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by namlem 4y ago
Or you go around intentionally pissing off rich people in order to bait them into buying your home for double its value simply by doubling your property tax.
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by namlem 4y ago
There is another chapter in the book about monopoly power and how to prevent it. It's been a while since I've read it though so I don't remember the exact proposal. However Glen Weyl would probably say that the book is out of
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by namlem 4y ago
Imo there's still too much friction in tethered VR and not enough good content in standalone VR.
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The Quest 2 is pretty good when connected to a PC and is way cheaper than most alternatives
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by namlem 4y ago
It's time to accept that self driving needs roadside infrastructure support.
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by namlem 4y ago
So what if you made a razor blade of something like the monocrystaline nickel alloy used to make jet turbine blades? Would they never dull from cutting soft material such as hair?
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by namlem 4y ago
Because if no one had to work, nothing would get done, and we would not have the abundance of food and goods that we do. All that stuff is made by the labor of others.
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by namlem 4y ago
AGI could be dangerous, but most people in AI safety are doing nothing useful to mitigate that risk.
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OpenAI is infected with AI safety brainworms
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by namlem 4y ago
Ford literally released a crossover SUV and called it the "Mustang Mach-E" despite having nothing whatsoever to do with previous Mustangs.
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by namlem 4y ago
Based on the response of PC gamers on reddit to the 40 series cards, that's probably a good thing. People with 1440p@60Hz monitors complaining about cards meant to run 4k@144Hz being too expensive.
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by namlem 4y ago
Good. The bandwidth costs of providing it are high and the marginal benefit is small, so it makes sense for it to be a premium feature.
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by namlem 4y ago
In this case they should, because Iran is subject to sanctions. Meta should not be complying with their requests.
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by namlem 4y ago
Ethereum as a whole should not be bound by anyone's laws. Individual wallet holders and validators are bound by their local laws.
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by namlem 4y ago
No, start calling much more loudly for the use of government force to resolve the situation. State power in a democratic system is the best vehicle to counterbalance concentrated private power. This anarcho-libertarian drivel never leads to
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by namlem 4y ago
Discord has a ton of useful features. It's a very powerful application.
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by namlem 4y ago
Technically true, but most countries make much greater use of VAT than the US does of sales tax.
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by namlem 4y ago
Who thinks the invasion of Iraq is funny or glorified? It is almost universally seen as appalling in the US today.
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by namlem 4y ago
The moon is a lifeless rock. What is there to disrupt? It's deep ocean mining that is risky and should be avoided.
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by namlem 4y ago
Letting neighbors veto projects isn't democracy. Democracy is "rule by the public". That means the whole public, not just a small subset of it. Why were the neighbors consulted but not those in other parts of the city, or oth
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by namlem 4y ago
Local community input isn't really "more voices". You're only counting one small group of voices, and those voices are mostly used to rent seek. I'd argue that the Japanese system of national streamlined zoning inco
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by namlem 4y ago
"Somewhere else" but not in South SF or Millbrae or Belmont or Redwood City or Atherton or Palo Alto or Mountainview or San Jose. Because while other towns and cities in the Bay Area might not all be quite as bad as SF, they all s
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by namlem 4y ago
Clearly there is a middle ground. Japan has this problem too, with real estate. So they reformed their zoning and permitting laws to make building easier, and it worked. Housing prices came down, and the negative effects were minimal. Once
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by namlem 4y ago
Censorship and ostracism are themselves thousands of years old. Of course they work.
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by namlem 4y ago
Nah, banning does work. People who are banned are forced to rely on word of mouth and lose out on algorithmic amplification.
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by namlem 4y ago
Especially ridiculous now that GM also offers self-driving on highways at a much lower price. FSD is still pretty shit on city streets.
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by namlem 4y ago
I think high speed, driverless-only protected lanes could be a good thing. Up the speed limit to 120mph and let the cars convoy for increased efficiency. Would dramatically improve throughput and reduce traffic in the other lanes.
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by namlem 4y ago
This sounds like a bullshit post-hoc rationalization for xenophobia. There's no valid reason to deny entry to any and all immigrants who are willing to work and have clean criminal records. Which side of an imaginary line someone is bo
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by namlem 4y ago
Immigration is good for the economy.
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Btw here's a video with data to back up what I said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

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