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by try_the_bass 3y ago
This is the first time I've seen someone use this question in defense of privacy, instead of against it.
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by try_the_bass 3y ago
No, no. Police don't police police, police police police police.
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by try_the_bass 3y ago
They didn't hack the satellites, they hacked the modems: > "After those modems were knocked offline it wasn't like you unplug them and plug them back in and reboot and they come back,"
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by try_the_bass 3y ago
I mean, is it actually illegal to add terms to the settlement that require some party to (essentially) promise not to go back to doing the thing? It seems like it follows the same principles as non-compete stipulations that come with certa
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by try_the_bass 3y ago
So did you end up starting a union after the settlement?
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by try_the_bass 3y ago
> What prevented them from trying again? I doubt the settlement had a clause that said "you can't start a union". Why wouldn't it have one? I'm sure the lawyers involved here wouldn't miss the obvious questi
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by try_the_bass 3y ago
And yet it's the single most common rhetorical tactic I see employed by people to defend their own beliefs, especially political ones. Seems to work on some subset of the population.
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by try_the_bass 3y ago
My recollection is closer to GP's than to yours, fwiw. Not exactly the same, but I do recall that a lot of the pushback from the left was because every publication on the right was busy hitching the "it originated as a lab-modifie
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by try_the_bass 3y ago
Have you considered that the first sentence might be the cause of the second and third? It seems to me that if you spend all your time telling YouTube its recommendations are bad, it can only respond by giving you worse recommendations.
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by try_the_bass 3y ago
The "transaction fees won't protect against reorgs" argument assumes that miners count the value of future block rewards at 0. This is poor logic that models mining as a single game of the prisoner's dilemma. Modeling it
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by try_the_bass 3y ago
Safe driving for a human also depends heavily on predictable behavior of others. If that's an important metric, it seems like the optimal solution is a single self-driving system with a monopoly on the market... that way each and ev
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
I would argue that it's impossible to simulate real-world conditions for a task as complex as driving. There are too many edge cases and different combinations of environmental factors, many of which involve the inherent unpredictabili
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
Isn't the usage of Autopilot "willing participation"? Or are you referring to the other people on the road? Wouldn't that also be true of your medicine analogy? If someone takes an experimental medicine but experiences a
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
It seems like it's impossible to prove that it's safe on public roads without actually using it on public roads, though? Wouldn't that be an impossible ask, by definition?
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
Did we? I didn't see it. Do you have a source?
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
I must have missed where that was the point. Can you point it out to me in this thread? There was an earlier mention of the weather widget, but that seems pretty different than "news headlines"?
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
> The problem is it's not data for you, it's data for Microsoft they turn around and sell. Why can't it be both? Being data for Microsoft doesn't preclude it from also being data for you. Being able to just put in a
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
> You don’t think there’s a problem with the worlds richest man, with a following of millions, calling some effectively random British guy in Thailand a pedophile? I think it's a dick move for sure. However if we follow your line of
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
I don't think you can blame that on Tesla so much as the rest of "the market", if even that. Tesla is not a monopoly, after all.
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
From the linked thread[1]: > One misconception I also want to address: the dreadful US performance does not disappear if you “adjust for race”. > This is way way overstated. I wonder where the is? Different data sources? [1] https:&#
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
In absolute terms, sure. But in relative terms, I'm pretty sure a small town with a thoroughly corrupt police force is worse off than NYC.
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
Given the quality of unclassified photos released to the public at times [1], it's not unreasonable to assume the classified stuff is an order of magnitude better (or more). Note the angle of some of the photos! [1] https://
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
I don't understand why this is a "wat"? This is just a) not understanding how `map` works, and b) not understanding the args to `parseInt`. The callback function for `map` is passed three args: the current item, the index o
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
> shows that you understand your initial statement to be a dog whistle, and that upon reflection, you decided not to say the quiet part loud. You seem to be making some very strong assumptions about intent [E] and have been since your fi
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
No, that's "free market economics", which is slightly different. Cartels are very much capitalist, because they create more profits for everyone involved. The more parties you get involved, the better it is for all of them, a
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
> most capitalists would not want price fixing I would strongly challenge this. Capitalism is generally oriented around maximizing profit. Any time you can sell a good for more than its cost of production, you make a profit. Competitors,
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
> You know who fed her that BS? Her delusional parents. I thought the Wait but Why article made a point of calling that out. It didn't come across as blaming Lucy for her delusions, saying "she has _been told_ all her life that
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
> Probably shouldn't have landed it with $1bn/year debt payments then, eh. It's worth remembering the market setting was very different when he made the offer. It's also worth remembering the offer was refused at the
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by try_the_bass 4y ago
I remember doing this during one of my first years of college. I would usually finish the lab assignments early, so I would poke around the computers and see what I could get into. I eventually discovered `net send` on the cli, and read th