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by zxcmx 6y ago
It's possible for developers to think they are shipping must-have features _and_ for users to see that as "messing up all my menus" and "disrupting my workflow". Inevitably some users will complain about changes in
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by zxcmx 6y ago
It would! But if you have to put a human in the vehicle, children take up less space and can probably handle more G forces than an adult.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
The specificity conditions around "people" are hard. Loneliness and purpose in service are not enough. Most people, I think, want a deeply species-ist AI. It has to want to help humans . Not exclude us from planets to make room f
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by zxcmx 6y ago
So what I'm suggesting is sort of "user pays" for property rights. Since billionaires have way more property (and associated rights) it's only fair they should pay more for that. Since I assume you're not literally
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Nothing in this world is risk-free, because the world is inherently uncertain. Holding cash is also risky. We can calculate a risk free rate of return however, and we can also look at historical returns and rates wealth growth to estimate w
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by zxcmx 6y ago
This is trickier than it might seem. A yacht is actually an asset! (Albeit one that depreciates quickly and has enormous running costs). Practically everything a billionaire could spend money on "at scale" is just another asset. A
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Billionaires don't hold cash, they hold assets. Property, shares, anything that throws off revenue or grows in value.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I see a comparison between "CNC retrofit" and "CNC from the factory" machines. What are buildings after all but big machines around us. CNC retrofits (even when successful) tend to be never ending projects. This is partl
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I live in a country with nationalised healthcare and a strong welfare system. About 75% of gov expenditure is pensions and welfare. If the borders were completely open then it is likely this system would collapse or perhaps be forced to int
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by zxcmx 6y ago
What about fairness to existing residents.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
The trend of the future: "Distributed hyper-local private ghost kitchens". (OK, I just mean home cooking). But looking at your own kitchen as a tiny business, it's pretty clear that market size (OK, I just mean household size
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Maybe we should give the president a share of GDP?
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by zxcmx 6y ago
+1 for Prusa. I don't think you'd regret it. As an activity, 3d printing involves "part design", "printing" and "3d printer tuning and maintenance". I've used a Wanhao D6 and a couple flavours of
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by zxcmx 6y ago
In societies that have a duty of care to individuals, I think it's fair to believe people also have a reciprocal responsibility to take reasonable care of themselves. For example, in theory not wearing a seatbelt is a purely personal d
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Great doctors can have worse mortality rates than average because they tackle the most marginal / difficult cases. It would not be wise to compare mortality rates between dentists and heart surgeons and conclude that dentists are the b
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by zxcmx 6y ago
This still leaves the core problem - how does anyone (or anything) experience anything at all?
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Assume it's academic research. Introducing feature X (regardless of effect) allows you to study X. You do it to learn more about X, not because you particularly want to engineer something more virulent or lethal.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Hmm things which are not just a feeling: * Confidence in interoperability / drop in replacement * Can use existing configuration(s) without rewriting * Can benefit from existing knowledge, training, expertise and documentation * Servic
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Elttam are a security firm who offer (among other things) pentesting - so they would usually be working privately with, say, a client's website. One wouldn't usually file a CVE in these circumstances, if only the client is affecte
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by zxcmx 6y ago
If I was forced to make a bet, I would guess fly ash. https://patents.google.com/patent/US10669205B2/en?oq=US10669... I think this is the patent, but they don't mention a "binder" per se. There are
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by zxcmx 6y ago
A more charitable approach would be to consider that bitcoin and "bug out bags" can be things you have for separate or related contingencies. We live in wonderfully complex societies and history shows us there are a lot of failure
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by zxcmx 6y ago
You can create debt in jurisdiction A collateralised with assets (even cash!) in jurisdiction B... potentially without any tax implications. I expect Apple can borrow money basically for free, so there's probably a bunch of financial-e
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Seems to me this is really not as strong as an income tax. The rich do not get their money selling hours to a company. It should be called a "well compensated worker tax".
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Maybe, although I've noticed that the group I'm in can influence my thinking and reactions. I think it's possible a group can form a sort of "exoself" and allow you to believe and perceive different things than you
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Their unique risk is "our remote access product broke (globally, or widespread) but we can't fix it because we don't have access anymore... because we use it too and it's broken". You can cut off your own arms prett
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by zxcmx 6y ago
The observation re: engineers who never set foot in a machine shop is actually a real problem in industry, and a common cause of antagonism between engineers and the victims of their designs and drawings: machinists and fabricators. There&#
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I think even if you reduced volume to 2012 levels its not going to make any practical difference. Like, 1 gram of pure fentanyl is on the order of 1000+ doses... You can profitably smurf it in anything .
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by zxcmx 6y ago
It coined the use of "stalker" to refer to a specific sort of post-apocalyptic profession, someone who is adept at navigating the waste left by some disaster or "forbidden" places. Dangers might be physical, radiological
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Machines provisioned by API were not mainstream in 2006, the "cheap" way to host was shared hosting, and dedicated / cpanel boxes were more common than VMs. Actually, pretty sure "vservers" were a big thing at the t
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by zxcmx 6y ago
They both want a planet. Musk wants to take over Mars. Bezos wants to take over Earth .

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