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by chillacy 5y ago
"Here lies a fallen civilization. They were admirably principled instead of pragmatic."
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by chillacy 5y ago
> In May 1899, revolutionary Zhang Binglin began to label and alienate the Manchu rulers and people as foreign barbarians. His writings outlined his definition of ‘ethnic Han’ people, which made him the originator of the clearly delineat
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by chillacy 5y ago
Vaccines aren't 100% effective, otherwise it would be no problem if, say, parents decided not to vaccinate their children for schools.
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How does one balance that with the counter desire to not want to go to a wedding, concert, football game, or plane with unvaccinated people?
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Right, despite mostly common human emotions (justice, reciprocity, etc), specific moral beliefs are normative and vary wildly by upbringing, religion, and political persuasion.
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> our judgment Who is 'our'? Hopefully not just everyone who agrees with your definition of evil...
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by chillacy 5y ago
I can see the desire not to look down on others, but economic development isn’t measured in time as much as wealth accumulation. Wealth begets wealth too, so the wealthy countries today tend to be the winners of the industrial revolution (m
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by chillacy 5y ago
I was looking this up recently. There's a 3 phase plan to switch to proof of stake, the first phase of launching a new chain is complete, but it could take years to complete this migration.
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by chillacy 5y ago
Cutting the sugar might have been the bulk of the effect, it's very difficult to burn calories over the base metabolic rate, but it's very easy to consume an extra 200 calories a day in sugar.
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by chillacy 5y ago
Another possibility: switching the cause and effect, e.g. maybe you received ads for fixed bridge dentures and didn't notice consciously (how many ads do we gloss over each day "not paying attention"), but later brought it up
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by chillacy 6y ago
Spending time with your brain’s Default Mode Network sounds very meditative.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Others in this thread say that a key purpose of the monarchy is as a unifying symbol, if so then this seems like fair game.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Steve Jobs didn’t invent smartphones but he made them cool. Tesla is mainstream cool in the way the iPhone was a decade ago.
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> (2) Hardly anybody actually understands money. Money just doesn't work like that, I was told fervently and often. Gold couldn't work as money until it was already shiny or useful for electronics or something else besides mone
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by chillacy 6y ago
Ian Banks tackles the very essential question or our times with the battle between ascribed and achieved identities and how cultures built around either are incompatible. One of my favorite essays, very thought provoking https://
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by chillacy 6y ago
This is sadly under appreciated. Realpolitik is as essential to understanding geopolitics as supply and demand is to understanding microeconomics.
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by chillacy 6y ago
You say “we” but there’s slim chance that everyone reading this even on HN would agree with this value (and I say value because “censorship is wrong” is a normative assumption).
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by chillacy 6y ago
You can measure inflammatory if you have a big enough crowd, even though whether or not something offends is up to each individual.
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It’s worth noting that esperanto predates the era of English as an international language. Back when Zamenhof designed esperanto, French was the closest thing to an international language that unlocked the vast world of literature, media, c
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by chillacy 6y ago
Making it big on YouTube requires “selling out” to some extent. For example, clickbait titles and extreme video thumbnails. I’ve seen a handful of channels that had good content in the real estate space go down this route recently and I’m s
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by chillacy 6y ago
I don’t know if there’s data to back this, but I suspect that musicians might have gotten a better deal before recording technology, since music performances would have to be hyper local, so there would be multiple markets for music instead
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by chillacy 6y ago
Afaik governments emerged during the transition from hunter gathering to agriculture. Hunter gatherers have some concept of private property, but it's in no way the same extent as in modern society. For one, hunter gatherers wouldn&#x2
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by chillacy 6y ago
One of the only convincing rebuttals to the statement "taxation is theft" I've heard relies on the fact that the government is the entity that bootstraps the very concept of private property as we know it. Without this guaran
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by chillacy 6y ago
The OCP is imo poorly named, but it has far bigger implications than the post acknowledges. For one, it implies the concept of abstraction layers. In particular, base libraries should provide abstractions at the level of the library. In thi
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by chillacy 6y ago
Scott Alexander has an interesting post called Conflict vs Mistake which makes the point that fair and open debate might actually be a consequence of certain world views but not others.
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by chillacy 6y ago
The network will probably split, and the best chain will win in the long run. That sounds like decentralization to me.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Why adjust the stake instead of assume a fixed 32ETH minimum stake? I think we all agree that total_cost_to_attack_usd = stake_amount * usd_per_eth, if stake_amount is fixed, then the total cost increases proportional to usd_per_eth.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Absolutely, all the stuff built on ETH (defi, automated exchanges, nfts) can't truly take off when gas fees can cost 20-80 USD per action. There's already a blockchain that acts as a store of value, the world doesn't need a s
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by chillacy 6y ago
I see, so among the audience which has been prescreened, life is good. I can see that being nice, if you're in that class of people. However as someone without a CS degree who is nonetheless able to get jobs as a software engineer beca
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by chillacy 6y ago
Relative to going to med school, law school, or a top 10 business school, I can’t see how it’s not true even for those with families or commitments.

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