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by mapt 2y ago
How many marketing professionals do you know that work for non-profit providers of goods and services? I'm sure they exist, but I imagine not many.
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by mapt 2y ago
Steelmanning this: You take your phone out and snap a picture and it gets added to a running total without typing into a tiny keyboard or doing any math. You consult your total next time you're thinking of eating. Critiquing: You stil
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by mapt 2y ago
The cultural emphasis HN has on original commentary and not doing low-effort link posting has its costs. Sometimes an FAQ model is just a superior line of inquiry. The most plausible models for UK decline that I've encountered come fr
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by mapt 2y ago
Ideal for whom?
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by mapt 2y ago
You don't need to "First, we end capitalism" to recognize a problem that has already gone out of bounds and promises to go further. Hawaii bans billboards, and has, since 1927. Look into that. They manage to do so without som
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by mapt 2y ago
> The immanent rise of autonomous machines is the sudden emergency exit from capitalism we (or rather: some of us) have been rooting for.. IF we can convince the people of this planet that a non-commercial post-scarcity open-access open-
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by mapt 2y ago
A lot of the testimonial photos for this show the AI literally deciphering the text Nutrition Information label. Any other interpretive situation based solely on a camera has so many inherent flaws as to render this almost useless.
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by mapt 2y ago
On that specific quote - I feel like this is offensive on more than one level. The waste of our best minds... sure. Fine. But - "to sell you ads." Marketting has the dubious distinction of being one area of human endeavor where
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by mapt 2y ago
Cut a "rationalist centrist moderate" and a fascist who doesn't want to get cancelled because he still needs VC funding and Linkedin connections bleeds. US politics has been increasingly polarized into positions congruent wit
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by mapt 2y ago
It's hard to imagine that there's a way they thought this through in several redundant dimensions. I understand rationally that there was an economy before the US plunged the world into neoliberalist global free trade in order to
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by mapt 2y ago
Fascinating. Did it require JWST to notice this, or did we just _not check_ until now? Is there a notable asymmetry in, say, the spin directions of galaxies contained in the Hubble XDF? EDIT: This doesn't make a lot of sense. Lior Sha
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by mapt 2y ago
The major alternative would be using a public mass transit system which just happens to hit the school as part of its routes. Which is culturally and ideologically unacceptable for most of the US.
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by mapt 2y ago
For the most part, if the system is working, you'd have to pay them a living daily wage regardless of what you're paying them hourly for 4 hours or 8 hours. (Which is such an obvious concern in the US that it's the first thi
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by mapt 2y ago
Maintaining an entirely separate mass transit system for the educational system is a relatively large chunk of property taxes, costing an average of ~$500/student.
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by mapt 2y ago
Because many adults are terrified enough of the poors/minorities that they won't ride a convenient bus themselves. They are not (generally) going to put their children into an unsupervised mass transit system. Until the 80's
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by mapt 2y ago
They aren't individually gangsters. But collectively, it is equivalent to a form of extortion.
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by mapt 2y ago
How do you exfiltrate any portion of 80 billion dollars from Bitcoin without immediately making yourself a target for every criminal organization in the world?
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by mapt 2y ago
Financial incentives stop aligning because of two things: * Rent control means that tenants are paying less than market rate. * Extremely low property tax rates combined with anti-development policy mean that asset price appreciation exceed
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by mapt 2y ago
The really expensive neighborhoods are too desirable for anyone to live there. They exist as capital anchors for overseas sovereign wealth funds and various long-run finance concerns to sink into a deeper market than their own, to act as c
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by mapt 2y ago
There are often a lot of redundant parts of the legal & zoning code intended to limit development. You can legalize ADUs de jure, but you probably still have setbacks that de facto prohibit ADUs, you still have parking or curb or utili
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by mapt 2y ago
But... but... every cell has one spherical nucleus, one spherical chloroplast for plants or spherical mitochondria for animals, and a host of other features depicted in this helpful diagram that you're going to have to copy from memory
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by mapt 2y ago
> “Our results demonstrate that the above-ground and below-ground parts of a tree follow separate calendars, allowing for underground growth to be prioritized in winter and aerial growth at the beginning of spring,” says CREAF researcher
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by mapt 2y ago
To what extent were they retroactively legalized? How difficult did they make registering the births of teens or adults? In the US we like to do things like throw people in prison for dealing marijuana for 20 years, then legalize it, but k
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by mapt 2y ago
The theory being something along the lines of "Large mantle plume under Siberia suddenly freed when surface crust is fractured in numerous places by extensive antopodal convergence of shockwaves from the Wilkes Land impactor".
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by mapt 2y ago
* End-Permian is associated with the Siberian Traps, but those in turn are associated with the Wilkes Land Crater impactor, which is antipodal to that event and may have seen antipodal seismic focusing. * "Going on for thousands of yea
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by mapt 2y ago
Say what you want about "Nonviolent offender leniency", but occasionally nonviolent offenses are quantitatively and qualitatively more despicable than most violent offenses. Killed a rival gang member? That's one thing. Impr
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by mapt 2y ago
A commercial dishwasher does not wash "3D debris" like a home dishwasher does, it's a reserve of boiling water and fairly caustic chemical cleaners that removes lipid films and sterilizes the surfaces, and it does this in a m
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by mapt 2y ago
Nobody is buying a $20k home robot to replace a home dishwasher. But they might to replace a commercial manual dish washing position. Which begs the question - why don't restaurants use actual dish washers? They have a "Commercia
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by mapt 2y ago
Meet Stretch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUuWWnfRsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZoVJIV9V0 and Handle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iV_hB08Uns
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by mapt 2y ago
Those quad dogs are delivering rations and ammo to Ukrainian trenchlines. There was talk about them being employed even further forward a few times, but I think aerial drones are a lot less complicated & expensive to build, harder to sh

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