Rury

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by Rury 4y ago
From what I read, dreams are more apparent when you have poor sleep, as it either happens mostly (or at least recall ability is increased) during REM, which occurs when you're not fully asleep.
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>A ubi would be required such that it would fulfill the entirety of the persons need This is an incorrect view, perhaps you've been mislead or misunderstand? UBI is a government program in which every adult citizen receives a set am
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by Rury 4y ago
The problem with the term "woke", is that it's almost an entirely subjective term. Not everyone shares the same moral tenets, let alone opinions, and there are many kinds of injustices in the world. The more it gets used, the
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by Rury 4y ago
Often drug studies, such as in the case of Fialuridine. Showed excellent results in animal studies (including mice, rats, dogs, and primates) with no ill effects, but ended up being fatally toxic for humans. Turned out it was toxic in human
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by Rury 4y ago
Frankly, I try to avoid shopping on Amazon. One because of the problem you mention, but also because it's a poor deal for underlying businesses. Amazon eats most of the margin, while the underlying small businesses get the short end of
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I don't think it should take decades, as the technology to make it is already conventional commercial tech. That said, the stated 740% increase is in comparison to traditional heat sinks. A lot of devices today have already been sort o
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by Rury 4y ago
It's hard to stay motivated/sharp if you feel sick, fatigued, achey, etc. So I recommend taking a close look at your health... more specifically how you actually physically feel day to day, alongside looking for potential causes.
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by Rury 4y ago
>I've seen repeated by CFAs -- velocity of money is linked to inflation It can be, as increased demand can increase the velocity of money, but it's not directly or intrinsically connected (as you can also just suddenly trade so
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>they question if CPI is the best metric for measuring inflation, not whether or not durable assets should be considered consumables Right. Inflation is supposed to be a measure of erosion in purchasing power. Why should we leave out dur
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I think it tells a lot, but not that it's necessarily something new (in that we're devolving). The use of fear mongering is evident throughout history.
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There's also quite a bit more people who travel by airplane today than in the 1930s. This adds complexity in trafficking, which works to slow things down, rather than speed things up. The fact that overall trip times are marginally fas
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I feel like this is a popular cop out answer, that while likely having some degree of truth, over-simplifies the issues in government. Couldn't it also just be that there's a lot to keep track of for our current government (of law
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>...or structure policy such that supply increases? You could. But how does that refute anything I stated? >It directly accounts for it No it doesn't because real median income can’t fall when it’s below real average income and w
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by Rury 4y ago
>I am talking about real (not nominal) median income already, which accounts for the concerns that you are talking about It actually doesn't account for what I'm talking about. It dismisses it without much substance and avoids
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>Why care about wealth inequality as a first-order concern? Because, markets behave in a zero sum manner when limiting constraints are reached (ie room for growth has run out), and many economies aren't really growing all that much
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by Rury 4y ago
I think you underline the problem. Comparing yourself with others and envying is a source of unhappiness. Social media allows for this, as do TED talks. But I think another factor is the sheer existence of our ancestors. As more time goes o
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Curious, are people suddenly paying higher property taxes now that houses are worth much more in a short time span?
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>the world isn't a zero sum game It technically is, but only so when limiting constraints are reached. Arguably we're still far from reaching limits on most everything (depending on context), but there is in fact limited amount
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by Rury 4y ago
This. I think the problem is simply we're over-diagnosing autism. Basically borderline people would've been considered normal in the past, but are now considered autistic. Frankly, the entirety of symptoms involved in diagnosis so
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by Rury 4y ago
Maybe. I find myself strangely finding code less and less crappy the more as I've grown as a developer (currently 11 years). Or perhaps, a lot happens to be crap, and it just doesn't bother me anymore like it use to? Somehow I rar
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by Rury 4y ago
>So by your logic we could just turn all forests to farmland and use it to raise cows without any noticeable impact on climate (or I guess environment in general)? That depends. If I take a forest which stores X amount of carbon, and rep
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by Rury 4y ago
You're ignoring that cows are also carbon stores (and relatively dense ones as far as biodiversity goes). Look, the problem is real simple. Simple math says that we can do this: Carbon(in atomosphere) + Carbon(biomass) + Carbon(undergr
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by Rury 5y ago
I mean to be fair, bailing them out, was also bailing us out. Banks can borrow some of people's money to fund mortgage loans. It just happened many loans at the time did so, and soured due to irresponsible lending. If they didn't
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by Rury 5y ago
Frankly, I'm not sure why NSAIDs are considered the safer option. There was a period of time when I was young, where I had tried various painkillers for treatment of headaches. Every time I had tried an NSAID, my chest felt like it was
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And the counterpoint being made here is that: you can tell yourself that, but it's not true. Why? Because bussinesses aren't people, rather businesses are made up of people. People aren't businesses, people do business. You
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>belief that your own body would not betray you I think this is a fair point. We're multicellular life forms. We're not 1 living thing, but rather a collection of many living things working together. It could be that some of th
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by Rury 5y ago
I think it's because, we would live forever, but something goes awry after being mature for so long that our bodies haven't evolved far enough to counteract yet. We solve this by sexually reproducing, which resets the clock on age
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by Rury 5y ago
So there is a subtle difference. Take a commission for example. Sounds pretty similar to a bribe right? Difference is, bribe makes for a hostage / preferential treatment situation (give me something extra sweet or else no deal/gua
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No, this reeks of putting money over ethics, and would likely increase corruption in the US. IMO, we shouldn't do business with countries via practices we view as corrupt, even if we were following their laws and would mean losing thei
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>I doesn't help you much if you are the fastest widget maker if every widget you produce is defective because you didn't take the time to do it right You're conflating effectiveness at "making good policy" with e

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