florbnit

How many of these have you taken, and why?

> The world has a lot of potential to be more efficient.

This winter wasn’t “efficient” it was cold as hell because we all turned the heating as low as it could go without causing building damage[1] because the price of natural gas more than 10x’ed.

It’s not an example of a sustainable reduction in consumption.

[1] though a lot of people didn’t think things through and set the temperature too low or even turned off the gas and now have mold and other problems in their basements.

> useless/meaningless/contentless comments get upvoted and reach the top

Could you point to an example? I dont think I’ve ever seen this happen on HN, i know its rampant on Reddit though.

> because there can't be multiple advanced civilizations because as soon as we suck-up all the available computation the simulation speed crawl to a stop.

If our reality is a simulation. It doesn’t matter how fast the “computer” is running. We could be living inside a grid of rocks in a gigantic dessert being pushed around slowly by an immortal turtle according to rule 30. How would it matter for us as we are living in the simulation and our relative time is always one second second per second, even if it takes a billion years for the turtle to rearrange the rocks to compute that second.

So there is no way to “drain the simulation of resources”, unless we figure out a way to kill the turtle, but that’s not likely to be possible, since we’re just patterns in the rocks.

Professionels in the actual field of conducting animal trials and getting medical devices through FDA approval. No one who has ever worked even just as a week as an intern in the field would ever have the blatant disregard for proper procedures they had. It’s just as insane as if Elon had said “just put a dozen or so untested self driving cars in the city center and see if they crash”. Animal testing isn’t something where you go “Oh it’s only an animal so we don’t give a fuck how we treat it”, there are very high bars that you need to stick to. People know that if they work in the field, which is why you need professionals and not just biohackers who don’t care about any established processes and just want to skip them in the spirit of “the ends justify the many animals we carelessly brutalized without any care taken to avoid it”

> general governmental inefficiencies and some level of systemic bias against

Imagine trying to get government permission to drive a car, but you don’t want to talk to anyone who has ever driven a car, or engage with the “overly burocratic” process for getting a drivers license. You might end up feeling like the system is biased against you, but it should be obvious that you are just being intentionally difficult at every step. Musk should have brought on people with experience rather than try to sidestep the system. This isn’t like his self driving cars where he can just put it out I beta and blame end users for getting killed or killing others.

> So the most salacious parts of the story are not what the crime is.

It’s funny how so many people think less of this crime because the misappropriated campaign funds where used for something so redicules, compared to if it had been just plainly stolen or used to buy a luxury car or something like that.

> When you are actually using it to facilitate an investment in your future

I might have expressed this poorly, but it wasn’t an “investment in the future”. And that’s exactly what made it interesting. The monthly costs where lower immediately, since the cost of transport which was saved was higher than the monthly cost to pay for the bike. It was just a straight up cost reduction due to the structure of the payment. Had the zero interest monthly payments not been available then it would have been the more typical “investment/ROI over time” situation, and there might be an argument for it still being beneficiary to go into debt to make the purchase because over the long run it would pay of again. But the payment structure just makes everything a thousand times simpler.

Do you have a link or reference to that evidence?

So it seems the CEO of namecheap in this thread has made a commitment to paying you a 50000$ reward if you provide the details of this incident that proves they do this.

I’m hoping your willing to provide the details.

My SO recently bought an electric bike using this sort of scheme, not from Apple obviously, but the monthly payments toward the 3500$ bike were less than what it cost to commute to work using public transport before that. So it turned from an being a non trivial investment to an obvious thing to do.

The value proposition to me seems to be that they sold a bike at 3500$ they would not have sold otherwise and they can deal with the payment being made over time rather than all at purchase time.

For the user the value proposition is that value adding purchases like this can be made and paid off while they provide value.