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by rainsford 4mo ago
Given that the most universally agreed to counter examples are diplomats and invading armies, I'd say a reasonable non-lawyer interpretation is that "subject to the jurisdiction" excludes people who are in some way under the
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by rainsford 4mo ago
Government regulation around conditions of employment has a very long history, because "the market" has a long history of producing things like Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire when it's allowed to. While in theory the market
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by rainsford 4mo ago
But in a case where either treatment choice could be reasonable, doesn't it seem like a better answer for the insurance company to defer to your doctor rather than their own assessment? Whoever is making that determination at the insu
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by rainsford 4mo ago
> So, not a supply problem. What do you mean it's not a supply problem? Suburbs and the housing within them aren't naturally occurring features with limited supply. They're not oil deposits. You can just build more of t
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by rainsford 4mo ago
Edit: Per a comment below, this does not seem like a regular feature of the game, just an oddity of today. It would still be worth figuring out a way to eliminate the tie issue or at least ensure it's less of a factor in future games,
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by rainsford 4mo ago
The problem you're describing is non-scientific interests putting their thumb on the scale of scientific questions. The solution to that problem is more science, not more politicized control of science. Elsewhere in this comment secti
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by rainsford 5mo ago
It's mostly, but not entirely, a combination of biases working in a feedback loop. Because of the 737 MAX crashes, which were legitimately at least partially Boeing's fault, stories about incidents involving Boeing planes are mor
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by rainsford 5mo ago
I like to think I'm generally more optimistic than average that AI growth will be a a net benefit to the economy, standard of living, and employment, but "AI creates jobs building AI data centers" is a terrible argument in fa
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by rainsford 5mo ago
That might be a valid solution on the individual level, but it seems problematic if we want the kinds of things only a large organization can realistically produce. In addition to small organizations that can act as a source of employment
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by rainsford 5mo ago
I'd be curious if there was research in the opposite direction able to prove that hierarchy is necessary in large organizations if you want to do BigCorp scale things. Intuitively it seems like this might be both a reasonable and a pr
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by rainsford 5mo ago
> You can't compare batteries to actual power plants. Sure you can. It makes as much sense as comparing EVs to gasoline powered cars. Which is to say that it's perfectly fine if the question you're trying to answer is wh
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by rainsford 5mo ago
I have generally moved from bearish to bullish on the future of current AI technology, but the continued inaccuracy with basic facts all while the models significantly improve continues to give me significant pause. As an example, creating
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by rainsford 5mo ago
> Uncle Sam should sunset SSI and allow citizens to select from and move freely between a number of accredited funds. But how does the government actually do that? This feels like one of those ideas that sounds OK right up until the poi
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by rainsford 5mo ago
I think the right analogy here is that I'm a renter and the person who built my house (builder) is different from the person who paid for the house (landlord). The builder said the roof needed trusses but the landlord decided they wer
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by rainsford 5mo ago
Sorry, but this feels like a lot of weasel lawyer doublespeak nonsense. Denying insurance coverage for a specific procedure for a specific patient based on whether you think that procedure is necessary is absolutely making a specific medic
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by rainsford 5mo ago
Words do in fact have meaning, which is why if you want your decision to be viewed as an insurance one rather than a medical one, you probably should avoid using phrases like "medically necessary" as justification for your decisio
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by rainsford 5mo ago
I suspect many people during the Industrial Revolution weren't seeing those end products either, only a total upending of their way of life and means of earning a living. And to be fair, many of them probably didn't experience en
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by rainsford 5mo ago
I am by no means defending Sam Altman here, but it's roughly the same value proposition as every productivity enhancing technology. Creating more even if you don't end up working less means at the end of the day we all still ha
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by rainsford 5mo ago
At the risk of being pedantic, that's not exactly what the principle says. It's claim is that a cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system except the private key is public knowledge. It doesn't req
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by rainsford 6mo ago
Really a couple of key points. The first is that the US isn't "incapable" of producing renewable energy infrastructure, we've just largely chosen not to for various reasons and are certainly capable of doing so if there
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by rainsford 6mo ago
Yeah but the point is that Tesla said you wouldn't have to throw more money at them to upgrade your Model Y to get new FSD. Maybe you knew that was BS from the start, or maybe you are a big enough fan that you're willing to giv
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by rainsford 6mo ago
I think it's probably a mistake on any topic to conduct or not conduct research based on what's most useful to a particular side of an argument. Especially in this case, where the party split in the poll results suggest reasonabl
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by rainsford 6mo ago
Sure, there are lots of other places to live in the US that are cheaper. But if you want to live in a true major urban city, the US has managed to produce exactly one of those, with maybe an argument for Chicago followed by a few very dist
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by rainsford 6mo ago
I can't find the reference, but I saw a comment recently along the lines of, "If you live in a city where the people who provide you with services can't also afford to live in that city, you don't live in a city, you liv
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by rainsford 7mo ago
I don't even really understand why that plan would be "enraging" or really even counter to what customers expect from Costco. Assuming you continue to buy from Costco, and most Costco customers are regular buyers, you'l
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by rainsford 7mo ago
Not unless your yard was ~5 acres and you did nothing with that land but grew corn for ethanol. And even if you could do that, there's nowhere near enough "yard' for every car out there. The math just doesn't math.
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by rainsford 7mo ago
> Probably less has to be paid in that effort than starting up some other industry. No, that's the entire point. As mentioned above, for ethanol you input the equivalent of 300 ethanol gallons worth of energy (which could also be e
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by rainsford 7mo ago
> What is the problem, that sounds great? 30% free output out of your input is staggering honestly. It's really not when you compare it to the energy return you get from energy invested in other forms of energy generation. Solar po
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by rainsford 7mo ago
What I find particularly interesting about this philosophical approach is how much it comes across like nothing so much as just searching for a plausible excuse for intellectual laziness. Real introspection can be challenging and lead to so
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by rainsford 7mo ago
The person you're replying to was talking about "virtue", which I'd argue is an entirely different thing than "morality". Virtues are traits that can help people be better humans, while morals are rules separa

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