Aron

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by Aron 9y ago
I look forward to new great firsts like this one. 15+ years ago TV and Movies were major status differences. Actors/Directors wouldn't besmirch themselves working on tv. It's been interesting seeing this flipflop. Netflix cou
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by Aron 9y ago
Netflix doesn't have to own the content so much as protect against being too reliant on a single provider. The more diverse content production, the more powerful the monopolistic distributor. However, the lead they have now they have e
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by Aron 9y ago
Do we know where Martin Shkreli was during all this?
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Toyota looks and Mazda reliability. That's what I'm expecting. Gotta love team efforts.
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by Aron 9y ago
Yeah that was my impression as well. He's been travelling the same Jordan Peterson/Sam Harris circuit I have. I could probably list the reasons but just his use of Big Five personality traits makes it highly likely. I think to som
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I kind of guessed when I clicked it would be about Trump. Fuck off.
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Certainly in those cases where teeth are not advised.
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by Aron 9y ago
My ancestors threw off the archaelogists by only dining on the soft heated innards of dead animals. Their teeth were a pointed exercise in falsification.
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by Aron 9y ago
The sucking pressure is actually created by the lungs (or diaphragm) not the teeth. It's not clear which specialty is taught that.
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You just saved me lots of time.
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I'll tell you what the new smoking is. Driving around in a gas car. Hey Ford, cough cough, I'm trying to breathe here.
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by Aron 9y ago
No. It's not the new smoking. There's an uncomfortable process involved with acculturating to social media and it will continue to evolve, but there is far more upside when used well which is hard to say with smoking.
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That's gotta be some kind of pick and choose fallacy (availability bias?). Those two happen to be high-status individuals from old high-status science disciplines so they tend to get whatever they say amplified. I wouldn't use thi
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by Aron 9y ago
Let's all have a drink to that! Cheers!
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To me, Elon is playing catch-up and thrown his hat in the Yudkowsky club although Bostrom and other more credentialled people were probably his vector into it. They were talking about this stuff 10-20 years ago. I haven't yet seen anyt
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by Aron 9y ago
I was mostly rebuffing the structure of the argument "While in theory we can build safe reactors, practice shows otherwise" which has two different reference classes for reactors (modern safer ones, and less safe fukushima ones).
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International collaboration seems more relevant to a John Lennon song than actually getting things done.
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We've certainly shown that reactors designed in the 60s and built in the 70s are problematic in very rare cases.
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"It is an international project with seven partners: China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States." Found the problem.
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Basically, most people walk around with inflamed highly sensitive status buttons that get triggered by any indication of relative power balance out of line with officially designated titles e.g. your interlocutor is pretentiously using larg
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by Aron 9y ago
This article goes well with the recent submission of an old Asimov article on the cult of ignorance. Science is a religion. Economics is a religion. Experts don't know anything. You can believe whatever you want! edit: Just noticed tha
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by Aron 9y ago
"An underappreciated advantage of the single-payer approach is that it sidesteps the mandate objection by paying to cover everyone out of tax revenue. Of course, having to pay taxes is itself a mandate of a sort, but it’s one the elect
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by Aron 9y ago
only if you are doing it wrong!
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And then Snowball turned to Napoleon, 'you know I've been thinking..'
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Knowing Elon this tweet will be followed in a few months with a new kind of drilling company.
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Physical objects degrading under use by natural forces, is a common pattern and all a part of entropy and so on. We also happen to be physical objects. We can propose, and we know it's true that the body has repair mechanisms. However,
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It's two separate things. The exercise is most directly damaging. The repair and improve process is a response. Our experience with things like bench press shows the response generally works on the measure of lifting iron. However, it&
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I don't think Prime users have a particularly high utilization rate of the video service, though this might change with time. If you look at how many ratings on IMDB any of their originals have gotten, I see just tiny fractions of show
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I'm perfectly willing to believe it. From an Occam's razor perspective, exercise most directly and clearly is wear and tear. Stories about how the body overcome and benefits from that are more complicated, hence more likely wron
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a little tooooo ironic. ok, ok..

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