was. Most of those "450 signatures" never saw the letter prior to distribution. There were some pragmatic debates without consensus, many
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For what it's worth, those 450 "signatures" were just members of an email list. That email list was founded to discuss ethical issues and draft a letter of complain, but discussion quickly fizzled without consensus on issue
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It can exist in a company, but I think the likelyhood of encountering such an environment is inversely proportional to the size and growth rate of the company... rapid growth in a large corporation leads to metric-driven management as est

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