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by blix 5y ago
Changing your own beliefs is quite easy. At any moment you can simply choose to believe something else. Changing other people's beliefs is more challenging, but so is changing other people's clothes.
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by blix 5y ago
> 11,711 record highs and 7,449 record lows, with a ratio of just less than two to one. If 1.57 is "just less than 2", I am just less than 8 ft tall. I am a staunch believer in the dangers of climate change, but it's easy
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by blix 5y ago
What's implied here is 'is', i.e. "a bad law is no law." The phrase seems to be a rehash of a quote from St Augustine: "lex iniusta non est lex" meaning "an injust law is not a law", which is mor
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by blix 6y ago
> I could go on at length to describe my perception of why this was/probably still is, but a short take is: the architecture of American social science legitimacy is so delicate that even counter thoughts from undergrads need to be
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by blix 6y ago
I actually find renting a car offers me significantly less peace of mind, because while I don't care if my own car gets dinged, the rental agencies do. In my experience a weekend car rental costs about 3+ months of upkeep, so for me ca
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by blix 6y ago
The success of these cities is due to political action that is unpalatable to most in the west. Hong Kong in particular demonstrates what happens when even vestigial western ideals and the necessary political structures for this sort of act
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by blix 6y ago
The pre-covid world is kinda over. Density has very clear downsides that have never been more apparent. I don't know how often you do the train + car rental thing, but the friction is much, much higher than driving (especially if you h
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by blix 6y ago
Families aren't independent of society; family structures and society at large affect each other in many ways. It's hard to have a stable family unit when a large fraction of men are in jail. It's a feedback loop. Bail system
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by blix 6y ago
> the ideology in the game is way more pervasive and interesting. I think you have this backwards. The ideology in SimCity is only a tiny reflection of broader ideologies that pervade almost every aspect of modern/urban life and oug
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by blix 6y ago
'Imaged' is probably the wrong word to use based on its connotations outside the field. What this paper represents is a full 3D reconstruction of the atomic configuration of disordered solid, and so the result is really a point cl
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by blix 6y ago
This is what I tell myself every time I read an HN comment written by a collection of proteins.
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by blix 6y ago
In many ancient Roman and Greek societies, migrant labor was actually lower on the totem pole than slavery. If you are a slave, at least your owner theoretically has an interest in your survival.
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by blix 6y ago
This is a neat paper. Cool to see kinetic phenomena make it's way into MD. How many GPU-hours did you need to get those 500ns simulations? You should throw up some videos of these somewhere, if you have the time.
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by blix 6y ago
I'm not sure it's in the Democrats' best (short-term) interest to release this pressure. Trump has galvanized support for centrist Democratic politicians at a time when they were stuggling. Consider Sanders' support in 2
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by blix 6y ago
Doctor's dislike when patients come in having tried to figure out something about their condition or treatment on their own. It seems to knock them out of their routine. I have personal experience with this as a patient and a family me
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by blix 6y ago
One argument I've heard is that women tend to do better at men at picking up 'soft skills,' i.e. interacting with other people, while men tend to be better at physical labor. New low-skill jobs tend to focus on soft skills, w
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by blix 6y ago
> If you know that X will make you overeat I've never met a food with this kind of psychic power. Even if pigs did have this dramatic power at some point, surely it is lost after they are cooked. I can get on board with being honest
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by blix 6y ago
What does it mean for pain to be "real" vs experienced in one's head? I don't think this is an easy question, which is why our medical system struggles to deal with chronic pain.
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by blix 6y ago
I'm offering the book as a resource because I think it might be helpful or interesting to you and other people with similar thoughts. It discusses many things you have mentioned. There's only so much depth one can put in a comment
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by blix 6y ago
Pork belly contains important macronutrients like protein and fat, which is part of why it tastes good. Despite that, I know I can stop eating it when choose to. Pork belly itself is not a problem; the problem is unhealthy eating habits. Th
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by blix 6y ago
You shouldn't need "stomach filler" to feel satiated. If the food you are eating has enough nutrients, you should not feel hungry. Nutrition-derived satiety is not the same thing as fullness, which should probably be consider
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by blix 6y ago
If you change enough variables at once, it's pretty hard to get clear knowledge of harm. We're not out there running controlled experiments on every new substance, or collecting robust data. The rapid rise of unexplained autoimmun
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by blix 6y ago
Do you have a link to this?
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by blix 6y ago
Sounds like your friend realized it. Listening to your body and seeking out professionals if it sends negative signals is probably a better strategy than asking a doctor before any activity, unless you already know you have serious medical
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by blix 6y ago
Please speak with a medical professional before... walking?!? Walking is the most basic, most fundamental human physical activity. Hitting the gym deserves a lot more scrutiny.
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by blix 6y ago
> Consensus reality based on division of labor and a web of trust in our authorities, combined with peer review and criticism, is the only way for society to function. Is this also an objective fact? Pascal's wager is similar to the
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by blix 6y ago
Unless you are a true renaissance human who has made outstanding individual contributions in all of the spaces you list (astronomy, economics, medicine, political science, etc.), your faith in "objective fact" is probably derived
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by blix 6y ago
> people aren't bayesian belief nets who update their beliefs in propositions based on new information. I disagree, I think this is mostly true. However, I think people have a strong tendency to overestimate how much their favorite
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by blix 6y ago
If you actually want to optimize calories per unit land, you should be considering neither organic nor non-organic tomatoes, as both produce significantly fewer calories per unit land than crops like wheat, corn, and soybeans.
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by blix 6y ago
The study encodes bias in both participant selection and in the survey questions. I'm not sure why these types of studies are taken seriously. A clever researcher could probably get any result they want.

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