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by chmod600 2y ago
How are these kinds of self-reinforcing systems usually brought down? I doubt some shifts in the opinions of normal people are going to stop the elite flywheel -- there's just not enough connection between a machinist in Ohio or a nurs
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by chmod600 2y ago
You seem to be suggesting that Congress making law is intruding on the power of an agency to make Administrative law? The latter is not (supposed to be) an actual branch of government. Congress has full power to rewrite all the administrati
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by chmod600 2y ago
Idea: let's make it so all emergency powers have to be re-authorized every week by Congress at midnight on Friday with a 90% quorum of physically-present representatives. If "emergency" action is needed because Congress is to
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by chmod600 2y ago
"These reforms include currency devaluation..." How does that reduce inflation and cause a surge in bond prices?
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by chmod600 2y ago
Sometimes hard choices need to be made. What's your alternative proposal?
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by chmod600 2y ago
"This ends up being self-fulfilling." Perhaps. But once the expertise is lost, you can't get it back by throwing more money at the problem. You have incompetent people hiring people who check all the right boxes but still can
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by chmod600 2y ago
"no political will in the US to build publicly-owned transport" There's little faith that public projects have the expertise to actually get it done and make it work. It's hard for me to imagine the federal government su
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by chmod600 2y ago
Are the adaptations healthier?
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by chmod600 2y ago
Maybe some kind of smart network could only allow 911 calls through, and no data? If phones in schools really are bad for kids, it seems like we could probably sort out some of these objections?
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by chmod600 2y ago
Maybe a dumb idea, but can schools use jamming or shielding?
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by chmod600 2y ago
But the article is about burnout. Surely that can't be great for existing doctors, either?
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by chmod600 3y ago
Renters might be an interesting case. Though in the long term charging at home will be available for renters, too.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Yeah, I've always found that particular argument unconvincing. If road usage grows, that means more people are benefiting, right? There are some fundamental problems with cars crowding out alternatives (either due to cost or space). B
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by chmod600 3y ago
An AI should be helpful to the user, unless it's a horrible question, in which case just don't answer. Bring in whatever values you want along the way. If you ask your aunt or uncle a question, they will answer helpfully and maybe
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by chmod600 3y ago
What was the blunder? EDIT: had to follow a link and read halfway down to find: > When asked for a “historically accurate depiction of a medieval British king,” the model generated another racially diverse set of images, including one of
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by chmod600 3y ago
In a weird sense smart bombs might be considered construction, in much the same way as a carefully-controlled chisel creates a statue rather than destroying a rock. I'm not making a moral equivalence here -- please don't construe
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by chmod600 3y ago
I think the point was that code is not inherently limited in the same way as other kinds of engineering. If you tell someone to engineer you the arm for positioning a desk lamp, they aren't going to give you the hydraulic arm for a 12-
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by chmod600 3y ago
"All of this makes the future of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles in the United States even more uncertain." I disagree. This news makes the future of hydrogen cars much more certain, just not in the direction some people may hope.
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by chmod600 3y ago
And, crucially, you'd generally be around to help fix the website.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Not an expert, but it seems to me that sarcasm is a kind of universal negativity that can be applied to pretty much anything. It's also incredibly vague and ambiguous about whether anything better exists or could exist. For instance, l
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by chmod600 3y ago
"It’s more accurate to say that happiness is akin to calmness or contentment, the lack of strong emotions." I'm not sure where you got that definition?
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by chmod600 3y ago
We really need a concept of scale when it comes to branding a chemical "toxic". Small amounts for particular purposes are not harmful. Being everywhere may cause some problems.
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by chmod600 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_... TIL that car fatalities were declining until 2019, and then reversed and are getting worse. What happened in the last five years? Safety features of the c
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by chmod600 3y ago
That leaves the question of why they pay 2x more, then? Maybe fewer road incidents, reducing liability? Like, maybe people who can provide for and spend time with their family have 11.3% fewer crashes? (Edit: number was made up, hypothesis
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by chmod600 3y ago
"We have no idea where Venus will be exactly [ten] million years from today." I'm trying to figure out what this is supposed to mean. Of course we don't know exactly, but also of course we have some idea. Like, could V
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by chmod600 3y ago
We must have some idea where the planets were back in the time of dinosaurs. I mean, Earth was still approximately the same distance from the Sun, and presumably still #3 right?
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by chmod600 3y ago
It will seem overdone when it's solved, like Y2K. But only because people actually did the work and had the ideas.
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by chmod600 3y ago
This is a reminder to me how deceptive projections are. We were so sure before that we'd run out of economically-available oil on the planet soon. The numbers felt irrefutable. Now that point seems far away. This is not a comment on wh
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by chmod600 3y ago
Maybe there should be a rule along the lines of "if there are bolts laying around someplace, and there is no record for them, start re-inspecting until you're damn sure where they came from".
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by chmod600 3y ago
"the value of house should not rise faster than inflation, at least not by some significant margin" What does "should" even mean here?

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