monadic2

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931.
by monadic2 7y ago
> How would you feel if people compared you to "little children having a tantrum" just because your values differed from theirs? If one of those values is “society holds together during a crisis”, it’s a better value and I woul
932.
by monadic2 7y ago
Might as well just give up on society with that attitude.
933.
by monadic2 7y ago
It’s not clear how the author envisions containment working—we are well beyond the point where that seems possible.
934.
by monadic2 7y ago
Probably management if I were to guess.
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by monadic2 7y ago
They were vaping vitamin E from black market THC cartridges—not exactly what people refer to as “vaping”. The solution to that would be regulation of the market. My understanding is that the banning of flavored vape sales is mostly intended
936.
by monadic2 7y ago
Yes. And it’s a real shame because if they offered lower nicotine percentages (1% and 0%) it could be a powerful prescribed treatment for nicotine addiction. Instead they just made a new market for exploitation.
937.
by monadic2 7y ago
Well by this metric we have a pandemic of smartphone usage that poses an immediate public health risk.
938.
by monadic2 7y ago
Ok so it’s like... third in the country with those qualifiers.
939.
by monadic2 7y ago
Presumably you can ask them why they like it :)
940.
by monadic2 7y ago
What’s the code licensed under? It’s not clear from your site at first glance.
941.
by monadic2 7y ago
> Instead of thinking of this as "sherlocking" or "threatening", Well the consumer has a clear loss here if they don’t extend the functionality to all apps, eg give them control over which links open which apps and ab
942.
by monadic2 7y ago
> but by individuals making rational choices about how they want to allocate their time, their energy and their resources. Is this a good thing that our oh-so-rational society can’t even cope with such predictable problems?
943.
by monadic2 7y ago
Not really sure what you’re expecting in a society that recognizes individual liability but not collective issues.
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by monadic2 7y ago
> When EVs are in the segment of rational-decision bound purchases, when they are "boring" I will deem them to have succeeded. Do you see something preventing or slowing this from happening? Why would society not adopt EV? Unle
945.
by monadic2 7y ago
> Shouldn't science always, without any exception, be viewed in isolation from the past and politics? What is so special about politics that science must ignore it?
946.
by monadic2 7y ago
Sure, I’m all for nationalizing the service and making it free & more useful, I’m not arguing for making it paid.
947.
by monadic2 7y ago
When I meet a founder that manages to take equity proportional to the risk they bear I’ll let you know.
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by monadic2 7y ago
Is “cui bono” at odds with a disinterested analysis of the evidence?
949.
by monadic2 7y ago
Are there any companies in the us that offer significant equity? Last I saw early employee offers are still <2% equity.
950.
by monadic2 7y ago
I would be more sympathetic to your worldview if the quality of the free services online weren't clearly lowered to service ad views. Just think how useful google could be if you could filter out commercial results, or import a domain
951.
by monadic2 7y ago
People should really, really read manufacturing consent.
952.
by monadic2 7y ago
You can also configure firefox to never leave private mode—I can’t endorse this enough.
953.
by monadic2 7y ago
> If they default disabled web fonts, geolocation etc., they'd lose whatever little market share they have as those have become important web tech already. I doubt people would even notice the font side of things.
954.
by monadic2 7y ago
Could you explain which parts you found difficult to implement?
955.
by monadic2 7y ago
How many “users” of google analytics are worth it anyway?
956.
by monadic2 7y ago
Sure.
957.
by monadic2 7y ago
Presumably if performance were a key concern you wouldn't have used OCaml to begin with.
958.
by monadic2 7y ago
Deep Blue was 24 years ago.
959.
by monadic2 7y ago
> But professional baseball not existing anymore sure seems like a problem solely for the people who care about baseball to figure out, not the federal government. And yet, we still arrest for public urination.
960.
by monadic2 7y ago
> Consequently the whole war on drugs is the perfect example of unintended side-effects. Actually we know now that Nixon was explicitly targeting blacks and hippies, so not a great example—it seems to have worked pretty well.

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