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by concordDance 2y ago
> The end result is that nobody wants to buy or sell shares anymore (since they will get the raw end of the deal) and the market collapses as a result. Finance noob question here: has this actually happened? And related, don't non-p
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by concordDance 2y ago
Why would leaking matter? The ocean will dilute the leakage to irrelevance (recall that there's 4 billion tons of Uranium already in the ocean).
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by concordDance 2y ago
Yup, but those two countries alone are still going to hit 1.5 billion combined at current rates (DRC has 6.05 TFR declining at 0.05 per decade), momentum is key. And if they attain European rates of resource consumption then by that point t
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by concordDance 2y ago
> Hence the degrowth movement, etc. The oddest thing about this to me is that they don't seem to think through what exactly this implies. If one truly believes in the need to reduce human population then by far the highest margin th
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by concordDance 2y ago
I'd want reports from randomly sampled Cybertruck users before agreeing to that last clause... Reports of Tesla cars being awful and full of problems have been around for a decade, but the people I've directly spoken to like their
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by concordDance 2y ago
It could using crypto, but Spain would complain to the USA and they'd back down.
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by concordDance 2y ago
> they were largely responsible for explicitly refusing to help and making the situation worse. Where does this come from? The article we are discussing mentions various bits of helping, as does the wikipedia page. It looks like a comple
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by concordDance 2y ago
Pithy answers don't work. Almost everything is multi-causal.
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by concordDance 2y ago
> Britain was nearing its peak “no free charity” back then That particular peak is probably much older. Charity at a non-negligible scale to distant (meaning "not literally in visual range") people has been very rare throughout
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by concordDance 2y ago
I think it comes from the general belief that poverty is bad and a simplistic view of cause and effect. "Before the Empire they were really poor, with high mortality, after the empire they were much wealthier with lower mortality"
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by concordDance 2y ago
Having now checked the wikipedia page, that doesn't seem like it would have made a particularly big difference. The imports dwarfed the exports, particularly during 1847 when they were 8x larger.
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by concordDance 2y ago
It's one of those things that is generally true but should not be the only consideration. A bit of dependence that would need reducing later is a very small price to pay to avoid a million starved.
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by concordDance 2y ago
I'd happily wager $100 that in a couple of years time we'll have the data to conclude that Model Ys were not 3x more lethally dangerous than average. Would you take that bet?
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by concordDance 2y ago
I often hear this, but other than cotton, what industrial materials needed to be imported? My understanding is that coal, wood and iron ore were plentiful in England itself.
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by concordDance 2y ago
Huh, interesting what it focused on. > You've cited LessWrong so many times that Eliezer Yudkowsky is considering charging you royalties for intellectual property use. > Your comments have more 'bits of evidence' and &#
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by concordDance 2y ago
> Have you ever seen a bricked Tesla driving down the road? It's terrifying. How often has this happened?
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by concordDance 2y ago
Yeah, this. It substantially worsens the heat/light ratio of ensuing discussion and adds little. Trump is not an obscure topic. "Trump lies all the time" is not a novel statement people won't have encountered and conside
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by concordDance 2y ago
> They couldn't build a system that used my style of components because a failure due to a component would bring the whole system down and require an expensive service call Could they not make the scope easily replaceable by the use
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by concordDance 2y ago
When I made that post this was in the main branch (e.g. starting at top comment and going down you hit this before any leaf): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103830
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by concordDance 2y ago
There are definitely tangible predictive differences in the case of, say, Russia vs USA. Things like "If you go to the capital with a bunch of friends carrying placards saying '$LEADER is corrupt and evil and should be replaced by
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by concordDance 2y ago
Honestly dang, I'm seeing mostly not thoughtful substantive commentary here, just ideological battling. Which is a shame because this is certainly a topic it's possible to do that on (e.g. this comment here: https://new
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by concordDance 2y ago
If they affect your life they can be observed. If "democracy" is just metaphysics then it's irrelevant. But if it has actual tangible effects such as "can you vote?", "can you protest the government?", &qu
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by concordDance 2y ago
The idea would be that the two of them collaboratively agree on some observable prediction they differ on. E.g. level of officially reported government spending in 4 years time or gdp growth rate next year or number of plane crashes next ye
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by concordDance 2y ago
Given the two of you probably have different models of reality, perhaps you two can try and figure out which is correct by seeing which model gives better predictions? So try to come up with some sort of future observation that can be made
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by concordDance 2y ago
Interesting thing about this is that because of all the Musk-related overhyping that's gone on and because the launch is a video, the thread that marks the entry of another company into the select group of serious AI companies will go
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by concordDance 2y ago
Depends what you mean by "people here". I mean, obviously the majority of HN commentators and even the majority of commentators on this thread seem to be. But there will always be a couple of slightly unhinged folk in a big enough
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by concordDance 2y ago
I think a lot of that comes from people thinking the eye-catching memorable views they've read are the most common views. When they're really not and are mire likely just the views of the most passionate 1%.
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by concordDance 2y ago
Big emuse cases for me are: 1. Exploring a new domain and getting some terms I can google for. 2. Making small scripts to do things like query github's GraphQL API. 3. Autocomplete of code using copilot.
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by concordDance 2y ago
There have always been many: https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/how-many-plane-crashes-202... Its only commercial airline crashes in the USA that are vanishingly rare. Once you expand scope to all types of planses or th
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by concordDance 2y ago
> This is creating an extremely fragmented society, all creating their own bubble of what they want to see It has always been thus. E.g. right wingers did not use twitter back in 2021. I will grant it's getting worse though... for i

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