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by card_zero 2mo ago
Which part? You see this depends on your prior assumptions about how much stock there should be, and those are based on the state of affairs that you're used to and that you consider to be the natural order of things. But if you imagin
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by card_zero 2mo ago
I considered that. It's a fair point, there are things that you couldn't give away, but almost always somebody would want them, if the price was zero. Hard bread, for example, would become like a natural resource, full of calori
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by card_zero 2mo ago
The presence of a price "selects who can access it", hence there's not enough stock to give it away for free. (Sometimes deliberately.)
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Oh, OK.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Everything with a price has a supply issue.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
That implies that everything with a price is always out of stock.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
If you're saying "every single one is full of lies and partial information" is false because people are successful with it, that doesn't follow.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
It's this story, I think: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyrwnnqnw0o They seem to be attacking non-electric cyclists, for fun. Shades of mods and rockers.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
It totally depends whether you're still experimenting and learning or not, which is totally circumstantial. Sometimes I slog through things at the start, on the promise that they will start to be fun once I see the point. Easiness is f
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by card_zero 2mo ago
No, they must be refutable! Otherwise you're stuck with them forever. This is all about ongoing error correction.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Well that's an interesting philosophical question about what matters in life and what we are here for. If you look at it as creating knowledge for posterity then I like to think maybe yes. But I wouldn't want to overdo it.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Pretty good. I have something to say about this part: > most people are in fact “asleep” about most things most of the time, not super thoughtful in how they develop beliefs Which is later echoed, but differently, as: > the average
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by card_zero 2mo ago
"Correct" is a synonym for "right". What you need is unrefuted.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
I thought it was kind of convenient and helpful to be able to say "I, too, am a nutjob" while advocating moderation in one's nutjobbery. See the comment by jrflowers for how it would have come off if the author claimed to be
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Melted illness, that sounds very serious. He sure loves his brain hemisphere lateralization, wasn't that stuff seriously questioned? Like found to be divided the opposite way around, or not at all. He's also a bore, which accord
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by card_zero 2mo ago
So hopefully future generations develop an instinctive fear of food deliveries and TikTok, or what?
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by card_zero 2mo ago
We have to be genetically adapted to survive food deliveries and TikTok?
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by card_zero 2mo ago
So I did a chronological search for "what's for dinner", here it is in a poem from 1794: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_pindarian... Their choices are rat, mouse, or nothing, but they
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by card_zero 2mo ago
I switched to Windows in the year 2000, or 2002, around then. It used to be cool because "the app is just a file that you can place anywhere, or trash when done" was true. They arrived usually as Stuffit or Binhex archives, rarel
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by card_zero 2mo ago
But the next generation of "a people" are not the same people, and perhaps those people won't, and then where's your "step aside"?
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Opinions aren't genetic, so that's not very good logic. I guess the logic depends on a culture passing on a value - by means of words, not by genetics - such as spawn furiously to the next generation, who accept it uncritically.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
If "take from the poor and give to the rich" means just don't tax the rich so much, that's a mischaracterization of taking and giving.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Yeah yeah, no aesthetic preferences are ever bad, sure. Heard it, don't believe it. Your thing sucks, sometimes that's just a fact.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Joke needs tweaking to take into account that all large bronze sculptures are hollow.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Thrift was formerly a word for profits, now it makes sense. But I recognize the snowclone as a popular 16th century way to form personal verb-noun descriptors like cutpurse, upstart, sawbones, spoilsport, dreadnought. This is still produc
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by card_zero 2mo ago
"about all of us when it comes to things we are not very competent at", according to the article.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Huh? The point is that the two graphs come out looking the same, making the original no more meaningful than random. Source code is here: https://github.com/pem725/Dunning-Kruger (found here: https://pem72
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by card_zero 2mo ago
OK, but you didn't apparently read the post you replied to, which says "by mistake, and didn’t even realize".
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by card_zero 2mo ago
That is opposite, not the same.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
How do you feel about a fleuron dinkus?

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