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> I take a more neutral approach on the finding and don’t yet assume this is something that is best medicated out of.

Is it possible for an individual to do ET, or indeed other therapy in combination with medication, to study the change in this response? I tend to agree that we (collectively) should not look at these results and immediately look for a drug to change it; after all, that’s how we arrive at a popular culture that thinks depression is a chemical imbalance (it’s not), so it would be nice to be able to use these findings in conjunction with therapies that focus on a person’s ability to change their own mind.

It doesn’t really matter if the people who live there own property, the US doesn’t require property ownership to vote.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-rv-safe-parking-ho....

The US will never end homelessness because the small town people who have never see a homeless person outside of a TV show want to lock them all up and throw away the key and the people who live in large cities want to spend endless amounts of bond money on programs that give drug addicts $100,000 parking spaces.

It’s the same reason we’ll never “cure cancer.” Cancer isn’t one thing, it’s many things, and it interacts with a complex system. The US is not even one complex system, it’s hundreds of them.

… in the US you definitely need a car to do everything else. Unless you live in NYC.

The high priests of AI are trying to make computers more like people and in the process making people more like computers.

The thing is, Apple is still the leader in the online ordering process, even though the competition has had decades to catch up. Dell’s website is a mess. For years the top result on Google for the XPS Developer Edition was a page saying they didn’t make it anymore, even though I had just read a blog post about the new one. Clicking a specific configuration sometimes makes the option for a previously available configuration disappear. It’s maddening.

How big are we talking?

There are hundreds of people on r/datahoarders that would gladly mirror it many times over.

The pushback must be constant, or they will wear us down.

> Snowman in English is counted as a word, for instance.

Note that for linguists, the definition of “word” is so slippery as to not have much use. It boils down to “because it’s written that way,” and even that is a stretch, because this definition is different for other languages. And of course, not every language is written.

To use your Chinese / Mandarin example, Mandarin does something very similar to Toki Pona in terms of inventing new phrases to describe more complex concepts (here I avoid using “words” in this context because it’s not a useful concept for our use): chéngyǔ are four character idiom phrases that are not words, but references to much longer cultural stories. They have a distinct meaning, but they are not considered words.

Pleased to see Asianomentry on HN. Fantastic YouTube channel. All of his content is well made and fascinating. I would recommend starting with “The Amazing Silicon Wafer”: https://youtu.be/sIRfWyyOFPg

False premise. Intellectual property is not equivalent to those assets.

Agreed. There should be an active sale clause for all copyrighted material, including video games. If you want to make money from the work you “own,” then fucking do it. Emulators exists for most systems. For books, the marginal cost of epub distribution is essentially zero and any high school kid can make one for you on a Sunday afternoon.

About as likely as the Japanese giving up fish and rice.

If IA is dismantled, and doesn’t manage to survive on its Canadian or other outposts, historians will look back on its destruction with disdain. Cultural heritage destroyed so corporate stooges can afford another yacht or whatever.

The only way to fight this is to pirate the fuck out of everything. Seriously. Fuck DRM, fuck gatekeepers, free information NOW and ALWAYS.

The managers have that power, not the workers. That’s the key.

If there are people working 3x as hard, why aren’t they negotiating for 3x the pay? It would create an incentive for the business to fire the people only doing 1/3 the work, or else cut their pay by 2/3rds in accordance with the value of the labor.

This does not happen because the workers involved don’t have that kind of power. The power imbalance between the two parties is so vast that the laborers have no choice but to accept unfair terms.

The contracts of adhesion that perpetuate society disproportionately valuing one form of labor over another do not validate the exploitation of one group of laborer over another.

Copyright should be life of the authors full stop. My dad dug ditches for half his life but I don’t get checks in the mail every time water flows through them.

> how expensive it can be to market music.

Did you write this comment in 2001? The cost to produce and promote music has dropped to near zero. SoundCloud rappers have become millionaires. Billie Eilesh recorded her first album in her bedroom.

A brick through a window used to be a common way to make a message known.

The US always has always had to do this because people die for all kinds of reasons, so this fact alone isn’t very interesting.

This would be an interesting article if the headline included an actual dollar amount that pointed out the excess write off due to deaths. This would be trivial for any actuary to calculate.

I’m not so self centered as to think my personal consumption has any particular impact on the demand for UPS drivers.

I suspect that UPS has a large contingency of MBAs who are better qualified at striking that balance than I am, which partially explains why I don't work there and why they haven't asked my advice on the matter.

I can only control the part of the transaction that originates from me. My commitment is to seek out the solution that seems, to my level of understanding and investigation, to result in the fairest treatment of workers given my lack of price sensitivity.

To do anything less is to give in to capitalist nihilism. It's tempting, but I'm not there yet, personally.

We have different definitions of poor. I’ve been what I’d call poor, and when I was in that state there wasn’t any room in my budget for things purchased on Amazon. Wal*Mart with a ride from a friend was all I had.

Three reasons.

(1) I can afford it.

(2) The increase in price and latency will probably result in my ordering less stuff.

(3) I doubt that any company is going to allocate a substantial portion of their profits without raising prices. If it’s between raising prices, which I can afford, and people who do difficult jobs I depend on not having an easier, fairer life, then I’ll choose the raised prices.

The company might be doing some funny math with the value of the benefits: $50,000. That could include things you might never use, like IVF assistance.

I will pay more for items to be shipped to me and wait longer for them to arrive if it means the UPS drivers are treated fairly.

Why do you think it’s highly probable?