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by Herring 7mo ago
Yes if you ignore his failures, Trump is actually a very decent president. Obama dealt with two pandemic-level threats: H1N1 2009 and Ebola 2014. He made it look easy.
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by Herring 7mo ago
Agreed, but with one exception: are tests supposed to cover all observable behavior? Usually people are happy with just eliminating large/easy classes of bad (unintended) behavior, otherwise they go for formal verification which is an
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by Herring 7mo ago
One of my favorite books about inequality is The Spirit Level (Wilkinson and Pickett). It asks how this country can be so incredibly rich, unprecedented in human history, but still create so much suffering (physical/mental/emotion
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by Herring 7mo ago
It’s basically like North Korea calling itself “democratic peoples republic”. Just roll your eyes and move on.
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by Herring 7mo ago
Since the end of WW2, and especially since the end of the Cold War, Democratic administrations have presided over significantly higher job growth than Republican administrations. https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.a
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by Herring 7mo ago
He's omitting the most important bit. Data from the OECD shows highly unequal societies tend to be more status-obsessed, leading to higher spending on "positional goods" (items bought to signal status). These economies often
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by Herring 7mo ago
A lot of people love watching dumb shit, like watching reality tv. Crucially also they often love doing dumb shit. It's a privilege they don't want to give up, like pretending gravity doesn't apply to you.
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by Herring 7mo ago
Since the end of WW2, and especially since the end of the Cold War, Democratic administrations have presided over significantly higher job growth than Republican administrations. https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.a
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by Herring 7mo ago
That sounds overly edgy. Tangibility has value, like buttons making a comeback in cars.
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by Herring 7mo ago
what.. :o
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by Herring 7mo ago
Education is a public good, therefore good education is socialist, and Americans are very hyper-individualist (aka antisocial). History suggests that Americans generally only move toward communal support systems during extreme crises, like
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by Herring 7mo ago
In 2023, 28% of U.S. adults scored at or below Level 1 literacy, indicating significant difficulty with everyday reading tasks. https://www.nu.edu/blog/49-adult-literacy-statistics-and-fac... You guys are surrounded by
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by Herring 7mo ago
When you're stuck in a race to the bottom, the solution is to work together. Eg carbon taxes are quite effective. But that also requires being able to see far ahead.
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by Herring 7mo ago
You're giving them too much credit. They're just blindly seeking profit. Humans are not that good at planning longer than 6 months to 5 years out. The brain is legacy hardware, optimized for the Pleistocene epoch. Reward circuitry
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by Herring 8mo ago
> At no point does anyone stop and ask whether the generated code implements the desired functional behaviour for the system ("business logic"). Obvious question: why not? Let’s say you have competent devs, fair assumption. M
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by Herring 8mo ago
Zoom out a bit. Person A posts a real study, person B says “nuh huh” -- they’re clearly not having the same discussion on the same level. I’m saying often person B (American) is just being emotional/defensive, or gaslighting like their
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by Herring 8mo ago
> Education is not the problem. He already knows. A lot of americans are very defensive about their shortcomings. If you want impartial accurate truth, the easiest place to get it is in scientific studies (like the one I posted).
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by Herring 8mo ago
Republicans grew up in a world where they can do anything - voter suppression, gerrymandering, steal a presidency or a supreme court seat and nothing happens. Well some women get hit once and never come back.
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by Herring 8mo ago
> That being said redesigning cities is hard. It's not that hard, it's just time-consuming. Takes ~30 years. Roads/buildings/etc break down eventually, you just need to incrementally design for the better new versio
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by Herring 8mo ago
I think you have the coercion direction reversed. If there was a choice - if people could easily walk places - they probably wouldn’t buy expensive cars.
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by Herring 8mo ago
This might sound reasonable, but it's a solved problem in Europe. They have plenty of old/disabled people and harsh winters there too. Many parts are de-emphasizing cars.
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by Herring 8mo ago
Exercise is good, everyone knows. The problem is advising people to exercise doesn't work and doesn't scale. Gyms are for people who have plenty of intrinsic motivation and money and time. To improve physical activity at the p
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by Herring 8mo ago
Article didn't explain why tech doesn't work in education. It's biological. We evolved to learn from and interact with other humans, preferably the same group over a long time, so we really get to understand/mirror/
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by Herring 8mo ago
No, it’s still crashing. Still plenty of room to go very badly. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/chinas-p...
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by Herring 8mo ago
Half right. I’d use Singapore or Vienna as the ideal housing model instead. China started off using housing as a financial instrument. People were pouring their life savings into 2nd and 3rd apartments because the stock market was unreliabl
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by Herring 8mo ago
Read it again, maybe there's something you missed.
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by Herring 8mo ago
Yeah if anything the US is the real victim here, we constantly have to go cleaning up things over there at great expense.
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by Herring 8mo ago
Good luck to them. None of the Arab Spring revolutions have gone well. 0/6
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by Herring 8mo ago
Actually it sounds more like hazing to me (unethical but not entirely irrational).
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by Herring 8mo ago
Fancy. Much more likely they just ruin their own environment and die. It has happened many times before, since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.4B years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

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