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I think you're focusing a little too much on that one example, but let me engage with you on this regardless. Even after a person has taken all those risks and they are sunk costs,…

Doing art (or anything else) as a profession certainly has those risks, but art as an activity in general does not have any significant excess risks associated with it. (I would no…

I would guess that if you broke it down, being in space is quite safe, but getting to space is extremely dangerous. This matches intuition, since in the former case you are just fl…

Not to get too into the weeds, but depending on the stretch of road (frequency of onramps, and also the style), I might be one step to the left of the rightmost lane. Being in the …

Hrm, I don't really agree. There are a lot of very interesting things that are not very risky. Most productive activities are not very risky (art, woodworking, home improvement, et…

An important and oft-ignored aspect of participating in certain activities! Even this doesn't capture everything. I am also very concerned about the possibility of being maimed by …

Barcelona is mainstream, sure. That is an objective fact. But the person I responded to seemed to imply that the Vox article was making some sort of normative judgment about Barcel…

I don't think that viewpoint (that Barcelona is played out and too mainstream) is at all the message of this Vox article. If anything, the article is a criticism of that viewpoint.…

Just more evidence that everyone parents differently. My friends hardly hear about the good stuff that my kids do. I want to talk about the grime and the shit and the speech delays…

> They aren't the literal product that Google sells to advertisers, the data is. Google does not sell data. They sell attention, like all advertising companies. They make a lot of …

It sounds great to have to go in to the branch office to conduct banking business that can't be handled on the website?

I wonder how the policy discussions looked when considering the impact on poor parents who have to be at work. Maybe the thinking was that the start time of 7:30-8AM was already to…

I took the sentences as being not necessarily literal sentences. I thought it was smart that he left the words vague. Maybe they weren't even really words? In the same spirit as th…

In a database product I'm familiar with, the prepared statements are cached according to their content and those cached objects are shared between connections. Only if they fall ou…

Even with that, the SQL would be parsed once per connection? So, the costs should be de minimis, unless the benchmark were short indeed?

That's really surprising if true, considering the SQL should only need to be parsed once. SELECT foo FROM Table WHERE key = @mykey; Then you bind the parameter to whatever you're i…

I always found the library system in Lightroom to be painful only because of how slow it is. It's hard to imagine enough features to make up for a UI that routinely takes >1s to re…

If we're positing users clever enough to modify the client, then such users could also just modify the client to scramble all CP images so that they would not be detectable via fin…

In the US, damages in a lawsuit are not always determined by direct, measurable economic costs. Sometimes damages are punitive, to discourage future malfeasance. Sometimes they are…

> Again, I'm willing to be told differently I guess my point is that you're not going to be told differently, because that information is proprietary. It is not YouTube's habit to …

I wonder how that would work. Suppose the UK generates a unicorn with a billion pounds of profit per year. Suppose that unicorn employs 10k employees. Presumably, everyone gets an …

> As far as I know , they introduced a bunch of changes that crippled the income of their creators and their speech, without any monetary return for doing so. Are you in a position…

The state can change the bylaws. Or at least make the bylaws unenforceable within state boundaries, which has the same effect. I believe that is what California has done here. For …

A single psychology paper showing a certain result is some evidence, but it's not much. Replication crisis and all that. With that said, it does make some intuitive sense to me (no…

Does anyone know the extent to which this is happening faster or slower than the background increase of medical care costs? I know that historically medical care costs have been ou…