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by bawolff 5mo ago
> But that's a miss, it's like one of those Neal Stephenson moments where the creator is using the right language (so it's not like reading William Gibson who clearly has no idea and knows it - he's going for the emot
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> Have you ever been exposed to concepts that are so complex that you feel like you could devote your entire lifetime to trying to understand it and still fall short? It’s a very humbling experience, especially if you have classmates who
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Personally that is not for me, but there certainly exist people who follow that path. But it is a dangerous path, take too much and there is a popular revolution and its off with your head (or more realistically you piss off the wrong perso
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Is there any definition of bubble that doesn't involve popping? That's literally the metaphor. > We have no fundamental reason current valuations have to collapse suddenly. I would agree, but i think that is just saying that th
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I mean, isn't the definition of a bubble that it pops quickly? If it slowly loses value over time, its not really a bubble.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> I don't want to defend them, because they gate away a good chunk of the internet with their "bot protection", but unless you do PoW (which is also ecologically a nightmare), probably fingerprinting is the way to go - com
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Doing this analysis kind of requires knowing the probability of various events occuring. If we knew that, then world politics would be very different. Like its easy to say in retrospect something is obvious, but it rarely is at the outset.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> In the past 60 years the Iranian regime has only closed the straight in retaliation to a second massive suckerpunch against it. Well yes, because its a desperation move that hurts them just as much as it hurts everyone else. Its worth
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by bawolff 5mo ago
They are also relatively easy to repair, and somewhat hard to hit given they are under ground.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
While i agree with your general point, i'm not sure i agree with your example. i don't think a minority of muslims (or jews) are going to convince all resturants to stop serving pork, because bacon is too popular.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
They actually have. I think both Saudi Arabia and UAE have built pipelines to bypass the strait. Not to mention USA investing heavily in fraking to counter balance the middle east...
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by bawolff 5mo ago
The art of the deal always seemed to be, (1) create a situation unfavourable to your opponent. (2) exploit their temporary weakness to force a coercive one sided deal. Trump seems to be able to do that well enough in the normal business wor
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Calling increased shipping costs due to rising fuel prices a "side effect" of an oil crisis, seems odd to me. Isn't that the expected main effect?
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I think there is a selection bias here. If it succeedes the minority becomes a majority. I think a good example are religious movements (obviously i dont want to equate religion with morality, but often they come with certain moral views at
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> Locking yourself out of society isn’t likely to help achieve any sort of moral progress. On the contrary, i think most moral progress (albeit also many social ills) has been wrought through social pressure.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> You don’t need to listen to this primitive instinct. You can just choose consciously what you think is the best. Which is why we have jails.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> As vegans and vegetarians (and decades earlier, non-smokers) have shown, you can have a principled stance on something without forcing that stance on others. If you truly believe something is evil, i think that is difficult. Like imagi
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Its always detached at some level. Morality always comes down to a choice of what you think is wrong vs right. You can't reason from the way the world is to the way the world ought to be, without picking some values.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I always find these types of explanations doubtful, because you can always dismiss someone of subpar ability as not trying hard enough or you could define trying hard enough in a way that is not defacto practical.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I can't imagine marking the exams was a significant part of the professors time. Especially because its probably the sort of thing they could get an assistant to do.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
There is a world of difference between the situation for labour being grim, and labour ceasing to exist.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I don't know if "masking" is the correct term for engaging in a policy that would cause an increase in gdp. The immigrants contribution to the economy was still real.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I wonder to what extent the clamp down on immigration is related to this. Feels like a factor that gets lost with everyone blaming trump (which dont get me wrong, he deserves)
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Given canada has so much oil,is the hormuz situation really a net negative for canada ecconomically? Like obviously its terrible in general, but id expect higher oil prices to help starve off a recesion.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I feel like people have said that about every technical revolution. I dont think this article would have been out of place in the hay day of the industrial revolution. Its never been true in the past. Otoh, there always has to be a first ti
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I think that possibility agrees with my take.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
In my world view, yes, Ukraine firmly returning to the russian sphere of influence, perhaps even agreeing to become a puppet state of russia, would stop the invasion. Of course Ukraine does not want that, hence war. Surrendering is always a
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Yes, because literally everyone has the same advice about all fields of endeavor.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Well that was anticlimactic. I thought there would be at least a little more insight than just practise more.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
They seem to have no problem winning battles though which is the part aircrafts help with. Winning the war is more about strategy and political savyness.

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