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   by qgin 4y ago

   It’s not as if developed countries are the only countries that don’t have mass shooting events. It’s rare even in the developing world. Places with extremely minimal mental health support and minimal governmental enforcement for who is allo
2. 602.▲
   by qgin 4y ago

   I wouldn’t be surprised if tasers actually increase the impulse to “reach for a gun-like solution” and may have actually increased gun use in policing.
3. 603.▲
   by qgin 4y ago

   I think those are all good things, but most countries that have negligible mass shooting events don’t have better mental healthcare or particularly great gun ownership databases. Something fundamental has happened to American culture and i
4. 604.▲
   by qgin 4y ago

   Originally, tasers were pitched as an alternative to shooting bullets at someone. That sounded very reasonable. In practice, tasers came to be used for situations in which bullets would never be fired in. They became tools to force immediat
5. 605.▲
   by qgin 4y ago

   My guess is all of that is why it's taking until 2023
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   by qgin 4y ago

   https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-12/musk-is-of... > Twitter bots helped build the cult of Elon Musk and Tesla. But who’s creating them? > on the evening of Nov. 7, within a span of 75 minu
7. 607.▲
   by qgin 4y ago

   I don’t understand how this works when he waived due diligence. My guess is the intention is to delay the transaction for some reason.
8. 608.▲
   by qgin 4y ago

   It’s true I am rating a seismic shift in US culture within 10-20 years to be pretty unlikely.
9. 609.▲
   by qgin 4y ago

   If we're optimizing for the smallest number of bad people on earth, then yes definitely we should make sure all humans die ASAP.
10. 610.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    Why would grocery store shelves be empty if China becomes more dominant? Most non-dominant countries still have stocked shelves.
11. 611.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    But Kim Dotcom though, he knows.
12. 612.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    I'm pretty sure the average American will be dead long before any of this meaningfully affects their lives in a concrete way.
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    by qgin 4y ago

    https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1533524789893050368 This one is the pretty classic "long-term growth chart looking scary in linear rather than logarithmic" situation. Anything that grows at a even a
14. 614.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    I'd love to see some modeling of charging demand based on travel patterns. Something that takes into account trips that take into consideration trips that would be served by overnight home charging vs need for freestanding charging out
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    by qgin 4y ago

    Not even lower prices, but even to continue the current prices of Uber and Lyft (without burning VC cash), automation is needed. Even with the low pay for human drivers today, that's still too much for the prices charged by ride sharin
16. 616.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    People are not going to reject a technology that reduces car accidents from the #8 cause of death to a nearly nonexistent level.
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    by qgin 4y ago

    For whatever reason, Cruise continues to advance and get very little buzz. I’m curious what it will take to get them discussed even half as much as Tesla (which is much farther behind) when it comes to automation.
18. 618.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    Over budget or not, this kind of project seems literally impossible in the United States.
19. 619.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    It’s true, but there’s no alternative. 99% of things don’t work.
20. 620.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    Price is only slightly related to production costs. It’s much more about all the work that goes into getting something like this from basic science to trials to approval (and all the other drugs that fail along the way). In the current mode
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    by qgin 4y ago

    If you need a heart transplant, are you planning to self-pay that?
22. 622.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    You either have enough to pay or you pay until all your assets are exhausted to $0 and then Medicaid takes over.
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    by qgin 4y ago

    While I agree with all the issues you brought up, Amazon is still so much better than anything else that I hate having to go outside of Amazon to purchase something online. To me the Amazon search box feels like the GPT-3 of matter. I can i
24. 624.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    I don't think we're disagreeing.
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    by qgin 4y ago

    I'm not saying the current source of purpose is the best source. I'm just saying life is currently organized around working for most people. Something (or many things) will need to replace that structure.
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    by qgin 4y ago

    Only if it’s additive. In the hypothetical future where UBI replaces jobs lost to automation, it’s not clear that would be inflationary.
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    by qgin 4y ago

    You would need an entire restructuring of society. Humans need a purpose to avoid falling into depression. Jobs don’t need to be that purpose, but currently jobs fill that role for a huge percentage of the population (if not the career itse
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    by qgin 4y ago

    I’m not saying it’s the best app I use, but I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading this thread. I’ve used Apple Music since it launched and I haven’t had an issue since the first few releases.
29. 629.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    Not for subscription services
30. 630.▲
    by qgin 4y ago

    I think there's room for value even when you're not the best.