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by SamPatt 5y ago
Substitute whistleblower for reporter and yes, nearly all politicians will use the criminal justice system to silence their critics. Was Obama a fascist? I have no desire to engage in whataboutism, they all show their true colors when they&
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Nearly all politicians act like this when they're in power. The general public is easily mislead. HN notices it when it's a tech issue, but it happens in economics, medicine, basically everywhere. They have zero incentives to acce
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The alleged miracles of all the saints are the clearest examples of confirmation bias anyone could come up with.
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Oh no, a loss of context! Anything but that. The student offered to speak personally to anyone offended. Talk. Like adults do. Instead the administration tried to bully him and threaten his career unless he apologized for being racist, a cl
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Alerting is useful regardless of the dog's motivation. However my dog is definitely not alerting solely out of fear. He can be aggressive towards strangers in certain situations, and I'm totally confident he would confront an intr
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I'm aware of Smith's discussion of specialization of labor from an economic perspective but not from a social one, where can I read more about this?
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How do you kill the robot? I keep getting electrocuted.
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With good UX for chat and excellent file sharing. Very sad it didn't get more traction. I still use it.
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Agreed, file sharing via Keybase is a dream. It automatically creates an encrypted folder on my filesystem that is shared with the other party. Super convenient, I tried to evangelize it solely for this reason.
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The video contains a video showing exactly how the holes are used in manufacturing. You seem to dislike people who create content on YouTube but this video seems well sourced.
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This article is about international tax agreements which apply at the national level.
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The vast majority of roads are managed at the state and local level. The overall expenditure for roads at the federal level is a very small portion of the budget.
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I am guessing the most popular streamers have gotten where they are by hard work. Yes some is luck, attractiveness, etc. But that's true in all careers. Just because they're playing games doesn't mean they aren't working
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There's an entire state's worth of "idle / fallow" on that map. Michigan and then some. That's a lot of land.
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In our current society being technologically adept probably does get you more luck with women over a lifetime than most professions. While a hoard of electronics may not have an instant connection to status like a fancy car, it's proba
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by SamPatt 5y ago
I've been poor and rich, insanely busy and idle. Wealth removes the day to day stress, and that goes a long way. But it doesn't bring happiness itself. Same with work. Idleness is fun for a short while, then awful. We all know too
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That doesn't sound crazy. Anyone paying attention realizes many of the well-intentioned responses to the pandemic had unintended consequences. This is nothing new. During the great depression livestock prices dropped so the government
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In theory free labor for big tech companies will reduce their costs and some of that reduction will then be passed onto their customers. So the labor is still beneficial more broadly.
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My preferred policy would be to only remove speech which is actively calling for violence. This fits in line with a common conception of what we view as reasonable limits on free speech. Removing speech of people sharing their beliefs about
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"That was a special case. They messed up..." Well good thing that'll never happen again, right? /s Given the repeated failings and intentional or unintentional misinformation we've seen thus far, why do you believe
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The problem is: who determines who the "wackos" are and what is and isn't "extreme BS"? If it's defined by social consensus then during periods of groupthink and hysteria (common among humans) even the most rea
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by SamPatt 5y ago
Voxels work well for simulating liquids. They're good for giving mass to objects instead of just having a shape. Thus far that's mostly meant they're used for terrain which is destroyable.
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Some data modes on ham radio work like this. You can even see them fix typos over the air. Lots of fun.
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Incredible claim. Science is a process we employ to learn more about the world. It is not a solution to all the world's ills. Science informs, then people make decisions on that information. Denying that controversial decisions are bei
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Agreed. It's genuinely funny at times. It's worth at least trying it for a few days
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The weather, their radio and antenna setup, and their health issues.
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How is this different than people having their smartphones out? I dislike it too, but I don't think I'd actually ostracize anyone for it. Maybe I'd refuse to interact in particular ways (deeper campfire conversations).
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Building p2p networks with their own light clients is incredibly difficult. We built OpenBazaar (decentralized marketplace using cryptocurrency) as a p2p network on top on IPFS with it's own client. It eventually failed and everyone as
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Not everyone is forced to store it though. You don't need consensus about the state of the entire network on layer 2 like you do on layer 1. So it's not really a problem.
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Is school the appropriate place to try to cure all society's ailments though? Empirically it doesn't seem to have worked, even if you think it should be attempted. But I'm skeptical that it's even wise to attempt. Educat

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