tastygreenapple

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by tastygreenapple 5y ago
Nah, the progressive DAs are really reluctant to prosecute property crime, this discourages the police from making a case for prosecution. I know a filmmaker in Oakland who had thousands of dollars of electronics stolen from their car (and
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by tastygreenapple 6y ago
It's not cancel culture when you opt out of something, it's cancel culture when you decide for others that that they can't do something. Throwing these books away isn't cancel culture. Telling other people they can'
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by tastygreenapple 6y ago
There's a huge hidden cost to price controls through - they don't promote innovation as much as markets do. The US develops over half the world's new pharmaceuticals, if we imposed price controls today, we would have fewer li
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by tastygreenapple 6y ago
I don't think there are batteries that meet Toyota's durability standards. Toyota wants their cars to be able to last a million miles in extreme environments (-40 degrees Alaska, +120 degrees F deserts). You can't do that wit
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by tastygreenapple 6y ago
It seems trivial to verify the authenticity of 100 votes of known people, with a roster that changes by a maximum of 1/3rd every 2 years.
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by tastygreenapple 6y ago
Deflation isn't horrible unless you have a lot of debt, it rewards savers. It's probably less efficient for central banks to try to 'hack' inflation than just deploy fiscal policy. And we're almost definitely seeing
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by tastygreenapple 6y ago
The demand fell, supply went up dramatically and there's a new equilibrium. Very few advertisers are actually in a true "prisoner's dilemma" in the sense that they're fighting tooth and nail in the same market as an
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by tastygreenapple 6y ago
What's the dissonance? By granting the public the rights to use more spectrum, one can imagine greater adoption and usage of the spectrum.
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Very few people buying premium cars buy them exclusively for themselves.
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
You're probably putting too much explanatory power in 'electric' vs 'gas'. I'll speculate that things are failing on your Audi because it's an Audi, not because its gas powered. Go find someone driving a 1
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
We had EVs over 100 years ago and folks already knew the advantages of electric power over fossil fuel power. However, batteries have been the limiting factor for awhile. Even now, only Tesla seems to have batteries that meet consumers powe
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Well let's think through a conventional truck frame. It's maybe 800-1200 lbs, uses 3-8 different materials, and has 100-200 fastening points and all those materials probably cost nearly as much as stainless steel. And remember, th
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Don't you think workplace marginalization would cut the other way? If you have 250 people angry enough about this to leak to the press, imagine what they'd do to their fellow employees who oppose them.
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Consider the absence of evidence - name a single person affiliated with the NBA who publicly supported the censured guy or Hong Kongers
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
I just got this from googling, it seems less crack pot-y than I imagined: https://phys.org/news/2013-07-chimp-pig-hybrid-humans.html
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
tl;dr - Butthurt muslim feelings about other people treating Muslims 1% as bad as muslims treat non-muslims.
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
I'm a data scientist and this is an incredibly embarrassing 'n00b' error to make. If these researchers were using anything other than deep learning, it's almost certain that each parameter of the model was manually selec
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Maybe things would be better if people paid for their own health care? Having workers pay for their own healthcare along with the healthcare of those who are unwilling/unable to work just means that things are going to be expensive for
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
what about "environmental review"?
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Of course colleges want students from wealthy families. There's a reason Marx noticed class warfare, class is the primordial hierarchy. However, among the fraction of the class that's accepted for reasons other than wealth, it see
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
If GM were grateful for their bailout, how many employees would they have in detroit?
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
I'd be more impressed with the folks on that list if they managed global trade in such a way that it didn't give us Trump, Brexit, and resurgent nationalism.
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
but none of these features are new, child seperation and children dying in ICE facilities happened under the Obama administration and it wasn't a big deal then. What changed?
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
It's a shame that Tesla has build quality issues, but it's rich that a car company in a country known for making expensive cars with defective designs is panning a foreign automaker for quality issues.
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
> I lost count of the number of times that, say, some engineer 3 years out of college couldn't afford a 5 bedroom house in Palo Alto for them, their partner and their dog and how they were underpaid and this was unfair and a problem
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Definitely not crazy, and the engines are getting larger. The 737 MAX issues stem the packaging issues of putting larger engines on an airframe that wasn't really designed for them. The largest commercial jet engines are actually about
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
In SR-71 Revealed, a book written by an SR-71 pilot and squadron commander, the author addressed this and to the best of his knowledge, the USAF and Lockheed both don't know the true top speed of the SR-71. (Doing this from memory so I
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Rarely, but if the union official gets to chose between more people paying dues and fewer people paying dues, which are they going to pick? We know that Unions don't oppose salary caps, but they oppose differentials in compensation bas
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
In America, it's probably more accurate to blame government labor unions for the preference of more lower skilled workers to fewer higher skilled workers
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Well, let's look at Google's ethics here - they still run ads on demonetized videos, right? So Google is okay making money off that, they just don't want the creator to make money off demonetized videos.

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