Jiro

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by Jiro 2y ago
That allows the government to censor at will by censoring on the policy level, by making Facebook adopt government-demanded policies. Since it is always possible that Facebook could have come up with the same policy anyway by coincidence,
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by Jiro 2y ago
I do not want this to happen, evem though the scientists were eventually exonerated: https://www.science.org/content/article/why-italian-earthqua...
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by Jiro 2y ago
The article says this, but it then goes on to say: >To increase yields, the natives initially cut down the island's trees to get nutrients back into the soil. >When there were no more trees, they engaged in... That sounds to me l
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by Jiro 2y ago
Articles in the press often have to be read while thinking "assuming that this article is literally accurate, what might be wrong about the impression it's trying to give?" If you read the article while thinking this, you&#x2
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by Jiro 2y ago
If scrolling through your phone were worthwhile enough that being able to do it made up for the loss of time, people would deliberately take trains instead of cars just so they could take a little longer but be able to scroll through their
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by Jiro 2y ago
I'm having a hard time figuring out what the connection is supposed to be between having a big profit and laying off employees. My first thought is that the writer is suggesting that companies should only lay off employees when the emp
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by Jiro 2y ago
I suggest you try buying some out of print blu-rays. Often there's enough demand to make the cost of used copies go sky-high, but not enough demand to make a new print run profitable. (This applies double to out of print video games.)
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by Jiro 2y ago
Europe has become pretty bad on free speech recently, and I don't think it can be explained that way. If anything, it gets justified by the fight against nationalism.
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by Jiro 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
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by Jiro 2y ago
That's an argument against a state-run healthcare system. It gives the state reason to classify arbitrary things as "increases the cost of insurance" and prohibit them.
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by Jiro 2y ago
Honestly, the actual Luddite blog looks almost as AI-generated as the actually AI-generated blogspam he added. >VW told law enforcement they would "not track the vehicle with the abducted child until they received payment to reactiv
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by Jiro 2y ago
>For example, in the cases of an ambiguous law, who is better suited to understand the ambiguity... "Understanding the ambiguity" is fine if we are talking about trying to figure out what was intended by the people who put the
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by Jiro 2y ago
By this reasoning, not only is writing video games an IQ shredder, all sorts of pursuits in the arts are IQ shredders, all the way back to Shakespeare writing plays which distract people from doing useful things.
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by Jiro 3y ago
Calling them innocent means calling Israel guilty, so "guilty until proven innocent" is on both sides and cannot be avoided.
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by Jiro 3y ago
Is your theory that Hamas allows journalists free reign to report on anything in Gaza no matter how unflattering, without shooting the reporters who do so, just so that when Israel bombs the journalists will report the bombing? I doubt tha
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by Jiro 3y ago
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by Jiro 3y ago
"Would you say that in person" is a terrible standard. Imagine a gay person beong confronted by a homophobe. "I dare you to come up to me and kiss your boyfriend right in front of my face where I can see it."
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by Jiro 3y ago
"Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around."
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by Jiro 3y ago
The original is "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."
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by Jiro 3y ago
>historians don't just make up stuff to scare people - otherwise they'd have more fun and money being fiction writers like Stephen King Historians don't want to scare people as a terminal goal. They want to scare people a
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by Jiro 3y ago
AT&T won that case: https://blockworks.co/news/att-crypto-sim-swap-lawsuit
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by Jiro 3y ago
>Without loss of generality, take the case of just one red ball, rest are green. If you pick the one red ball on your first draw the chances are now 100% that the next ball is green (since there aren't any red ones left) whereas bef
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by Jiro 3y ago
If you believe that privately consuming drugs doesn't reflect negatively on someone, you can hire them. If you don't hire them and nobody else hires them either, the drug use is keeping them from being hired. It's misleadin
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by Jiro 3y ago
>if you're caught with drugs, we slap you with a felony that ensures you can't get a real job... pushing you right back to drugs. I could say the same thing for any sort of crime. If you're an accountant, and you get put
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by Jiro 3y ago
This is the equivalent of an ad claiming that something is the leading brand of pomegranate pickles when all brands of pomegranate pickles have pathetic sales. It can be as good as it's ever been and still be pretty terrible, as long
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by Jiro 3y ago
"Cheaper prices to poorer people" is the exact same thing as "more expensive prices to richer people". Even if the item is "kept at the same price" and poor people get a "discount", the market will st
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by Jiro 3y ago
The amount of force created when something hits the ground at terminal velocity depends on its mass, which varies with the cube of its size (with additional effects because it's not a cube or sphere). The amount of cross-sectional are
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by Jiro 3y ago
>The page <title> for collections could stand to lose the "Browse free ebooks in the" preamble. That looks like it might be search engine optimization.
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by Jiro 3y ago
That sounds like it's reporting gross revenue. Claiming that the $5B is unimportant because it's a small percentage of revenue, when it's actually gross revenue, is misleading.
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by Jiro 3y ago
I don't see the phrase "Scott Alexander" anywhere in this article.

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