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ketone monitoring is pretty unusual

it's a specific claim, they want to set up the process to be so onerous that immigrants self-deport

on the one hand, yes ecology and math bio is cool. On the other, the demographic transition does not fall out of these models whatsoever. Humans decided to do something very weird for whatever reason.

aca di. implement a market, it's just that most people buy through their job, because if that's legal you obviously want to be part of a larger bargaining pool for buying.

Kids are extremely expensive when you have to raise them to 18 with no return. We should have social security, but for the young.

reminds me of this article https://scholars-stage.org/uber-is-a-poor-replacement-for-ut...

One example of market power abuse they engage in is requiring the price listed on their website to be the lowest offer that a merchant can list. You can't list a product on their page and then have a discount for that product on your own page.

Hard to take calls for endorsing the free market seriously from someone so clearly trying to form a monopoly on online shopping.

if no one has ever pointed you at Seeing like a State, it's about the political and economic implications of this fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State

There's also Bit's About Money describing this effect in banks https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/

> Perhaps the rigor that Medtronic and similar device companies are subjected to would apply, but I'm not sure those regulations cover information security and privacy.

As someone on an insulin pump they do. Iirc they have reps showing up at hacker conferences looking for red teams.

Definitely agree with your worries generally though.

Good thing the US doesn't have an administration that will happily criminalize any opposition

I've seen a pretty massive uptick in usage among my non-techie friends in the past couple of months.

Kind of orthogonal to the point. It isn't a planned city in the same way that Paris is a planned city.

Also, most of the worst parts of American development have happened since 1945.

Tokyo is an example of incrementalism making a beautiful resilient city, while still maintaining safety standards.

USAid has been abolished

the Congress. the president doesn't have the authority to unilaterally shut down entire departments

like, treatments of it I've seen are explicitly discussed in that context? It's also described as Pascal's mugging.

the term you're looking for is pascal's mugging, and it originates from within rationalism

I can't help but wonder what fraction of this is import tariffs on Taiwan. Also the initial drop, can't help but wonder if someone leaked that info to some private traders.

> Although to be honest all this aggressive scraping is noticeable but for people who understand that which is not majority of people.

When you say noticeable, do you mean in like, traffic statistics? Or in what the model knows that it clearly shouldn't if it wasn't trained in legally dubious ways?

I'm hoping a result of this shitshow is a curtailing the power of the executive. We've been slow-walking our way towards this by congress abrogating their responsibility under both parties. Probably requires actual restructuring of congressional elections and seniority systems though, which is... well going to be hard.

might work for say post the 1800's in literate countries, but for e.g. Rome our sources are so sparse and so far removed from the time they're writing about that it would be worse than nothing.

honestly less terrible than I was expecting

Just be careful or you might make a Kugelblitz

This is mostly a probability nitpick:

Most disasters follow power laws and other fat tail which don't have the same effects in the tail as a Gaussian. If you shift 1/x^a by c, you "only" get a polynomial increase.

But also, if you shift the mean of a Gaussian, the increase isn't exponential, it's super exponential (e^(x^2) to be specific).

> Insurance is based on statistics. The math they use assumes stationary distributions. Insurance companies can't deal with shifting distributions well so they take the losses and then exit markets.

Sure they can, that's why they hire statisticians. They routinely deal with insurance of much rarer events where we have much worse models than climate change. They're just banned from charging the actual rates, because it's politically unacceptable.

You put the sign far enough outside the zone, you wear ppe, and you decontaminate afterwards.

China has a no first strike policy for now, so yes. Doesn't mean we'd have a good time though.

You don't oppose someone recklessly gambling mass death by recklessly gambling mass death yourself, you just call their bluffs and maintain clear no-go lines.

Well, if there's no snow they have no business model (or more realistically shorter seasons), so they have a pretty strong case for caring.

The nice thing about being a massive market like the US is that you can impose regulations that producers in other countries need to follow to be able to participate in the market. It does make enforcement harder, but as long as you have the political will its definitely feasible. O/c having the political will is an entirely different thing.