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by shawndrost 2y ago
Thank you for providing your expertise in this comment section. A few followup questions, if you will... 1. Posit for a second that 1970s lawmakers did intend to delegate sweeping powers to the EPA under the CAA and allow it to regulate CO2
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by shawndrost 2y ago
I don't believe it is feasible to run an image hosting service with your intended CSAM management plan. Based on this comment thread, I fully expect your site will soon host CP/CSAM, if it doesn't already. Other image hosting
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by shawndrost 2y ago
What an incredible coincidence that everyone -- the media, the judges who voted 6-3, and HN commenters like yourself -- sees this case along ideological lines!
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by shawndrost 2y ago
I don't understand why your analogy requires multiple taco trucks. So if I'm missing something please explain. Otherwise, I find your analogy helpful and illustrative of my confusion. Here is the simplified analogy: 1. Scrooge own
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by shawndrost 2y ago
My question is specifically about the judgements that uninvolved people have formed. I can't learn about this from my doctor, or from the victims' decision in the context of a highly-constrained kabuki dance. It seems most comment
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by shawndrost 2y ago
I understand the contents of the link; that judgement prompts my question rather than answering it. The DOJ found that old Purdue's problem was illgal marketing, kickbacks, etc. I understand that as a legalistic thing. But as far as hu
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by shawndrost 2y ago
No, my question is about how people judge our opioid status quo: a medical system that prescribes addictive opioids for routine and low-grade pain.
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by shawndrost 2y ago
I understand two answers to your question: 1. Nothing will replace the opioids, but we should make most routine use illegal anyway, because the usage you described causes addiction, abuse, and death in some cases, which overrules your QOL i
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by shawndrost 2y ago
Under the bankruptcy settlement, Purdue will continue to sell opioids. The ownership will change (profits will be used to fund the causes you listed) but the operations will not. Right?
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by shawndrost 2y ago
I like this analogy. How does it apply to the status quo of opioids? What rate of interest is the present-day Purdue business charging? This year I was prescribed 30 days of opioids for post-vasectomy use and guided to expect low-grade pain
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by shawndrost 2y ago
Thank you for the reply! I am honestly not informed about this stuff and not asking to covertly push an agenda. Follow-up Q for you. What is the realistic way to prescribe opioids routinely and safely? Are there certain formulations that ha
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by shawndrost 2y ago
My question is not about the settlement; it's a question about moral judgements people have around Sacklers/Purdue, including judgements I see on this comment page. I already understand the mechanical details you've explained
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by shawndrost 2y ago
I understand people who think the Sacklers are villains who destroyed lives, Purdue should be shut down, and we should transform the legal regime around opioids. I understand people who think Purdue should continue, the status quo is OK, an
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by shawndrost 2y ago
(Note: I was a founder at a coding bootcamp, Hack Reactor.) I don't think an author who understands the domain would write like this. Even if we spot that Lambda was a tire fire that needed to die, the author's outrage doesn'
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by shawndrost 2y ago
There is no question that: 1) segregationists defected from the Dem party en masse circa the 1960s; 2) the defection was an immediate and direct reaction to Democratic actions on segregation on the national level; 3) the South flipped from
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by shawndrost 3y ago
In fact, you are wrong; insurance in California is redistributive by regulatory design. Farmers (when operating in CA) must offer insurance X% of homeowners in a range of $Y-$Z, subsidizing those customers who are more expensive to Farmers.
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by shawndrost 3y ago
Electricity (during sunlight hours) is not the highest grade of energy. California threw away ~32TWh of electricity last year, with renewables at only 19% penetration. You can't give power away at noon in April; this fact is a signific
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by shawndrost 3y ago
(Incidentally, I'm pretty sure this is an opinion/analysis article, not a news article. However, the fact that CNN doesn't clearly label opinion/analysis -- and the existence of analysis at all, which I don't rememb
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by shawndrost 3y ago
A semi-open letter is an escalation. It's an admission that initial discussions have failed, and it is intended to prompt management to make a choice in a more concrete way. It's a powerful tool and it can be destructive or correc
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by shawndrost 3y ago
I agree with your gist, but I self-identify as an authoritarian, and I don't think you can support your point without that admission. Your erroneous rationale is the paragraph about "the ask". The boss said "no assholes&
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by shawndrost 3y ago
Sub-Headline: "The sudden slowdown in electric car sales" Third paragraph: "Sure, sales of EVs keep going up" This story is fake
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by shawndrost 3y ago
(This is why we're talking about steel again.)
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by shawndrost 3y ago
The basic story here is about Tay. Microsoft shut Tay down after 16 hours because people found ways to make Tay say "holocaust denier" kind of stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot) If Tay says ou
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by shawndrost 3y ago
I don't have a stake in the broader fight, but note that severe fires often leave extra fuel in their wake. (It is a surprising fact, to me at least.) This is because 1) live tree trunks don't burn in severe fires, they leave behi
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by shawndrost 3y ago
I would put Honolulu over LA, as a former resident of both.
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by shawndrost 3y ago
There is another scenario. Equity investors sometimes get something during a bankruptcy. This is what happened to Hertz. (IIRC Hertz was selling shares to retail investors during bankruptcy , the SEC put a stop to it, and then Hertz made a
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by shawndrost 3y ago
Sorry. Wat
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by shawndrost 3y ago
I want to reiterate my homegrown solution to digital addiction: lock your devices and hand the key to a trusted individual human, the "keyholder". The keyholder's role is simple. When I ask them to choose a password and type
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by shawndrost 3y ago
Did you know Irvine, CA (now 300k people) was a planned community? It postdates UC Irvine and was incorporated in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_Company
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by shawndrost 3y ago
If you don't mind my asking -- how old are you?

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