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by aaronsw 17y ago
Congratulations, you're better at finding me than the FBI.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
This is a long post, mostly filled with things that are either irrelevant to what I said or obviously wrong. But the basic place where it disagrees with Keynes is that it adopts the old-time monetarist view that printing money always "debas
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Huh? Lower interest rates are the result of an increased supply of capital -- by the government printing money.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
It's a direct summary of Keynes' book _The General Theory_. Have you actually read it? Keynes has often been misconstrued by later writers.
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Keynes, Explained Briefly(aaronsw.com)
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by aaronsw 17y ago
How does having less cows being born hurt actual cows? It might "hurt" the cow species, but that's a metaphorical point -- surely you don't consider the cow species actually capable of pain. The evidence (look up "demographic transition") s
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by aaronsw 17y ago
I'm not sure how any of this discredits their recommendations. E.g. it seems to me the Stop TB Foundation and Partners In Health probably still achieve measurable results. I certainly wouldn't recommend donating to GiveWell, though. The MIT
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by aaronsw 17y ago
What does this even mean? Right now nonprofits do things in exchange for money from wealthy people. How would "running them like a business" be any different?
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by aaronsw 17y ago
I'd like to hear you name the nonprofit and some of the metrics they use; it'd be great to be able to share good examples.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
http://givewell.net/ investigates charities to make sure they achieve demonstrable results, they have a list of those that do. There are also meta-charities like GiveWell and the MIT Poverty Action Lab that investigate other charitable at
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Did you read the article? They edited my partition to add their key to my authorized_keys, logged in with it, and turned off my webserver. Whatever that is, it's not asking to assist me.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
As I note in the article, they already had placed a CPU cap on me. They could have lowered it to whatever my fair share is instead of breaking into my box and turning off my webserver.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Technically the police can break down my door too, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to trust them with a key. There are both social reasons (a key is an invitation) and technical (it's much more noticeable if they break down the door).
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Load it down with ads _after_ it becomes popular.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Alexander Cockburn once wrote a hilarious parody of Lehrer about this: http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06302005.html
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by aaronsw 17y ago
How is this emotionalism? I'm writing about people who are trying to take a rationalist, cold-hearted look at death and do something about it.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Trade policies: The traditional way developing countries industrialize is by picking something they import from other countries and learning to make it themselves. This requires a period of huge government subsidies and economic interventio
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Why would more automation lead to more people out of work? Automation simply increases productivity; productivity gains have increased by numerous factors of 10 in the past few centuries and workforce participation rates have consistently _
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Humans need calories, it's true, but more than that we need nutrients. McDonald's food is carefully processed and stripped of its natural nutrients, so that you need to eat much more of it to get the nutrients you need. It's also packed ful
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Look at what happens in cultures where they regularly eat crops which decrease fertility. The fuck like rabbits, having sex with anyone and everyone without any cultural inhibitions like shame or marriage, starting at puberty, so they can g
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Does everyone here get their facts from political columnists and movie directors? Poor people have more kids because their kids are more likely to die. It's the same reason people before the industrial revolution had more kids: it's how you
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by aaronsw 17y ago
You can just email me, you know. I check my email. I argue for killing the king in my latest piece on this subject: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/savealife
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by aaronsw 17y ago
The Latino infant mortality rate differs from the non-Hispanic white one by 0.1 per 1000. This is largely attributed to methodological issues around getting appropriate records and the selection bias of immigration.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
The main reason poor people tend to suffer from obesity is because it's much more expensive to buy organic vegetables than it is to buy some McDonald's. (Organic food stores don't even tend to open in poor neighborhoods.) Running around in
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by aaronsw 17y ago
"Few people can experience now what Darwin's contemporaries did when The Origin of Species was first published, because everyone now is raised either to take evolution for granted, or to regard it as a heresy. No one encounters the idea of
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Yes. They were here: http://paulgraham.infogami.com/blog/
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Can someone ban TechCrunch? AFAICT, it's nothing but linkjacking.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Because the basic income money isn't given to purchase any particular good. People can spend it on what they like. If the person gets to choose between spending their $5000 on a laptop or plane tickets, supply-and-demand says laptops will s
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by aaronsw 17y ago
Sounds like you need to find bigger libraries. I read 50-150 books a year and my to-read list keeps growing longer.
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by aaronsw 17y ago
More at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVvyVVoLH8U for those who just can't look away.

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