Tomminn

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by Tomminn 8y ago
Damn this is a good idea. The general problem with "free" is that, without the price signal, overuse occurs. But public transport is orders of magnitude more efficient at moving people than cars, so even if people use public tran
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by Tomminn 8y ago
I'm not saying this idea is wrong, but it comes with a large grain of salt. Like everything else in the world, 90% of science is crap. If there is no proposed falsifiability criterion, there is no science here.
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by Tomminn 8y ago
Sure, if everyone knew they had perfect teeth. But most people rely on their dentist for that kind of information. Which makes you wonder if your assertion would actually turn out to be true. Many naturopaths make a decent living.
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by Tomminn 8y ago
My dentist the other day said "oh you're right handed." I said "how did you know?" She said "because that makes it easier to brush the left side of your mouth. Which is why your gums are really eroded on that s
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by Tomminn 8y ago
There is often discussions of US health policy on HN, and this is the most important chart to have in mind when discussing it. Right now, the US spends more public money per capita on healthcare than all countries which have universal publi
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US public and private health spending vs. the world (graph)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Tomminn 8y ago
'I think there's a real reluctance to put a precise dollar figure on how far we'll go per person toward "universal coverage of everything", but that's precisely the conversation we need to be having.' This
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by Tomminn 8y ago
Honestly, despite all the crap universities get, taking an undergraduate degree with a double major in physics and maths is an awesome way to do this. You'll meet people who are similarly passionate, be naturally competitive with them
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by Tomminn 8y ago
My way of evaluating who my real friends are is by asking myself one question: "Are these the people I'd want to be around if war broke out?". Similarly, a question I often ask myself to make sure I'm not becoming trivia
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by Tomminn 8y ago
Okay, is it just me or are these patents insane? Literally no words or limitations as to what the patent actually covers. Just a set of pictures, with the part they would like to have "patented" emboldened. Can't you just cla
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by Tomminn 8y ago
Ah yet another time to remind US citizens they are needlessly dying at worst or massively overpaying for health at best. The health care of system of the US is insane and has malignant cost disease. If they scrapped everything and adopted a
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by Tomminn 8y ago
His point is if you could keep the vast majority of the population to a biological age of less than 30, you wouldn't need the vast majority of health care.
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by Tomminn 8y ago
The key word is "then". That is the right word. Arguing that the US can't move first is like arguing that we can't have a proper democracy and proper human rights in the US until China, India and Russia all agree they wi
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by Tomminn 8y ago
Everyone massively overestimates the actual cost of offsetting carbon. $50B more tax per annum on the US economy is jack shit. It's like 1% of the current US federal tax. It's barely gonna affect any industry. No-one will change t
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by Tomminn 8y ago
It's not "pay someone else not to burn", it's "pay someone else to eat all the carbon you are spitting out". It would totally work, and it's the only way to get to zero emission.
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by Tomminn 8y ago
It can be done, maybe not on literal desert but on what is currently marginal farmland. People do it on smaller scales and offset at a rate of less than $10/tonne.
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by Tomminn 8y ago
In New Zealand, the government buys drugs from pharmeceutical companies. There is no reason why the US government cannot buy carbon offset from the free market, using the revenue generated from a carbon tax. There will be monitoring/in
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by Tomminn 8y ago
Want to make the US carbon zero? Plant and maintain a forest 5x the size of New Zealand on a cheap piece of land somewhere. Or just start a damn carbon tax priced at the cost of offsetting the carbon. Which will turn out to be so freaking
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by Tomminn 8y ago
That plot is deceiving, just because the x-axis representing the ratio goes so large so quickly. I'd say roughly 95% of normally encountered triangles have edge ratios of less than 1:20, which represents 2% of the x axis. Glancing at t
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by Tomminn 8y ago
Read the comment by "Someone". The rest of the world was playing on both sides of the table, since Kasporov was reading their analysis during the game.
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by Tomminn 8y ago
You miss the parents point: White was playing with the rest of world's analysis and Kasporov's analysis, Black was only playing with the rest of world's analysis. Literally reading all the thoughts of your opponent is a littl
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by Tomminn 8y ago
Sorry edit: I disagree strongly that there is no association, it's an 80-20 thing. 80% can be explained by real brain sophistication, with 20% explained by cultural baggage.
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by Tomminn 8y ago
I didn't realize that was your argument. I'd agree with that.
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My point is that the hierarchy is ordered by increasingly sophisticated internal conscious experience. This is the least arbitrary thing ever when it comes to concern around suffering.
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by Tomminn 8y ago
Yup, totally arbitrary. That's why I prefer the poetry yeast writes about the beauty of the universe and the pain of existence to that written by humans.
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by Tomminn 8y ago
The idea of taking psychedelics at 16 terrifies me. I believe pretty strongly that psychedelics are best once you've already tried pretty hard at the classical life script. Only then will you be able to see it's actual weaknesses
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by Tomminn 8y ago
This is bizarre if true and is followed up by NK removing all those artillery pointed at Seoul. It puts them in a very precarious state. The only remaining bulwark against US invasion would be upsetting China. The other obvious one is the n
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by Tomminn 9y ago
The section quoted below at excruciating length, to me, has the most interesting insight. It's like a koan: complete the task without ever assigning it to yourself. Assigned problems are problems you’re told to work on. Numerous psych
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by Tomminn 9y ago
Yeah you certainly get a taste of it pretty early, and I think that taste is what made me intrigued to keep going, but lets be honest that taste is pretty well spoiled by increasingly desperate hunger. But I've just hit ~87 hours now,
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by Tomminn 9y ago
The assumption you're making is that your brain gets no calories when you have no food. Every kilogram of fat on your body is 9000 calories just sitting there. Most of us have at least 10 of em, or 90,000 calories. While it's defi

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