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by 9rx 5mo ago
We need to invent new names for these things to disconnect them from the boogeymans. For example, when we change "union" to "party" (as in political party) even those who claim to hate unions latch onto it as if it was t
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by 9rx 5mo ago
The article gets cut off with some bizarre ad that takes over the rest of the screen, but from what is visible it states that the unemployment rate for the given cohort has rarely been higher, indicating that it has been higher, which doesn
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> so which one is it.. Both? The messaging from the last 30+ years has already been that the only way to be successful is to develop your own capital, not to get a job. He's saying that learning how to use AI will be essential in
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> wheat futures reflect this. In what way? Wheat hasn't even returned to early 2025 price levels yet. It is up relative to where is has been recently amid what were very low prices, but still have a long way to go to get where thi
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> If you can, you’re rotating beans and corn every year. Nah. Wheat isn't profitable if you look at it in isolation, but it is still net advantageous to have in the rotation. > (“Roundup ready” of course) Nah. IP soys aren&#x
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> Australian wheat basically isn't It is, but is generally post facto instead of pre facto, which may be why you don't recognize it as such? In the US, subsidies are given by covering a portion of crop insurance premiums. Whe
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by 9rx 5mo ago
Natto still looks like soybeans when they arrive on your plate. They are fermented, but calling that heavily processed seems like a stretch.
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> When sold for humans it is called edamame. Edamame is limited to special varieties that are harvested before ripening, which isn't the soybeans those supplanting wheat will be growing. You're probably thinking of tofu, natt
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> humans technically can eat it, but it's chewy and not very good. Not just technically. It is a relatively common food. A fair bit of it is crushed (i.e. turned into cooking oil). But it is also a product used in a number of proc
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by 9rx 5mo ago
Little to no rain.
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by 9rx 5mo ago
You can eat soybeans, though, which are seeing record production thanks to it supplanting what is affectionately known in agriculture circles as poverty grass.
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> a university teaches you how to think, critically and deeply, and how to learn. You'd have to have lived a pretty sheltered life to not have picked up those things long before reaching the typical age of attending university. Un
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by 9rx 5mo ago
This is also a bit of a false history. OOP was squarely invented with Smalltalk. The term was literally conceived for Smalltalk to describe its unique (at the time) programming model. While objects most certainly predate Smalltalk, it was
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> it starts with an argument that the results presented in the article are useful Except here the appeal to emotion suggests that it isn't useful. The results would be useful on their own without having to fabricate additional inf
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> Sometimes, the outcome of a scenario will be unambiguously tragic for humanity. Whether or not it is tragic depends on the beholder. Some people are quite happy to watch the demise of humanity. Science is only interested in what is.
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> It's to actually talk to people Historically, that's what the locals did. This is 'do what the locals do' always referred to. Other comments call out entities like Bourdain who pushed 'do what the locals do&#
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> I really don't get you stance. Oh well. Its mine, not yours, so who cares? > basically any science that involves the study of processes that might have important consequences for mankind. Scientists seek to gain the underst
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> Medical doctors literally advise their patients on that and evaluate the effects of actions with respect to what's good and what's bad for their health. You're talking about a consultant now. Yes, consultants take scie
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by 9rx 5mo ago
> So medicine is not a science because it's concerned with what's "good" and what's "bad" for someone's health? It is concerned with understanding health. It is unable to decide what is "goo
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by 9rx 5mo ago
You'd have to ask the one who raised concern with this in the first place. What is apparent, though, is that "good or bad" is contrary to science. Science seeks to understand what is, not how you might feel about it. It is in
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by 9rx 5mo ago
I suppose they could refrain from injecting their feelings into it. The science doesn't change if it is presented as simple information and not as a warning.
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by 9rx 5mo ago
If taxes are raised then the people have to pay for the services, which is exactly what they don't want to have to do. That is the whole appeal of having those services — that they are, for all intents and purposes, free.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Those were all achieved by "GI".
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by 9rx 6mo ago
A closer analogy would be that you asked the house cleaner to clean the pool house when you actually needed the main house cleaned. The house cleaner recognized that you asked for the wrong area to be cleaned, but went ahead and did it anyw
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> I'm making it to test my idea against the wisdom of the crowds in case someone can enlighten me about where I might be wrong. Which is the same reason everyone else seeks relationships with other people. That is the value social
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> holding onto power longer than they should The Western world lives under democracy. Power is held by the population at large. If it appears that the older population is holding more power, that is simply because they have more time,
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> and the idea was you needed to live in the city to do it. Exactly. Humans crave novelty and hate doing what everyone else is doing. That idea was presented because it was still a fairly novel experience to live in the city. Getting t
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> The article explicitly removes decline in religion as an explanation for this particular bout of unhappiness. It tried to, at least, but I'm not sure it succeeded. The growing secularization up to 2020 follows the long-term tren
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> America has undergone a VERY rapid secularization. I'm not so sure of that. America has rapidly moved away from believing in some kind of magical spirit in the sky, but they most certainly haven't given up on religion in ge
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> That is it is illiquid wealth they cannot use. Housing is actually quite liquid as it is incredibly easy to mortgage. More likely you are overestimating how much housing value is actually there. The majority of American homeowners ha

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