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by cowpig 4y ago
I just think it's ok for the government to run a lottery and not advertise it. Allowing gambling machines in restaurant is a whole different story. I think conflating the two is a slippery slope fallacy.
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by cowpig 4y ago
Alternative take: there's strong demand for numbers games, and the government, whose spending is at worst weakly correlated with social goods, and who is not profit-motivated and therefore will do less to encourage problem gambling, is
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by cowpig 4y ago
What was the GDP during that time?
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by cowpig 4y ago
He only does a bit on post-revolution Haiti though
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by cowpig 4y ago
Surely the historical context is important in understanding how things came to be? If an export-based economy is cut off from international trade because it isn't recognized as a nation, and also forced to pay off a massive debt, surel
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by cowpig 4y ago
Monadical | Multiple Engineering roles | Full-time | Remote | monadical.com We're a fully-remote development consultancy that is growing quickly. Looking primarily for senior developers with experience in Unity/gaming, Rust, front
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Can you explain the connection between free trade, covid/russian agression, and the economy? It's not obvious to me
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I think a more measured perspective is to understand that Microsoft has decided to change its strategy at the top level, but also still is a company full of people looking for ways to capture value, and who have had a history of success cap
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by cowpig 4y ago
Thanks not what I meant. Are you not worried about the conflict of interest inherent in providing offensive and defensive tools simultaneously? If someone charged money for minesweeping and simultaneously gave out mines I think that would b
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by cowpig 4y ago
Mind releasing some footage of your face and your personal information? It would be a nice gesture to say "I am as much at risk of the consequences of my actions as the people I have chosen to put at risk"
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by cowpig 4y ago
What a strange perspective to take. A "subsidized personal choice," as if there is some higher economic power that we are in service of, and those who decide to dedicate a third of our adult existence to the next generation are ma
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by cowpig 4y ago
Came here to say they lost me at "Freud says..." thank you for pointing out the year
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Senators push to break up Google, Facebook ads businesses in new bill(theverge.com)
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Right now I'm using a 17" Dell Precision which is a brick of a laptop that weighs over 3.5kg and whose battery life can be measured in minutes as my primary work machine. I would buy a 17" framework to replace it in a heartbe
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> My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test Most people didn't notice that some of my vacation photos were fake, therefore it passed the Turing Test... why is this clickbait nonsense getting so much attention? Can
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> because of this grayness and lax and outdated terms of use, it’s host to lots of cool sites such as white supremacist site Daily Stormer (to escape deplatforming on literally everywhere else), cybercrime activities, the pro-Putin youth
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> free promotion on HN I think you've got that backwards
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> crypto > safer ?????
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by cowpig 4y ago
Reality is complicated and nuanced and attempts to boil reality down to single concepts or dimensions are always full of ifs and buts and end up not really holding up when you look closer. Everything is selfishness is an especially lame the
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by cowpig 4y ago
Am I missing something? There didn't seem to be any substantive statement or claim in this article besides the dubious, citation-free statistics about ritalin use in the opening. Why is this on the front page of HN?
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by cowpig 4y ago
Anecdotal, but a friend of mine who wrote for Marvel comics in the 80s and 90s told me that she (and all the other Marvel writers) has a few % royalties for the characters and stories they wrote, and that neither she nor her peers from back
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by cowpig 5y ago
There's no such thing as a "free market" for healthcare. The ability for consumers to exit a market is one of the prerequisites for the invisible hand effect. You can't exit the healthcare market.
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by cowpig 5y ago
I hear this all the time on HN, but I never see any data to back it up. It's also a very broad statement: I never see any construction when I visit SF, but in Montreal everything is under construction all the time. There are a dozen ne
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Or they could invest in enough humans that it doesn't
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Reading this I get the feeling that Dan is missing a major selection bias: he has extremely high standards and is very competent, and tends to be friends with people who also have very high standards and who are competent. It stands to reas
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Monadical | Multiple Engineering roles | Full-time | Remote | monadical.com We're a fully-remote development consultancy that is growing quickly. Looking for developers with experience in Unity/gaming, Rust, frontend/React, a
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by cowpig 5y ago
> There's a crowd right now trying to remove any reference to neo-nazism in the Azov Battalion wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Azov_Battalion&ac ... There are always going to be pe
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Just think about that from a logical perspective: if you start your proof with false axioms, you can never produce anything true. You can only produce a universe of internally-consistent false statements. The only way out of the propaganda
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For current events, my strategy is largely to stick to Associated Press (AP) reports. I ignore anything that's not super reputable, and don't have social media accounts. My understanding is that, for many years now, the AP has bee
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If your goal is to get a feel for all of the different spin/propaganda that are out there, then this maybe is a good strategy. If your goal is to get an accurate picture of events, I think focusing on reputable news sources is a much b

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