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by yxwvut 4mo ago
More of a "Bitcoin-Backed Protection Racket", presumably?
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by yxwvut 8mo ago
And from the study linked, that framing/suggestion would be incorrect (at least for the numbers given). "the 12% are not the same every day" is an accurate interpretation. They asked about what people ate _yesterday_...
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by yxwvut 1y ago
He’s right though - indifference to corruption or malfeasance begets corruption and malfeasance. Holding your government and companies to a higher standard of behavior is both possible and necessary for a functional, durable nation. Sure, y
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'Save This Life' pet microchip company ceases operations, unlinks registry(cbsnews.com)
2 points by yxwvut 2y ago|0 comments
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by yxwvut 2y ago
The world must be so tidy for you. Who needs actual science when we have your facile hunches?
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by yxwvut 2y ago
Well put. Whoever asked this question is undoubtedly a nightmare to work with. Your data is the engine that drives your business and its margin improvements, so why hamstring yourself with a 'clever' cost saving but ultimately unw
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by yxwvut 2y ago
I'd go further to say that rules without any verification aren't really rules. You don't make a rule without the suspicion that it'd be more efficient to break them, and if you're not verifying their adherence to th
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by yxwvut 2y ago
The total pie has absolutely grown. There were a little under 1 billion US album sales in 2000 (the peak of CDs). Spotify alone paid around $3.5B in royalties in the US last year (with similar #s for apple music and a bit less for YT music)
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by yxwvut 2y ago
I think it's worth distinguishing that 'most creators get paid a pittance' is only true on a per-view basis. The total outflows to creators is higher, but the total viewership is massively increased due to the leftward shift
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by yxwvut 3y ago
I think the broader point is that improving societal utility is rarely the north star of a startup, not that every business needs to last a century.
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by yxwvut 3y ago
You get the climate apocalypse you deserve
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by yxwvut 3y ago
The point to my post was that there's no dissent allowed from the party line of 'this is definitely kosher'. If you thought the agency was overreaching in its interpretation, you better keep that to yourself, because it was a
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by yxwvut 3y ago
Well, I left for exactly that reason. I imagine those who stayed took an 'ends justify the means' stance that I couldn't abide. The organizations themselves are insatiable - there's no way that, left to their own devices
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by yxwvut 3y ago
When I worked at a certain three-letter-agency, much of the annual legal training amounted to "Here's our incredibly tortuous interpretation of every relevant term in the letter of the law. Don't like it? There's the doo
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by yxwvut 3y ago
My point is that vouchers distort demand elasticity, just like unchecked student loans, employer-provided health insurance, low mortgage rates, etc distort their respective markets. The fact that costs (not even prices) may be low at presen
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by yxwvut 3y ago
What's your solution to stop runaway education costs in this 'voucher first' world? It's not exactly going well in secondary education.
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by yxwvut 3y ago
Why not make Reddit itself a paid service by that logic? This whole 'Oh we need to make strides toward profitability blah blah' corporate spiel is such bullshit when they could snap their fingers and become profitable overnight by
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by yxwvut 3y ago
This unassailable conviction that everything can always be chalked up to "more diagnosis" for every mental health trend is a thought terminating cliche. What can't be explained away by "oh, it's because diagnosis is
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by yxwvut 4y ago
As they should be. I'm afraid of what Tesla's marketed as 'autonomous' and the precedent their ability to get away with it sets for the day we hand over a greater deal of trust to these systems. Who needs regulation when
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by yxwvut 4y ago
I feel like this is particularly bad for python Q+A on SO. At least it's not as bad as Quora where the top answer is invariably a grandiose answer to a different question than was asked or an excuse for some bullshit 'heartwarming
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by yxwvut 4y ago
Buying senators is surprisingly cheap. This is why I think there's a huge untapped market for democratized/crowdfunded lobbying. I also think that democratization would expedite its demise, which is the end game that would benefit
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by yxwvut 4y ago
They're saying that your business practice of upfront list pricing should be the norm elsewhere. This series of comments is a critique of other businesses, comparing their 'contact us for pricing info' opacity unfavorably to
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Ask HN: Assessing the Novelty of Generative AI Systems?
2 points by yxwvut 4y ago|0 comments
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by yxwvut 4y ago
Existence and prevalence are not the same thing. Perhaps the title should replace “not eaten” with “not commonly eaten” for maximum accuracy but that doesn’t make it a myth. I’m sure I could find an American restaurant serving squirrel, but
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by yxwvut 4y ago
Even in things like applied math, it's pretty arbitrary which assumptions and formulations become standardized when tackling similar problems (and it usually comes down to the effects of prestige on your network/ 'reach'
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by yxwvut 4y ago
Just wanted to comment in agreement and confirm that this exact scenario drives me insane. Adding more information that agrees with the existing top suggestion should never change that top suggestion.
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by yxwvut 4y ago
I'm 99% sure that it originated in climbing - it's been a term since the 80s at least (short for ascend - to 'send' a climbing route is to climb it successfully without falling or weighting the rope). Outside climbing I
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by yxwvut 4y ago
Computational efficiency is a major consideration in sampling from a high dimensional distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejection_sampling#Drawbacks
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Tell HN: Beware Google Flight's 'Book with Google' Option
3 points by yxwvut 4y ago|0 comments
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by yxwvut 4y ago
The point is that it only takes an arbitrarily small probability for an infinite cost event to have an infinite Expected Value if you prevent it (and an infinite ROI if you even marginally improve the probability of prevention), so all of t

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