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by another-one-off 8y ago
Flat earthing is maybe a little more extreme than I am comfortable with, but it is easy to see how the same psychological mechanisms that produce flat earthers would also produce some truly original research. The obvious parallel is the old
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by another-one-off 8y ago
If I move into a house with a grid connection only, I budget on power costs = cost of grid connection + grid power price. If I move to a house with solar panels, I budget on power costs = cost of grid connection + X * grid power price + (1-
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by another-one-off 8y ago
No problem with UBI as a theory, for all I know it might be strictly better than the status quo. Handing money out seems to have worked out for the banking system, hahaha. :[ The issue is that the economy is outrageously complicated and it
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by another-one-off 8y ago
The theoretical argument would be that one teacher gets sacked and their 27 students get distributed amongst the other teachers bringing the student:teacher ratio back to 30:1. Indeed, if this doesn't happen (which is fully possible) y
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by another-one-off 8y ago
Well, I don't believe that corporations should be required to create a social safety net. I think the government should do it directly.
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by another-one-off 8y ago
The goal of a minimum wage is difficult to pin down, because laws are written by large groups of people with potentially differing motivations. That being said, I hope it isn't about a safety net. What a minimum wage really does is out
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by another-one-off 8y ago
> I also think the author should be willing to accept 100% blame for the debt, which it seems like they aren't. This isn't a productive way of treating bad debt - and it is particularly questionable in light of the treatment th
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by another-one-off 8y ago
You might be doing yourself a disservice. There are a lot of people who would be extremely competent in practice who are put off by the dirt and competition of the election process. Choosing officials by lot is also extremely resistant to t
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by another-one-off 8y ago
I'm just going off the wiki articles [1] and some random articles [eg, 2], but given the rarity of 'Fukushima type meltdowns' I'm still confused about why people are worried about them. Flooding and violent storms are mu
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by another-one-off 8y ago
That starts to rule out a lot of English speaking countries, including probably the UK. I mean, in the UK alone you'd need to evaluate what, if anything, separates the modern British morals from the morals of the British Empire which w
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by another-one-off 8y ago
> And yet Australians are already richer than the French at the median, along with having a far higher GDP per capita. I agree with your main point, caveat that I don't know anything about the current state of French science because
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by another-one-off 8y ago
There is a selection bias - 'child prodigy discovers X' is a little more newsworthy than 'eccentric person discovers X after lifetime of mucking around'. I expect that the average age is probably older than 30 [1]. But 3
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by another-one-off 8y ago
It says nothing about anything, really. There may be specific jurisdictions where Apple maps or Google maps falls over because that is an area they happen to have some bad data for - we can't really tell. Strategically, Apple maps is i
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by another-one-off 8y ago
Everything you said is actually pretty strange. I'm on board with it, but the default what-humans-try-on-the-first-pass approach is to consider each case on its own merits including the people involved (and runs smack-bang into the var
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by another-one-off 8y ago
We can't criminalise making mistakes, even if it is lawmakers who are making them. I see wisdom in a general amnesty for light drug crimes if it is decriminalised; but it isn't like there is a double standard being applied here. T
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by another-one-off 8y ago
I'd liken it to Repblicanism vs Monarchism. The differences between the positions are pretty extreme; to the point where it is hard for normal people to educate themselves. It looks like something I'd be in favour of. Not because
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by another-one-off 8y ago
Those concerns are orthogonal to the type of mastery Rich is talking about. If neither of your developers has mastered software development, it doesn't matter which you pick - they're both going to need a lot of training and handh
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by another-one-off 9y ago
Realistically, sunshine has caused more cancers than every nuclear disaster added together. If we could, we would absolutely ban it. It is grossly unsafe.
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by another-one-off 9y ago
You aren't trolling, but it is trivial to come up with larger numbers that are, in a sense, just as practical. Memory suggests that if the universe has a finite size then there is a finite amount of information that can be stored in it
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by another-one-off 9y ago
> The biggest problem with political correctness is the friction between politically correct ideas and actual empirical reality. Maybe. Nobody has enough grey matter to comprehend actual empirical reality even if they had it all laid out
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by another-one-off 9y ago
This is a very rehashed point; but just because these cars crash into things in stupid situations doesn't mean that they are less safe than what we already have. Shouldn't you already be giving semi-autonomous, fully-autonomous an
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by another-one-off 9y ago
None of the things my grandparent mentioned are externalities. The cost of energy consumed is directly borne by the people mining the bitcoins. The costs of the power gluts should be being directly borne by the customers (I'm pretty su
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by another-one-off 9y ago
That is cool, but the reason the existing monetary system doesn't have those properties is because government purposely didn't include them. Things like "Uncensorable" and "Non-governmentally bound" and "U
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by another-one-off 9y ago
So you haven't explicitly stated this, but I'm reading into your comment that the early bitcoin investors made a lot of money ergo it is a good investment. That argument isn't sensible, and if you are making it I caution you
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by another-one-off 9y ago
The gold analogy makes me so nervous. Gold has specific and permanent properties (eg, high density, an entry in the periodic table :P). Many detractors of gold claim those properties are not valuable, but it still has them and is specific a
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by another-one-off 9y ago
I'll just add in some empirical results. German power has risen to be some of the most expensive in Europe since they started the Energiewende. They have very low wholesale prices (driving the coal producers out of business) combined w
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by another-one-off 11y ago
> eating that embarrassing, soggy PB&J ... can be very demotivating. I don't follow the American labour market so office wages are a bit outside what I want to look up. However... Using the average weekly wage for men >25 yea
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by another-one-off 11y ago
It is an apples to oranges comparison, but wouldn't the honest comparison would come out about the same? My memory is that nuclear emissions from a coal fired station are comparable to a nuclear station, and nuclear doesn't produc
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by another-one-off 11y ago
The idea of a 'fair share' isn't so important here, because the numbers are huge and have to come from somewhere. It isn't like $100 billion sits under a mattress, it will already be out in the economy, invested in somet
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by another-one-off 11y ago
I'm in agreement with you; I listed 4 things and medical outcomes were only a part of it. But I'm not sure that my point was clear so I'm going to restate it while choosing my words as carefully as I can: For the sake of argu

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