Ironchefpython

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by Ironchefpython 9y ago
Netflix was massively popular because the price was anchored against the price of cable. Americans were used to paying $100/mo or more for a collection of channels of which the majority were never watched. (because... ESPN? I never und
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by Ironchefpython 9y ago
> the problem turns out to be, people don't want to pay, not even that tiny amount. No, the problem is it didn't work with adblockers. I really want to pay for the content I read, I just am not willing to risk being outbid on
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by Ironchefpython 9y ago
> the websites I frequented the most frequently [...] still received only pennies. And what I don't understand is when I decide I want to subscribe to a newspaper, it's hundreds of dollars a year. They take pennies to serve m
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by Ironchefpython 9y ago
> Distribute industry content with DRM, distribute their own content without, and see what the results are. The industry content will show up on the Pirate Bay, and Netflix original content will show up on the Pirate Bay. Were you expect
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue. > Treason is the alternative? Correct. It is the rational and moral choice. Just as you must defy the orders of your superior officer if ordered t
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> This is too general (and likely obvious to a skilled practitioner) an idea to be patented. I think you mean that this is too obvious an idea to NOT have been patented.
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> I don't expect it will go that far at all. Surely a company will test the idea of having an AI give executive-level guidance, but when it does so, it will be hastily dismantled. No, the AI won't be in charge. It won't se
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> Sure, dramatically lower the corporate income tax rate and substantially reduce the massive over-regulation in the US economy. That's a great way to destroy the environment and increase corporate profits, but I was asking about ho
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> how did we go from a faulty code The code in the example isn't faulty. The goals are faulty in an non-obvious way, and drives the AI to optimize a solution to a fitness function in a way that humans might consider pathological beh
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> In the meantime, let's bring the manufacturing chain back here so we can build up the automation expertise ourselves How? There's obvious long term financial value in having local supply chains and manufacturing expertise. Th
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> metric-driven companies can go off the rails Any publicly traded corporation (save a small handful with a non-traditional governance model) are metric-driven companies. Modern corporations are paperclip maximizer functions executing on
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> How about a suggestion that can make both of use happy? We keep the FDA, they do everything the do now, only that other products can still be sold, but they need to have a reasonably BIG label on it, that they are not FDA approved. We
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> diamonds being "non-negotiable" seems like a huge, glowing, neon warning sign It's deeply ingrained in Western culture. Think about it like eating dogs. There's no rational reason not to use dogs for meat, but most
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
This basically glorifies being a white programmer in California. It's just going to push up rents as people give up on being a black salesman in Wisconsin or a latina nurse in Texas to move to California.
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> but a cursory Google of who you're talking to Right, there's more than one person on the planet with that name, and surely the actual inventor of the D language has better things to do with his time than go all Liberatard on
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
>> it's unusable (to the customers that buy a service contract) without a service contract > You're making quite a vast assumption that service contracts mean the software is unusable without them. Red Hat Linux is just o
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> selling service contracts, [...] The price is still $0 and there are still no regulations on it. I assume at this point that you're being paid to shill some political viewpoint on the internet, because you just explained that the
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> It is quite a remarkable coincidence that medical costs angled steeply upward immediately after heavy regulation and government involvement in it began. Regulation didn't give people more money to spend on medicine. Offshoring jo
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> In the software business, with pretty much zero regulations, competition has run the price literally to $0 for broad swaths of products. That's like saying that price competition is alive and well because banks will give you a fre
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> Medical costs started angling up steeply in the 1960s with the advent of heavy regulation Broadly, to a first approximation: Medical costs, real-estate, and education have increased in price to capture the consumer surplus created by t
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> You can view the high price as the free-market finding the intersection of supply and demand given the regulatory and legal constraints but that seems like a less than useful way of understanding 'free-market'. Stop using reg
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> The only sectors of the economy where significant, lasting shortages occur are the ones most heavily regulated. So you're saying that Petroleum Exporting Countries would never say... create an Organization intended to increase the
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> The price hikes would immediately attract lower-cost competitors if this were truly a free market. Any participants in a free market for a product with inelastic demand (e.g. something you need to stay alive) and non-trivial entry cost
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> how do people actually suggest securing exchange wallets? Why bother? It's much more profitable to pretend to secure the wallet, and then take the money and run.
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
If you outlaw gun emoji, only outlaws will have gun emoji.
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
Hypothetical question: Would you rather the city had to pay $22 million in damages, and take active steps to prevent their city police from engaging in kidnapping, assault, and false imprisonment? Or, would you rather the city paid only $22
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
That's an opinion that is perfectly valid for an individual to have. However, when you express this opinion in an expressly negative way, it makes it sound like you are attempting to invalidate the opinions of people who might hold con
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by Ironchefpython 10y ago
> Sets a bad precedent. Uh... you know they can already lock you in a cage for days or draw your blood or forcibly probe your anus, right? I think that it's a little too late for precedent.
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by Ironchefpython 11y ago
> Ironically UberEATS launched officially today. "If they cut off one head, two more shall take it's place"
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by Ironchefpython 11y ago
It's the "Anti-Pattern Tour", with "Inappropriate Metaphor" being joined on stage by the techno-rock band "Impedance Mismatch", followed by the soulful sounds of "Leaky Abstraction". "I hope

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