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That’s a fallacy. You can make anything into a slippery slope.

There’s a difference between “no new construction with gas stoves” and “seizing all gas stoves” lol

I’m not sure you have really thought this through.

You’re suggesting that people avoid using port and starboard on a boat because they should be focused on learning how to not fall overboard?

Terms like “port” and “starboard” are particularly important when someone falls overboard. The last thing you want to do is tell someone to grab the man overboard “on the right side” and have them go to the wrong side of the boat in a crucial moment. This is why these things exist. We have been sailing for hundreds of years and are very good at it.

Despite this, your entire argument is a bit ridiculous. It is not zero sum- port and starboard do not take up “brain space” that causes you to forget a life jacket. Boat training will help you ensure the safety of the passengers AND teach you “port” and “starboard”.

Don’t we have a problem with trains derailing all the time in the US?

It’s not the Obama scale picture though?

EDIT: I see now the link is different than the thumbnail in the post. Super impressive that GPT4 has solved this.

You spend much at least one more syllable to indicate which frame of reference (local or boat). It’s easier to map it to a vocab word.

They are not distracting. There are many intense situations on a boat, and a crew is required to cooperate in order to survive. This means you must have extremely precise wording to quickly explain what needs to be done. This vocabulary is important for this reason, and is able to sharpen focus, rather than distract.

It requires a process of learning, and that is intentional.

Many artists pay for various educational services. The most valuable IP is not always free, and it's reasonable to revisit the pricing model for IP if there are new ways of consuming it (training models).

I’ll tell you precisely what it says about me:

I put in 60 hour weeks at my current job, except for a month before I change jobs, where I put in an additional 2 hours/night to prep for interviews, because that’s what will benefit me for every other company.

I care about my career and my family, so I don’t have the luxury of spending it on passion projects outside of work. I’d rather spend the precious little time I have left on my real hobbies and family/friends.

It doesn’t communicate that I’m a bad engineer. On the contrary it communicates that I give my all at work.

What is the causality behind the social programs? You are saying they are enabling the homelessness, but it seems more likely that high housing cost cities are simply dealing with their resulting homeless populations?

When you input a query, you get a numerical representation output. If you have 3-5 similar queries (each phrased a bit differently), they all have slightly different outputs. If you average them all together, it combines them in a way that improves results.

It’s been since google plus, long before sundar.

You would have to show that that apple has colluded with other app stores to maintain a 30% fee. Otherwise, they charge the fee, and a competitor is free to attract developers with a lower fee, which is competition.

You could argue that apple abused their market position to administer the fee. Or you could argue that they are entitled to charge the fee and consumers are free to leave the platform. It's a grey area.

The sprayer significantly reduces the amount of pesticide needed. It’s not crop dusting, it’s precision spraying.

These are almost entirely people delivering 2 ballots. Likely the case that they are delivering a ballot for a spouse.

According to the document, that is not technically allowed.

Important to note that the document does not indicate some sort of conspiratorial fraud.

I would imagine the bottleneck for processing information has more to due with the density of the information content rather than the speed of sensing.

Seems like a question of limiting consumption rather than the type of information though, right?

Overconsumption has health consequences.

we literally ship our trash to china to "recycle" it (now china wont take our trash anymore). Turns out they were often just dumping it in the ocean. Now other countries do the same. It doesn't show in american metrics, because the other countries help us to be blissfully ignorant.

That’s a very fair argument.

One consideration that comes to mind is if the scale necessary for operating nuclear is much greater than the examples you cited?

Thinking out loud, without taking a stance on either side, it seems we would need to scale nuclear power to the hands of many lesser qualified people than in the cases you mentioned, which would push the tail risk much harder.

That said, I haven’t thought deeply about the comparison here. If we need heavy magnitude of power, then we are bound to have to accept the risk of disaster as such concentrated power centers inevitably become unstable.

There's a gulf between sam altman and jeff bezos. We can still have rich people with the leverage to act efficiently without giving them the ability to buy entire nations if needed.

> Much more useful to focus on system level incentive than to focus on a small minority at the top.

The issue is that the minority at the top can easily hinder development of system level incentive to cement their power, once they have achieved such a power imbalance.

Maybe it is less about the tax revenue and more about preventing power imbalance. Why is it good to have so much power concentrated in the hands of one person?

This is a flawed comparison because the use cases for the former examples are very limited in comparison to USB C which is arguably evolving rapidly still.

You could imagine if we had formed such a standard around USB A in the 90s and how it might have blocked the already high friction establishment of USB C and thunderbolt 3 standards.

USB C currently seems more mature than USB A, so I can see where things ar ea bit subjective here, but it's not really possible to see where unrestricted development would have put us.

I think I would have been more comfortable with simply banning lightning and micro USB than restricting to only USB C.

Because employees that you interview are different from investors.

At a minimum, you are going to interview a lot more engineers that are tempted to divulge trade secrets than investors.

I read this as 30 pilots over all time, $300 million a year.

What prevents you from using a different distance than Euclidean distance?

I don’t see where anyone has talked down to you in this discussion. Could you elaborate?

It seems that they have a chart for pay gap by tenure, which is by years of experience.

Yes, this small scale disregards sociology and technology that can leverage individuals and widen the gap of output.

I’m guessing this mimics the kinesis advantage 2, which is an already well known keyboard layout from the same company.