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by mchusma 6y ago
I had some other takeaways too: -11% of the population would not disagree with a ridiculous claim (4% agree + 7% unsure) -2 to 1 people when given a somewhat plausible event they have never heard of would be inclined to think its more likel
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by mchusma 6y ago
This same person says "the difference between doing things correctly and not doing things correctly is a matter of a few months". First, this is not a matter of "correct", it's a matter of "allowing people to v
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by mchusma 6y ago
Fusion already has the advantage of being the safest energy source by a lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw... The
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by mchusma 6y ago
I hope that the benchmark for approval is "for a given group, the risk of the vaccine is lower than the risk of COVID". This has some good commentary: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020&#x2
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by mchusma 6y ago
I will second this comment. Angry customers not having a voice is effectively a non-issue in the world. Engineering time would be best spent on solving real world problems.
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by mchusma 6y ago
Forcing people to accept dead trees is a silly solution to this problem. There are real issues in the credit card system, including: 1) huge cost of credit card transactions (they are about 2) lack of privacy options 3) disproportionate bu
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by mchusma 6y ago
I will +1 it as well. I have read Reason for about 10 years, and I like that they wear they have a clear ideology and have consistently stood up against US Republican and Democratic positions that don't make sense. (e.g. their work on
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by mchusma 6y ago
My feedback. I think if I were to donate I would like to see a clear roadmap for even getting in the ballpark of doing this. I have donated to SENS for years, and particularly when they started, they didn't really say exactly "don
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by mchusma 6y ago
I tried to see any performance characteristics of running bottlerocket, just to understand what the expectations are there. I assume since it was not mentioned it is either similar to Amazon Linux 2 or worse (but with security advantages).
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by mchusma 6y ago
I know this is not you making this claim, but this type of thinking is what led both the CDC and WHO to mislead the public I'm masks for months. Masks clearly work, but not perfectly. Better masks work better. Wear one if you want to r
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by mchusma 6y ago
This NIMOP ("Not In My Orbital Plane") movement is very concerning and I feel the need to speak out against the dangers of this "luddite movement" type thinking. First, of course its good for companies to reduce the nega
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by mchusma 6y ago
Me too. I thought it had a new minimalist OS too.
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by mchusma 6y ago
The UI on prime was so much better than the Hulu UI from about 2018-june 2020. Someone clearly wanted to do something "different and more beautiful than Netflix". The result was basically scrolling through shows one at a time. sea
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by mchusma 6y ago
It's a tax if you bring the customer and do all the work. Which most app developers do. It they charged 3% for customers you bring and 30% for customers they bring, your point would be more valid.
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by mchusma 6y ago
This article has a horrible title, and some highly misleading content. It represents "efficiency" as things like "not buying insurance" in a dangerous fashion. There are VERY few serious people who think that. "All
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by mchusma 6y ago
*yes, teleoperation (autocorrect).
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by mchusma 6y ago
There have been multiple studies now that suggest significant herd immunity kicks in around 20-30% infection rate. We should see in a couple of weeks but if every state and country continues to hit an infection wall around 30%, it bodes wel
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by mchusma 6y ago
I work in robotics. The problem for pretty much everything is one of scale and commercialization. Every one of these issues has been addressed, but almost none have a good and bundled solution. It feels like computers in the 70s. All the pi
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by mchusma 6y ago
I'd like to see the FDA move away from approvals like this and just focus on lightweight approvals that "the test seems not fraudulent for presenting the false positive rate and false negative rates of the test, and it is indeed b
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by mchusma 6y ago
Great project! Happy to see young hackers at work. Doing things like this get you valuable experience, more useful to actually working than school.
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by mchusma 6y ago
I would be curious about the works you find confusing on this matter. To me libertarianism (big L and small l) is very acutely aware of tradeoffs. This is sort of the entire "point" of libertarianism. I think your article is essen
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by mchusma 6y ago
This "protection" is not free, in fact is quite expensive. I think most customers would be better off without them. Many customers when faced with having to pay the 3% for it opt out. And most merchants do not have really any prot
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by mchusma 6y ago
Agree. When I saw the headline I thought it meant almost the opposite. The FDA needs to aggressively allow more tests so long as they are not misleading about their efficacy. I know fast cheap tests are stuck pending approval right now beca
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by mchusma 6y ago
We use gumlet to serve avid, webp, jog images based on what the browser supports. I recommend it.
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by mchusma 6y ago
+1 this request! If consumers feel the credit card fees more directly, they will likely revolt.
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by mchusma 6y ago
This x1000. Visa/MasterCard/amex are a huge tax on society, and they won by anti-competitive processes. Society wins very little by a 2-3% tax on all transactions. I think the problems with credit card for businesses in the US are
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by mchusma 6y ago
Congratulations to SpaceX! Helping make the pandemic more bearable one hop at a time.
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by mchusma 6y ago
For some quick stats vs Boom: Virgin looks like mach 3, 19 seats. Boom looks like mac 2.2, 55 seats. https://boomsupersonic.com/overture
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by mchusma 6y ago
This is great! Let's see a new race between Boom and Virgin for a new generation of fast planes.
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by mchusma 6y ago
My pixel 3a is by far the best phone I have ever owned (across both iOS and Android). Comparing the 4a to this it looks like a bunch of solid incremental improvements across the board. Huge fan of basically everything here. Price, screen si

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