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by nearbuy 5y ago
People stop hundreds of DDOS attacks daily. It's weird to demand AI safety researchers should stop working on AI safety and prove they can mitigate DDOS attacks. The two are nothing alike. A DDOS attack isn't an intelligence. DDOS
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by nearbuy 5y ago
There was a study somewhere claiming that it wouldn't. Only a small fraction of mosquito species bite humans, and according to the study, none were particularly important to their ecosystems.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I kind of wish you'd stop shaming people for donating to effective charities. What if these comments discourage someone from donating?
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I'm not sure if you're referring to a DDOS attack on one of their charities. I hadn't heard of that. Cloudflare prevents DDOS attacks. Why would effective altruists work on DDOS attacks?
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by nearbuy 5y ago
If true, then that's exactly what makes it good. We can save lives for the small cost of giving donors some recognition and a sense of community. Edit: To add the above, the median annual donation amount for someone earning $60k-$80k i
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Their concern isn't biased AI algorithms. Their concern (well, one of their main concerns) is that a super-intelligent AI could wipe out humanity sometime in the next 100 years. They have arguments that this could happen even if the AI
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> This typically happens when someone multiplies a tiny probability by an infinite value like "time till the heath death of the universe". This is absolutely not what they are doing. Most of their charities are working on imm
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Almonds in California are reported to use about 2.6 billion liters of water and the industry is worth about $5 billion. So still not viable at $6.96/CCF, but maybe more viable than the average for Californian crops.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Investing in an index fund might even incentivize them to ensure the economy as a whole does well.
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I would certainly think so. But it turns out to be surprisingly hard to quantify. (I'll just talk about lobbying, not political donations, which is a related but separate issue.) The organizations with the most lobbying spending are th
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Regardless of how you feel about lobbyists, this is just untrue. The CBPP and WCLP are a couple examples of lobbyists for the poor.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean about relevance, but I'll attempt to answer. This thread is debating whether we should be appalled at China for this law, or whether it's morally similar to some of our own laws (like banning drinki
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I'm pretty sure if this policy got kids to play chess or Go over IRC, instead of games like League of Legends, the government would call it a big success and pat themselves on the back.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> Our restrictions came about through a democratic process A democratic process where most of the people affected weren't allowed to vote.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> It seems to me that if the market rate is intent on 10x'ing her rent maybe it's the market that should be forced to adjust first, not her. Assuming a family of 4 would live there instead, she's effectively removing 3 peo
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Rent control can mean many different things. Different rent control schemes are implemented in different cities. But generally, any rent control scheme that reduces rental prices across the board is going to reduce new construction. I think
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by nearbuy 5y ago
There are few mechanisms through which rent control can hurt. Rent control discourages building more units. The more you can make from rental, the more companies will invest in new construction projects. Rent control can decrease efficiency
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> Airborne diseases with wild animal reservoirs cannot be eradicated, and never have been. Only two diseases have been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest (a viral disease that infects cattle and various wild animals). The latter had bot
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Veritasium has about 2800x more subscribers than the linked channel. I wonder if removing all the engaging "fluff" and just listing information reduces the impact of videos. Like, maybe the trade-off is between having a shorter, d
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Did anyone else do the optional survey at the end? It contains the following question: > If you wanted to create a company that is fair in terms of hiring practices, what percent of each of the following groups of people would you hire?
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Like seemingly everyone else in this thread, it told me I scored better than 99.5% of people (37). By my count, of the commenters who posted a score so far, 5/13 (~40%) scored better than 99.5% of people and all of them scored better t
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Just to correct my last comment, after looking up the case, it seems Martha Stewart was actually not found guilty of insider trading. She was found guilty of lying to investigators.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Imagine being a (former?) billionaire and going to prison over avoiding a $45,000 loss. I don't know what she was thinking.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
A lot of things work this way. The government is quite literally taxing some of your income and using it to check if you're doing anything wrong. When a cop is checking your car for parking violations, they're using some of your t
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Netflix doesn't want to be spending time and money to antagonize its own customers. They do it because rights-holders force them to.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
19 years to take out $1 billion. 230 years to take out all $12 billion.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Ah, I should have known better. I was misinterpreting from the article linked in the article where it says (about a fork), "Miners, exchanges, and node operators also had to agree to update their software."
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by nearbuy 5y ago
The miners, collectively, is also the group with the power to hard fork or not. So in some sense, they're the ruling class and the core developers are just proposing the changes to them.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Kerbal Space Program is one of the most popular paid games on Steam, far ahead of every arcadey Galaga-like game on Steam. I agree with your point though. Kerbal Space Program, like all games, also sacrifices realism for fun in places. Like
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> Then there is the fact that you basically make every insertion 3x as costly. You better have a good reason to need this given the additional complexity and caveats. This is the exact same average cost per element, just spread out evenl

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