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waveBidder
·2 месяца назад·discuss
it's a specific claim, they want to set up the process to be so onerous that immigrants self-deport
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
on the one hand, yes ecology and math bio is cool. On the other, the demographic transition does not fall out of these models whatsoever. Humans decided to do something very weird for whatever reason.
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
aca di. implement a market, it's just that most people buy through their job, because if that's legal you obviously want to be part of a larger bargaining pool for buying.
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
Kids are extremely expensive when you have to raise them to 18 with no return. We should have social security, but for the young.
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
reminds me of this article https://scholars-stage.org/uber-is-a-poor-replacement-for-ut...
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
One example of market power abuse they engage in is requiring the price listed on their website to be the lowest offer that a merchant can list. You can't list a product on their page and then have a discount for that product on your own page.
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
Hard to take calls for endorsing the free market seriously from someone so clearly trying to form a monopoly on online shopping.
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
if no one has ever pointed you at Seeing like a State, it's about the political and economic implications of this fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State

There's also Bit's About Money describing this effect in banks https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
> Perhaps the rigor that Medtronic and similar device companies are subjected to would apply, but I'm not sure those regulations cover information security and privacy.

As someone on an insulin pump they do. Iirc they have reps showing up at hacker conferences looking for red teams.

Definitely agree with your worries generally though.
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
Good thing the US doesn't have an administration that will happily criminalize any opposition
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
I've seen a pretty massive uptick in usage among my non-techie friends in the past couple of months.
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
Kind of orthogonal to the point. It isn't a planned city in the same way that Paris is a planned city.

Also, most of the worst parts of American development have happened since 1945.
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
Tokyo is an example of incrementalism making a beautiful resilient city, while still maintaining safety standards.
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
USAid has been abolished
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
the Congress. the president doesn't have the authority to unilaterally shut down entire departments
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
like, treatments of it I've seen are explicitly discussed in that context? It's also described as Pascal's mugging.
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
the term you're looking for is pascal's mugging, and it originates from within rationalism
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
I can't help but wonder what fraction of this is import tariffs on Taiwan. Also the initial drop, can't help but wonder if someone leaked that info to some private traders.
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
> Although to be honest all this aggressive scraping is noticeable but for people who understand that which is not majority of people.

When you say noticeable, do you mean in like, traffic statistics? Or in what the model knows that it clearly shouldn't if it wasn't trained in legally dubious ways?
waveBidder
·в прошлом году·discuss
I'm hoping a result of this shitshow is a curtailing the power of the executive. We've been slow-walking our way towards this by congress abrogating their responsibility under both parties. Probably requires actual restructuring of congressional elections and seniority systems though, which is... well going to be hard.