Mirioron

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by Mirioron 7y ago
Here's a horrifying thought: "Smart" toilet/sink/pipe + sewage testing = data
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Yes, and people nowadays are taller, smarter, and live longer. A large part of the Flynn effect is usually attributed to nutrition. Humans can survive with poor nutrition (not getting the right amount of nutrients they need) for a very long
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I think this is an important point. Life really wasn't improving much for the average person before the industrial revolution. GDP per capita estimates of the past before the industrial revolution give us something like 50-100% GDP per
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by Mirioron 7y ago
While it's an interesting idea, this only captures relative wealth. Places that have higher quality food as standard would be seen as less rich. It's much cheaper to get calories from staples such as rice and potatoes, but a lot m
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Even the third point is likely to discourage people from using masks. I find it difficult to believe that people with a mask, even if used poorly, see absolutely no benefit from the mask. The mask's presence on your face should already
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> one study of 10-15 year olds in the US found that those who intentionally viewed violent X-rated materials were nearly six times more likely than others to report sexually aggressive behaviour Isn't that a biased selection? It&#x
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Or for letting them play outside without supervision.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The problem is that enough people feel a certain way about parenting and this has been made law in western countries. Children aren't allowed to play outside unsupervised. In some places children aren't even allowed to go to schoo
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> It's true that this is a special case, but it's meant to clearly illustrate the underlying truth: to have positive outcomes, most children require variable amounts of coercion. Because it's a special case it doesn'
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> As for restricting access to lurid content when my children are given internet access? Absolutely. I say this as someone who had unfiltered internet access as a teenager. They do whatever they want once they get their own internet acce
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by Mirioron 7y ago
What are you protecting your children from with DNS filtering? As in, what is so incredibly damaging to children that you must bar their access to it?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I'm saying that you need to look at both points of data. Imagine you have two countries with 10 million people each. Country A has 50,000 deaths and country B has 55,000 deaths due to the virus. Just looking at this measure, the conclu
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by Mirioron 7y ago
My fear is that entire sectors of the economy are all shut down at the same time. Many of those businesses will never open their doors again. A lot of institutional knowledge and expertise will be lost.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
In the long-term it might also be important to look at the economy at least a few years down the line. It might be that some countries will find it very difficult to recover from the crisis because the lockdown hurt the economy too much. Th
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I think you're missing the point the parent is making. The parent is talking about total compensation. An employer has x amount of dollars allotted for an employee. This x includes everything that the employer needs to employ you: your
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by Mirioron 7y ago
It doesn't really matter what tax pays for this. Ultimately, the customer pays for it (the average person). Corporate taxes are just a roundabout way of taxing the investors. This means that it will affect where investors are willing t
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Any kind of mask helps though. It could just be a cloth in front of your face and it will help a bit if everyone does it.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
They still help, but they help less when not used correctly. The average person likely won't use them correctly. This makes it a waste to give average people these masks when there's a shortage.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Do they still do the human sacrifice part or was that phased out?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Sure, but nobody wants to be the guy to go up to hundreds of thousands of people and tell them that they're fired. The skills needed to work in an oil production company aren't the same as solar.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But you need to know this is possible in the first place. And once you've had to pay the price for it it's hard to ever feel safe using it again.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I don't think most would prefer to be farmers. Farm labor is one of the most dangerous occupations in the US: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/27/the-10-most-dangerous-jobs-i...
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Preppers are just a more extreme version of the people who have a gun for defending themselves. A bad enough emergency can wipe out everything you have. I guess you could compare this to IT plans for disasters. Most of us have barely any ba
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I made something like this once for a podcast. FFMPEG is a godsend. Essentially I took a video (could just be the logo image made into a video) and looped it to the length of the audio track. Essentially it just called ffmpeg with the right
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by Mirioron 7y ago
How do you have an economy that's more robust against disasters? The economy is built on work. If people aren't working then there's no economy. The only way around it is production by robots.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
YouTube's algorithm will demonetize you, but it's very rare that they will make your content inaccessible. Also, the probability is very high that if you would have run into problems with OBS, then you're going to run into pr
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by Mirioron 7y ago
On OBS? There are hundreds, likely thousands of them, but most of them are about optimizing it for bitrate. That's not really needed for a stream for teaching.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Here's how setting up OBS goes for most users: you install the application and copy paste the stream key into the right box. Then you add what you want captured into a scene and you're done. Most of the fiddling that happens happe
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by Mirioron 7y ago
It goes even further than corporations being able to request things from being taken down. Kim Dotcom's house was raided by the FBI in New Zealand over this. He isn't even an American!
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by Mirioron 7y ago
It really shouldn't be hard. There are endless amounts of guides on how to set up OBS and stream to YouTube. You can even get live support by volunteers within a few minutes of asking for help. Most of the time you don't even need

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