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by quantified 3mo ago
Nothing to do with copyright, I bet. There is no SLA in transmitting info. I think the problem started in Trump I when people accepted tweets as formal public statements rather than requiring a government channel.
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by quantified 3mo ago
What, like get off our comfortable asses and march on Washington? I mean, when we decry the action level of January 6 it makes it hard to justify actually doing anything.
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by quantified 3mo ago
Wouldn't this be explained by customer convenience factor? You pay more for the convenience of a direct flight. You'd really see the difference if there were 2-stop options for that itinerary.
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by quantified 3mo ago
As a business plan, the "Uber for _" approach you describe does work sometimes to make money, distasteful as it seems. The Ur-Uber used it very successfully.
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by quantified 3mo ago
I feel a sense of "so what" on this. No one should bet more than fun money on anything as silly as what's in a speech. After all, it's not random or spontaneous at all. By now, just like every attorney knows not to use G
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by quantified 3mo ago
I am glad that anyone is still looking into or complaining about amounts less than $500MM. Still, it's the usual suspects, won't make a difference, can't get blood back from a tick.
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by quantified 3mo ago
If you have animals you are up with the sun, nothing about when you want to work.
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by quantified 3mo ago
Why not just make standard time permanent?
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by quantified 3mo ago
This happened on iPhone, paid-for music gone. Expect companies to shit on you as they grow, Apple and Microsoft are two of the biggest.
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by quantified 3mo ago
Adam Smith would hate a lot more than Musk's capitalism. He had morals, and would hate the private-equity asset strippers at very least.
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by quantified 3mo ago
Informix. Michael Stonebraker, to his credit, learned a lot along the way and revised his thinking about database technology and capability after believing that a single engine could be good at everything.
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by quantified 3mo ago
Not very hilly? Or are they all e-bikes?
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by quantified 3mo ago
People have happily made their worlds more expensive for "points". In what cases are these points actually more valuable than the 1% more the consumer pays for them? Or is just the case that card users are pitted against cash and
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by quantified 3mo ago
> Gen Zers are young, currently ages 14 to 29, with plenty of time to figure out the rest of their lives. 14-year-okds are forgoing marriage? Not sure that's even noteworthy.
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Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI horrors(arstechnica.com)
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by quantified 3mo ago
Which means that high-terpene cannabis can be worthwhile to get high from. Not that you necessarily want to be high all the time, but once in a while.
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by quantified 3mo ago
"The Turing Option" by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky. Sure, but it has to be at least noticeably less expensive per acre per year than chemicals. That gets you more organic food, but you need to replenish the soil and grow slow
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by quantified 3mo ago
> In other words, with log utility it is optimal to take a 1 in 3 chance of ending human existence in exchange for a 2/3 chance of dramatically raising living standards by a factor of 55. With no evidence that living standards raise
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by quantified 3mo ago
And yet humans reporting credulously on falsehoods is simply considered background noise. "Eating the dogs and cats", "we have a deal with Iran" actually causing markets to behave like it's true.
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by quantified 3mo ago
And amplified by the concerns in the post. Many people against them who aren't neighbors wouldn't get as exercised about the centers if they were other, familiar noxious entities. Oil refineries are a necessary evil in our current
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by quantified 3mo ago
A classic positioning of good/evil in action vs adherence to particular rituals and belief systems. From the title, I was hoping for an LLM-based analysis of chronological flaws, internal contradictions, historical inaccuracies, moral
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by quantified 3mo ago
Downvoted, but because there is no "profit" to the consumer. We get cheap clothes of which some stand up well over time considering the cost.
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by quantified 3mo ago
Science is science. If drilling is how you find oil from non-biological causes, drill away, if you can get your project funded. I'd be a bit sad that we can plausibly convert nearly all atmospheric oxygen to CO2 given limitless carbon
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by quantified 3mo ago
We underestimate how valuable and useful the "technology" of a human really is.
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by quantified 3mo ago
Titillating, and cringey, and par for the course. But the concerns run more like this: > An investigation by NOTUS found that the app incorporated widgets created by a Russia-based company called Elfsight, which exposed the personal info
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by quantified 3mo ago
Well, it also cuts the transmission to unvaccinated women (and men, when they swing that way, too). If men got it consistently, women would be at a lot less risk.
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by quantified 3mo ago
Does it make you feel like getting them out of spite? Real question.
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by quantified 4mo ago
Except their need to be racist. Sorry, it's pretty easy to be any kind of bigot with all your needs met.
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by quantified 4mo ago
The same is roughly true for Silicon Valley investments once the herd mentality sets in. Yet it is celebrated as being the best way for commercial progress.
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by quantified 4mo ago
It could be as simple as tipping the scales towards Grok.

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