Overton-Window

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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Although social programs are better in Germany, that isn't the entire story. You'll see thousands of homeless strewn through the parks and along the banks of the Spree in the summer and U-Bahn stations in the winter. The major dif
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
For comparison: there are single neighbourhoods in California with >36k homeless. Congregation is the real issue.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
They are misleading as they include hundreds of thousands of unsheltered refugees. Anyone who has ever walked around SF or LA and Berlin knows this implicitly. The US cooks the books. https://www.feantsaresearch.org/download
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Those stats are misleading, e.g. Germany's figures include unsheltered refugees. Excluding refugees the number of homeless people in Germany sits at 335,000 to 420,000. https://homelessworldcup.org/homelessness-statisti
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Did the New York Times stifle lab leak debate?(unherd.com)
8 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|2 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Unions reward and protect unproductive employees at the cost of productive and prospective employees. For the employer, this results in subpar capital allocation and fragility to future market forces.
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CDC issues new ban on evictions of most US renters after protest(aljazeera.com)
11 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|1 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Programming is the conversion of ambiguous human requirements into machine readable instructions. To automate, computers would need to understand ambiguous human requirements. This is AGI. By comparison, brick laying is trivial.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Further, those same demographic changes are taking place elsewhere too, e.g. take the fertility rates of Native (Christian) and Muslim European populations and project forward a few decades. Lebanon is but a proverbial canary.
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Hubei gov deletes report claiming Covid-19 could damage male fertility (2020)(scmp.com)
2 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|0 comments
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Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?(wsj.com)
4 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|4 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Nothing says in-person collaboration like mask mandates. Why even bother reopening campuses?
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Twitter partners with AP and Reuters to address misinformation on its platform(techcrunch.com)
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Much like in TikTok.
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American Medical Association: Remove Sex from Public Birth Certificates(webmd.com)
48 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|51 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Because progressive governments all over the world dropped the ball too. Didn't hear anyone attributing Australia's success to the conservative government when the country was being heralded as a miracle just a few months ago.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Yes, the conservative governments of Israel and the UK who overlooked mass vaccine rollouts did do a great job.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> The states that "beat" COVID are currently led by progressive parties No. The states that dropped the ball on COVID were the progressive states. They only "beat" COVID in the sense they let it run rampant in the fir
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Take on Big Tech(takeonbigtech.com)
2 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|0 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> Craigslist killed newspapers (it took their ad revenue) Citizen journalism hasn't replaced that; buzzfeed-style sites did. Craigslist killed classified ads (in the US). Twitter and Substack replaced investigative pieces, leaving l
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Math is more trustworthy than the state. One of the few things both Democrats and Republicans can agree on is the state of the Bitcoin ledger. Political representation becomes obsolete with blockchains that can facilitate a referendum on ev
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
You have three ways to vote: 1. With your ballot: very small chance of changing policies (1 vote) 2. With your wallet: small chance of changing policies (n votes through political donations) 3. With your feet: guaranteed chance of changing
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
The internet will kill most every institution that predated it. Citizen journalism killed media. Netflix/YouTube killed Hollywood. Blockchains will replace 51% democracy with 100% democracy. Dying inherited institutions are grasping to
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
And private DMs in certain cases as well. The argument doesn't hold water.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
The quality of mainstream journalism is dwindling as those institutions can only stay relevant by manufacturing outrage. The BBC now reads like BuzzFeed.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
That's not argument for censorship, rather an argument for eschewing (or outlawing) algorithmic timelines.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
I can imagine the state of your country if Musk and Jobs would be considered toxic there.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> in a respectable publication like the Washington Post, WSJ, NYT, Economist, etc Your assessment is a decade out of date.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Why must you waive your right to legal recourse?
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Wouldn't you think there'd be numerous examples of such arbitrage in the wild if so?

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