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by datadata 4y ago
The title seems inaccurate. The system reports only once an earthquake has begun, it is not predicting an earthquake before it happens. Since the earthquake takes time to propagate, this can give warning ahead of time for those sufficiently
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by datadata 4y ago
Even if that were still true, the notion of real growth depends on correctly calculating inflation. That calculation has changed over the years, and is fairly subjective.
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by datadata 4y ago
It takes courage to follow the law
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by datadata 4y ago
I'm not sure why people continue to take what the fed says as being accurate predictions of the future. For example, they said in 2021 that they expected interest rates would be zero until 2024 [1]. They obviously have a lot of real po
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by datadata 4y ago
The issue is that the definition of a recession is vague, subjective, and as a term has become so politically important. If the definition was objective, verifiable, etc, then there wouldn't be room for the idea of political manipulati
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by datadata 4y ago
Sorry, I said that backwards. Economic growth is necessary (at least in the capitalist system we are in). We need things to succeed to deliver economic growth. At a certain point large sacrifices will be made to ensure the success of a new
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by datadata 4y ago
I think you only need to track financial transactions, advertising companies would have to report and be taxed on income. The government has shown moderate competence at being able to implement things like this (maybe there are some areas w
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by datadata 4y ago
It wouldn't be the time humans have willingly created massive problems in order for an emerging technology that is necessary for economic growth to become successful.
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by datadata 4y ago
Some externalities of smoking for non-smokers include increases in health care coverage costs, reduced access to health resources, and loss of loved ones to smoking related health issues.
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by datadata 4y ago
It could quite honestly depend on exactly where you live, maybe it is already a good idea. Maybe your neighborhood is plagued by cars and pedestrian hostile design, and you don't have time to travel. Maybe it is the middle of a blizzar
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by datadata 4y ago
So are you OK with a sin tax if it is on something with a negative externality? Do you think advertising does not have any negative externalities?
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by datadata 4y ago
I'm sorry, but have we ever left "those days"? There are dozens of examples of sin taxes on things like Cigarettes, Gambling, Alcohol, Carbon Emissions, etc.
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by datadata 4y ago
The game theory of firms choosing to advertise seems to be prisoner's dilemma like. The only equilibrium is for both firms to advertise at a loss. If either firm stops advertising, the other firm's ads become more effective and it
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by datadata 4y ago
What exactly is the "agreement" here? Consider this parallel: Every time commercials come on the TV, I turn off the TV. Am I in breach of an agreement with the TV station to consume the ad? Why is that different than using an ad b
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by datadata 4y ago
You could do this: Restaurants would be eligible for a tax credit against earnings if they can show themselves to be accessible. The tax credit part would hopefully prevent abuse by businesses, and also make it so that only restaurants that
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by datadata 4y ago
Dynamic pricing isn't the issue here, the issue is that the extra profits generated by dynamic pricing are going to ticketmaster rather than to artists. If artists took home the extra profits, there would be more incentive for the mark
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by datadata 4y ago
How is that an example of AI replacing management? The AI might determine what to invest in and thus who the owners of a company are, but humans still need to make decisions for the company.
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by datadata 4y ago
This feels like stereotyping people associated with an idea. There are people trying to build something useful in crypto, and other people just trying to get rich, and maybe some doing both. You can have two things happening at once, and ca
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by datadata 4y ago
> To mine bitcoin you need to buy an asic, which is a single purpose physical good with at most two original maker (fabs). It needs to be physically received. This single distribution is trivial to track by the authorities and makes bitc
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by datadata 4y ago
They did. The primary solution to this is decentralization. The more people holding up a project, the greater effort a government must exert to stop it.
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by datadata 4y ago
Literally this is about research to figure out more about how to control these things. It isn't a plan to ignorantly execute the actual idea. If you are correct, the research should enable us to be informed and NOT build this out. Yo
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by datadata 4y ago
I would not assume wasted metal in manufacturing. These metals are all readily recyclable-- Especially at such a large scale in manufacturing and for a company that claims to want to reduce environmental impact.
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by datadata 4y ago
That seems high a really high amount of claimed saved metals. 2.2 billion iPhones have been sold ever globally, that is nearly one pound of metal per phone. I think these chargers weigh around 5oz, and that is not entirely metal. But here
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by datadata 4y ago
My guess is that some newer exception handling system itself had a bug, and the issue that caused this ride to be excalated might have been completely unrelated. For example, some unrelated bug causes data loss about the ride destination. T
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by datadata 4y ago
I don't think it is the designer's fault, it is the fault of data driven culture done poorly and picking the wrong incentives. In your example, if the dialog is say for a system upgrade, the metric would be percentage of users fin
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by datadata 4y ago
What is the proposed "next war" for FSF? Right now they are anchoring the Overton window, this still seems pretty important.
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by datadata 4y ago
Not that they need any sympathy, but it seems unjust towards apple to be targeting a specific product from a specific company, rather than say a blanket ban (no device that will transmit Bluetooth). I wonder if this will boost the market fo
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by datadata 4y ago
I would argue that a system claiming to have recourse that doesn't actually work (taking this article for its word), is slightly worse than a system without recourse that explicitly states there is not recourse. People will be much mor
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by datadata 4y ago
I think a reasonable strategy would be to pick a target less able to defend itself, in order to more easily win and set a precedent to prepare for a second attack against a bigger target.
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by datadata 4y ago
I think pedagogical goal is exactly to prevent the act of blindly trusting any source, regardless of source quality. Trust fails without verification, so the idea of a blindly trusted source is self defeating.

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