Empact

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by Empact 1y ago
One of the ways psychologists classify people is between those who are maximizers/optimizers and those who are satisficers/stop when things are "good enough." As someone who is very much on the optimizer side of things,
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by Empact 1y ago
You’re begging the question. If fluoridation decreases IQ through developmental neurotoxicity, is the lost cognitive capacity in the general population justified by the protection of children with irresponsible parents (who do not enforce e
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by Empact 1y ago
Creative labor is not entitled to the work parent comment is describing. We employ labor because it is beneficial to us, not merely because it exists as an option. Creative labor’s responsibility is to adapt to a changing world and find rol
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by Empact 2y ago
Should we really be taxing young people more when those young people are not propagating due to high housing costs, etc?
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by Empact 2y ago
Article 2 says “the executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” That means the power to “enforce laws, manage national affairs, and oversee government agencies.” It’s Congress’s role to allocate funds to
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by Empact 2y ago
Everyone in the United States is impacted by government insolvency and the economic collapse it will inevitably lead to if unchecked. Everyone is impacted by the fact that money-printer-fueled government spending crowds out private spending
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by Empact 2y ago
What happens when Congress is asleep at the wheel or in on the take?
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by Empact 2y ago
Difficult to confirm but various sources are reporting a steep drop in poverty from the 50s to the 30s over the past year. https://x.com/michaelaarouet/status/1891031131375423725?s=46 https://x.com&#x2F
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by Empact 2y ago
Bikes produce far less tire and brake wear due to weight etc.
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by Empact 2y ago
My suggestions: * switch from microfiber to e.g bamboo sheets * donate blood periodically to reduce your body’s load https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2790905 * add a filter t
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by Empact 2y ago
What didn't I understand? What of value is contained in those theses?
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by Empact 2y ago
What did you learn from the Politics of Smell thesis?
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by Empact 2y ago
“Pay no attention to that canary, this coal mine is perfectly fine”
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by Empact 2y ago
Distinctions only hold esteem over time if they are worthy of it. The last two PhD’s that crossed my feed had dissertations on “The Architecture of Whiteness” https://x.com/garrett_rhianna/status/188960961236770037
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by Empact 2y ago
Services subject to natural monopolies are good candidates for being run cooperatively, by / on behalf of the market participants, so that there is not the incentive to extract rents via market power. Government-run may be practical fr
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by Empact 2y ago
So you still believe government-funded research is equivalent to facts in 2025? What about the replication crisis? The political control of research finance e.g. in Alzheimer’s research? It takes either an extreme amount of naïveté or motiv
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by Empact 2y ago
The article you cite is from September 2024. Where are you getting December?
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by Empact 2y ago
In Argentina, the informal (free market) peso to dollar rate is called the “blue dollar,” it rose from about 200 to 1200 pesos per dollar in the 2 years prior to Milei taking office and has held relatively steady since: https://b
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by Empact 2y ago
You have to consider why Milei was elected in the first place - a dramatic break from typical Peronist politics with a historic 55% of the vote. The picture in Argentina was not rosy before Milei took office, it was a country on the verge o
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by Empact 2y ago
Several sources report more recent data showing a drop to 37-39%. The picture in Argentina was not rosy before Milei took office, it was a country on the verge of hyperinflationary collapse. Given that starting position, IMO it’s remarkable
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by Empact 2y ago
At scale, we can restore the soil the same way it was built up in the first place, through rotational grazing of ruminants. I keep chickens to that effect and am planning on sheep. Very low-effort, highly productive animals, each, even apar
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by Empact 2y ago
Here’s a short list of meaningful causes which have been advanced in my lifetime by groups of single issue voters at the local and state levels: * making gay marriage broadly available * making concealed carry (and Constitutional carr
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by Empact 2y ago
Just because smoking and exercise made you visibly fitter, doesn’t mean you should disregard the consequences of smoking.
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by Empact 2y ago
We have to invent domain-specific language when there is no existing term for an important concept. Each of the terms you mention except ascii (which is an acronym) is imbued with contextual meaning: thread of execution, kernel as in essent
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by Empact 2y ago
> Even “string” is technical jargon. "string of characters" as a concept substantially predates the first computers: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22string+of+characters%22&l...
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by Empact 2y ago
There are a few answers to the long-term security budget: 1) We could maintain fees through compression, that is, by making each on-chain transaction representative of many off-chain transactions. This is beginning to happen with the lightn
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by Empact 2y ago
This didn't sit quite right with me and I think I've pinned down why. The nature of code is that it is communication: it communicates action to the computer and behavior to the reader. Variable names are not for the computer, they
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by Empact 2y ago
There is an upper limit on the aggregate value of money - somehow related to the amount of stored value in the economy. On the other hand, there is no lower limit on the value of a dollar. If bitcoin reaches $1B it will be through some comb
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by Empact 2y ago
Fungibility is one of the important properties of money. So a non-fungible token has less ability to accrue monetary value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#Properties
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by Empact 2y ago
Transacting bitcoin via the lightning network is instant. Capital gains is a matter of policy and is likely to change at some point as bitcoin succeeds.

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