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by somesortofthing 5y ago
> An incumbent’s advantage when providing network goods doesn’t preclude better competitors, it precludes slightly better competitors. A new grocery concept that is 10% better can take over the world. A new social network that is 10% bet
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
I used to think this way but honestly, given how poorly nature does in terms of creating genetic material for new people, I've come to believe that we have a pretty big margin for error. The harm done by a gung-ho attitude toward gene
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
Makes you wonder how many other common foodstuffs are wildly mislabeled and contain harmful ingredients. It's hard to imagine any US government agency having the manpower to conduct the scale of testing required to find standards viola
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
Maybe they're in particularly desperate situations? I do concur if these people are healthy/young though, seems insane to take something with side effects this concerning that don't even need proper trials to manifest if you&
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
You're forgetting the cost of jailing them in the first place. Not only is there an upfront cost of $106k per year(assuming we're talking about CA)[1], that person is also not working(or paying taxes) or gaining any useful skills.
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
It could bounce back from a reflective surface somehow and hit a cockpit or cabin window, though you'd need to be flying really low or at an unreasonably steep angle to be concerned about that. They're probably just trying to cove
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
To maximize the possibility of producing a positive result for the hypothesis. And it's understandable that this is done given academia's incentive structure, and you could justify this study's existence as a foundation for f
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
I feel like you're giving the people aggressively generalizing results from studies like these too much of the benefit of the doubt. The mice in this study were fed a diet that was more than 2/3 sucrose, compared to an average of
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
It's obvious but acknowledging it too loudly can be seen as denying people's agency, both in the abstract(It can be interpreted as devaluing the experiences of people who escaped generational poverty) and in particular(A poor pers
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
You're probably aware of them but just in case, basically anything by Zachtronics fits the bill.
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
It's technically optimized for information density rather than pure frustration but it sounds like Ithkuil is what you're looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil?wprov=sfla1
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
I think the idea is to draw a parallel between something we're repulsed by, find abhorrent, and feel we ought to eliminate (like a violent death from being ripped apart by a dragon) and something that we consider a natural and inevit
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
Because Youtube can only make sense to run within Google. Youtube's actual service of providing free HD streaming video in exchange for showing the viewers ads is not, has never been, and cannot be profitable. Totally free, unlimited H
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
It could maybe happen if the consequences of a vendor choice are both disastrously bad and easily foreseeable. Otherwise, no, not really. The person who chooses the vendor(or their successor, in which case this whole question is moot) is pr
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
What use are records of your in-game assets if the servers where you play the game are down?
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
I don't think the author meant to imply that ML as a whole doesn't improve our understanding of the physical world. The point seems to be more that the kind of ML work done by a lot of people who have the qualifications necessar
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
It's an immunosuppressant, and it seems like the mechanism of action is preventing brain cell death. You'd have to be pretty old to benefit at all, and you're risking potentially fatal infection to maybe possibly get some noo
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
The difference is that it's basically impossible to take control of a fab the same way you can for an oil well. No matter your military advantage, the people you're trying to take the fab from will just destroy it, and odds are go
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
I'm willing to bet that we're also going to get significantly better at treating trauma within that thousand years though. The numbers aren't great now, sure, but what about in something like 500 years when we can begin doing
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
But everyone does pay for dumb code. Even in the best-written and most efficient codebases, there's still going to be some amount of tedious glue code and boilerplate that you have to write in order to create a functioning product. It
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by somesortofthing 5y ago
To be honest, I have a hard time believing that the change in laws is what's actually driving more theft. Is the average shoplifter really doing cost-benefit analysis by planning out the value of their theft and then googling what puni
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by somesortofthing 6y ago
No, it's just that desperately needed, useful work goes undone(and the people who would have otherwise done it go unemployed) because the market doesn't incentivize it.
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by somesortofthing 6y ago
Being "prepared" for a given opportunity is often trivial. Whether the opportunity you're prepared for ever arises is luck.