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by richk449 7y ago
Thanks. That makes sense.
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That's great. If a group of people comes together to collectively manage a commons, that sounds like regulation to me. It's all semantics though.
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by richk449 7y ago
Solving the tragedy of the commons. I wish you luck. Interestingly, you hint at, but don’t really acknowledge one of the classic solutions (typically pushed by the libertarians): privatize the commons. This is equivalent to your intuition o
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by richk449 7y ago
The likelihood of me being hit by lightning is very low. Therefore, it is an highly unlikely event. And it doesn't happen very often. The chance of someone being hit by lightning is not very low. Therefore, it is not a highly unlikely
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by richk449 7y ago
> highly unlikely events occur all the time They do?
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Perhaps, but it sounds like they are set to make a killing on maintenance.
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> I definitely wouldn’t like to be run over by a self driving car and then having nobody to be held responsible. If you upgrade to the special China style self driving package, the car will automatically back over any injuried pedestrian
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by richk449 7y ago
Can I use this if all I have is an odbc connection?
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It's no worse. I can think of infinite things to spend money on which would likely leave me no-worse off. Why should I dump my money into this one?
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> My question to people with this attitude is, what is the point of your life? > I've lost a lot of friends and recognize that life is way too short to not be putting as much time as possible toward something you find totally com
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by richk449 7y ago
No, I was just supporting my original point. I think that for the most part, people do things because they are incentivized to do them. What is Alcor's incentive to wake me up 500 years in the future? Contractual obligation? I find it
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by richk449 7y ago
Not sure how that helps. What is alcor’s incentive to bring me to life in the future? Remember, I’m dead, so I can’t post nasty comments on twitter when they leave me in the vat. More generally, why would I trust a private company to bring
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by richk449 7y ago
Long article, and it doesn’t address what I consider the biggest problem: what incentive do people hundreds of years in the future have to bring me back to life? Maybe if I was Einstein, they would want me to help solve scientific problems.
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by richk449 7y ago
> The brain is the greatest pattern matcher in the world. You have obviously never tried to model the stock market with a neural net.
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> Effective not because I buy what Tom Brady buys Meaning ceramic underwear?
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by richk449 7y ago
Awesome. My algo got confused yesterday (early close) and today, so I have to clean things up manually. Was thinking of hard coding dates in. Will look into this.
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by richk449 7y ago
What’s the incentive to purchase insurance? It will reduce their profits. If you are an executive of a company offering earthquake insurance, better to just keeps profits high now, make a high salary, and when the big quake hits, declare ba
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by richk449 7y ago
> I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts since I'm not sure what to feel Do whatever makes you happy.
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by richk449 7y ago
Exactly. Which is why Apple went out of business.
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> I am actually in favor of building more housing. But I think that doing so will (on top of prices already being projected to fall) put further downward pressure on house prices. > To think that this is a rosy story for everyone with
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by richk449 7y ago
No, I don’t see it. But I’m open to the idea that I am missing something. Maybe they have an ARM mortgage, and are planning to refinance just before the adjustable period begins, and are worried they won’t be able to get new financing if th
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by richk449 7y ago
Those scenarios seem few and far between. If it is a family home that has been owned for at least a decade in the bay area, then it has increased in value dramatically since it was bought, and no matter what kind of mortgage they have, they
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by richk449 7y ago
>I also have (non tech, multi-generational local) friends who have the vast majority of their wealth tied up in their (or their parents) house here. ... I don’t love how some members of the YC community (often independently wealthy tech
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by richk449 7y ago
> This is also the tragedy of the commons. If I emit less, others will feel they can emit more. I refuse to be "the sucker" that loses this game theory problem. The whole point in the tragedy of the commons is that if everyone
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by richk449 7y ago
> SOC2/HITRUST/SOX all mandate the removal of admin rights from computers, mandate an approval process w/ manager approval I’ve heard this before, but never with any detail. Can you explain further, or point to a resource?
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by richk449 7y ago
You think that’s scary, just wait until you watch Jaws. Giant shark will eat you up.
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by richk449 7y ago
You must have posted at least a dozen comments about the Maryland subway system in a thread about the Bay Area. Either you think the Maryland example is relevant to other areas, or you think it is irrelevant, and are just posting random ane
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by richk449 7y ago
What does reading a companies pr website have to do with figuring out the facts?
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No, I think that Maryland pretty much proves that public transit doesn't work. You better tell London and Hong Kong and Tokyo and Paris and Beijing and New Delhi to shut down their systems.
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by richk449 7y ago
Sure, but nobody sees cigarette adds, and actually says "I smoke because it makes me look cool". Nobody sees beer ads and says "I drink because it makes pretty girls hang out with me". Yet many many people say "I bu

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