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by pahkah 14d ago
One tragedy of this is that I stop reading when things don't make sense. There are a few connections in the article that seem tenuous. In the past I might have thought through it, considered the situation, and realized that the author
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by pahkah 5mo ago
Oh I don't know — I travel the Boston-DC route a lot and fly only because it's significantly cheaper than taking the train. If prices were comparable I would take the train even without it being "high speed", I think the
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by pahkah 7mo ago
I think there are two different definitions of "significant information" at play here. I interpreted the GP comment to mean "information about the thing being advertised". The point of the flyer is that you need to get t
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by pahkah 11mo ago
As someone who's interested in all this, I agree it would be nice to have more precision around capacity. Especially as it relates to longer term storage. But! In this context, output is more salient than capacity. You'll see a lo
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by pahkah 1y ago
And as you're implying, this action began under the "Biden-Harris FTC": https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/06/...
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by pahkah 1y ago
This seems like a case of tunnel vision and confirmation bias, the nasty combo that sycophantic LLMs make easy to fall prey to. Someone gets an idea, asks about it, and the LLM doesn’t ask about the context or say that doesn’t make sense, i
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by pahkah 1y ago
This particular bribe was reported on over a year ago, when Trump was raising money from oil execs for his campaign. It seems likely that the overall push against clean energy (pushing for dispatchable generation, canceling tax credits for
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by pahkah 2y ago
Yep, the path for this official recognition was cleared by the executive order two years ago that allowed for hearing aids to be sold over the counter!
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by pahkah 2y ago
At the very least, spinning off individual businesses prevents self-preferencing. Google can right now leverage its dominance in one area to increase market share in another. For example, if I load my GMail account in a browser other than C
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by pahkah 2y ago
I appreciate the point, but the numbers there are the proportion of revenue, not the percentage of revenue, so they're off by a factor of 100.
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by pahkah 3y ago
> Whenever I want to buy anything, I check Amazon first. 9 times out of 10 it's the same price as every other retailer with the added benefit of free shipping and free returns. That's the problem! The issue is that Amazon force
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by pahkah 3y ago
> No surprises here. Come what may, Amazon has always strived to lower costs Maybe it's just a goal to reduce costs, but it seems likely that this is a response to Google's introduction of AlloyDB, a Postgres-compatible databas
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by pahkah 4y ago
I think you missed why I am failing to understand this one. The full context there is: > If I earn a dollar and don't spend it, it results in a lower GDP than if I spent it. Thus income can not be treated as equivalent to GDP. It&#x
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by pahkah 7y ago
At first I read > The similar sequence that chooses the largest instead of smallest prime that divides 1 plus the product of the previous terms avoids an infinite number of primes. as saying that it avoids having an infinite number of pr
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by pahkah 8y ago
I think that timeline is backwards -- before 2015 there were net neutrality rules in place but then were struck down in the courts because ISPs were not subject to Title 2. So in 2015 they were reclassified as Title 2 in order to make net n
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by pahkah 8y ago
Thanks for the link! I don't think the rebuttal makes a fair characterization of Stewart's article. Slate's argument comes down to "Stewart is taking his eyes off the prize, asking us to focus on the 9.9% when the 1% are