Starman_Jones

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by Starman_Jones 4mo ago
> truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else. Given the events of the past week, this letter really comes across as nothing more than public
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by Starman_Jones 4mo ago
They aren’t. The US built monitoring infrastructure there because it’s our project, and that’s where the science needs to happen. It’s the same reason that many more countries than just Argentina built the Pierre Auger observatory, or that
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
> If these rules go into effect, is it not true that individuals, state governments, and non-governmental organizations could still fund scientific research that the federal government won't fund? This administration’s actions towar
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
What do you mean by that?
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
The good news is that people have looked into it! And not just in a modern-slop-journalism kind of way, but in a serious, rigorous kind of way. And many of the resulting scientific papers are published online and available for you to read!
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
You’re right, I was mistaken. My bad.
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
In American English, “race and religion” is an old-timey expression that’s typically used as a broad identifier in a melting-pot context, eg. “We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions…” ~FDR
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
The idea behind YEC is that God created a world which is visibly, quantifiably, and measurably 6000 years old. According to this, scientists, in their hubris, failed to see what was right in front of them, and were led astray. It’s imperati
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
Catholicism introduced the whole concept of purgatory, which specifically avoids the idea of eternal suffering. Water baptism is not a requirement for grace (read: salvation), although it is a requirement to be recognized as belonging to th
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
As a non-Catholic, this shows such a poor grasp on what makes Catholicism different from Protestantism that it’s comical. Some early Calvinists, for example, said that Catholics were wrong because they DIDN’T believe that. It would have tak
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
The hardest part about not using Meta products is deciding not to use meta products. When I stopped using Facebook, I had resigned myself to spending a lot of time and effort to stay in touch with my friends and family. As it turns out, all
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
Yes, that is a description of comparative advantage. You must ask yourself this, though: why can a country be worse at manufacturing/growing yet still trade with the US? The answer is, of course, opportunity cost, as I said above. And,
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
What an odd response given the scenario put forth. I’m very curious what you think that starving people with no jobs are expected to trade with here?
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
The problem with Newtonian mechanics, especially idealized frictionless versions, is that it gives you a wrong impression of how the world works. Much better to understand and accept friction, because it leaves you with an accurate understa
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
Comparative advantage falls flat on its face in the circumstances being described, though. It’s based on an assumption of opportunity cost that no longer holds true.
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
I don’t think that power and resources are always captured by Cluster B types, and that statement is doing a lot of load-bearing in your argument. You’re going to need to back it up somehow.
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
The sitting president of the United States was forced to settle a discrimination lawsuit after it was shown that he instructed his staff to mark applications with a “C” (for colored) so that they could be rejected later.
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
> I'm pretty sure people have no problem with Black americans that are completely assimilated This is incorrect in the US.
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
This cruel and unusual measure only applies to people following the law.
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
This was hugely influential on a younger me! I remember tracing forward and backwards from the bands I liked, finding and checking out new bands at every stop. Thank you!
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
Of course - most HN users live in the United States’ northern neighbor (which just so happens to also be called the United States).
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
With the utmost respect to Tim Cook, Apple was saved by the iMac, which was designed and built in the year leading up to his hire. Everything after that, though, he certainly deserves more credit for than he gets.
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
Way back when, Black & Decker tried to make a push with a professional line of high-quality tools, but nobody was buying them because of B&D’s reputation for cheap, low-quality tools. So they had to introduce a whole new brand line
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by Starman_Jones 5mo ago
A. It’s remarkable how much David Simon still carries the “voice” of his former copy editor, John McIntyre [0] B. The decline of the Baltimore Sun under ownership of the Tribune was a tragedy. Layoffs continued for another decade after this
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by Starman_Jones 6mo ago
This problem already exists in retail. Pricing algorithms are easy to run, and paper tags are difficult to change frequently or in bulk. Every store will honor the posted price, but within that there’s still a range of responses between “ma
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by Starman_Jones 6mo ago
The use case that jumps out at me is long tail items and whales. Let’s say that you’re a wine store, and you have an assortment of nice Italian wines all priced at $40 (to make it tidy). You’ve priced them competitively to attract your Chia
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by Starman_Jones 6mo ago
That’s great news for a city that used to consistently be top 3. >> Since 2021 homicide numbers have down trended, reaching a 13-year low of 201 in 2024. Between 2021 and November 2025 there was a 61% reduction in homicides. In 2025 B
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by Starman_Jones 6mo ago
Maryland’s crime solutions are working, and have been for some time. It’s in metaphorical maintenance mode, rather than needing active development.
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by Starman_Jones 6mo ago
Thanks for the update. I’ll give it another shot.
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by Starman_Jones 6mo ago
I don’t think your argument around jealousy holds as much weight as you think it does. I’d encourage you to revisit your logic and work through the implications for yourself. Does it need to be AI to provoke this response? Would another hum

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