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by tech_ken 3y ago
For sure. There is definitely harms in illegal gambling, I don't want to minimize that at all. But it seems enormously easier for me to create an illegal, yet low-risk gambling product for my friends to consume. It is much, much harder
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I think the economics of a physical drug substance and gambling are different enough that it’s actually un-apt to draw a comparison between sports betting and alcohol prohibition. Indeed I think it's actually highly misleading to extra
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I do see what you mean, and don't totally disagree, but to extend your "smartphone" metaphor I see your hypothetical as akin to someone looking at a like an old school Motorola Razr and saying "in the future these will b
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I mean by this definition I’d say it happened when they introduced Siri or Hey Google. The creation of these tools and their massive/universal adoption a la web-crawlers is still a large gap though. Getting to point where you consider
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I have no side in this fight, but I do love that my comment immediately led to a prime example of what I had in mind when I called X11 "A Thing" :) Lovely writeup, thanks for the details this is very informative
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Poetic as this is, I always feel like if we can imagine it then it won't happen. The only constant is surprise, we can only predict these types of developments accidentally
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> This is a political problem, not a technological one. Somewhat of a distinction without a difference, IMO. Politics (consensus mechanisms, governance structures, etc) are all themselves technologies for coordinating and shaping social
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X11 continues to be A Thing, although the transition to Wayland is somewhat underway
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Okay I mean yeah but I’m trying to meet this comment thread where it’s at hahaha
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> Whatever happens in life, I give myself a cap of 48 hours to get over it—this includes being sad, grieving, being unproductive, etc. This is, to me, insane. Grief, sadness, anger, etc are not truly within our conscious control. I can&#
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> To be a victim is to be helpless This seems overly strong? To me "victimhood" just implies that you are the recipient of the negative consequences of someone else's actions, it has nothing to do with your response to tho
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> I guess it’s some combination of feeling like a victim with a fatalist attitude that’s the real issue. Yes I 100% think this is the case. Simply creating “awareness” of a social problem, for example, is useless IMO because it leads to
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That’s not really what I’m saying. Understanding the causes of your circumstances obviously doesn’t necessarily entail what is in your control or not. However focusing only on the levers you control, while remaining blind to the causes of t
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> He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well, every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something, and your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity but to utilize the terrible blow in a construc
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Overall I like this take, and I feel like it aligns closely with my own beliefs about the future of technological progress. With that said, I feel like this and most discussions about technology are far too limited in what they consider to
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Plus you've got to deal with the biological offensive you're going to be exposing yourself to. Imagine a whole planet of microorganisms against which we have no immunity or medical experience. Do we even have an antibiotic that wo
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Any resource limitation problem we have on Earth will be unfathomably harder on an exoplanet, short of hitting the moonshot jackpot of an exact Earth-equivalent with matching biome. Not agreeing with OP on the direness of resource exhaustio
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> All things considered, physical buttons and dials are probably easier and cheaper, because they don't require software updates! If it ain't broke it's ripe for disruption
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After about 2 years my battery also lost a lot of it's charge-retention, but I replaced it and got back up to the >11 hours I was seeing before
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Been using a lemp9 since 2020 and I will say that it's good but not great. Came to it from an X1 Carbon and it's felt like a lateral move, but if you're trying to replace an MBP or something I don't think you'll be
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by tech_ken 3y ago
I've replaced the battery once and the wifi card twice, the second time in SFO at a cafe table with some random screwdriver I stole from the office. The internal layout is SO easy to open up and put back together, and all the parts an
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by tech_ken 3y ago
So you're saying that retailers will pay Chamberlain to act as more or less a clearinghouse for package deliveries in my garage, and that in order to successfully operate this model Chamberlain needs to funnel all users through their p
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Ok I think we fully agree on pretty much every point. Cheers!
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I don't find your "if people wanted it, it would happen" argument very convincing, nor do I understand how the situations you describe in your second and third paragraphs are (a) different from each other and (b) different fr
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I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Most of the actually important housing policy isn't decided by direct vote, it's handled by an unelected committee which uses in-person feedback provided during open ses
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Any solution will require targeting multiple sources of cost. As you point out elsewhere, R&D is a big cost driver, but profit seems comparable [1]. Moreover one does have to wonder about the various sources of that R&D cost, I&#x27
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Well one factor is drug companies' outsized margins: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7054843/
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But it's not all residents, or even most residents. It's _some_ residents who are overrepresented in city governance. Many, many people in the Bay Area want more homes built.
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Interesting, thanks for the correction!
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Interesting point. I guess on one level I feel like giving a good interview isn't really indicative of someone's actual character, the kind of political movement building I'm thinking of is a somewhat different skillset than

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