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by bnralt 5y ago
For some crimes you'd probably be able to drastically lower penalties. If there's a 100% chance a shoplifter is going to get caught when they leave the store, then just making them return the stolen goods would be enough. Harsh pe
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by bnralt 5y ago
Yeah, if you want to do calisthenics then the best thing to do is to follow a calisthenics routine. Some yoga routines have a decent amount of calisthenics in them, many don't. Also, progression is going to be much better with a good c
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by bnralt 5y ago
I never really liked Chekhov's Gun, as it tends to make the world feel artificial and barren. Details unrelated to the story at hand make the world feel much more vibrant and interesting. It gets worse as a story's length increase
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by bnralt 5y ago
I also don't think people realize how close to the earth these people still were. Take a globe, hold your finger as close as you can to it without touching, and that's about as high as Bezos and Branson went. As you said, orbital
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by bnralt 5y ago
Personally, I found both STEM and social science classes at University to be fairly useless. I went back and took STEM classes in an area I had self-studied, based on the amount of people who claimed that people who self-study miss a lot. I
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It's strange. I'll see people compare U.S. numbers to the numbers from Germany, Vietnam, and New Zealand. Then when you Sweden is compared to other European countries, they'll suddenly say that you can't make such a comp
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by bnralt 5y ago
The problem, in my experience, is that most people are happy to learn "how to apply critical thinking to judge news stories," will agree to the principals in a general sense, and then go on and only apply such tools towards things
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by bnralt 5y ago
For anyone interested in the subject, I highly recommend Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion. It was written 100 years ago, but it's one of the best books on the media (and public opinion in general) that I've read, and the vast
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by bnralt 5y ago
There were plenty of long and bloody wars during the High Middle Ages (such as the Albigensian Crusade and the Anarchy, just to name a couple). I think a large part of the author's point that this is a long period of time (even if we r
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by bnralt 5y ago
That seems to be the direction things are moving in. There was a move a few decades back away from malls and towards "town centers," which were basically a mix between a mall and a downtown area - a few blocks of pedestrian friend
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by bnralt 5y ago
If you come across the data please share it, it would be worthwhile seeing what exactly they're talking about and if the data matches your memory of it. I didn't come across it in my (very limited) search, but I did find this anal
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by bnralt 5y ago
Many Americans seem to believe that, but it doesn't actually seem to be the case. For instance, when Yemen was falling apart, countries like China, India, Pakistan, Russia, and Indonesia all worked hard to evacuate their citizens, many
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by bnralt 5y ago
I don't think I've ever seen someone who's actually an originalist. For instance, I can't see how the incorporation of the Bill of Rights could possibly fit with originalism, but I haven't come across anyone who&#x2
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by bnralt 5y ago
In the post he seems to only being talking about corporations (as far as I can tell). His point about corporations pushing products that people don't actually need, and in fact often make people less happy, seems fairly on point. The e
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by bnralt 5y ago
> They don't do the work. I very rarely encounter articles that feel like a journalist has poured over documents, spent hours with experts, etc. Indeed. Many times when I look at the original sources for news articles, the sources e
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by bnralt 5y ago
I highly recommend experimenting with turning off the news completely for a time. You quickly find that the vast majority of "Breaking News!" that gets shoveled out simply isn't that important for most people, and is there ma
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by bnralt 5y ago
I think people should spend a lot more time considering what they're trying to get informed about and for what purpose. Reading books (particularly older books), talking to a wide variety of people, looking at primary sources, paying a
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by bnralt 5y ago
Indeed. The other problem is that the news is often filled with misleading narratives that lead people to be less informed than before, and that it creates a huge opportunity cost in terms of attention. When you cut out the news you start t
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by bnralt 5y ago
> I think there are quite a few important points in the article about the way in which our (I'm generalizing about the broad HN demographic) quite privileged lifestyles do have a concomitant cost for somebody who needs to service ou
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by bnralt 5y ago
Indeed, and the number of "bullshit-jobs" might actually be grossly underestimated, since I've found in general people will often try to justify the status quo and especially their own jobs. Most people would say a three-card
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by bnralt 5y ago
When factoring in the alcohol-attributable fractions, it looks like German males have slightly higher rates of liver failure because of alcohol than American males, while German females have slightly less than American females. An this is w
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by bnralt 5y ago
Fermentation is a great way to store excess food, which is why there's a ton of fermented foods across cultures. For civilizations centered around cereal crops, it makes sense that you'd see a lot of fermented cereal crops such as
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by bnralt 5y ago
I took a look at that blog, but it doesn't seem historical at all to me (for example, I can't think of any historian that dates the synoptics to before 70 AD). I also can't say I'm a fan of the way he treats other denomi
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by bnralt 5y ago
The Wikipedia page you linked to doesn't make the claims that you are. It says that Babb volunteered for the FSA to help migrants, and that her supervisor Collins asked her to keep notes on her work there. Collins seems to have later s
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by bnralt 5y ago
> I guess I shouldn't be at this point, but I'm always surprised that the people posting the misinformation aren't terribly embarrassed about it when it's revealed. When things become hyperpartisan, people can't
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by bnralt 5y ago
Sure, if you want me to got into more detail, I'm happy to oblige. To me the whole first paragraph seems to be simply dismissive, painting different opinions as incorrect and immoral, talking about how surprised you are that the commen
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by bnralt 5y ago
I seem to run into more and more responses like this these days. Instead of responding to any specific comment a person has written, it attempts to paint any differing opinion as being somehow immoral. I can't say that this type of app
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by bnralt 5y ago
If that was their reason, then why did the change the recommendation while still in the middle of the shortage? Here's an article from months after the CDC started recommending masks, showing that widespread PPE shortages among healthc
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by bnralt 5y ago
> If research came out that changed the recommendations, well, that's how science works. But that's not what happened. There was plenty of studies showing that masks could be effective before the pandemic started[1]. Here are a
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by bnralt 5y ago
Reminds me of something I noticed in the discussion about Hedy Lamarr. It's not uncommon to hear people say, "If she was a man, you'd hear about her being a great inventor." But her co-inventor, George Antheil, gets talk

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