Rury

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by Rury 2y ago
Evidence suggests it's because lipid turnover decreases with age: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190909193211.h...
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by Rury 2y ago
I think it's really about some of our biological processes which helps keep us alive. I mean, our brains are hardwired to try and keep us alive. Seeking out old information you already know is not beneficial to improving your survival.
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by Rury 2y ago
Right, but I wouldn't quite say that we created Hobbes' world. It's rather a reality born from the simple nature of things. Any reality in which people may differ in what it is they want/will, and not everyone can always
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by Rury 2y ago
Only if you assume that pay is a matter solely determined by how difficult a job is (which it isn't).
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by Rury 3y ago
Because of government subsidies. The government subsidizes college prices by backing student loans. This creates a vicious circle. Colleges raise their prices, the government ensures those prices can be met, and students are on the hook fo
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by Rury 3y ago
That is not quite what I was thinking. More like the industry is selecting for the optimum combination of common factors. For an overly simple example: - person A likes musical features W,X,Y,Z - person B likes musical features I,J,K,Z - pe
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by Rury 3y ago
Society isn't to blame. It's more like society is a multi-cellular organism. The reason it exists in the first place, is because individuals find that working together is typically better than not, but at times, it's possible
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by Rury 3y ago
I'm not sure they make the correct conclusion (ie that people necessarily prefer simpler music when facing options). I think it's more that... to be popular, you need to fit the tastes of many people, and the best way to do that i
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by Rury 3y ago
> You would also be shit out of luck in the next year Nonsense. In theory, any one person can pay off all the debt, given enough favors. For example, if I was hypothetically $2 in debt to you, but there is only $1 in existence (which was
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by Rury 3y ago
Quite simply because investors are often chasing after money only (ie profitability), not necessarily a company's productivity or product quality. And the quicker the profits the better (meaning short term is valued over long term). Ad
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by Rury 3y ago
Right, you did/do the work for her. That's why Apple grew to be successful, and Linux isn't for everybody.
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by Rury 3y ago
Only if you completely ignore the fact that Apple wouldn't have continued to exist, let alone the iTunes Store and the iPhone coming to exist, if it weren't for Steve Jobs saving the company in the 90s by prioritizing the customer
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by Rury 3y ago
Increased mutations/mutation rate is not necessarily a downside. Mutations aren't inherently bad, they can be beneficial, and the vast majority actually have no effect whatsoever, as the majority of our DNA is never used. But yes
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by Rury 3y ago
Go tell that to my mother who's now in her 70s, who barely knows how to open her email (and thats assuming nothing out of the ordinary happens like her account gets locked). Yeah, linux isn't for everybody... Understanding this, i
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by Rury 3y ago
As you get older, you realize there are people of all ages, who believe in all sorts of things. That flat earthers do exist (even ones with pHDs). That there are people who are 40+ who have no high school diploma. Hell, Bill Gates even once
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by Rury 3y ago
More like, people who are incompetent cannot determine BS from non BS as well as someone who is competent. People who are incompetent are also more likely to engage in bluffing strategies (ie BS) in order to gain status than someone that ca
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by Rury 3y ago
A major part of business of former employer of mine, involved simply buying parts from another business, doing things to try and hide who the OEM was, and having salesmen resell it for a large markup without doing anything else to the parts
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by Rury 3y ago
Goodhart's law at work. People often use it in reference to work performance metrics, but aptly applies to inflation metrics, because we try to target/control inflation.
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by Rury 3y ago
Sure, but blindly following something without question, isn't compression, even though both happen to involve reduction.
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by Rury 3y ago
It can, it just depends. Take these hypothetical scenarios for example: Scenario 1: Buy 10Y today, @4.5% interest. Scenario 2: Hold that money as cash for 5 years, and then use it to buy 5Y when it's yielding 17% interest. Scenario 2 w
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by Rury 3y ago
The public market consists of a wide variety of people. From computer experts, to grandmas who barely know what email is. Linux will never work for those grandma types, whereas closed source stuff like Mac OS does all those complicated thin
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by Rury 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the theory of flow and how dopamine and the brain works completely explains what makes video games fun. In short, to make a video game fun it needs to balance a person's flow state (particularly in regards to learn
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by Rury 3y ago
Not really... I mean, the issue starts with the equating of 'metal' to mean 'solid', let alone how 'solid' is a bit of an oxymoron for 'plasma'. Additionally, all materials are free to conduct electro
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by Rury 3y ago
Plasmas, and the states of matter, are more of a convenient categorical heuristic than actual things. We categorize matter as so, so we can conveniently convey information about a material's conditional properties , but any material c
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by Rury 3y ago
It matters for the same reason money matters. It's a unit of measure of fairness, a promise to return a favor. Defaulting on a debt, is like eating at a restaurant and skipping out on paying the bill. Inflating away the debt, is like e
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by Rury 3y ago
Nonetheless, your use of an analogy implies that you think there's something faulty to the argument, when it is in fact a completely valid and reasonable argument. So your analogy is rather toothless/meaningless. If you want to ar
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by Rury 3y ago
The reason for this perception is because, if you claim it would take 4X, but you finish it in 1X, or 2X, or 3X, you can just pretend to be still working on BS things, and then viola you're finished at 4X. Otherwise, if you claim it wh
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by Rury 3y ago
Well, we do know that it's during cellular reproduction when DNA is copied, that genetic mutations most often happen. So in theory, anything that our body can metabolize, is carcinogenic in the sense that energy intake fuels cell growt
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by Rury 3y ago
You don't need real evidence. Just the most simplest thought experiment in the state of nature (which is anarchy). How do two wild animals win a dispute over something? They either fight violently, or intimidate (ie persuade) their opp
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by Rury 3y ago
You're right. The US isn't a democracy, it's predominantly an oligarchy/republic. And as matter of fact, no national government is purely a democracy (because a pure democracy at such a scale also doesn't work, be

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