Chris_Jay

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by Chris_Jay 8y ago
Nocoiners seem to pingpong between an attitude of sour grapes and one of schadenfreude, depending on valuations. Perhaps it's a natural reaction to being too risk-averse to invest in something that's been profitable for people one
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by Chris_Jay 8y ago
just recalling what a professor said on the subject - in the short term, those areas that gain a suitable climate for agriculture will take decades to build soil up to what agriculture requires. Places where it was too cold to grow crops wo
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
yet another phenomenon plenty of people experience subjectively being 'disproven' by experiment. It's no wonder the stock of so-called experts is diminishing...
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I think it's fair to say that designing weapons that others will use is always an ethical quandary with unknowable complexity. If someone errs on the side of causing no harm - a commonly accepted default if discussions of the Trolly pr
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
Assessing which historical sources are factual is not a trivial problem.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
Your comment brings to mind this article: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-blathering-superego-... ! I recommend giving it a read if you'd like your attitude challenged.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
both of those statements can be true.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I wonder whether you got downvoted for your choice of words. I'll try using bigly in a sentence when it can happen organically and see whether the same happens to me.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
Epigenetics are fascinating. In my D&D headcanon, the reason Drow Elves are so obsessed with spiders is because they picture DNA as a three dimensional web whose spatial arrangement is central to gene expression.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
My bad. https://sites.google.com/view/virtuouscycleinvestment/projec...
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
oops, thanks for the heads up. https://sites.google.com/view/virtuouscycleinvestment/projec...
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
Funnily enough, my own (long term) project is aimed at addressing the problem you're pointing out. Given the possibility of remote work, there's no insurmountable reason why the only land worth living in should be concentrated in
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
Your attitude justifies Goldbloom's law.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
To be fair, Norwegians might be more anti anything government if the Norwegian regulatory system was as Byzantine as in the US.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
My favourite by far is defenders of the realm. Apparently it's very similar to Pandemic (which I've not played), but with an '80s D&D theme. In my experience it really sparks the imagination.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I'm getting to be a bit of a broken record on this, but here goes: blockchain can automate the trusted third party. A records clerk in the land registry office who must be trusted to not alter a document no matter the bribe can be repl
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
The dot-com period was just the latest example of what happens when a new technology is widely adopted. Automobiles famously went through a similar period early last century. Many new entrants crowd into the field, there's a free-for-a
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I would liken it to Apple myself. First mover advantage does count for quite a bit in software.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
As a self-identified HODLer - I like to think it's because holding isn't nearly as easy as it sounds. Ignoring what 'Mr Market' is offering you for your property on any given day and overruling your herd-following instin
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
Would intolerance to a level of risk typically encountered in civilian life not make someone unable to function there? My own experience in the public service was not so much of people unable to do their jobs but people unmotivated by them.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I would say that wealth concentrating in a small number of hands is not a surprising outcome, nor is it a dynamic anyone with libertarian leanings can really be uncomfortable with. I'll admit I'm unpleasantly surprised by how quic
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I agree, but only if everyone is motivated to be an active participant - looking back on my own high school days, the kids who had trouble mostly had no incentive to be there. It's probably utopian, but I still think a lot of problems
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
The trouble is that in the US, it is controversial. It is entirely possible UBI could leapfrog a lot of the profit-taking industries that have built up around the US social safety net the way cell towers leapfrogged telephone lines in the d
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
Interesting - I hadn't known the history behind the term, I thought it was a neologism. I do prefer the term identity politics myself, but the tendency of right wing groups to call everyone they dislike communists doesn't appear t
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I agree with 90% of what you said, but must take issue with your characterization of cultural marxism. Cultural Marxism as I've encountered the term is simply what critics of Intersectional Feminism call Intersectional Feminism, and as
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
The choice isn't a binary between corporate monopolies or a non capitalist alternative, there is a very wide spectrum of possible 'topias between those two extremes. Methinks public discourse is overdue for a revival of good old f
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
It sounds like you're spending too much time in focus mode and not enough time in diffuse mode. A lot of people are suggesting your team is just incapable of diffuse thinking, but I would say it's a skill like any other. Travel, r
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I would really like a simple NLP algorithm that combs candidate profiles and identifies undervalued candidates.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
Granted, but it would still seem rational for everyone to prioritize aligning our short- and long-term incentives so that this sort of tragedy doesn't become worse than it has to be.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
It seems that farming with Monsanto seed is just a slower death sentence.

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