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by astazangasta 7y ago
Socrates was a fascist who hated democracy. His students imposed a noted tyranny on the state of Athens, and his collaboration with that state is why he was sentenced to death later. The only reason we think Socrates is so great is that lit
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Err, have you acually read the studies they used to approve? They are not unequivocal, and the final approval of it as a drink additive was thanks to Donald Rumsfeld, who was CEO of Searle at the time and had a hand in selecting Arthur Hull
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Remember this next time someone is confidently asserting to you that you have some condition X and need drug Y. Anyone can construct an ontology from the muddy soup of human behavior.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Technology is intimately related to culture; we simply need technology change in order to recover. We need more efficient energy generation, more sustainable materials, better recycling, etc. We can't all just go back to the land. The
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by astazangasta 7y ago
In such a case could anything actually extract that malware and run it?
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Not always; in California, for example, property taxes were vitiated by Prop 13, and so the state budget covers most of education costs (60%), which in theory should mean less local variation. In practice it means schools in wealthy distric
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by astazangasta 7y ago
What do you think teachers are actually teaching? One of the very, very important skills kids learn is how to be socialized - how to behave with others in a social setting, how to be quiet and pay attention when that is appropriate, how to
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by astazangasta 7y ago
>The number one problem with education in the US is the lack of discipline in the class room. Surely lack of adequate funding, crumbling infrastructure, out-of-date textbooks or lack of textbooks, bad curricula, a highly regimented and n
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Capitalists can mean ideological believers in capitalism, or it can mean those who own capital. The former may be interested in efficient markets; the latter generally only want to maximize returns.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Err. So they have two engineered mice that produce female babies only? So? What does this prove about anything other than that you can waste a lot of time making useless mouse models?
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Amazingly, no mention of the Intercept revelations that Bolsonaro won because of judicial corruption by the judge Sergio Moro, who eliminated Lula from the election, and much more as part of his Lavo Jato investigation. I.e., this was essen
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by astazangasta 7y ago
If by "very new" you mean 250M years, then maybe.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
The main flaw with this claim, at least for tech, is that there remains a CEO, and more importantly that the CEO is the agent of a board and a set of investors. In this context the notion of "flat", "non-hierarchical" is
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by astazangasta 7y ago
I detest hierarchies, I guess I'm not human. I don't think "humans are hierarchical creatures" is palatable. Nothing in our biology is fundamentally hierarchical. You've asserted that "humans look for someone t
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Absolutely not a new concept, kin selection is why parents care for offspring.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
This is kin selection, not group selection. It only works for near relatives, since shared gene content drops off exponentially with each relation.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
False, I recommend Ha-Joon Chang's writing on this subject. The US did not develop in a climate of trade openness, it used tariffs to protect its development. In fact no developed economy developed this way, all of them protected their
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by astazangasta 7y ago
>Because the low-wage jobs that left here are considered really good jobs in China. We’ve lifted a billion, two billion people out of poverty over the past 30 years. This sort of shit is the worst. People in China doing well is not our p
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Ricardo's mistake is not thinking about development; comparative advantage is optimal now, but a society that just makes coffee beans is going to lose in the end to the one that makes microchips because of the difference in how the eco
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by astazangasta 7y ago
https://www.pewinternet.org/2015/05/20/americans-attitudes-a...
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Thanks! I'm not sure how exactly I arrived at it, this is mostly the result of my own observation, I think - I don't have much background in organizational theory. My primary training is in population genetics, which also deals wi
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by astazangasta 7y ago
People on NPR are specifically being paid to advance these viewpoints, so I wouldn't view them as representative. Meanwhile ad blockers are ubiquitous, indicating most people aren't "kinda" into giving up their privacy.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
No. Surveillance is a bad by itself. I don't want a social model where morality is the product of fear. I don't believe in authoritarian virtues; they will inherently lead to aggression and violence themselves.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
The selective constraint on gut bacteria is not merely to eat food, it is to facilitate the health of the gut. That is, a symbiote has different evolutionary goals than a bug that is just out for a meal. Don't go looking in rotten food
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by astazangasta 7y ago
My experience is that senior managers don't have the time or inclination to be aware of operational issues. They are unable to perceive something like there is a structural issue between units A and B. These issues are actually seen an
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by astazangasta 7y ago
The main function of managers is routing information in the organization; this model was developed in the 1940s. In most large corporations today, there are a handful of C-level officers, the "executives" - their role is to make d
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by astazangasta 7y ago
>The workers are great at running (execution), but left to themselves are horrible at self organizing and running in the direction required in tandem This is an ideological claim that is counter to my experience. Workers are fine at self
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by astazangasta 7y ago
>Perhaps the most popular is the gut microbiome, which impacts human digestive health (this is the science behind your daily probiotic yogurt). I don't believe there is any science behind the notion that yogurt is healthy for your g
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by astazangasta 7y ago
The result is a non-functioning gut (diarrhea) that sucks at nutrient absorption until the microbiome recovers.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Those international orgs are run by humans.

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