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by alvah 4y ago
“Good process, bad outcome.” And that is where I vehemently disagree. Bad process, bad outcome. Many people lied to make the information appear as you said. The incentives they had to lie should have a lot more scrutiny, rather than being s
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by alvah 4y ago
That's how people who haven't previously been investors through a crisis think stop losses work.
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by alvah 4y ago
Enforcing vaccination before it's possible to know the long-term effects, for all groups including those at low risk from Covid, was and is a terrible idea. Offering it to the elderly, obese and otherwise-at-risk, where there's a
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by alvah 4y ago
Whether it's viable or not depends on how much money you want/need to make. Ad networks typically pay out $5 or more per thousand views (many people reporting RPMs in the $30s and above in some niches / geos), so if you want
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by alvah 4y ago
steal, verb: to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice. The bigger question is, why do you think this isn't stealing?
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by alvah 4y ago
you're absolutely correct, stealing customer funds is totally fine /sarc
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by alvah 4y ago
It must have taken a special effort to miss the point by that much.
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by alvah 4y ago
My daughter's homework included the question "without an atmosphere would there be gravity?". At the time Google's featured snippet for this phrase claimed without an atmosphere we'd all float off into space. Worse,
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by alvah 4y ago
"Now include the AUD1.80/L fuel costs into the life of that car." While remembering, of course, to include AUD0.30-0.60/kwh for charging the EV (or AUD$6-$12/100km for a typical EV).
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by alvah 4y ago
"You can’t on one hand be a libertarian turd" Even ignoring the slur (I have many disagreements with libertarians but don't see the need for ad-hom), where did you get this? Ctrl-F in the article for "libertarian" h
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by alvah 4y ago
There is, at the very least, plenty of conjecture that the over-reliance on grains and grain-derived foods in the USDA food pyramid is better for the profits of agribusiness than the health of the nation.
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by alvah 4y ago
The account you replied to replied to a comment of mine on another thread with a weird word salad. It was suggested to me that said account may be a bot...
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by alvah 4y ago
"Vaccines became broadly available in relatively wealthy countries in 2021 wherein the only reasonable position would have been that vaccination of all groups would decrease net mortality even among those unlikely to die and reduce dam
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by alvah 4y ago
Is your casual "anti-vaxxers" slur aimed at the pre-2020 definition of anti-vaxxer, or the more recent iteration?
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by alvah 4y ago
"depreciation is certainly a subsidy to capital" Only if you twist the meaning of "subsidy" to mean "any level of taxation less than 100%". Which may be what you mean, but (correctly IMO) isn't generally a
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by alvah 4y ago
Are you allowed to re-post Amazon reviews, while earning Amazon Associates commission? This would appear to fall foul of https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies... , specifically: "(t) You
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by alvah 4y ago
"Who stops people from running their own search engines?" It's not who, its $$$ / time / knowledge (pick 1,2 or all 3).
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by alvah 4y ago
"Putting Pinterest at the top of image search results is effectively nothing more than a funnel to onboard more users for Pinterest, they rarely, if ever, have any relevance. I can't imagine why Google hasn't knocked them out
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by alvah 4y ago
The trick with Joe Rogan is not to take anything he says seriously, but many of the guests he has on have interesting perspectives that are often worth listening to.
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by alvah 4y ago
This is where I think many people talk past each other in the great wfh debate. If your commute is an easy 20 minutes where you listen to a podcast or an audiobook, and you find collaboration easier in-person rather than via Teams, it'
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by alvah 4y ago
~10C of warming in the short to medium term is beyond even the wildest IPCC models is it not?
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by alvah 4y ago
"Just don't have an affair". Righto, that'll fix it, because nobody who has an affair currently knows it's wrong /sarc
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by alvah 4y ago
New tech becomes cheaper when widely adopted. See: solar panels.
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by alvah 4y ago
You should probably read the article, before writing a highly-downvoted comment answering a completely different article.
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by alvah 4y ago
Unfortunately for the idealists among us, life is full of trade-offs.
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by alvah 4y ago
Efficiency isn't the goal here. Energy density & re-using existing infrastructure are the points.
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by alvah 4y ago
>> If the $ per Wh cost from PV is extremely low > IMO this is roughly equivalent to saying “assume that you could clone dinosaurs, and that you could fill a park with these dinosaurs, and that you could get a ticket to this ‘Juras
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by alvah 4y ago
Synthetic hydrocarbons may be the stepping stone civilisation needs, until a better way of storing renewable energy at grid scale is invented. If you don't like them for unspecified reasons, and don't propose a viable alternative,
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by alvah 4y ago
Slightly OT but that espresso machine will use high-pressure steam. Not the type of thing I'd want to buy from MOFFBUZW!
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by alvah 4y ago
Anyone who unironically prefixes "science" with "the" doesn't understand science. The scientific method is pretty much the opposite of ten commandments inscribed in stone.

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