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by I-M-S 2y ago
What the experiment has repeatedly shown is that people living in non-competitive systems starve to death when they get in the way of a system that has been optimized solely for ruthless economic efficiency.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
Related, since the advent of LLMs I've become acutely aware how any argument of a considerable length with another person quickly starts meandering and how topics change seemingly of no one's volition - almost as if our own intern
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by I-M-S 2y ago
Western politics deteriorated to a point at which liars who don't pretend they are anything else seem like an attractive choice.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
The reason why it's common in the Americas has little to do with perceived virtues of immigration, but because they were colonized. Granting citizenship through jus sanguinis is not really possible in this case; granting it via princip
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by I-M-S 2y ago
Severence is an original work written by Dan Erickson.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
I always read it the other way around - a humble acknowledgement that they're still wrong, just less than whatever came before.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
In both cases, legality depends entirely on repercussions, i.e. if there's someone to enforce the ban. I suspect that in the "illegal numbers" case there might be.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
There might be some survivorship bias at play here, as by definition you'll only get to know someone's a vegan because he's a noisy one. Those who eat in peace and leave others alone are not memorable - same goes for antivega
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by I-M-S 2y ago
It's not taking away, a new point is by definition adding. Just like The Free Movie added to The Bee Movie.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
Neither of them can reverse the Liberal fortunes. Chrystia Freeland was too close to Trudeau for too long (their fallout notwithstanding) to be perceived as anything than Trudeau 2.0 Marc Carney is a (two time!) head of a central bank - he
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by I-M-S 2y ago
Where can I educate myself on the issue? The differing narratives have left me puzzled.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
I moved from a PR country to a FPTP one (Canada) and my experience is exactly the opposite - as a left-leaning individual in a conservative ward, there's no way for my vote to ever count. But yeah, now my interests are directly ignored
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by I-M-S 2y ago
And love of simplistic slogans. Whether there's more substance to Pierre Poilievre than to Donald Trump remains to be seen.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
Amazing piece. Full of gems like this sentence: It was the Y2K-adjacent midpoint between the door-to-door salesmen of the boomer era and the present-day dystopia of A.I.–enhanced robocalling — the last few years before American credulity (
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by I-M-S 2y ago
It will be better for those who already have it good. How it will affect those who don't is the real question here.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
El Salvador's case is not as clear cut as it might seem - see #3 at https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comment...
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by I-M-S 2y ago
By being too lenient towards those who have not deserved it, we are being unjust towards those who have.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
Fret not, I fully acknowledge how downloads are mostly a meaningless metric in my reports :)
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by I-M-S 2y ago
70% of people who filled out the survey don't financially support the show, if that fits the definition of a causal listener. Causal or professional, thank you for being a listener :)
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by I-M-S 2y ago
The audience survey I ran indicated that almost 50% of the listeners discovered The Program through RQ Network (most of them probably through the two feed drops on The Magnus Archives, their flagship show).
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by I-M-S 2y ago
No, it's an audio drama in a podcast format. Think radio dramas of the old but made for modern audiences! Here, hopefully https://programaudioseries.com/ paints a better picture.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
What hendi is too modest to mention is that his generous praise is only matched by his generous financial support for the show. I can only humbly thank you for both.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
I launched my sci-fi anthology podcast The Program audio series right here on Hacker News. The Program is now approaching its #1M download. I've been describing the journey how I got here in a series of annual reports, the latest of wh
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by I-M-S 2y ago
I'm making a fiction podcast (that actually launched on HN) that is now earning ~$1100 USD monthly. I just wrote the latest report documenting how I got there, which you can find and discuss at https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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The Program, my fiction podcast launched on HN, 5 years and 1M downloads later(programaudioseries.com)
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by I-M-S 2y ago
What about the unfair advantage the incumbents have? Speaking as an outside observer, this seems like a clear case of election interference - but from the big parties, not from whoever this no-name guy happens to be.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
Depends if it's different from a lie I guess
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by I-M-S 2y ago
I hope you're referring to Joel Schumacher's kitschy drivel, and not to Tim Burton's masterpieces (both of which are IMO vastly superior to Nolan's take on the subject).
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by I-M-S 2y ago
While I completely agree with you, I can also understand the reaction of people who happen to be passengers in the aforementioned helicopter.
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by I-M-S 2y ago
The USA uses a gerrymandered, two-party, first-past-the-post system with electoral college to boot. I for one would stop short from calling that a system that accurately reflects the will of the populace.

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