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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> To identify a “safe” level of alcohol consumption, valid scientific evidence would need to demonstrate that at and below a certain level, there is no risk of illness or injury associated with alcohol consumption. The new WHO statement
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Consolidation leading to long lead times sounds like an efficiency / queuing theory thing. The closer capacity gets to demand, the longer it takes for any slight bumps to work their way out of the backlog.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Storage being cheap enough that it's not worth policing doesn't seem very consistent with it being expensive enough to include much energy use (what I assume the "destroying the environment" hyperbole is referencing).
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> The Long Now Foundation is attempting to build a clock to last 10,000 years. The pyramids are only half that old, and they've accumulated a fair bit of damage despite being solid stone.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> We need this whole economy simulation ... to answer practical questions such as - if we dole out UBI to everyone to cover basic living costs, will that "How will humans (in aggregate) behave under novel conditions?" Models
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Many American school districts are funded by property taxes This is a red herring. Local taxes are not the only source of funding, and state / federal finding is deliberately allocated in a way that makes up the difference. Or
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> what about every university should get subsidies per student's head-count and let the universities decide what for the money is used? From what I understand it usually works better to pay for results rather than effort.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Institutions should not be treated differently because they are or aren't associated with a recognized religion. Really, the government shouldn't be in the business of recognizing religions at all.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I believe they was actually the number they expected to get orders for on one particular sales tour.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Anything that was previously built on Oracle and would be too much of a pain to try to migrate to something else.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Taken to the extreme you end up with something like "network connected physical machines aren't a security boundary" which is just silly. 1. This is why some places with secret enough info keep things airgapped. 2. OTO
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> what with science informing us that human life begins at conception No. Science can't say when life begins any more then it can say how much sand is needed to make a heap. Because it's a question of how we choose to define
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Federal debt doesn't matter beyond its relationship to taxes and inflation Much like household debt doesn't matter beyond it's relationship to household income?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> It's not a nazi Germany situation where the people supported this action, Um, you do know that a good chunk of the logistics involved were about hiding what was going on so that the populace wouldn't object, yes?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
That's because binary logic is the wrong model. B requires A. C requires both A and B. But also, A has a cost and B has a cost, and spending more on A or B can maybe get you more C. Maybe spending more on developing better computers wo
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
You know how office workers are more productive because of computers? This didn't just happen because various companies did R&D investments in building (better) computers, but also because companies actually spent money buying comp
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Which one is this? I've argued in the past that this is a basic feature missing from 4GL languages, and a lot of work in every project is wasted on hand-rolling in-memory databases left and right, without realizing it. It would s
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> decoupled from the horrors of an unreliable network The first rule of network transparency is: the network is not transparent. > Or: I’ve yet to see a code base that has maintained a separate in-memory index for data they are que
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> I also seem to recall a type of toy vehicle that was propelled by some compressed gas as it slid, suspended along a horizontal wire/string, but I'm drawing a blank regarding the type of propellant right now. It seemed safe e
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Subsidies do raise the demand curve for whatever's being subsidized.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
We have electronic touchscreen+stylus boards on the walls in some meeting rooms at work.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> tried to gaslight everyone into thinking on-call was just part of normal work and didn’t warrant additional compensation. It is part of normal work for roles where it's a thing, and I'd think it could be either baked in o
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Do you have data backing this claim? I read it as a scenario / "even if" for the presented thought experiment, not a load-bearing assertion about reality. As in the argument being made works equally well whether either
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
They're both trying to do wealth taxes, rather than (more) income taxes. I suppose that could be interesting for wealth that isn't liquid?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> it's interesting seeing Meta go after the employee but seemingly not make much of an effort to go after the publisher. Why? As The Fine Article points out, the publisher wasn't party to the agreement they're trying to
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Changing the algorithm to make it benevolent rather than polarising is easy for those who control the platforms. I probably don't want a feed where someone else decides what's good for me to see. > When the web started,
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Perhaps the CC people have not thought about this, but it is precisely why GPL exists, and later AGPL. Considering the next sentence is "This is why Open Source ends up massively benefitting corporations who don't give much
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
If he doesn't like companies making money when he helps commoditize things that complement what they provide, CC does have a non-commercial variant.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Making money is not incompatible with Open Source nor Free Software. Making lots and lots of money is not incompatible with it either. Well not at a philosophical level, but there appear to be some practical difficulties.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Another article (someone dropped an article about this article in a chat group a few days ago), with additional details: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/arlington-cemetery-scrubs-we... > Gone from public view are l

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