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by yifanl 7y ago
So, from my perspective, everyone except a few high level corporate people would be better off if we never got people addicted to smoking tobacco. Obviously we can't change the past, but we came very very close to doing the next best t
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by yifanl 7y ago
I can sort of get it, we could've been the first generation of majority non-smokers, but instead companies got kids to start vaping clouds of bubblegum, and of course kids didnt have a chance of avoiding that crap and now we have an en
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by yifanl 7y ago
That would only work if supply and demand spiked at the same time, and I doubt that would be the case. I suppose surge pricing and whatnot address that to a point, but if every Uber driver is scheduling their day around Uber demand, then th
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by yifanl 7y ago
Uber and Lyft could not feasibly maintain the scale of operations if everyone driving for Uber worked only for supplemental income.
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by yifanl 7y ago
This is the whole word vs spirit of the law thing. A reasonable court could easily spot this scheme, the law shouldn't be enforced by a series of if statements.
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by yifanl 7y ago
It doesnt work in practice, PCRE does not validate all valid PCRE expressions.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Does your email server automatically proxy a+asdfasdf@xxxxx.com to you? If it does, you can easily work around that limitation by signing up with a+microsoft@xxxxx.com I try to do that for any sites that let me, both for ease of indexing, a
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by yifanl 7y ago
Nothing, but the analogy would be buying the Amazon top-seller of every product category. It doesn't make sense, you aren't going to use any of those products, you don't even care what most of them are.
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by yifanl 7y ago
From my reading, the author is making a case that human-centric design is taking anthropocentrism and going further, because you're not only exploiting everything besides the human, but also anyone who isn't the user (citing the e
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by yifanl 7y ago
I would strongly doubt it, switching out the core graphics driver doesn't seem like something sensible to push into an ESR release.
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by yifanl 7y ago
I mean, if the majority of the market is dumb passive index funds, those are one and the same :)
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by yifanl 7y ago
Because when enough of the money is in an index fund, you can predict how a large part of the investors are going to invest (using the same algorithms they're using) and adjust based on that.
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by yifanl 7y ago
I mean, that's an entirely different class of problem. If the law literally doesn't work because of reasons, then that's just systemic corruption.
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by yifanl 7y ago
That sounds like something fairly trivially avoided by having the punishment be proportional to revenue. And I believe this is already the case for GDPR? A quick search indicates "Up to €20 million, or 4% of the worldwide annual revenu
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by yifanl 7y ago
The question (as I read it) is "does human life have more value than the freedoms afforded to us by constitutional decree?" I'm personally struggling to find an answer either way, but I'd at least disagree that we can&#x
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by yifanl 7y ago
I'm not sure how this is at all a relevant response?
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by yifanl 7y ago
I mean, growth rate tells you nothing of the total percent of orders.
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by yifanl 7y ago
I imagine ride reviews are considerably less confidential than training data.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Could you define "meat"?
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by yifanl 7y ago
That's a pointless sentiment, there's no social will to tackle an emergent problem until there is.
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by yifanl 7y ago
If an effort like this isn't made, then it's guaranteed we don't save the planet. Yes, it sucks, but someone has to be the first to bite the bullet.
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by yifanl 7y ago
To me, China looks more like the logical conclusion of capitalism than some competing economic system.
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by yifanl 7y ago
That doesnt fit human consumption patterns. Or at least American consumption patterns.
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by yifanl 7y ago
I understand the implications of this question, but why do we prioritize self-preservation over all else? Like, I get that's a biological instinct, but at some point it has to be not worth it to save ourselves. If we're making val
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by yifanl 7y ago
It would take some specialist knowledge on human biology, but you could model the impacts of microplastics on human health and present it to help the case of easing off plastic use. I have other ideas, but those involve a somewhat atypical
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by yifanl 7y ago
With big box cars, you can at least set up large concrete barricades to mitigate these on crowds. With flying cars, you'd never be able to guarantee the safety of any outdoors event (and in either case, it doesn't have to be the r
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by yifanl 7y ago
See, I don't think there's much difference between writing a deterministic mathematical algorithm to have X site on top, hand-curating a list to have X site on top or writing a magic spell that consults 4 neural nets, a space drag
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by yifanl 7y ago
I mean, Google always was, even in the PageRank days. Even if you can perfectly recreate the numbers as to why so and so site is ranked higher in your system, its still your system choosing to rank so and so site higher.
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by yifanl 7y ago
I don't buy that. The percentage of people who are willing to hike > 2mi should be fairly static between tourists and non-tourists, no? I know personally, I'll take a trip down to the Bruce Peninsula for a day hike. (I also per
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by yifanl 7y ago
> I have mixed feelings about Beyond Meat: my wife and I love the hot Italian sausage and burgers, but it is really not that healthy. Beyond Meat is competing with freezer aisle foodstuff and there it handily wins out in just about every

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