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by bequanna 3y ago
Communication with earth in that orbit would be a bit of a pain tho, right?
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by bequanna 3y ago
I think it actually might be the best spot because the far side of the moon is always positioned facing away from earth. Is there anywhere else in the solar system that can claim that?
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by bequanna 3y ago
So, we shouldn’t make laws even if we think they are good because we aren’t exactly sure exactly how we will enforce them? The legislative and executive functions are separate in our system. The former passes laws and the latter figures out
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by bequanna 3y ago
"Small government" doesn't mean what you imply, it means that government exists to fill the gaps and clean up some of the "messiness" created by free markets. Reasonable regulation and public safety is part of that.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Do you know any kids younger than that on social media? I do. That isn't really how laws work. You don't say: "Driving under the influence is illegal, but I totally know people who drink and drive so the law is useless&q
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by bequanna 3y ago
It depends. “Poor people” cannot be lumped into a single group. Some respond to their problems like you mention: they dwell on the scarcity and try to problem solve. I’m not convinced that group is the majority of poor (at least in develope
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by bequanna 3y ago
I can imagine some septuagenarian dictator thinking the exact same thing and halting all LLM development. How lucky we are to not have a centrally planned economy!
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by bequanna 3y ago
Do you have some hard numbers to back this up? What percentage of that aid is just things we were going to “throw away”? I’d be willing to bet 5% or less of total aid falls in the category you mention.
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by bequanna 3y ago
The total amount that we’ve already gifted Ukraine is absolutely relevant when we discuss sending even more. Since we are running historic Federal deficits, every dollar we agree to send them comes at the expense of decreasing the purchasin
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by bequanna 3y ago
Umm, you’re off by an order of magnitude. We could run several states for a year with what we’ve sent them. $75 billion: https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine...
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Porn is generally the least interesting thing a female creator can do in the attention economy and it just reinforces existing gender stratification. This thinking is just divorced from reality. Generally, women are able to use their s
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by bequanna 3y ago
I don’t get it. Is the point of this change to get real people to delete their reviews in favor of the “fake” reviews made by companies to suppress wages?
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by bequanna 3y ago
How intriguing! I wonder what would happen if we tried a system that didn’t allow private ownership of companies? Oh we have, you say? Many times? Famines, poor economies, mass genocide, dictators? Well, surely none of those experiments wer
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by bequanna 3y ago
Social science “studies” are almost all complete garbage. Non reproducible and disproven constantly. Social scientists are LARPing as actual scientists. There is no rigor. Most people in the hard sciences have little regard or respect for t
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by bequanna 3y ago
People are absolutely NOT 99% nature. People are born with some predisposition to certain behaviors, but that is far from being set in stone. Good, attentive parenting is the difference maker.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> But the King is allowed to behave in any way he chooses. Capriciously firing people. Yelling, demanding, berating, snap judgements, etc... I don't think anyone said that. Bad attitudes are damaging regardless of which team member
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by bequanna 3y ago
Well, of course some minimal technical competence is a requirement. I’m just saying that an unnecessarily negative attitude is more damaging to a group than one below average contributor.
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by bequanna 3y ago
I never said it was either-or. Some people are super competent and have a great attitude while others can be below average and make everyone around them miserable. I’ve seen every combination.
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by bequanna 3y ago
I'd rather work with a slightly less qualified person who has a positive attitude than an overqualified person with a terrible attitude. The second type might write great code, but is energy draining for the whole team.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Please expand of this. Are low income people not typically eligible for all of the services I mentioned? We live in a society that is incredibly generous to the poor.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Free money via UBI won’t cause inflation because we’ll just create more taxes! Increased government spending via MMT won’t increase inflation because we’ll just create more taxes! Both ideas rooted in the same academic nonsense that is divo
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by bequanna 3y ago
Except that isn’t what will happen. We are already plagued by spending that is funded by deficits and not new taxes. Why? Because one of those things is MUCH easier than the other. Easy to agree to spend money, difficult or impossible to ad
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by bequanna 3y ago
> receive money to live and survive I’m not sure you know how generous the current welfare system is. Low income people can already receive assistance for: housing, food, internet, phones, completely free medical care and straight up cas
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Cheaper labor however comes from offshore countries that have a lower standard of living. Please explain why wages went up significantly for low income workers during the pandemic. The answer (of course) is that we artificially decreas
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by bequanna 3y ago
> I think the bigger issue is that there is a common, albeit misguided notion that UBI would create inflationary pressure. Well, because it is perfectly intuitive to think it will cause inflation: The Fed printing money to fund Governmen
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by bequanna 3y ago
Being concerned about China is not xenophobia. We're talking about a nation who at worst is our enemy and at best a geopolitical foe who is harvesting massive amounts of data to use for purposes which are much worse than targeted ads.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Except it isn't the same. China is a geopolitical foe who is quite serious about espionage. We don't have to make it easy for them.
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by bequanna 3y ago
I think that complaint is secondary to fears of China gathering massive amounts of data on US citizens and having the power to influence what content they are exposed to.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Because China has the largest state sponsored program in the world devoted to IP theft. Some information about China’s “thousand talents plan” and how it works: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/t
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by bequanna 3y ago
> feed is sometimes ground up human waste aka moldy bread with plastic that's been ground up that the animals eat. This is 100% true. Feeding animals (mostly swine) garbage is usually perfectly legal and not really regulated. They c

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