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by Barrin92 2y ago
It's worth debating because China describes itself as such: http://en.moj.gov.cn/2024-03/05/c_967573.htm The Chinese would say the point of democracy is to translate the will of the people into action, it&#x
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by Barrin92 2y ago
You can go down to the Table 2 of the study you linked and see that's pretty much exactly the data they got ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3805807/table/T2/ ) Going from 7.8 to 7 hours and
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>Many people try theanine and report wow or great for ADHD or cured my (social) anxiety or changing my life [...] But does it really work? As someone who has dealt with insomnia and anxiety disorder in the past, the answer to that is, no
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by Barrin92 2y ago
Yes, it is very wrong. The Discworld series isn't that far from LOTR in spirit. It's just that Pratchett takes the modern secular humanist perspective and LOTR was a deeply Catholic work. Discworld is more meta, ironic, less overt
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A chess club I played at was frequented by a guy who used to work as mathematician but got fed up by it at some point and started to work as a chess trainer. Still did maths and blogged regularly but never bothered to publish academic work.
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>How is "Baumol effect" different from supply and demand for any limited resource? It isn't, but nominal growth as a consequence of demand without increase in real output makes you no better off, that's the "fake
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>Why is FF the one app that you’re a privacy policy enthusiast because their favorite Youtube influencer told them so. That sadly is the reality of it, we're living in an age where people get their information off social media and c
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>there is more to an economy than manufacturing. Not really. Most developed economies are basically 70% Baumol's cost disease[1]. The 20% of the American GDP that goes to healthcare, half of the military budget that goes into salari
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>It's hard to take that seriously as a vision of the future I don't think it is really, it's escapism fundamentally. There's a lot of "cozy" aesthetics like this going around, "Cottagecore"[1] is r
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>And from who is the US borrowing most of their money from? The American people, largely. China owns roughly 3% of America's debt. The overwhelming majority of American debt is hold domestically (and thus eventually returns to US ci
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If you want the actual number, about 13 bucks per month per taxpayer[1]. So about what, three to four coffees a month to protect 40 million free people from defending themselves from autocracy? [1] https://www.npr.org/transcr
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by Barrin92 2y ago
I think you might be underestimating the scope of work that happens on chromium a tad, from Github's "pulse" feature: "Excluding merges, 684 authors have pushed 3,139 commits to main and 3,866 commits to all branches. On
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>tbf most newspapers have a certain agenda to push that's not the issue here though. Bezos is directly ordering the opinion editor to tow a certain line, and that is not a common practice at any reputable newspaper I am aware of (wh
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>The future is expensive Although upfront cost for city construction is probably negligible compared to the operating cost over the lifespan of the city. If you have even modest labour, infrastructure and service savings every year for d
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by Barrin92 2y ago
this is a strange framing because Britain had internet and content laws before these recent changes and people were just fine with the risk that came with running them. Let's be real, for most dead sites this is an excuse for old admin
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by Barrin92 2y ago
It's not a dualism at all. What the OP is proposing is similar to Spinoza (probably the most hardcore monist to ever exist), where mind is a fundamental property of the universe (in fact, there's only one mind) and each individual
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by Barrin92 2y ago
The thing I don't understand about this, why not simply charge the creator for it? I know we live in the age of rent extracting (as per Varoufakis: feudal) internet platforms but markets do actually work. Creators should be customers o
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I'm honestly baffled by how there's even a debate. A private citizen and his geek squad accessing and interfering with government systems regardless to what end or for what reason , because he donated a quarter of a billion to an
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> I'm not going to spend days of my life digging into their source code to make the changes I want This is an odd thing to bring up though because that's quite literally the only way to make any changes to suckless software, ed
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>The new Dune movies have amazing craftsmanship but feel as if they were generated by AI Except for Arrival which owes a lot of its humanism to Ted Chiang's source material that's something that I've noticed about Villeneu
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>As such, empirical laws that were trustworthy in the past, may become significantly less accurate, and can in fact become dangerous to rely upon too blindly. Read a really good book on this a few years ago by John Kay and Mervyn King,
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by Barrin92 2y ago
For one on a data level that's not an accurate statement even limited to the countries in question, here's productivity: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-productivity-per-ho... Europe has largely conv
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>Am I missing something? I mean for one that religion isn't frowned upon and that it's just a marketing slogan, but also if you want to actually look at it, the Chinese phrase used by BYD is: 天神之眼, what they've in English
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>Do you consider sentience and reasoning to be one and the same? No, but I think they share some similarities. You can be sentient without doing any reasoning, just through experience, there's probably a lot of simple life forms in
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>that works with the Russian government closely There's never been any real and substantial evidence for this and much to the contrary. They've moved a lot of their infra out of Russia and have for ages been early on malware th
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Yes because it isn't an arbitrary distinction. My good old TI-83 can do calculations that I can't even do in my head but unlike me it isn't reasoning about them, that's actually why it's able to do them so fast, and
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>saving millions If you mean that literally they might have success with that but overall American government spending is a pretty boring affair[1], with about 9 out of 10 dollars going to defense, healthcare, interest, social security a
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>What we should have been doing all along is YOLO-ing everything No it isn't. The actual sucker attitude is copying what they do. You should act morally and with integrity out of respect for yourself . I never had any illusions tha
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by Barrin92 2y ago
>A megacorp is made up of people. So it's people who are fundamentally evil. That is to make a mistake of composition. An entity can have properties that none of its parts have. A cube made out of bricks is round, but none of the br
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by Barrin92 2y ago
No. Git is a complex program but version control is an inherently complex problem that requires powerful tools. There's certain set of problems where, as a programmer, you're going to have to sit down and actually read the book. T

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