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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
Many poverty traps exist because they can be a lucrative enterprise. People in poverty are generally the most vulnerable to begin with. Curbing people's ability to leverage poverty traps for profit in a capitalist system would reduce h
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
So in this case the modeler just needs to tell the model to (1) accurately calculate the degree to which the Earth's climate will change in the next few decades and (2) give a comprehensive global forecast of the accompanying extreme w
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
I'm probably more of a whisky & mescaline socialist myself, but this tweet seems to be a pretty vapid and vague summary of the year from a journalist. Maybe it's a problem with Twitter as a medium in general? People over analy
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
This is a fairly ridiculous thing to bring up right now.
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
Search for a digital thermostat with hysteresis options to solve this problem.
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Scientists claim big advance in using DNA to store data(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by alexanderdmitri 5y ago|0 comments
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
Here's a write-up from Seattle's government about the root causes of homelessness in the city: https://www.seattle.gov/homelessness/the-roots-of-the-crisis This is a take on the issue by the Seattle Times: h
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
If the inherent value is solipsistic and self-justifying, then it is more likely to be detrimental to the overall system. This would make it a net negative.
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
I think this very good point. There is an undeniably good vibe to it. Maybe something akin to a general faith?
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
Thankfulness as an end is not necessarily valuable or positive. I think the associated feeling does little to the make the world a better place, I put it in the same category as remorse. Just as remorse should lead to rectifying action, tha
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Apple announces self-service repair scheme(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by alexanderdmitri 5y ago|1 comments
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/could-couldnt-...
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Mr Goxx, the crypto-trading hamster beating human investors(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by alexanderdmitri 5y ago|0 comments
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
# Power Statement !*Plowser*!* is in the 99th percentile of browsers by global user count! # Fact Sheet - !*Plowser*! is used by 2,050 people - sample size of browsers is 10,000 (this includes toy apps on GitHub and almost all browsers in
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
I always thought the difference is with a normal shove-it the board pivots on the back trucks, whereas with a pop shove-it all wheels are off the ground for the rotation. They seem to be depicting only the latter in the animations.
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
I found this relevant question on Quora that had some pretty good answers: https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-social-classes-in-Soviet...
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
I don't think it's that people are stupid. Blindly trusting these apps to not take advantage or mishandle their access to personal data is also naive. It's possible to do business without scanning your customer's faces,
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
DDG isn't a wrapper around google. Also, I want to tell you it gets better, I had problems getting sleep too for nearly a decade and it started really catching up with me as I entered my thirties (appetite, energy and cognitive issues
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
I'm not sure I've ever heard of a doctor prescribing calculus. They usually prescribe medicine, a regimen, or some other combination of things. Calculus helps here too: https://nmmra.org/calculus-and-its-use-in-med
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
Worth noting, calculus and differentiation help alleviate some of the uncertainty around determining the rate and effects of change.
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
Agreed on the B/W laser printer suggestion, The Giver is just HP propaganda. I ditched their color printer after a few months and bought a Cannon B/W printer[0] for ~$75. It's been a few years now and while I don't print
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
When I had a color printer it would refuse to print if any of the five cartridges started to run low. The cartridges were very expensive too.
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
You're missing the point if you think it's about people being forced. It's more like people being set up to fail or being in an environment that increases the exposure to crime, drugs and where dropping out isn't taken a
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
You don't have agency as a child when the largest chunk of emotional and physical development take place. Parents and environment play a huge role in defining the sense of personal agency and choices a person feels capable of. Increasi
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
> so the capitalists have no where to run. Curious what definition of capitalist you are using here. Three common meanings according to the Oxford dictionary are: 1. a person who invests capital in business enterprises. 2. an advocate of
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
> Spending all the money you get is moral. Extending this logic, I would also like to posit that jumping off a cliff is flight.
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
Seeing as these are the only two comments you've made on this thread, it seems like you're not ignoring what you claim should be ignored and taking all this a bit too seriously. Whether it makes sense to add the stage name to a re
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
I agree w/everything you're saying. I'm questioning the ethics of raising taxes if the extra money gets mismanaged and ends up wasted or doubled back to the wealthiest individuals. The people who would be managing this money
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
Assuming the figure is well-sourced, and given the time since the spending occurred, I'd be interested to know where this $35 trillion has ended up (not necessarily just who it directly went to, but where it's parked now and how i
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by alexanderdmitri 5y ago
Democracy is rule by the population or officials the population elects. The existence of interest groups is independent of democracy. They form in pretty much every political system on the planet, not just democratic ones.

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