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Nice army of straw men. You're trying to redefine literally existing in public as recklessness. Self-centered? The people demanding the nonvaccinated cease existing in society beca…

It's not deadly to the vaccinated. That's the whole point of the vaccines. Or are you arguing that the vaccines don't work?

No, once everyone who wants it is vaccinated, their health is their problem not mine. If anyone is still scared of unvaccinated people, they can keep themselves at home forever, th…

Nuclear is more expensive per KWH basically entirely because of the regulatory environment. Not because of anything physical about the method or its fuel; it's not more expensive i…

> Or maybe they just recognize that their AI is causing more harm than good. Google recognizes that these flaws in their AI aren't worth caring about. Google doesn't have any missi…

My guess would be that there must be something to do from an investing angle -- but also that industry insiders and specialists who look at such things dedicatedly and professional…

Note that New York to Chicago by Amtrak is so slow largely because there's no direct route. You either take the Great Lakes route going through Albany, Buffalo, and Cleveland, or t…

Sure it does. They want to amplify that opinion. They think that calling out Reddit is worth the negative of paying money to Reddit.

Right. And one way to combat that is IP geolocation, show your ads only to a first world audience. Of course, then a VPN or other IP spoofing techniques will combat that .

Not quite, because in this case the 50,000 listeners do exist. It's just that 45,000 of them are shills paid by the radio station. But if the advertising contracts didn't exclude f…

Yes, it does. I think most of the various silly awards they have nowadays don't do it, but at least the original Reddit Gold award before all that other stuff does elevate a post o…

Reddit gold makes tons of sense. People can pay money to amplify the opinions they want amplified. Reddit actually monetized internet arguing.

And a similar data point: I read GEB around age 30 and liked it but didn't love it. About the first third of the book was interesting in new ways of thinking about symbols and self…

Just to be clear: The ship is still there and still stuck. They were just able to straighten it enough (parallel to the shore) to be out of the way and no longer blocking boat traf…

If you continue being okay with every loss of speech, then the only endpoint will be to have no speech at all.

I've been doing what you describe with emulator consoles during the lockdown as well. I got the NES and SNES classic versions, and they do indeed have that same effect for me. I us…

This is a major and serious point. A large part of the discourse has become slapping the "extremist" label on every dissenting argument from the other side, regardless of where the…

This is known as the multiple-endpoints fallacy, where you deliberately pick the outlying data point after the fact and ignore all the mundane ones. Another example is when you see…

It's a trade-off. Which way do they gain more money? From showing the YouTube ads to Firefox users, or from getting users into the Chrome ecosystem for however that is monetized?

That last point isn't a "you could argue" or "most cases", it's literally the law. Rear-ending is always the rear car's fault and it's always their responsibility to leave enough s…

It's kind of amazing, the macro view that's going on here. Computational capacity has become so much of a commodity, that gamers can't get it for their graphics, because they're be…

Yes I'm comparing it and you don't get to tell me I can't. It's not about the stakes. It's the idea that in rolling your own, you're going to get it wrong, or otherwise do worse th…

If you're going to use a key space in the trillions, and partitioned and sparsely populated rather than sequential... isn't that just reinventing what the UUID already is? A UUID i…