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by w______roy 3y ago
People do pay to see movies, to read books, to go to the museum, and for formal education… Do you think the ratio of cost to go to film school per video made for an individual is the same ratio as the cost for stock video library per video
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by w______roy 3y ago
Well of course I read the things I link. To clarify, my points are: 1. "Likelihood" ≠ "Certainty" - I might think there's a high chance of getting caught, but unless I'm overwhelmingly certain that I'll ge
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by w______roy 3y ago
And this illustrates why GDP is a terrible metric for measuring the kind of collective/civilizational wealth that they are talking about.
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by w______roy 3y ago
Only ~47% of incarcerated people in US prisons and jails are in for violent crime.
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by w______roy 3y ago
It's not "likelihood of getting caught" because even if you have a 1 in 5 shot at getting away with a crime, desperate folks (or folks with a shaky understanding of probability) will still take the risk. It has to be "ce
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by w______roy 3y ago
Lowest 10th percentile of which society? In Europe or the US, maybe, but certainly there are whole regions of the world toiling away in horrific conditions to make their baseline standard of living possible. Conditions that are at least as
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by w______roy 3y ago
A lot of folks seem pissed off by this, but it cannot be denied it adds a lot of headaches for developers. Specifically really demoralizing to UI/UX devs who try and bring their skills to the open source world (either they are designin
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by w______roy 3y ago
Think of it another way: transparency hurt a criminal corporation’s ability to use its army of lawyers to defend itself.
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by w______roy 3y ago
Especially [1]. So many millions of American jobs are driving. Rideshare drivers, sure, but taxi drivers, couriers, delivery drivers, truckers, etc. The economic incentive to switch to driverless tech will be really strong, more than white
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by w______roy 3y ago
This dude's portfolio really does not live up to his hype.
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by w______roy 3y ago
Definitely I think the psychological aspect plays a key role. I have not kept up with the Covid-19 literature in the last year and a half, but I recall many women reporting that it disrupted their cycle. In fact, my partner contracted Covid
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by w______roy 3y ago
I can relate about physical exercise—I had debilitating long covid symptoms for about six months with no end in sight. Could not work out, had to plan climbing stairs around my schedule so I'd have 20 minutes after to recover. Until I
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by w______roy 3y ago
For a barber, more haircuts = more money. Trying to imagine what kind of relationship you think epidemiologists have with money? It's not like they get a nickel for every person they save from getting sick.
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by w______roy 3y ago
An important skill is reading between the lines, and recognizing libertarian dog whistles. Freedom to them = freedom from government regulating business. Freedom to me = freedom from worrying about businesses poisoning me and my family.
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by w______roy 3y ago
It's a good thing, I think. "Absolute free speech" is most often championed by people who want to build society around pure logic rather than empirical evidence. The slippery slope bogeyman they gesture to is laughably dated
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by w______roy 3y ago
I mostly agree with you, especially the Matt Taibbi thing, which gives me nostalgia for the weekly firings and excommunications Trump did to his loyal grovelers. However, I resist letting this turn into merely a spectacle. I don't th
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by w______roy 3y ago
At the very beginning, it was about the subprime mortgage crisis, which cost a lot of people their homes, their retirements, their investments and created a great deal of disillusionment in our financial/political system. That led to O
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by w______roy 3y ago
But, he did. That's like saying "Hey, this company would have done this bad thing under any leadership, so let's not hold current leadership accountable." He bought it, all the shares, eliminated the board, eliminated le
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by w______roy 3y ago
I think Substack Notes is the most viable alternative to Twitter and stands to capture a lot of the userbase as Twitter continues to go down the drain. I mean, adding the doge meme thing to the UI is so cringey that I just haven't been
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by w______roy 4y ago
Think about the vocabulary you use shooting the shit with your friends. It's not that wide of a vocabulary. And there are plenty of abbreviations/shorthand in texting that condense more complex concepts/feelings/ideas in
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by w______roy 4y ago
> I think schools would benefit from privatization Well, we (in the US), have slowly been privatizing them and it’s bad! If you look at test results though, it’s great! Because private charter schools can drop underperforming students be
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by w______roy 4y ago
Having a psychotic break doesn't suddenly make you homeless. You would need a psychotic break + lack of healthcare + lack of family/friends/support network + lack of money + lack of social programs + lack of affordable housin
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by w______roy 4y ago
> Slowly but surely, decision after decision, cut by cut, the insatiable desire of central authorities to stick their fingers in every part of your life has led to the brute forcing of encroachments on the free market that has given a ve
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by w______roy 4y ago
So many things wrong with this. First, making all your policy decisions around maximizing reproduction seems really myopic. Many places are overpopulated and straining global infrastructure. And regulations keep people safe—what does it mat