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by anonporridge 3y ago
Waist to height ratio is a better measure for individuals that better measures the real problem of excess visceral fat. Should optimally be <0.5.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
You seem not American. To Americans, being born to a different nationality doesn't preclude you from being considered a full and true American. First generation immigrants and naturalized citizens tend to be completely accepted as equa
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by anonporridge 3y ago
> The preparedness paradox is the proposition that if a society or individual acts effectively to mitigate a potential disaster such as a pandemic, natural disaster or other catastrophe so that it causes less harm, the avoided danger wil
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by anonporridge 3y ago
I think the concern is downstream effects negative to areas and people far away. Like how the Sahara feeds the Amazon rainforest. https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/nasa-sat... i.e. greening your
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by anonporridge 3y ago
This is also why chemical batteries that can react in milliseconds are such useful buffer tech, even if they can't store more than a few hours of demand.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
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by anonporridge 3y ago
I don't disagree. But the broader point is that whenever you have a strong and weak entity interacting, you can always find a way to frame anything the stronger entity does as "violence". Not sharing your wealth and power? Vi
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Future headline... > In a violent act against the Haitian people, the US halts export of low cost rice, leading to mass starvation and food insecurity. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
I'd be curious to see a study that weighs the health costs of too much arsenic, with the health costs of too few calories. It's not intrinsically obvious what the cost/benefit analysis is. Obviously, this assumes that if Hait
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Is it not obvious that the distinction is intent to discriminate based on race? Google, in a self imposed noble desire to rectify poor representation of training data, intentionally injected race discrimination in their system. This intent
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by anonporridge 3y ago
> Is it 'racism' when facial recognition algorithms perform more poorly on dark skin? No, because that occurred due to an oversight of not including a representative set of training data. At worst it's implicit racism due
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Because there's a newspeak movement to try to dilute the definition of 'racism' as something that can't be perpetrated against relatively powerful racial groups.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
There was only ever going to be one PoW chain that dominates the world. Ethereum abandoning it just cements bitcoin as the winner. It might have some great utility, but bitcoin is now the standard for immutability that all other solutions w
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Related. Even as energy production prices from solar trend towards zero, end user energy costs is still going to be lower bounded by transmission costs. California in particular is getting a nasty taste of this, with many customer's bi
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Bitcoin mining is a pioneer species, proving out the tapping of novel and remote energy sources and laying the initial infrastructure for more investment. https://medium.com/the-bitcoin-times/bitcoin-is-a-pioneer-sp...
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by anonporridge 3y ago
> There’s a reason China killed bitcoin mining and the US needs to follow suit. According to this data, China tried, but failed to kill bitcoin mining. As of the last update in Jan 2022, China currently has 55% of the hashrate it had bef
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by anonporridge 3y ago
The entire innovation of Proof of Work (that made bitcoin a success where predecessors failed) is that it is costly in real world energy to corrupt the network. e.g. you can't bullshit your way into finding this number, 000000000000000
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by anonporridge 3y ago
This Cambridge group is the best source I know of that estimates bitcoin mining energy usage and location. There are wide error bars because we don't know exactly what mining hardware is being used, even though we know the approximate
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by anonporridge 3y ago
The US prison system is the way it is because we have a lot of culture poverty, despite a lot of resource wealth.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
The combined total net worth of all US billionaires would pay for about 8 months of US federal spending...once. Also, wealth isn't just in the form of money. A culture that produces few criminals is a form of wealth that can't be
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Only if those resources give a return on investment. If managed counter productive individuals remain a perpetual parasitic cost on society, then it's not obvious that just executing them and being done with it isn't the greatest
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Possibly, but I'd also speculate that it makes real cp less profitable, and therefore start to disappear. Similar to how real OF girls are going to rapidly lose their income because dudes running AI camgirls will increasingly outcompet
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Like all high morality, more advanced rehabilitation methods and/or more pleasant segregation of criminals from law abiding members of society, is a privilege of wealth. The richer we collectively are, the more resources we can devote
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by anonporridge 3y ago
A similar concept I like is bitcoin mining as a pioneer species. The amount of infrastructure necessary to drop in a bitcoin mine with a satellite uplink in a very remote area that happens to have an untapped energy source is very small and
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by anonporridge 3y ago
> The aliens could disguise their motives for a while, claiming to be there to help counteract global warming. Seemingly benevolent aliens just here to help us fix our mess, but ultimately just want to sneakily take our stuff, is fun tro
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by anonporridge 3y ago
> The seizure came after the "accused voluntarily transferred" the bitcoins to an official wallet of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), police added in a statement. Seizure is a technical word here, not what laypeople ex
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by anonporridge 3y ago
I'm wrong. Thanks for the correction.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
So what? Is not disposable income what's left over after you pay your mandatory expenses, like housing? If real disposable income is rising, then people have more access to non necessary resources than they did before. So, they have mo
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Hungary recently promised a lifetime income tax break to women who have 4 or more children. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/have-four-or-more-babies-in-... Have any other countries seen such a strong fertilit
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Real disposable income in Sweden has increased 50% over the last 20 years. https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/the-real-gross-disposabl...

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