Siira

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by Siira 6y ago
I agree, but globalism has on the whole improved the human condition by a lot. The vast majority of people aren’t middle-class citizens of developed countries. Like everything, balance is key.
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by Siira 6y ago
I have heard a single dose is still pretty effective.
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by Siira 6y ago
Sometimes taking chances is worth it. As far as I have heard, every single vaccine trial has concluded “yeah, our vaccine is effective.” So if people had been allowed to take experimental vaccines, the pandemic would have been a lot better.
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by Siira 6y ago
Rather than people falling for it, they have pretty much the same incentives as the corporations. They like virtue signaling, when its costs are negligible and the externalities fall on others, but they don’t sacrifice cheap goods for some
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by Siira 6y ago
I don’t see how forced labor is not a typical example of slavery. This is not “precision,” it’s apologism.
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by Siira 6y ago
The game theory of this kind of enlightenment might not work for the majority of people. The null hypothesis is that default human behavior is near-optimal individually.
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by Siira 6y ago
Sell the phone, trash the SIM. Easy. And beware confirmation bias.
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by Siira 6y ago
Marriage is but a set of constraints designed to make two people cooperate to achieve a win-win scenario; If the two people actually trusted each other, they wouldn’t marry.
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by Siira 6y ago
There are a lot of good, free webnovels around. (E.g., “Mother of Learning.”) They might not appeal to everyone’s tastes though.
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by Siira 6y ago
I don’t think this is wise. China, Russia, etc will continue to develop these exploits; What is needed is better security. Of course, most people don’t really care about nation states spying on their phones (it doesn’t have any concrete bad
641.
by Siira 6y ago
No one is forcing you to take the vaccine. What’s wrong with you?
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by Siira 6y ago
I doubt they even think about the ethics. It’s not like they weren’t doing nefarious cyber activities before Covid-19.
643.
by Siira 6y ago
> Yes they spent a lot of money and time creating the vaccine. Now open source it and let the rest of the world save their citizens. And who’s going to pay for it? The whole PPE shortage was exactly because of this entitled attitude. If
644.
by Siira 6y ago
ISPs in a proper regulatory environment should have minimal margins.
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by Siira 6y ago
I’ve seen debilitating physical pain gone by “meditation.” I myself have had pain in my chest and throat out of anxiety. Pain is ultimately a perception the brain makes, not a physical attribute.
646.
by Siira 6y ago
It’s toxic to just assume/accuse sexism out of thin air.
647.
by Siira 6y ago
Where is the puzzle? We have a lot of obvious inefficiencies that are there just because of politics. We still make progress, because evidence does make one’s political agenda slightly stronger.
648.
by Siira 6y ago
There is nothing “reductionist” about this petty quibble.
649.
by Siira 6y ago
I look at the recommendations for specific books, both on Goodreads and Amazon.com. Admittedly, this could work better if Goodreads just automated this, but I can still find the books that my “clique” enjoys.
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by Siira 6y ago
But without any full-time engineers on it, no?
651.
by Siira 6y ago
We already have CBR/CBZ.
652.
by Siira 6y ago
This is mostly irrelevant. Pretty much every traditional value system values anonymous donations more, but few people actually do it in a completely anonymous way. I.e., the article isn’t about real anonymous donors, it’s about pseudo-anony
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by Siira 6y ago
What’s your solution? When many people want a limited resource, its price goes up. Nothing would change with more competition.
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by Siira 6y ago
I don’t see how this article defends Epstein at all. It’s a simple observation that sometimes being modest with your good deeds pays off better than boasting.
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by Siira 6y ago
Jewelry is even more useless than ledgers.
656.
by Siira 6y ago
Bitcoin can’t technically handle casual use. Perhaps the new ethereum will achieve that. The price is the only changing thing about Bitcoin.
657.
by Siira 6y ago
Non-targeted ads are valid signals of the strength of a brand.
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by Siira 6y ago
Formal logic does not help with critical thinking that much. You need to teach Bayesian thinking, which seems a daunting task.
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by Siira 6y ago
What ideas do you have? I find Goodreads has the features, but its UX is rather old-fashioned.
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by Siira 6y ago
Most of the value is actually in signaling and the peer group.

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