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by baddox 6y ago
I think the suggestion is that states shouldn’t get to decide how to act depending on whether they would “harm themselves,” but rather that the people should get to decide.
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by baddox 6y ago
I think that's less of a huge difference when a small number of platforms dominate online media and aggressively use algorithms to determine or strongly influence what content people see. Yes, you can still absolutely find beautiful ni
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by baddox 6y ago
The point is that the models and their accompanying scientific descriptions provide explanatory power that is a valid source of knowledge even though it is not empirical (empiricism is a false epistemology, but that's a topic for a
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by baddox 6y ago
You obviously have to balance the legitimate cost against the illegitimate costs people will incur to get kids admitted. I don't know if 3x or 10x is the right value, but it's definitely not "more is better." If you make
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by baddox 6y ago
What about, for instance, all the successful engineering that is driven by models of complex systems? We don't understand bridge dynamics at an atomic level, we have complex models that require a lot of specialized education to create,
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by baddox 6y ago
> It trumps favoritism, empire building, and intra-office rivalries. Does it? I associate those things very strongly with endeavors that are primarily concerned with making money.
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by baddox 6y ago
So your argument is as follows: 1. People didn’t mind meeting with travel agencies. 2. Actually people hated meeting with travel agencies. Never mind number 1. 3. Automatic head scratchers are a waste of time. 4. Therefore online travel web
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t really see it as an indictment that we don’t yet have a short list of things from science fiction. The reason authors wrote about those things is because the are so beyond our technological capabilities—that’s why they make for inte
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by baddox 6y ago
> They got dozens of servers with patient data hacked and encrypted and had to shutdown their intensive care and reroute patients elsewhere. > What do you think? I don't understand why this apparently seems so obvious to you. I t
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by baddox 6y ago
It's pretty easy to establish the malware attackers' responsibility. But the extent of the hospital's responsibility is much harder to establish, especially across all types of potential attacks. Basically, it's not easy
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by baddox 6y ago
I agree that Apple lets too much crap into the App Store. But to be clear, that’s not an argument in defense of Epic. On the contrary, I think Apple should be much much more restrictive in what third-party apps they allow on iPhones.
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by baddox 6y ago
Why do you suppose that? Surely there are many many more customers who can afford cheaper individual/student licenses.
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by baddox 6y ago
But that’s not the full analogy. The full analogy would be that the government left oil barrels around the whole state, and you went around the state starting hundreds of small fires, and if you had not done that, there would still have bee
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by baddox 6y ago
It’s probably a very rare combination of specific factors that caused this bug for this person. My iPhone alarm had no problems whatsoever this morning after installing iOS 14 last night. Your comment would be more applicable if we had reas
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by baddox 6y ago
It’s not awful at all. I installed it yesterday on my iPhone X and I’ve had no problems. I also have the exact same alarm setup and my alarm worked fine. It’s unrealistic to expect there to be literally zero bugs for zero people, and of cou
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by baddox 6y ago
Costco is a wholesale warehouse. They're selling things in bulk, which isn't exactly the same thing as "large portion sizes."
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by baddox 6y ago
I mean, you have to be more careful when you’re in a more dangerous area. If you live on a remote farm you can hit golf balls from your back porch. If you live in a suburb, not so much. Is this unfair?
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by baddox 6y ago
If Apple had a dominant market position in smartphones then one could argue that end customers don't have much of a choice, but Apple only has at most 50% market share in the US and much lower globally. For my own smartphone usage I wo
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by baddox 6y ago
That sounds like a great reason to not let every trashy website in the world to spam them asking if they want to enable notifications.
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by baddox 6y ago
Reasonable people can disagree about which features are and are not useful. And those reasonable people can purchase smartphones and computers which best cater to their own views about these features.
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by baddox 6y ago
Yes, absolutely! Just like I'd rather pay for Apple Arcade so that I don't have to wade through the sewage of free-to-play games clicking "no" on in-app purchase requests and hiding spammy notifications. Just like I&#x27
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by baddox 6y ago
Would you say the same thing for a chauffeur or truck driver who killed someone because they were using their phone while driving?
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by baddox 6y ago
Regular old small RC planes can do a heck of a lot more than 30 minutes. Also, the Spot only has 90 minutes of battery life.
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by baddox 6y ago
This whole idea kinda loops back on itself and I wonder if wanting to donate your wealth in order to achieve “higher rungs” isn’t itself a perverse incentive than a rung system ought to penalize!
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by baddox 6y ago
How do you define and determine whether a consumer "chose on price" or "chose on safety features"? Surely consumers consider both the price and the desirable features when they purchase a car, just like for every other p
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by baddox 6y ago
I acknowledge inefficiencies in the system but I also suspect that grand juries usually consider the most basic relevant facts of the case.
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by baddox 6y ago
This isn't new though, is it? Surely there is a history of cases where the driver could have avoided the accident and changes in the features and manufacture of the automobile could also have avoided the accident.
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by baddox 6y ago
That is, presumably, something that the grand jury considered.
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by baddox 6y ago
The queue stuff is mind-bogglingly broken. Sometimes, if I have old stuff in my queue, whenever I instruct Spotify to start playing a new album or playlist, it will play only the first new song, then will skip to the old queue. This doesn’t
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by baddox 6y ago
But songs must be individually liked in order to show up in “liked songs.” If you press the heart icon on an album, that album will only show up under Your Library > Albums. There is, as far as I can tell, absolutely no interface to see

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