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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
> We require cars to have seatbelts Seatbelts are not adversarial. A better seatbelt does not encourage other drivers to crash their cars into you even harder or anything like that, it's people versus nature. Security systems are in
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
> given that almost nothing is in .us I generally assume .com means US. Wait, that doesn't follow. All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares. In fact, most rectangles aren't squares.
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
Firefox's built in password manager is pretty good, ten years ago you had to install a separate extension for that. The synchronization of browser tabs and history across devices is also very good nowadays, so if you look at some produ
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
They can also be unintended consequences in the evolution of the flowers. As I understand it, they are beautiful because they are trying to attract the attention of their pollinators. Some flowers are plain-looking because they are beautifu
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
Is the dilemma actually false, in actual practice? I understand there is an infinite number of possible policies, but in a representative democracy there are usually only a couple possible policies to choose from. What is the actual thing t
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
The cartoon makes children act a certain way, then the parents teach them that it's not OK to imitate what they see on TV. If that kid was kept from watching TV for nearly 4 years, he never had a chance to learn that copying things fro
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
Human performance costs minimum wage. AI products cost a lot to train but a lot less than a (first world) (educated) human's wage to run.
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
I agree. The math that applies to corporate profits is not the same that should apply for human happiness. But we have to acknowledge that the weird philosophical thought experiment that can't possibly convince anyone except weird phil
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
Probably not. If they got to the point of needing a divorce that means the relationship looked like it was going to work, so much so that the people involved agreed to marry. No online service can possibly promise to be more thorough in the
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
> this can easily be gamed There are other online services like Uber and AirBnB in which it is much easier to cheat by communicating with your counterpart outside of the app, that way you don't have to pay commissions and so on. It
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
> Plenty of companies do unlimited PTO or bar PTO roll-over That's a good idea. In this hypothetical app, if a couple stays together for a couple of years they should forfeit the right to get their money back even if they later brea
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
In this particular case, it's because the success of an ad-funded service depends on the amount of users it has. If you don't like the repugnant conclusion you have to change something in the conditions of the environment so that
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
> There are some things that you simply CANNOT express in a "free market" because the measure of their success cannot be expressed in market terms. Sure you can. If you want to measure the success of your matchmaking company in
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
> there's something about pen-and-paper writing that's more effective for thought-lubrication In my personal experience, a helpful feature of pen and paper is that it is less effective than keyboards, it takes me more time and
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
It's not any different, but in my opinion both are not good. Someone should teach you how logarithms work before giving you a log table. Someone at some point should show you a trigonometric circle before telling you to press the cos b
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
It is one important purpose, but education has lots of stakeholders who each have their own purposes. The students want to learn things and socialize with peers. Teachers want to teach, earn a living, get respect of society. Parents want th
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
Microsoft also makes Windows, and Windows takes backwards compatibility very seriously. Even if they don't work on maintaining Office 2003 directly, they indirectly work very hard making sure every subsequent version of Windows does no
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
It might not be CS talent that Canada lacks. Someone mentioned elsewhere in the thread that Canada has high taxes and a difficult bureaucracy. If Canada's government is business-unfriendly and their closest neighbor and competitor is t
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
They should definitely test the honey to see if it has the correct micronutrients. That way, the Chinese will have to fortify their fake honey the same way people in other countries fortify staples like milk or flour.
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
At a certain point we should just admit that Chinese bootleggers make better honey than the bees. After all, it has the correct amount of water and sugar, the correct sugar composition, the correct pollen, and it all has to be cheaper than
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by saint_fiasco 3y ago
It would have to solve bipedal locomotion, for starters. Humans are not allowed to compete wearing roller skate shoes, so the AI should not be allowed to use wheels either.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
I'm confused. You act hostile yet you seem to agree with the original comment. The reason Row v Wade was overturned is that the judges don't want to have to decide if abortion is legal or not. They want legislators to be responsib
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
The $BIGCORP can use the tool too, it's not exactly asymmetric. Imagine what a patent troll could accomplish with something like this if it were allowed.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
An alternative way to look at this is that you are very much loaded. You just don't realize because a significant part of your compensation goes implicitly towards health insurance.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
It's a classic heads-I-win-tails-you-lose tactic. You put a rule in place that overtly punishes people who do something unethical for the benefit of the company (in this case, pestering their colleagues while they are on vacation) whil
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
> If there is ever a WhatsApp outage, Metro workers have parallel Facebook chats to maintain communication. I hope the different chat services run by Meta don't share any critical infrastructure.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
I think the idea is that if they can delay the construction of new nuclear plants they increase Europe's dependence on Russian oil.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Those other kinds of ICE vehicles are supported in poorer markets. In the Third World people use motorcycles and scooters and so on all the time, for all sorts of things. If lithium becomes scarce, electric vehicles become more expensive. A
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
YouChat is a chatbot that tries to do just that. I asked it what is going on in Peru and it gave a good answer including a citation: >In Peru, a political crisis has been unfolding over the past few months, with the ousting of former Pre
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
As for the why, I think the parent commenter means that they would want to know the reason a package was installed by default on Windows in the first place. We know the reason you removed it is that it is not related to CAD and CAM software

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