Matticus_Rex

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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
What's the name of the Star Wars project? You know, so I can avoid those darn pirates more effectively.
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Something working well* (at least for well-connected people, relative to the general populace) when world GDP was two orders of magnitude lower does not mean it works well (for the general populace) today.
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
If it were a win-win relative to their other options, they wouldn't have to be forced into it. They may have been able to make the best of it, but let's not pretend value is being created.
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Musharbash's argument, however, is dependent on the exercise of oligopoly power (whether he admits that or not, and given that he's long argued that the oligopoly is present...), and there's no evidence of it! He tries to twi
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Here's a thought -- there are instructions in various places for mosquito fan traps using a box or other sturdy fan plus mesh on one side. Do that, but paint the fan (with blades) blue. If more movement is needed, you could probably do
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
The one thing this needs to really scale up the murder is a CO2 source behind the fan to attract mosquitoes actively.
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
CO2 seems to be extremely effective in general, but what I really want is for someone to create a commercial version of something I saw DIY'd on Reddit. They used safely-contained smoldering coals placed behind a high-speed outdoor fan
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
We'd need a full overhaul of the legal system from the ground up to get to a place where we could implement the better versions of lay judge participation, and if we got a full overhaul of the legal system that's not what we'
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Many obviously disagree that it's correct
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
I trust an individual judge's opinion on almost any topic to be more intelligent than that of an individual jury member. But there's huge selection bias in who becomes a judge, and so we end up with a pool of people who are mostly
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Those cost estimates factor in ALARA and the LNT model assumptions, which drastically raise costs far beyond what's needed for safety. If the NRC dropped those and moved to a SNT dose-harm model, that drops costs radically.
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Politically, yes. Anything nuclear is easier said than done for political reasons.
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Why do that when safely storing the waste takes up an incredibly tiny amount of space and costs much less? And subsidizing this still won't make new nuclear particularly competitive without ditching the silly LNT harm model and killing
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
In the quoted statement, they're reasoning from an accounting identity because they don't understand the underlying measure. There's a kernel of truth, but it's much more complicated than that. Imports are subtracted fro
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
Most weird sex stuff takes place outside of cults, so that doesn't follow.
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
> Probably the most useful book You mean "probably the book that confirms my biases the most"
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
So much projection.
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by Matticus_Rex 1y ago
So I'm open to changing my mind on this, but — having already been familiar with the evidence you posted below and having been adjacent to these circles for a long time — I'm very skeptical of both the claim generally that cults a
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
No, you win by having the most points. Guessing wrong loses points.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Awesome. When you're ready to scale it a bit some social sharing stuff would probably make it pick up a lot.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
This is how this game works, and all wrong answers (including flags) get punished. You obviously can't port 1:1 minesweeper to a non-single-player environment, but this is basically minesweeper with as few changes as necessary (though
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
After a bit more play: I'm sure skill-based matchmaking would make this waaaay more complex, but a way to self-sort into skill buckets might be nice. I suspect it's not fun for most people to play with me, rapidash, or a few other
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Great stuff! Playing as meowth. 3 clicks per second would be a big upgrade. It was hard not to go over 2, but 3 would almost never screw me up.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
The author's claims are not generally true of Calvinism, either.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Expressing support for Hamas is also protected speech, and that's not controversial in terms of 1A law/jurisprudence.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Interesting. I was thinking it might lead to some cool emergent mechanics, especially combined with puck control ball, but I can see that being suboptimal, especially in how it introduces differences between mobile and mouse gameplay.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Yeah, I'm willing to bet that metaphor gets called out as ludicrous by a higher court, as it has broader implications across types of editorial expression that break down when examined. The marble from which a sculpture is carved is no
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Depends on a bunch of factors, e.g. which booster, which variant, the person, and the relationship between dependent and independent variables in different risks from both COVID and the vaccine, but for the peak of the pandemic, the answer
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
"Do you have 5 years or more of evidence about this thing that has existed for less than that time?" Obviously this is not a good faith question. And yes, we may find out that the vaccines are, over a long period of time, not per
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Aaron Dignan's "Brave New Work" isn't particularly revolutionary, but synthesizes insights from Teal/Holacracy and other popular-but-hard-to-systematize org management stuff in a way that's very incremental and

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