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by praestigiare 4y ago
I disagree. It's certainly not the case for me - Instagram has become an app I open out of habit or because I got a notification, remember that it sucks now, and close again. But more generally, this is two things: the tail wagging the
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by praestigiare 4y ago
The problem is that engagement is a poor proxy for preference.
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by praestigiare 4y ago
This is pervasive in games with simulated markets and economies as well - both the built-in somewhat regressive assumptions as well the tendency to treat them as examples of understanding the real world.
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by praestigiare 4y ago
The problem with this is that economic models are (to be kind) incomplete, so playing a game like this is essentially "how to make an economy work if economies worked how we think they work."
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by praestigiare 4y ago
This is a strawman argument. The point of regulation is not to prevent all harm, it is to prevent the worst harms. I see no evidence that allowing the possibility of the worst outcomes is necessary to achieve the best outcomes. For every fo
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by praestigiare 4y ago
The fact that similar legislation is widespread is not a defense. These laws create monopolies, with the "justification" that not doing so would cause too much competition and thus high prices...
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by praestigiare 4y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but it's funny because being designed for people is exactly why there is controversy.
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by praestigiare 4y ago
The mechanism is that guns are harder to get, both legally and illegally, if there are strong controls on their purchase and use. Yes, a mass shooter would ignore the legal implications of getting a gun, but they cannot ignore the fact that
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by praestigiare 4y ago
Yes, you can get such an editor, but it is annoying that this is something you cannot rely on the OS to consistently do.
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by praestigiare 4y ago
A world in which an Australian regulatory agency should protect Australian consumers by levying a fine which makes it financially untenable to operate in Australia with these deceptive practices.
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by praestigiare 5y ago
They are not, nor is million/billion the main point of the article.
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by praestigiare 5y ago
This is fairly interesting, but I do have to note that counting the desire to not have pollution as the externality is... interesting.
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by praestigiare 5y ago
This is one decent and uncontroversial point: that the system of student loans is not working well, followed by a lot of very bad arguments. Take this, for example; “Monocultures suck. It's hard to know how many of the stories about ri
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by praestigiare 5y ago
As far as I can see in the definitions, Household Final Consumption does not include public expenditure on behalf of individuals (that would be "Actual Household Final Consumption). US healthcare expenditure per capita is a bit over 10
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by praestigiare 5y ago
I make a lot of pastry, actually. I've even gone to school for it, though I don't do it professionally now. Variable moisture content of flour is a bigger variable. I can't think of a case where someone would be using sticks
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by praestigiare 5y ago
It differs a bit based on water content, but is close enough to 100 grams that you can treat it as 100 grams for anything you are likely to use butter for.
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by praestigiare 5y ago
One does not need to know the difference. It being entertaining does not change the enforceability.
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by praestigiare 5y ago
Three years ago, 0% of ICU beds were used for COVID patients. Now it is 37%. If ICU admission correlates with risk of death, and those beds would have been empty otherwise, or used for lower risk patients, a 40% increase in deaths seems rea
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by praestigiare 5y ago
It's not as hard as it might seem. If you are actually held to the contract and you have underbid, you either have a plan to continue the fraud (using substandard materials or illegal labor to save costs) or you will be forced to take
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by praestigiare 5y ago
I am not sure that is it reasonable or desirable (let alone possible) to treat "like" and "dislike" as signals of the quality of the video in some objective sense. It is certainly not what the everyday English usage of t
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by praestigiare 5y ago
At 1200kg/m2, a standard 4x8 (120x240) panel at 20mm is already over 60kg. This is double the weight of a softwood panel of equivalent thickness.
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by praestigiare 5y ago
Yes, the three big problems: environmental regulations, worker rights, and public health. Without those, industry would be booming.
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by praestigiare 5y ago
Nothing, if you need dirt shoveled...
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by praestigiare 5y ago
It's a good point, and I did consider noting that at one time this was also true for the word christian. But I think we agree that this is not the case now. There are several considerations that underpin my own thinking on social justi
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by praestigiare 5y ago
There is a significant difference in that woke, like SJW, is for the most part a derogatory term. It would be as if the word "christian" was a word created by athiests specifically to refer to those who did not practice what they
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by praestigiare 5y ago
The poor statistics of this comment aside, if I drove into 12 emergency vehicles in a year, I can assure you I would also be investigated.
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by praestigiare 5y ago
Why no website can do this correctly baffles me. My browser literally tells you what languages I want.
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by praestigiare 5y ago
If you are confused as to how the statement "trans women are trans women" could be transphobic, it might help to imagine the question was "do you think black people are people" and the reply was "black people are bl
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by praestigiare 5y ago
I don't know where the talk about evil individuals came from - Uber's billing is not the result of a single "potentially evil" individual. Instead it is the result of the company culture and processes. This incident was
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by praestigiare 5y ago
A preference for homogeneity is a great euphemism for racism. It sounds almost neutral.

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