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the difference is that one of them is actually justified!

well, maybe we can spend some of the money we save not subsidizing the third world on better border security

oh so that's what my elementary school classmate had

The car is following a process chosen by Mercedes' engineers (to go forward when the user presses the accelerator.) The newsfeed is likewise following a mechanistic process driven …

Does the algorithm "decide" to show something, or is it operating mechanically, driven by the inputs of the user?

people can do things for more than one reason

Shouldn't all sites have some kind of bandwidth / cost limiting in place? Not to say that AI crawlers shouldn't be more careful, but there are always malicious actors on the intern…

Nope. Assume you have insurance with a one-time fee of $X. It insures against a single kind of event that happens with 60% probability, and pays out $1.6X. So the majority of peopl…

> People can develop allergies during their lifetime, it's not just something that you're born with. Sure, but the likelihood of that is low enough that insuring against that isn't…

People generally don't develop allergies randomly in life. There's no insurance value here.

I think one difference is that there isn't a great alternative option in the case of commercial buildings -- if you have a job in a given building that doesn't accommodate your dis…

unironically. would love to have those berkeley lectures back online

whether it is smart or not depends on the likelihood of it. do you have numbers?

even if it were 10%, we shouldn't expect 90% of consumers to subsidize the other 10%

oh please, there are plenty of first world countries without as many retarded regulations

seems like crackers could just patch the app code that detects this, no?

Increased precision typically costs more economically, so I think it's a pretty good analogy... precise physical measurements require specialized equipment, precise floating-point …

Housing would depreciate too if we didn't have artificial scarcity policies designed to make it an investment. Saying that housing should be an investment because we've designed it…

Uh, none of that means housing has to be an investment. The point of a mortgage is that it helps you buy a house and pay it off over time, nothing more. We don't talk about cars be…

software does all of the above

The fact that they won't use AGPL software isn't propaganda lol. They literally won't use it. You may disagree about whether that's good or bad for the ecosystem, but it's a fact t…

eh, Taiwan is a functional democracy and yet it has had parliamentary brawls too

While you're not wrong I want to point out that you generally don't get the opportunities to practice staff-like skills until you've proven you can do the 'boring' work too. The sy…

This is just a standard FAANG package lol. The gaming industry just pays devs poorly

The fact that there isn't a causal relationship from wealth to biological superiority is the cause of so many of our problems! Imagine if all the people who got positions via nepot…