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mandelbrotwurst
·8 months ago·discuss
Why would the fact that it failed to follow one instruction increase the likelihood that it failed to follow others within the same response?
mandelbrotwurst
·11 months ago·discuss
Those conversations are an important part of the job. You can, for example, agree that something works in the sense that it is currently possible to use it to obtain a desired output, while simultaneously failing to work in various ways: It might fail to do so reliably, or it might only be able to do so at great cost.
mandelbrotwurst
·5 years ago·discuss
Out of curiosity, where are you located?
mandelbrotwurst
·5 years ago·discuss
Was he actually doing nothing?
mandelbrotwurst
·6 years ago·discuss
Yeah, that's exactly much what I was thinking, that when you take a look at their activities, it's clear that the definition of what's considered political here is fairly narrow.

Re: your hypothesis, after learning about 501c4s from Jeff in this thread and reading about for 10 seconds on Wikipedia, it seems that those actually serve that purpose quite well ("super PACs" are apparently 501c4), so I don't think the 501c3s are highly likely to get used in that way.
mandelbrotwurst
·6 years ago·discuss
Oh, interesting, thanks. The only one I verified before posting was EFF, and I hadn't heard of a 501c4 previously.
mandelbrotwurst
·6 years ago·discuss
Coinbase is far from unregulated, they're subject to and enforce the same KYC rules that banks do, go ahead and try to buy some BTC there anonymously and see how far you get.
mandelbrotwurst
·6 years ago·discuss
Wait, really? Dont many (most?) 501c3s have highly political missions? E.g. EFF, ACLU, NRA?
mandelbrotwurst
·6 years ago·discuss
I think about this in terms of how much clock time has elapsed versus how much working time I spend on something - i.e. I am very often able to trade an increase in clock time elapsed (taking more breaks) for a decrease in working time, and vice versa.

As with most things, this comes with diminishing returns as you push toward minimizing one over the other.

Sometimes, even negative returns, e.g. because of increased context switching costs, or confusion and general malaise caused by staring at something for too long.
mandelbrotwurst
·6 years ago·discuss
When you've invested that much into something you're not very likely to suddenly decide to make that sort of strategic blunder for giggles.
mandelbrotwurst
·6 years ago·discuss
Wow, that does sound great! Are they doing that in store only (like separate bins?), online, or both?
mandelbrotwurst
·7 years ago·discuss
Makes sense. I suppose no need trying to quantify more specifically if we're nowhere near that line.
mandelbrotwurst
·7 years ago·discuss
Yeah, that came to mind for me as well / seems like a pretty serious drawback to say the least.
mandelbrotwurst
·7 years ago·discuss
Thanks!
mandelbrotwurst
·7 years ago·discuss
Thanks, sorry, misread. Was asking because am curious about how the deaths break down overall as this would affect what we might want to focus on when attempting to reduce them.
mandelbrotwurst
·7 years ago·discuss
@Causalityl , @jranmer - question for both of you (or whoever) - at what rate of death if any would it become appropriate to do these types of drills and why?
mandelbrotwurst
·7 years ago·discuss
Do you know what the composition of the other 98% looks like? i.e. accidental firings at home, murders, suicides, etc?
mandelbrotwurst
·7 years ago·discuss
Agree with your general point, but:

1. There were children born before you with frightened helicopter parents and there will be children born tomorrow who grow up with more freedom than you did. Generational experience is not homogenous.

2. Current trends do not set our future paths into stone, and it is possible that we will be able to plant seeds to move things in freer, saner directions going forward.