chottocharaii

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by chottocharaii 6y ago
Bad analogy. A puddle is a local system, governed by local random conditions (e.g. the sun as in that example) The strong anthropic principle makes a statement about the fine tuning of the one and only, non-random, system that governs all s
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by chottocharaii 7y ago
Most unskilled labourers are presented with non-routine problems frequently throughout their work
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by chottocharaii 7y ago
I took the SAT from Australia and was blown away by how ridiculously easy it was. Maybe it’d be a better predictor of ability if they made it a bit harder.
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by chottocharaii 7y ago
Humans are not biologically adapted to surviving on Mars, and for that reason, any settlement to Mars is bound to fail in the long term.
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Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?(mattstoller.substack.com)
491 points by chottocharaii 7y ago|367 comments
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by chottocharaii 7y ago
‘Normally I would say A, but I do not trust X so I will say B’ Is an implicit comparison between X & an unstated Y
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by chottocharaii 7y ago
(d) is objectively false It depends on the crime. Sometimes an ‘objective’ view of morality is an element of an offense. E.g. in fraud (and potentially, this charge)
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by chottocharaii 7y ago
Perhaps, but the body of law point means we’ll never find out if you’re right or not.
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by chottocharaii 7y ago
It seems you didn't read the article closely. They didn't just plagiarize the slides, they neutered them, and then attempted to pass them off as Stanford endorsed research; all without permission from the author.
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by chottocharaii 7y ago
The distinction is that if your company boycotted another, is unlikely to ever be diplomatically or politically important; unless you work at Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, or Google
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by chottocharaii 7y ago
Sometimes they can be so manifestly and obviously bad so as to be objectively bad.
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by chottocharaii 7y ago
They also check whether the bond has been lodged at the govt authority (this is mandatory)
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by chottocharaii 7y ago
The question is who owns the technology we are improving. For whose financial interests does that technology work?
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
When in an early iteration of Apple Music, the app ‘accidentally’ erased all of my music library except that which I’d explicitly bought from the iTunes Store; they burned me as a customer forever.
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
The market solution is a non-starter. We need laws.
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
I heard from a Chinese legal academic that when China is diplomatically isolated, the two provinces tend to be left alone to enjoy the benefits of their independent foreign ties. When China is more politically feeling comfortable, that is w
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
Why is the possibility of a wheel being reinvented a desirable thing?
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
Easy for you to say. You're probably not bonded to your employer like the OP. Get your head out of the sand.
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
and how do you get such things addressed at a legislative level? Maybe unions can be useful after all!
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
Indeed. Arts degrees have suffered large funding cuts in Australia in recent years. Perhaps for the reasons you describe.
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
The only % you pay, is on the money above the threshold amount. So if you earn 52k, you only pay the 8% of your student loan back on the 2k above the threshold. So yes, it is stepped, and no, there is no incentive for staying below that thr
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
They are under Australian copyright law
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
We’re not going to have a market solution, only a regulatory one; if one is coming at all
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
All traditional markets require the use of force; just its limited in effect by consent in contract.
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
He probably assumes becoming mega rich requires a certain form of sociopathy that ditinguishes the group from the rest of us.
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
Many of the greatest minds of the academy of the last 3 centuries were active in politics. Montesquieu, Burke, etc... Academic ideas renew society.
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
campaign finance will never be reformed, political movement needs to be able to operate in spite of money contributed I doubt Citizens United will ever be overruled
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
Hayek, like Adam Smith, has been quoted to intellectual death by libertarians who haven't actually read him.
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
The stock market has priced in those future increases in the present day inflated stock price. That's a pretty decent indication.
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by chottocharaii 8y ago
Try Australia.

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