akimball

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by akimball 4y ago
...and his name is Musk.
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by akimball 4y ago
Is it extraneous to interpret schrödinger psi as a probability amplitude? If not, then all fundamental interactions are stochastic.
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by akimball 4y ago
> it can never be perfect because it's working on incomplete information. Unlike you?
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by akimball 4y ago
A system of process relations.
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by akimball 4y ago
Physical laws are stochastic, not deterministic.
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by akimball 4y ago
The solution is to stop paying taxes
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by akimball 4y ago
No, taxes do not fund governments in the modern era.
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by akimball 4y ago
And yet people are prosecuted.
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by akimball 4y ago
Both of which are, like helping fugitive slaves, virtuous acts.
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by akimball 4y ago
Sine secretum non Libertas.
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by akimball 4y ago
No one becomes a refugee by choice
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by akimball 4y ago
Any hospital that takes visa takes Bitcoin.
43.
by akimball 4y ago
Desperation. Acetyl aldéhydes in tobacco are highly addictive. Nicotine supplements do not supply these, but folks manage to quit tobacco using them because they are motivated, and they are the best available alternative.
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by akimball 4y ago
Yet it is strictly necessary in order to test the physical model.
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by akimball 4y ago
Sure? I am sure of very little. My priors (i.e. my physical model) favor the theory that nicotine prevents infection by blocking ACE2 receptors. I have no posterior inferences to confirm or refute the hypothesis.
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by akimball 4y ago
Since the interactions of ACE2 and nicotine are well-known, my priors favor the benefit of nicotine in this pandemic. They remain neutral, consequently, with regard to smoking, because while smoking does deliver nicotine, it also does lung
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by akimball 4y ago
I'm a non-smoker but use nicotine daily. My mother (nicotine free) died of COVID, but I have never had it. But we are mere anecdotes, and prove nothing.
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by akimball 4y ago
It is very actionable: Give nicotine to patients. No smoking required.
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by akimball 4y ago
Correct. This is the original American ideology, persisting since the declaration of independence. If it seems absurd, you may wish to recalibrate your notions of absurdity to the prevailing reality.
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by akimball 4y ago
Socialists print guns too
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by akimball 4y ago
Bannon. Steve Bannon. But the practice predates him. Vladislav Surkov importantly brought it into play very effectively immediately prior.
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by akimball 4y ago
Yet the risk of non-civilization continues to exceed the risk of civilization.
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by akimball 4y ago
A remotely operated hole punch. I have used one to quickly make small round holes in hard materials on several occasions. Also to install small lead weights into things. Mostly though, they are good for humanely harvesting meat.
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by akimball 4y ago
There is a substantial literature documenting regulatory capture in the modern bureaucratic state, but the business model dates back centuries. This is almost like asking for evidence of air.
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by akimball 4y ago
And you can back a credit card with Monero. It's a great way to receive payments, easy to spend.
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by akimball 4y ago
https://rt.wiki.kernel.org https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux
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by akimball 4y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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by akimball 4y ago
It's ludicrous to claim that 3000$ of stimulus for a minority of the population disincentivizes workers. How long would 3k last you?
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by akimball 4y ago
The are lending money, by buying British bonds. The bonds are risk-free but only when held to maturity. (The market price for bonds before that time will vary dramatically with interest rates, but the value at maturity is perfectly stable
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by akimball 4y ago
It is risk free, held to maturity. 50 year bond market prices however, vary strongly in response to interest rate changes. Since these bonds are issued by the bank of England and since interest rates are set by the bank of England this is

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