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So you should just oppose everything any politician proposes?

If they are only good at pretending to TALK like a pilot, then of course that is bad. However, if it is so good at pretending to BE a pilot that it can actually fly the plain reall…

Shouldn't it be whatever the user wants? If they want the ship's computer, it should be that, if they want Data, it should be that.

It has the exact same appeal and pitfalls as utilitarianism

> Ask anyone who has had a system installed. Your system can be totally compliant with national and state electrical code, installed by a competent installer using staff who are li…

I have been using this tool for the past few months that was posted on here: https://github.com/devenjarvis/lathe It generates tutorials for you, and serves a webpage that lets you…

This is basically a bet on if you think longbets is going to be around.

If you only care about the learning, then you could just take the incomplete. You don’t somehow lose the knowledge you gained. The only cost of an incomplete is it doesn’t help tow…

Sure, at the individual level lots of people/companies will make irrational decisions. At the macro level, though, the effect is still there.

People seem to be thinking of "affording" as merely a property of having more cash. It is more than that, it is about the potential RETURN on the investment. The businesses that ca…

You aren't just filtering by who is willing to pay more, because willing to pay more is also indicative of how valuable that inventory is to the people buying it. All demand is not…

The alternative is to have shortages. If there is demand for N chips at $X price, but you only have N/2 chips, then half the people aren't going to be able to buy them. The people …

Software is about all the things

Are these outages caused by introduced bugs, though, or by load issues? As someone who has spent many years working in high load environments, this is not an uncommon pattern. You …

It’s crazy how different the credit cost and subscription cost are. With the $200 subscription, I can have Fable on ultracode working for hours and not dent the usage limits.

There are a few things that are assumed to be true when talking about the Pareto frontier here, but aren’t always true. One, that more of something is always better, e.g. it is alw…

This is why I order the envelopes online and then go for a walk.

Just checked where I am (which, admittedly, is late at night), but for a random ride to a restaurant 2 miles away, Waymo was $9.34 and Uber was $8.91. This does match my earlier ob…

People buying shares at a given price does not necessarily mean they believe the company is worth that much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

It’s all parts of the grass, and most trees, plus myriad other things. My legs always itch if I walk outside in nature wearing shorts. When I did the test where they poke you with …

So how does it not bother some people?

While we hold humans financially responsible for all accidents, we don’t hold them personally responsible in every case. Most accidents end with no arrests or even tickets. If your…

While I agree with you, not everyone does. You and I are thinking with a purely logical thought process, but most people don’t reason that way. A lot of people want to be able to h…

> Yes, it takes longer. But if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right, even if it takes twice as long, no? This is debatable, but either way it is the opposite of the purpose of …

I would agree with you if I wasn't so allergic to grass.