analbumcover

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by analbumcover 6y ago
Most developed countries have figured this out. Some set amount of parental leave can be used by the parents of the child with the government paying some percentage of their usual salary instead of the employer. In Sweden the parents get a
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by analbumcover 6y ago
Snatches and clean and jerks are certainly more technically involved than any movement you'd see in bodybuilding or powerlifting. You train fewer motor patterns with much higher frequency than other strength sports. It lacks the variat
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by analbumcover 6y ago
You are assuming that abilities potentially unique to humans make us, or our progeny, more likely to survive long-term than a randomly selected species. I don't think that is well supported. Also, why do you think that we have agenc
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by analbumcover 6y ago
Creating an atmosphere and magnetic field for Mars should be easily doable, although I don't think either is necessary for human life on Mars, by comparison to ensuring our species survives for 500 million years. Only a handful of simp
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by analbumcover 6y ago
Humans will be long extinct in 500 million years. That's not really something we need be planning for.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
They'd be better off reading Zubrin's The Case for Mars since SpaceX is essentially just following the plan he outlined in that book.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
> All successful startup CEOs are not merely independent-minded, but aggressively so. So it's no coincidence that societies prosper only to the extent that they have customs for keeping the conventional-minded at bay. This seems ver
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by analbumcover 6y ago
This is distinctly at odds with the techno-optimist view that is so prevalent on this site, and in the tech world in general, that expects technology to address societies ills in a way that allows us to forgo systemic changes.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
The point isn't that those institutions have existed for long periods of time, but rather that they attempt to address long-term issues.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
Yeah, I didn't expect that to go over well on a distinctly techno-optimist site.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
> So is it a coincidence that 99.9% of hunter-gatherer societies have chosen to industrialize? I don't think there is much evidence of this. Would you say that hunter-gatherers in Australia, Africa, or the Americas chose to industri
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by analbumcover 6y ago
The US had, by far, the poorest response to covid of any developed nation. Which is to be expected when the US is only a borderline developed nation.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
> I mean, it's succeeded so far. There have been and will be growing pains, but so far the standard of living has increased over time. To declare failure is just speculation. Industrialized society has been reducing the long-term ca
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by analbumcover 6y ago
> I guess that would make school classes a more fluid concept, where you are with your advanced math friends for 2 hours, then with kids from the average English course for 2 hours. So you don't have a common group of kids spending
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by analbumcover 6y ago
In the political context obstructionism refers to attempts to delay or otherwise interfere with the legislative process. Which the Democrats may engage in, but I haven't seen any evidence demonstrating that. Sanctuary cities do not obs
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by analbumcover 6y ago
The CARES Act was a compromise, the refusal by the House to enforce subpoenas was a compromise. Even their choice of presidential candidate is a compromise of sorts, see Biden's "nothing would fundamentally change" comment to
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by analbumcover 6y ago
Which part? Republican obstructionism or Democratic capitulation?
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by analbumcover 6y ago
I'm not sure how long you've been following American politics, but for a few decades now the Democrats have been compromising and capitulating at almost every turn while the Republicans have staunchly refused to do this.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
You make a lot of good points here. What is expected of students in University these days is a joke compared to historical standards. Ironic given the more demanding job market expectations.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
I would be absolutely flabbergasted if a layman could get through Road to Reality . Even those with an engineering or computer science background would struggle considerably. That said, it serves as a great overview of physics for mathemat
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by analbumcover 6y ago
Ah okay, I guess I didn't realize how different they were. Thanks for the info! I'll be sure to check out that book, it sounds fascinating.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
Abstract Algebra by Pinter and Introduction to Topology by Mendelson are two fantastic books, published by Dover, that are too elementary to be used as university textbooks on those subjects but as a result are great for a more casual reade
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by analbumcover 6y ago
+20C global average warming would correspond to roughly +40C land average warming. With polar regions seeing significantly more warming, at least +60C. That would see the coast of Antarctica averaging Death Valley's summer highs. Suffi
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by analbumcover 6y ago
This is interesting, were you the captain for many of those years? I could totally understand a crew member being antisocial, but it seems like the crew would resent a leader who acted this aloof even if they were doing it for the reasons y
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by analbumcover 6y ago
I'm an academic who has never been to Antarctica. But I've done at least one mountaineering expedition (recreational not professional) every year for the past 30 years, where our lives would have been on the line if we had incompe
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by analbumcover 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised. But who is going to put up with that kind of aloof and standoffish behavior? You're probably going to come across like a monarch that doesn't want to come into contact with the common folk.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
I read that. Restrictions on sexual relationships given an uneven power dynamic are common, but an inability to shake someone's hand or put a hand on a shoulder? That's not maintaining professional boundaries, it's paranoia.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
Yeah, that's intentional. It's a reference to an old comedy sketch.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
It's interesting to read her experience but I can't get past a few things. > Because I was leading the expedition, I couldn’t have any physical contact with anyone else—zero. There were no handshakes, no flirting, and no hugs.
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by analbumcover 6y ago
Intensional intuitionistic type theory is a programming language. Throw in higher inductive types (still a programming language at this point) and Voevodsky's univalence and you've got HoTT. Then sure, the simplicial model is not

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