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by Aunche 10mo ago
> And those tribes in good territory, they did not had so much back braking work, as long as big land animals were around The population of paleolithic humans never reached anywhere close to that of agricultural humans, suggesting that m
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by Aunche 10mo ago
> And while lobbying from corporations is not an unstoppable force, it has certainly shown to be overwhelmingly strong when compared to the lobbying power of individual citizens or non-profit citizen groups. That has less to do with corp
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by Aunche 11mo ago
> the small businesses got wiped out due to their lack of lobbying power Small businesses have a lot if lobbying power (NFIB, US Chamber of Commerce to a certain extent) especially during the pandemic. The PPP loan forgiveness program wa
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by Aunche 11mo ago
Every 15 iq points makes you 1 standard deviation above the median. That means if you legitimately have an IQ of 276, you would 1 in 2.3 * 10^31, which is many orders of magnitude greater than the number of humans in history.
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by Aunche 11mo ago
There are lots of companies like this: https://zeotap.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Zeotap_-Time-t...
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by Aunche 11mo ago
Hackernews has always been a venture capitalist forum and has always had a significant minority that generally sides with money. I don't think that is substantially different today. Most European regulations seemed to be less about hel
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by Aunche 11mo ago
> That makes it challenging for others to get in. It isn't impossible, but it's really challenging. Huawei made Harmony OS smartphones in 2 years. That said, they were uniquely motivated by the Google Mobile Services ban, Chine
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by Aunche 11mo ago
If you're going to assign a discount rate for cash, you also need to assign a similar "discount rate" for future lives saved. Just like investments compound, giving malaria medicine and vitamins to kids who needs him should p
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by Aunche 11mo ago
> It's the perfect philosophy for morally questionable people with a lot of money. The perfect philosophy for morally questionable people would just be to ignore charity altogether (e.g. Russian oligarchs) or use charity to launder
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by Aunche 11mo ago
Gee. I wonder why people find a blogpost telling them to fuck off and acting like they don't know that quitting Starbucks is only relevant to those who go to Starbucks annoying?
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by Aunche 11mo ago
Smaller studios can maintain a small team of highly passionate people that will happily work 60+ hours a week or achieve similar productivity. As a studio grows, this becomes harder to maintain. You're pressured to either become a slav
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by Aunche 11mo ago
The news is democratic in the sense that news targeted towards the general public needs to be catered towards the general public, just like any other product. What good does framing an issue as one sided if nobody is going to watch it excep
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by Aunche 11mo ago
You're overestimating the number of people who trust scientific concensus. More people believe in creationism than evolution by purely natural selection. What's your alternative to treating both sides with equal weight without mak
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by Aunche 11mo ago
Not exclusive to teens, but people are increasingly from somewhat biased fact based news to commentary based news that sounds agreeable to them.
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by Aunche 11mo ago
The NYC Rent Guidelines Board is already tasked with keeping rents lower for rent stabilized tenants, except with long term sustainability in mind. A pledge to put your thumb on the scale to freeze rent for 4 years is a clear sign of priori
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by Aunche 11mo ago
> FWIW, semaglutide is available in Australia via the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (part of the socialized healthcare system), when prescribed for treatment of type 2 diabetes Compare the "restriction" section of Ozempic vs m
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by Aunche 11mo ago
Semaglutide was approved in 2017. By cutting edge, I suppose I mean covered by patent. Luckily for Canada, Novo Nordisk forgot to pay their for its renewal. I was just pointing to an example of why healthcare reform is politically difficult
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by Aunche 11mo ago
Radically changing healthcare works out great in people's heads, but then they immediately whine about their Ozempic no longer being covered like in socialized healthcare countries which don't use expensive cutting edge drugs as a
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by Aunche 11mo ago
Rent freezes are such a bad idea that Mamdani himself implicitly admits as such by insisting they will be temporary with no justification as to why.
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by Aunche 11mo ago
Arctic char and trout tend to taste more like their wild counterparts than salmon since they're raised on smaller, less industrialized farms. Many restaurants actually prefer Ora King salmon over regular king salmon due to the consiste
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by Aunche 1y ago
>Give a man a fish every day and he'll do whatever you want to keep getting that fish This is complete nonsense. Certain demographics that depend the most on welfare oppose it the most. Mitch McConnell responded to concerns about th
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by Aunche 1y ago
Even deceptive propaganda isn't necessarily bad. Objectively speaking, the best thing to do for yourself would have been to dodge the draft in WWII for example.
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by Aunche 1y ago
I for one enjoy my cushy white collared job and breathing air with little pollution. China has it's own very difficult problems that they have to deal with. Consumer demand is low for their economy, their birth rate is even lower than
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by Aunche 1y ago
One factor that I don't see getting discussed is that more price conscious consumers are also more likely to have to live in apartments or park on the street. Even if they have a garage, their commutes may be too long to rely on level
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by Aunche 1y ago
Blaming society for the poor state of journalism is tempting but ignores that the root of the problem lies from within. Financial institutions and other journalists demand information dense journalism to do their jobs and have no problem p
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by Aunche 1y ago
There is no such thing as "the absence of eligibility testing." Otherwise, I'd be signing up for UBI for my 100 imaginary friends. Too much administrative overhead has always been a concern troll argument against welfare anyw
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by Aunche 1y ago
I agree with that the risk of 300 IQ aliens landing on earth is roughly equivalent the risk of 300 IQ AIs. The obvious conclusion from this is that you should take neither of those risks seriously. We have no idea what intelligent aliens ar
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by Aunche 1y ago
It is relatively straightforward to money launder through $1 million or so private sales (e.g. random "Qi Baishi" paintings). The pieces are low profile enough to not attract attention, but expensive enough for overhead to be low.
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by Aunche 1y ago
> What is your alternative explanation for why people rent public storage space? People buying a lot more stuff. The mutually exclusive part is saying that home sizes decreased when they actually decreased.
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by Aunche 1y ago
Modern MBA videos are like ChatGPT. They sound reasonable when he's talking about something you don't know, but you'll notice him getting basic facts wrong in topics that you're familiar with. For example, he diagnoses t

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