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by chmod600 5y ago
But how dangerous is that idea, really? How many people heard the idea, and didn't get vaccinated because of it? If this idea weren't put out there, how many of those people would have just found some other reason to not get vacci
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by chmod600 5y ago
Your best example of a dangerous theory is Ivermectin? How many deaths has that idea caused? That's the problem with censorship/cancellation/deplatforming. The standards are very loose and selective. You say that a theory abo
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by chmod600 5y ago
"we not only lose outdated and misguided opinions" Those are some of the most valuable opinions to share. It's not great that people have such opinions, but to the extent that people do, it's much better to discuss the
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by chmod600 5y ago
By itself, that's unlikely. But the point of black swans is not that a particular thing will happen, but that there are zillions of low-probability events and they add up to a high probability.
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by chmod600 5y ago
That theory presumes a correlation between the behaviors that lead to contracting the plague, and a general foolishness/uselessness to society overall. Sounds like a stretch to me, but I'm no expert.
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by chmod600 5y ago
If I understand correctly, the main point is that the destruction of institutions lowers the quality and quantity of life that can be supported. That makes sense. The bigger surprise to me was that after the Black Death, quality of life for
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by chmod600 5y ago
What you say makes sense, but it makes me wonder if there's a related concept where huge amounts of money are sitting on the sidelines that could start moving at any time. That seems kind of like inflation.
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by chmod600 5y ago
"Of course Nate Silver and co. did not have Comey reopening the case as a factor in their models; that is not an indictment of the model itself." Why is that not an indictment of the model? Stuff happens in politics. Things chan
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by chmod600 5y ago
How can you objectively say that 538 was right or not? They use numbers to come up with probabilities, but there are a lot of baked-in assumptions about things like turnout, various sampling errors or biases, etc. They have reasons for thei
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by chmod600 5y ago
It looks like the suggestion of extruding ice (in another comment) seems more plausible than a kind of capillary action as you suggest.
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by chmod600 5y ago
Fact: CNN spread misinformation about Ivermectin. JR even got CNN's Sanjay Gupta to admit that it was misinformation. https://nypost.com/2021/10/14/joe-rogan-takes-on-sanjay-gupt... I find it really dist
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by chmod600 5y ago
When you say "free market" you imply that there is zero political risk (meaning risk of politicians using their elevated powers against you) resulting from their choices. In reality there is political risk for highly public decisi
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by chmod600 5y ago
If they aren't actually convicted, then yes.
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by chmod600 5y ago
"It's important to not get stuck in old ways of thinking." Great comment, but I think you mean stuck in new/urban ways of thinking. It probably seems crazy to someone in a rural town that parents would spend all their
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by chmod600 5y ago
Are you saying that cities are the more natural environment for children, and that rural living deprives them of their nature?
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by chmod600 5y ago
Because vaccination is a proxy for your views on authority.
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by chmod600 5y ago
Couldn't this be explained by the fact that power switches back and forth? Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden. Wouldn't it be weird to, for example, pass single payer national healthcare under D and then repeal it 4-8 years
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by chmod600 5y ago
Maybe at the national level... least in the sense "less different than you might think". But at the local level, things really are different.
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by chmod600 5y ago
The solutions are easier in a growing city than a declining one.
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by chmod600 5y ago
I view philosophies as necessary stepping stones for better civilization. Just because we have already progressed beyond a given philosophy doesn't mean it wasn't a critical step on the path to where we are today. And such philoso
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by chmod600 5y ago
"What part of microservices says things must be separated by way of an arbitrary wire protocol?" That's not a requirement, cf. Erlang/OTP. But to qualify as a microservice, you need it decoupled enough that you can indep
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by chmod600 5y ago
But you need some concept of what kinds of problems are solvable with a computer before you could really be inspired to program one. And more than that, you need to have a concept of the difficulty of a given problem for a beginner or exper
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by chmod600 5y ago
"You can do more. You can be more. You can experience more. And most people don’t even try. Sad." I had a lot of experiences before I had kids. Traveled the world, great jobs, career, friends. But those all seem pretty empty by co
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by chmod600 5y ago
What you say is probably true, but there's a creepy quality to it: spreading your ideas to other people's children . Spreading your ideas to other adults seems fine. Or spreading your ideas to your own children seems fine, becaus
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by chmod600 5y ago
Is that distinction really useful though? Doesn't that rope in pretty much any behavior that deviates from your idealistic expectations of yourself? Is a nail-biter an addict?
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by chmod600 5y ago
My name is the SHA1 hash of the UTF-8 representation of the next 30 unicode code points that follow it. If you don't have 30 more code points worth of stuff to say, you can feed fewer bytes into the hash. But then you can never speak a
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by chmod600 5y ago
Why would they do that?
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by chmod600 5y ago
I was never really into coffee, but I think it's probably good if you keep it around a cup per day. A small enough amount that you can skip a day without a problem, or have an extra cup when you need it and it will be effective without
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by chmod600 5y ago
Covid is no longer an emergency. It's been two years. It's time for the executives and individual teachers to stand down and work within the intent of the laws as they are on the books. If the legislatures didn't pass the rig
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by chmod600 5y ago
There have been decades of criticism of "slumlords", and various laws to bring up the standards of housing to what are essentially middle-class expectations. This article now nostalgically glorifies real low-income housing with no

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