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by aww_dang 4y ago
Extra weight from the batteries and electronics could be a bigger efficiency issue. Durability would be my bigger concern. Perhaps this would be a good fit for something like an electrified velomobile.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Are USDs not artificially scarce? If not for law enforcement, anyone could print their own. Then there are the MMT people, who seem to believe that money can be printed by the state in any amount, without consequence.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
If only society were a deterministic machine where we as the operators had perfect knowledge of the internal state. If society and economics were a computer, if we were the infallible geniuses we think we are, we could simply compose a soft
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Please consider building. Create the change you want to see. >I'm hoping this crash and those in the future rid the space of the toxic backrooms these $30,000 jpegs provide access to and get us to collectively work on building reall
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by aww_dang 4y ago
>In our recent survey of all 50 US states plus the District of Columbia, we asked respondents to assess the accuracy of eight widespread false claims. Four of those claims were about the COVID-19 vaccine... Specific example of a false cl
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Is authoritarianism not the end result of blind trust in authority? Which is more dangerous, Internet dissent on the topic of Antarctic National-Socialists or a steady backslide into actual authoritarianism?
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by aww_dang 4y ago
I suspect that the 2k was average gross sales per day, not profit.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
>I'm still not sure I get why staying longer yields any sort of edge One way of looking at it is to say that traditional currencies are constantly devaluing as their supply increases. A counter argument there might be that the suppl
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Not to mention the outright spam. Just the same, all of the performance metrics are built into a sales commission. Does an "influencer" have fake followers? Doesn't matter if they only earn commissions. They either sell or th
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by aww_dang 4y ago
The affiliate marketing model solves all of the problems listed. Yet many seem to think affiliate marketing is something related to MLMs. Some claim that is the old way of doing things?
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Influencer marketing is balderdash and influencers aren't influential(thenextweb.com)
7 points by aww_dang 4y ago|4 comments
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by aww_dang 4y ago
The WEF, the Boston Federal Reserve Bank and MIT have been collaborating on this for sometime now. Expect the tech and policy to come from the globalist oriented think tanks and their affiliates. https://www.bostonfed.org/ne
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Another generation mourns their youth? At the risk of sounding like one of the snobs he lambastes, the pizza just wasn't that good. Maybe this isn't the point? Another fast food chain is dying. Do we want more fast food? I underst
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Pizza Hut tweets may seem silly. They are not.(twitter.com)
7 points by aww_dang 4y ago|8 comments
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Right there could be other ways to achieve that, but the regulations you are a fan of prevent it. >> Want to transact online with no ID? >Nope, and there are great reasons that this sort of thing is generally not allowed. It is tru
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by aww_dang 4y ago
I don't agree with the premises. The arguments are not fleshed out. The conclusions feel absurd and lack supporting logic. However, I was able to get past those things and enjoy the journey as an imaginative flight of fancy. The author
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by aww_dang 4y ago
>Nope. Apply a little imagination here. "I don't want to send 0.00001 cent transactions" becomes, "I don't think anyone else should be able to" It isn't hard to see where this paternalistic frame of und
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by aww_dang 4y ago
If only we could live in a paternalistic, centrally planned society. Perhaps if social and economic issues functioned as a purely contained system where men could have absolute information. Yes, if society were a computer and we could feed
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by aww_dang 4y ago
There's knee-jerk generalization about cryptocurrency here. There are plenty of bad takes on Twitter and HN. That said, yes you can highlight things you do not value personally. That doesn't mean others are wrong to value them. Th
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by aww_dang 4y ago
"Climate change is real", is a masterwork of sloganeering. It frames the discussion perfectly. Is anyone arguing that the climate does not change on the geological timescale? Of course not. Yet from this point the propagandists ca
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by aww_dang 4y ago
That is certainly one way of looking at it. The government confers reputability onto the press. If that is an appropriate role for the state in your view, you need not examine further. Another perspective might observe that Pravda was simil
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by aww_dang 4y ago
He could have just skipped the IPFS part and used data URLs to render his colors. He would have probably saved on storage as well. The URLs could be generated dynamically.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
I agree that sources are valuable and important. My preference would be that they are included. However they are rarely cited in a meaningful way, even in mainstream publications. The beauty of these kinds of discussions is that one could s
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by aww_dang 4y ago
> It says the Steele dossier is largely discredited - I wasn't aware of any discrediting, let alone total. I don't know why the author thought this spin was necessary for the article. There are at least two ways to interpret th
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Suppressing information to prevent someone with an opposing view from using it doesn't seem honest at all. It does not inspire confidence. Nor does it present an image of impartial research.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
I didn't find anything in the NASA article in regards to CO2 levels plateauing. Interesting perspective though. Perhaps this is why the article was removed?
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by aww_dang 4y ago
404 https://web.archive.org/web/20220102152249/http://www.nasa.g...
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Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds(nasa.gov)
1 points by aww_dang 4y ago|7 comments
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by aww_dang 4y ago
There are places which on paper look entirely dysfunctional. Institutions are highly corrupt and development metrics will never happen. The silver lining isn't national level institutions making the right move. It is the defacto live a
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Getting back to the above comment, then perhaps donating to a politically influential, ivy league school makes sense.

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