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by scarab92 1y ago
Kind of disappointing to see this at the top. Not only have you cherry picked anecdotes to support this, but you don’t have a counter factual, e.g. maybe someone who survives until 95 on junk food would have lived until 105 on healthy food.
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by scarab92 1y ago
These fabs don’t evaporate the water though, they use it as process water, and then treat it to wastewater standards before discharging to the municipal wastewater system. Assuming the municipality recycles their wastewater, which they woul
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by scarab92 1y ago
These types of comparisons are illogical. There’s little relationship between the net income of a company and what is an appropriate bug bounty, especially a company as diversified as alphabet.
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by scarab92 1y ago
I think that perspective mostly exists amongst the chronically online. I don’t see it much in the real world. All EVs depreciate quickly, Tesla isn’t unique in this regard. The reason is simply that the market is currently higher income ear
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by scarab92 1y ago
The vast majority of users treat their set of passkeys as a unit anyway, so there’s no scenario when a single token would need to be revoked in isolation. A breach of one passkey can only occur from breaching the password manager itself, i
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by scarab92 1y ago
Passkeys seem like a kludge. A single per-user client certificate is a cleaner solution, without the vendor lock in problem, since there’s no need for real time synchronisation of an evolving set of passkeys.
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by scarab92 1y ago
Do you have an actual critique of the argument? I was grateful for it, and at first glance, assuming Tesla’s argument is true, it’s hard to see how they are even partially responsible.
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by scarab92 1y ago
Indeed. When it comes to government work, the biggest cost savings always come from questioning the necessity of requirements. People point the fingers at defence contractors, but their net margins are typically only around 10%.
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by scarab92 1y ago
Americans have a poor understanding of what’s going on with Teslas sales numbers because their market largely lacks the competition that exists elsewhere and so they overindex on lesser factors like Elon. The real issue is simply that Tesla
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by scarab92 1y ago
Tesla are attempting to maintain their pricing and margins while the cost of producing EVs is plummeting. The result is that they are being severely undercut on price by BYD et al. Tesla are going to have to either start cutting prices sign
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by scarab92 1y ago
I’ve spent some time in a Juniper Model Y and BYD Sealion 7. The most notable areas where BYDs are still not competitive with Tesla are the interior (fit and finish is worse, the styling is unrefined and busy), the software (a buggy lightly
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by scarab92 1y ago
Is it not valid to be concerned about overly broad invasions of privacy regardless of how long such orders have been occurring?
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by scarab92 1y ago
I’ll never understand people who oppose new technology because it could hypothetically be used a negative way. These people just seem to have a chronically cynical outlook on everything. The logical thing to do is to regulate things when th
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by scarab92 1y ago
I wish that were true, but I’ve found that certain types of employees do confidently lie as much as llms, especially when answering “do you understand” type questions
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by scarab92 1y ago
I think their comment is fair. Wikipedias policies to promote neutrality are often counter productive. Because neutrality is hard to define, what these policies actually do is progressively raise the effort required to keep or remove a part
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by scarab92 1y ago
Skill and effort obviously has a part in explaining success. That aside, I can’t be the only person tired of people bringing envy politics to this forum, trying to shoehorn wealth into every single discussion involving someone who is wealth
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by scarab92 1y ago
The default subs are filled with left-wing conspiracy theories these days. A consequence of years of reddit allowing its mods to shadow ban centrist voices. It’s hard to see how reddit escapes this mess. They need more normal people and les
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by scarab92 1y ago
I also suspect these are reasons people give because they feel more concrete and defensible. I suspect a more significant but harder to concretize cause is that certain social changes have lead to the majority of young people being unable t
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by scarab92 1y ago
Platforms which drive away normal users with unwarranted hate become increasingly concentrated with toxic people over time. If bluesky don’t find a way to escape this spiral of driving away normal people and attracting toxic people it’s goi
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by scarab92 1y ago
Online communities have an inherent death spiral dynamic, unless you actively moderate away toxic people. These people drive away normal folks creating an ever more distilled community of unpleasant folks. How many normal people are going t
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by scarab92 2y ago
The goal isn’t to repatriate low value manufacturing, it’s simply to create negotiating leverage to discourage other countries from applying asymmetric tariffs on the US. It doesn’t make sense for the US to allow other exporters in other co
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by scarab92 2y ago
I can't steelman the case for high tariffs, but small tariffs make sense to me. There's a trade off between economic diversity and comparative advantage, and a balance is better than being at either extreme. A 5% cost advantage mi
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by scarab92 2y ago
I’m not sure that it’s ownership is the reason for The Guardians success. NYT has also been successful with a more traditional ownership model. Their success, I suspect, is due to being early to shift from addressing a particular geographic
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by scarab92 2y ago
The concrete is supported by formwork and props until it cures, which appear to have been removed on all floors, suggesting that the concrete structure was now complete and the building is about as strong as it ever will be. The collapse mu
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by scarab92 2y ago
Agree. I don’t understand why Microsoft are so bad at this? They have access to a large percentage of all email traffic to train domain reputation, and spam detection models on yet seem to be notorious for both false positives and false neg
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by scarab92 2y ago
PayPal, OpenAI, Neuralink too The guy is clearly very skilled at identifying opportunities and putting together the best team to execute on them. Probably better than any other human alive today. People may not like the guy for whatever rea
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by scarab92 2y ago
My guess is that charging stations will buffer the power in high discharge capacity battery banks rather than pulling it directly from the grid in real time. Don’t many Tesla supercharger sites already do that? On batteries, my understandin
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by scarab92 2y ago
Fair enough, but even we use a floor price to disincentivise squatting, I'm not sure why we should gift those excess margins to a private company? Shouldn't ICANN collect that margin and use it for charitable purposes instead?
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by scarab92 2y ago
As I understand it, Verisign doesn't own the .com TLD, they are just a contracted service provider to ICANN. Which begs the question, why doesn't ICANN just replace Verisign them with a different authoritative register that charge
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by scarab92 2y ago
Sure, it's a natural monopoly, but it's owned by a non-profit (ICAAN), so where is all the money going?

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