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by blululu 5y ago
Really it’s just an issue that the voters are able to change the state constitution with a simple majority in an off year election and there are no checks on this power. The legislature, executive or judicial powers of the state cannot over
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by blululu 5y ago
Irony here is that the law you’re referring to was a proposition passed by a ballot initiative. One of the many issues with California‘a government is that the state legislature is hamstrung by laws and regulations that passed by popular vo
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by blululu 6y ago
In their defense history focuses on the false negative rate without considering the false positive rate at the same time. Large corporate R&D labs churn out amazing and bizarre things all the time. A lot of these ideas are garbage and i
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by blululu 6y ago
Please correct me on this but from what I can gather ransomware is a direct consequence of cryptocurrency. US Federal law enforcement has quite a lot of control over traditional banking and trying to extort the amount of money from a public
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by blululu 6y ago
I see a lot of people knit picking over some particular item on this list or another, and this strikes me as a very unfortunate response to philosophy. The advice is not given as a set of arguments or syllogisms, so if some piece doesn&#x27
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by blululu 6y ago
It is, and it's also surprisingly true. Something that I really love about this list is how it blends theoretical/ethical advice about how to behave with practical advice like learning how to tie a bowline knot.
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by blululu 6y ago
Perhaps I am misreading this but the premise is that it’s unfair to ask a marginalized community to comply with public health ordinances so that community has no responsibility for the spread of a disease? But the community effected by a di
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by blululu 6y ago
Everything I’ve read about Gagarin suggests that he was a phenomenal person. People liked him as a person. He was both smart and kind. Add in his personal bio and it’s not hard to see why the Soviet leaders picked him.
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by blululu 6y ago
I would not say that I’m anti-union but my experience working with a large union was pretty universally negative. It was just one more layer of bureaucracy that never really advocated for anything good. They consistently failed to deliver p
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by blululu 6y ago
I realize that this ask is standard on HN but it’s a bit of a pain to comb through a publication to produce the imputed litany of minor inaccuracies. I share the OP’s sentiment that the economist is a lousy source for opinions (it is howeve
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by blululu 6y ago
This feels overly specific. Implementing something like a Pigovian tax is standard practice where negative externalities are concerned. There is no need for an outright ban if properly taxed. There are also much larger negative externalitie
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by blululu 6y ago
I guess you the Times needs to use clickbait to get traffic same as anyone else. A better title might be: ‘Mercenaries Undermine US Cybersecurity’.
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by blululu 6y ago
The article is about Paying Attention, not paying. This is radically misleading (and a little ironic). Also FWIW, the cited nature paper can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03344-2#author-in...
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by blululu 6y ago
I believe that you are asking for a more isolated filter bubble here. This is nice when it’s all positive but never engaging with opposing viewpoints is a serious problem. Polarization and atomization make it hard to cooperate as a society.
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by blululu 6y ago
No it doesn’t. I think the OP was making a what-about counter argument, that the CIA was blasting pro-NATO radio programs into the Eastern Block. Of course the Soviets hated this and constantly tried to jam the signal so I think this exampl
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by blululu 6y ago
Hard vs Soft lock down is maybe a difficult distinction. Excluding China, Korea and Japan is a lot but Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Singapore all had lockdowns that were stricter (more observed and more
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by blululu 6y ago
Calvin And Hobbes have some enduring greatness to them. Perhaps this is a result of Bill Waterson's background in political philosophy, but the comics express some deep truth of American culture. Seeing this reminded me of this essay f
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by blululu 6y ago
Universities. The incentives are well aligned and there are plenty of labs doing research in this space.
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by blululu 6y ago
I do wish that we had more solid research to back this claim. As it stands the claim that people are incentivized to be enraged is a single person’s opinion that resonate with people’s current beliefs. There are a number of other trends go
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by blululu 6y ago
Market rates for electricity do not exist in a country where the power grid is controlled by communists. Given that most countries subsidize electricity consumption the same basic issue applies. Looking beyond naive libertarianism, there is
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by blululu 6y ago
That research was from 25 years ago. Rent has ballooned since then and wages at the bottom have dropped (minimum wage is lower now relative to CPI). Would be curious if this result holds up if we adjusted for inflation.
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by blululu 6y ago
Cool article. The four corners area has an astonishing variety of climates and terrains. In many ways this is a strength for the region, but microclimates are delicate and climate change led to massive disruptions in a delicate balance. As
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by blululu 6y ago
This is cool in general, but I feel like it disrupts the flow of the writing/presentation. There is something fundamentally poetic about the structure and rhythm of the Tractatus. Perhaps that is why it has held so much appeal. In any
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by blululu 6y ago
Well we do have airplanes and they’re pretty impressive, but also pretty different from a printing press. The ‘where’s my jet pack’ mentality is born out of a very quick pace of progress. The delta from the 600 years prior to Gutenberg is s
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by blululu 6y ago
Green Apple’s Inner Sunset location on 9th is also great. Their staff book recommendations are solid. I feel like I usually enjoy their recommendations, even for books I would not buy/read otherwise (bursts the filter bubble).
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by blululu 6y ago
Very cool! I once ran an E-ink display as an external monitor on a laptop to that I could work outside. I recall the latency was pretty much unworkable for typing, but that may have been the way the driver was setup. Curious to hear how usa
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by blululu 6y ago
Ed Tufte pointed out that Japan’s newspapers were far ahead of American media in terms of presenting a large number of meaningful visualizations. He also pointed out that the Communist Party of Japan was the leader amping Japanese media on
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by blululu 6y ago
William Brown - former mayor of San Francisco - was once asked why he didn’t have an email address. His response: “You know what the E in email stands for? Evidence.” Not that it really matters. His predecessors have all had plenty of evide
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by blululu 6y ago
30 years is not a lot of time. People who grew up with the internet are only now coming into positions of power. A majority of American Internet users grew up in a very different era, and their experiences and expectations may not be reason
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by blululu 6y ago
False Positives and False Negatives are both dangerous, but often in different ways. It would be hard to draw a simple equivalence outside of the context. Sometimes not seeing a connection is much more dangerous, than finding a spurious co

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