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by netcan 6y ago
>> Please Stripe, work on reducing the costs to transact online by 1-2 orders of magnitude, where it should be. I agree with the could and should. Payment costs could be a tiny fraction of current. It is a tax. I'm dubious of
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by netcan 6y ago
This is true. But what the comment is advocating for is systemic change/disruption. In that context, the whole complex (bank settlement, chargebacks, insolvency) are a single thing. There are always reasons for things being the way
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by netcan 6y ago
You mean my garbled sentences, or something else?
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by netcan 6y ago
Honestly, I've been quite shocked over the last 5 years or so at Zuck's take on political and politically adjacent politics. I get that they're of the "money at any cost" ethic, but a lot of decisions (or lack ther
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by netcan 6y ago
I agree. That's likely why philosophy is often so semantics heavy. Your example is apt. OTOH, I do think that there are different levels of "bogged down in semantics." Semantics can sometimes interesting in their own right.
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by netcan 6y ago
I've been thinking a lot lately about blindspots. They're easy to see in other people, and downright glaring when it comes to politics or other collective opinions. By definition, hard to spot in yourself. Objectively, they'r
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by netcan 6y ago
>> As a species, we're not fully evolved for big crowds I think we may be starting to overstate the "Dunbar argument." In some sense, including the position in "Sapiens," operating in large groups is the key
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by netcan 6y ago
European (especially British) "rewilding" "politics" is still in pretty early stages of maturity. Some of the language in this article is kind of demonstrative of this. "* This method of conservation aims to let lar
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by netcan 6y ago
This whole thing feels ick to read. "Hooked would “sell” three engineers to Apple (including a longtime employee who served as Chief Technical Officer) and continue operating the less technical aspect of its business, relating to adve
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by netcan 6y ago
Interesting. That still doesn't give us any nonparasitic or non-symbiotic survivors. Merge with it, feed on it or go extinct.
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by netcan 6y ago
Exactly! The judicial point appears to be about whether or not the company was reselling devices or if (as they claim) some rogue employees were doing it for their own benefit. If they're telling it true, I wonder what (if any) laws
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by netcan 6y ago
By your definition, I don't think I could sneak the east india trading company as an example of a monopoly. We we speaking in a context. If we can't agree that any of these industries are monopolized... If we have to start by as
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by netcan 6y ago
Is the only allowable statement one that can be backed by quantifiable analysis? I didn't even specify which hobby, so lets go with alpine mountaineering. Hard to be more dangerous than this. Gridiron football has some good quantificat
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by netcan 6y ago
Are you accusing this article of innumeracy and/or propaganda or is this just a general comment?
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by netcan 6y ago
I meant that tongue in cheek.
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by netcan 6y ago
>>Isn't that the whole point of most "safe AGI" research IDK, honestly. Not my lane. At an uneducated guess, I would say that it's probably a more common topic of "safe AGI" press articles than actual res
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by netcan 6y ago
I think most of the $8k is for roads. Wells (shallow wells certainly) will go dry if an entire suburb is drawing on the spring. Sceptics... With enough houses, someone somewhere will have a stinky one, but these could probably work. I doubt
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by netcan 6y ago
:) That's a different sort of problem, I think. It doevetails with a lot of "two rail carts heading toward death" scenarios beloved by moral philosophy, but I still don't think it's the same problem. Moral philosoph
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by netcan 6y ago
I still don't see how rural solutions apply. How is a dirt road a solution? Honestly, I think it's hard to even discuss this without first understanding how road maintenance (sounds like this is the majority) adds up to $8000 per
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by netcan 6y ago
>>most industries aren't run by monopolies Mineral exploration & refining, media, technology, finance & banking, military industry, online retail... what % of the economy are we at with just these? Market discipline, crea
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by netcan 6y ago
As you say, there are risks and benefits. "How" matters a lot. I think you exaggerate though. A lot of the risk is down to extremely irresponsible use... many steps removed from the high level of medical supervision you laid out.
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by netcan 6y ago
Not really... I mean, in theory, democracy ensures that inefficient leaders lose office, except that reality rarely lives up to theory. IRL, the business models of most major tech companies are pretty impervious to most inefficiency. Most o
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by netcan 6y ago
This is the problem of politics in a nutshell. We tend to have strong opinions, as is out democratic duty. It's impossible (or very hard) to form opinions based on specifics. So we fall into tragically cliched thinking. "The probl
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by netcan 6y ago
I'm not sure this is practical. You can't have wells and septics at high density, though you could probably localize certain things more than they are now. Cities, small towns and rural locals have different costs. Rural areas mai
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by netcan 6y ago
A lot of the initial taxation and allocation discussion seems likes somewhat of a red herring. The starting point is near the end, IMO: The cost of infrastructure maintenance is $8k-$10k per home. Is this true? How variable is this betwee
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by netcan 6y ago
I think this take is pretty much what enlightenment and post enlightenment philosophy attempted to do. Benthamites like Singer (and Bentham) do this quite literally: Identifying axioms (the utilitarian principle), deduce principles (utilita
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by netcan 6y ago
There has always been a ton of effort at formalising ethics, political theories and philosophy generally in a mathematical-like way. The whole of modern philosophy, especially political philosophy , is a product of that effort. That's
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by netcan 6y ago
That's how we get to blackboard economics. These business models are related and interlinked. You can't separate them and still have a good model of reality. Data is constantly growing new uses, which can go from economically marg
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by netcan 6y ago
>>"* there's no data gathering market, data gathering is a technique not product) *" I would challenge this. It's is a technique in the sense that manufacturing cars is Toyota's technique. We would still call
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by netcan 6y ago
"I think that this is also essentially saying that people want nice things for free (or at a very low cost). I don't think the original commenter is actually trying to blame people.." My point was that free or unfree are no

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