azernik

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by azernik 6y ago
"in any given Western nation"
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by azernik 6y ago
There's a vast gap between not going along with baseless and unprecedented attempts to overturn a democratic election, and being left-wing.
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by azernik 6y ago
Half of the Union literally seceded because it didn't like the winner of the 1860 presidential election.
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by azernik 6y ago
Probably something like that. By comparison, for certain areas on the Chernobyl reactor roof where the time limit was 30 seconds, each person would be given a shovel, go out on the roof, throw a piece of graphite off the roof, then go back
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by azernik 6y ago
I rather prefer this one, from the same thread - better composition, and the CSA flag adds some oomph https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1346902299466203145
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by azernik 6y ago
When your subjects are human beings, the rules are different - both for ethical reasons, and because if you violate your subjects' privacy you won't have any more subjects for next time.
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by azernik 6y ago
That would be a nice theory, but inflation in terms of producer and consumer goods is lower than in previous years (PPI inflation of 0.8% for the 12 months ending on 31 November, CPI inflation of 1.2% for the same period, compared to an a
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by azernik 6y ago
Take this quote from the article, and s/Google/Apple/g: "If you don’t mind being spied on by Google, and if you trust Google to decide who’s a scumbag and who isn’t, this is great."
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by azernik 6y ago
Heh
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by azernik 6y ago
Is your argument in favor of bitcoin as an asset class is that its value doesn't skyrocket when stock and property values skyrocket? (My assumption when you said "inflation" was a drop in purchasing power of a given ass
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by azernik 6y ago
The 1920s-1960s were also, taken as a whole, a time of enormous economic growth! You can argue that recessions of the 19th century are okay because other growth balances them out. You can argue that recessions of the 20th century are bad be
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by azernik 6y ago
They have a website with a platform and priorities at https://alphabetworkersunion.org/power/why/ "We want to wield our power to ensure: * Our working conditions are inclusive and fair, * Perpetrators of hara
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by azernik 6y ago
Before the establishment of the Fed in 1913, you had the Panic of 1893, which caused a depression until ~1897; before that the Depression of 1882-1885; and before that the Long Depression of 1873 to ~1878.
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by azernik 6y ago
> 23% are still in circulation approaching one of the other outcomes Begging the question a bit It's also been quite easy to predict which currencies are going to be in in that 23% and have stable value ("hard currencies")
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by azernik 6y ago
Which assets exactly are seeing artificial government fueled inflation?
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by azernik 6y ago
OT, but Indian food also travels very well.
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by azernik 6y ago
Yes. It has "falsifiable claims" in the sense that, if existing theories of e.g. general relativity and quantum mechanics were proven false, it would also be proven false. Generally when people refer to "falsifiable claims&
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by azernik 6y ago
For a better comparison - we would never accept a vaccine that had a 1-3% fatality rate.
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by azernik 6y ago
I think the above is using "meaningful" to refer to "falsifiable". The fact that string theory is so much more advanced theoretically and still doesn't make any falsifiable predictions makes me less optimistic abo
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by azernik 6y ago
There was absolutely a question. morsch said: "The cask survived re-entry, as it was designed to do,[18] and no release of plutonium has been detected. The corrosion resistant materials of the capsule are expected to contain it for 10
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by azernik 6y ago
Sure. But the question was about the environmental impact of RTGs, which is many orders of magnitude smaller than other problems.
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by azernik 6y ago
That's a problem because we're still pumping out emissions. RTG losses have been a small number (under 5) accidents that have probably emitted in total under 10kg of material.
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by azernik 6y ago
After it decays, it's no longer plutonium; instead it's uranium-234. Uranium's heavy-metal toxicity is quite well-established, and uranium-234 is more radioactive than the natural isotopic mix, but at the low-single-digit-kil
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by azernik 6y ago
More interestingly, we also have cross-national natural experiments, where different countries banned lead gasoline at different times, and the timing of drops in the crime rate is pretty spot-on https://www.motherjones.com/
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by azernik 6y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25514950 tl;dr - you don't "have to register" them, because by definition the ones that are legal are already registered. In '86 they stopped allowing new registr
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by azernik 6y ago
You can also get shielding with a thick enough atmosphere, or being under a solid ice/rock crust. But both of those also make it much harder to reach space.
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by azernik 6y ago
Another interesting one I've heard is getting into space, period. It's possible that there are other technological civilizations out there, but all stuck under a few hundred km of ice or on a 2-earth-mass monster where it's i
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by azernik 6y ago
I was including "economically viable" under "viable". I didn't even realize there were any available on the market yet, and looking right now it looks like they're still at the $2k price point and still have me
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by azernik 6y ago
Having done a quick search for fun: US law actually uses "state" in a sense closer to the European and broader international sense. e.g. a "state actor" includes both the states and the federal government, and is used
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by azernik 6y ago
"Country" is also ambiguous. Lots of "countries" are not independent, e.g. the UK is made up of four "countries" - England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Similarly, the "Land" example I used

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