T-hawk

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 because of their fears are the selfish ones. I'm saying nothing about anyone else's choices or activities whatsoever. Restricting someone else's behavior and bodily autonomy is the selfish act.

100 people forcibly removing 1 person from society who has done nothing wrong? That's a concentration camp. This is mob rule, you're just okay with it because you're part of the mob.

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, they don't get to force medical choices and restrictions on others.

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 in France, for example. Get the costs of regulatory compliance down and nuclear becomes the cheapest power source for both capital and ongoing costs.

> 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 mission or obligation to help the world share videos. Google cares about Google's profits. And they've found that the expedient way to do that is just let the AI be overzealous with rejecting, because the cost of a false positive is infinitesimally tiny and the cost of a false negative (real copyright violation) is so much higher.

How do we fix this? Competition. We need a Google/Youtube competitor so that users will choose the platform that does copyright recognition better.

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 professionally would have already priced in or arbitraged anything far ahead of a layman's understanding and participation.

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 the northeast corridor route to Washington DC and then another line to Chicago. The more direct Keystone line through Pennsylvania only goes as far as Harrisburg.

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 for that, then there's no grounds to complain.

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 or comment.

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-reference. After that it kept looping back around the same topics without really adding anything more. The dialogues were somewhat entertaining but I found myself wishing to cut past the rhetorical fluff and get to the point.

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 traffic.

Edit: I think I saw an earlier article, other reports are now saying it's fully floating and moving.

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 use them on a TV with no other computer or cable hookups, and it's perfectly comfortable to get into the flow of the game with no doom-scrolling temptations or other distractions.

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 position actually is.

If you ban extremist speech, then what you've done is create incentive to label everything as extremist.

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 reports of some county experiencing a once-in-500-year flood, trying to establish the shock value of how unusual and terrible a catastrophe that is.

But if you're observing 500 such counties, then every year that will happen to some one of them. You just never notice the 499 data points where it didn't.

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 space and time to react and stop safely.

If the lead car braked when there was no reason or danger, that driver might also be cited for recklessness or some such, but a rear-end collision is always an error by the rear driver.

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 being crowded out in the market by someone else (cryptocurrency miners) who can use it for something more profitable.

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 than existing ways that have already solved the same problem.

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 is just a 128-bit integer, with creation algorithms designed to partition that space by things that already have enough entropy to need no further synchronization.

What you're proposing sounds like roll-your-own-UUID, which might be similarly inadvisable as roll-your-own-crypto.

This sounds like a case of "premature optimization is the root of all evil." Do you have any performance numbers that show UUIDs being any noticeably slower?

A UUID is only the size of two 64-bit integers anyway. And either identifier likely will be a tiny fraction of the data in a particular row. So I'd doubt this is any real performance problem in the vast majority of applications.

UUIDs look big and scary in hex notation, but underneath it's a compact and fast binary format, just a 128-bit integer.

As programmers, aren't we proud when we can get rid of lots of code?

Yes, yes, and yes.

People should choose their own risk management decisions, not have a government forcibly do it for them. If you're concerned, you can choose to restrict yourself, but you have no business restricting me and any number of people that mutually wish to interact with me.

People can't do these things even WITH everyone's consent.

What if I and 500 of my friends want to have a comics convention? With everyone fully aware and accepting of any risks?

Nope, absolutely not allowed anywhere in the entire damn world.

It's right there in the US Constitution. "No law abridging the freedom of the people to peaceably assemble." It does not say "except in case of arbitrarily-declared forever-lasting so-called emergency." If you want it to say that, amend it. If such an amendment wouldn't pass, that's because it damn well shouldn't.

This is freedom-destroying authoritarianism, and the frightened sheep like you eat it up. This is where democracy breaks, if 51% of people want to lock down the other 49% forever, the other 49% are fucked forever.

If you fear contagion and think you need to stay away from me, that is on YOU to restrict YOUR activities. You do not get to restrict mine.

There was a county in Louisiana that went back into a shutdown Thanksgiving week, when nothing at all had changed, except that a local university was on break and had stopped flooding the daily statistics with thousands of negative tests.

Not to mention the perverse incentive: if you feel sick, you want to avoid getting tested and counted as a positive if you don't want your locality or employer to shut down. There is a theory that this accounts for much of Japan's perceived success - antibody studies show just as much prevalence as everywhere else, what happened was that all the mild cases never got tested.

I said "fuck it, I'm taking my life back" months ago. And then I realized how little that is possible.

How are you going to protest your way into a concert that isn't performing?

How are you going to demand your way into a university that isn't teaching?

How are you going to riot your way into a Disneyland that isn't running?

How are you going to force your way into a sports stadium that isn't playing?

How are you going to disobey your way onto a cruise ship that isn't sailing?

We are much more at the whim of our authoritarian overlords destroying everything joyful in life than we ever realized. We are no longer ever allowed to make personal risk management decisions.

You're glossing over the insurance replacement like it's free. It's not. Your replacement Tesla was paid for by everyone else's premiums. The more Teslas that get stolen, the more each Tesla will cost to insure.