waveBidder

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by waveBidder 22d ago
ketone monitoring is pretty unusual
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by waveBidder 4mo ago
it's a specific claim, they want to set up the process to be so onerous that immigrants self-deport
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by waveBidder 1y ago
on the one hand, yes ecology and math bio is cool. On the other, the demographic transition does not fall out of these models whatsoever. Humans decided to do something very weird for whatever reason.
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by waveBidder 1y ago
aca di. implement a market, it's just that most people buy through their job, because if that's legal you obviously want to be part of a larger bargaining pool for buying.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Kids are extremely expensive when you have to raise them to 18 with no return. We should have social security, but for the young.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
reminds me of this article https://scholars-stage.org/uber-is-a-poor-replacement-for-ut...
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by waveBidder 2y ago
One example of market power abuse they engage in is requiring the price listed on their website to be the lowest offer that a merchant can list. You can't list a product on their page and then have a discount for that product on your o
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Hard to take calls for endorsing the free market seriously from someone so clearly trying to form a monopoly on online shopping.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
if no one has ever pointed you at Seeing like a State, it's about the political and economic implications of this fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State There's also Bit's About Money de
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by waveBidder 2y ago
> Perhaps the rigor that Medtronic and similar device companies are subjected to would apply, but I'm not sure those regulations cover information security and privacy. As someone on an insulin pump they do. Iirc they have reps show
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Good thing the US doesn't have an administration that will happily criminalize any opposition
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by waveBidder 2y ago
I've seen a pretty massive uptick in usage among my non-techie friends in the past couple of months.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Kind of orthogonal to the point. It isn't a planned city in the same way that Paris is a planned city. Also, most of the worst parts of American development have happened since 1945.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Tokyo is an example of incrementalism making a beautiful resilient city, while still maintaining safety standards.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
USAid has been abolished
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by waveBidder 2y ago
the Congress. the president doesn't have the authority to unilaterally shut down entire departments
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by waveBidder 2y ago
like, treatments of it I've seen are explicitly discussed in that context? It's also described as Pascal's mugging.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
the term you're looking for is pascal's mugging, and it originates from within rationalism
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by waveBidder 2y ago
I can't help but wonder what fraction of this is import tariffs on Taiwan. Also the initial drop, can't help but wonder if someone leaked that info to some private traders.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
> Although to be honest all this aggressive scraping is noticeable but for people who understand that which is not majority of people. When you say noticeable, do you mean in like, traffic statistics? Or in what the model knows that it
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by waveBidder 2y ago
I'm hoping a result of this shitshow is a curtailing the power of the executive. We've been slow-walking our way towards this by congress abrogating their responsibility under both parties. Probably requires actual restructuring o
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by waveBidder 2y ago
might work for say post the 1800's in literate countries, but for e.g. Rome our sources are so sparse and so far removed from the time they're writing about that it would be worse than nothing.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
honestly less terrible than I was expecting
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Just be careful or you might make a Kugelblitz
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by waveBidder 2y ago
This is mostly a probability nitpick: Most disasters follow power laws and other fat tail which don't have the same effects in the tail as a Gaussian. If you shift 1/x^a by c, you "only" get a polynomial increase. But al
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by waveBidder 2y ago
You put the sign far enough outside the zone, you wear ppe, and you decontaminate afterwards.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
China has a no first strike policy for now, so yes. Doesn't mean we'd have a good time though.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
You don't oppose someone recklessly gambling mass death by recklessly gambling mass death yourself, you just call their bluffs and maintain clear no-go lines.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Well, if there's no snow they have no business model (or more realistically shorter seasons), so they have a pretty strong case for caring.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
The nice thing about being a massive market like the US is that you can impose regulations that producers in other countries need to follow to be able to participate in the market. It does make enforcement harder, but as long as you have th

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