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by curi 19y ago
What's for lots of safe sex, that makes it worth lots of time, and worth many repetitions? Shouldn't we have a DRY life?
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by curi 19y ago
Why not talk about it? Who cares if some trolls get annoyed? Just disregard them.
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by curi 19y ago
Who cares if things have a "medical" use or not? Heroin and alcohol both have human uses for which people want them.
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by curi 19y ago
Don't feed the trolls.
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by curi 19y ago
That's not true at all, they could very easily use something harmful for centuries and not figure it out. That's what science is for: without it, it's extraordinarily easy to fool yourself, or not notice things.
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by curi 19y ago
It seems blatantly obvious that rms has a positive opinion of kratom, but that he's selling it in the style of "use at your own risk and discretion". There's nothing dishonest about that.
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by curi 19y ago
There is no fraud involved in selling Kratom, nor any force. rms is not making misleading medical claims, he's been clear it hasn't passed rigorous scientific standards.
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by curi 19y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with selling Kratom, as long as you make it clear that it hasn't gone through clinical trials, has known side effects, etc... And you do seem to be very conscientious about pointing those things out. So
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by curi 19y ago
Ugh, users will run into problems and have no idea why. If comcast wants to manage its network they should at least have a public policy for how they do that. Oh well, maybe people will start encrypting more of their traffic.
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by curi 19y ago
This story has a bunch of comments, including one with 4 points, but only has 2 points itself. I think it's actually common to comment on a story and not upvote it. I know I do that often. One reason is people often comments on stories they
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by curi 19y ago
So, as you point out, the strategy would work better if you don't downvote anything to zero. And don't downvote very many things.
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by curi 19y ago
Oh this reminds me, there is a similar incentive to upvote stories you commented on so more people see the story and potentially join in the comments discussion.
553.
by curi 19y ago
I was responding to the personal question. You're right that sorting by time would change that incentive, and that it'd be a useful option sometimes.
554.
by curi 19y ago
It isn't good to design systems with bad incentives, whether people follow them or not.
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YC Voting Incentives Problem
2 points by curi 19y ago|17 comments
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by curi 19y ago
He hasn't understood what a startup means. If he did, $135 would seem very tiny compared to the huge amount of work he was planning to do. He's not planning to do that work. Yet. Don't dump him immediately. People are complicated, and somet
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by curi 19y ago
There are two varieties of bohm interpretation: one says that there are "hidden variables". what this means is all particles store information, from the start of existence, about all other particles they will ever have anything to do with.
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by curi 19y ago
You're right that I should be careful with what I call ridiculous. I am. (Will now explain more details in response to the other guy's comment where he proposes bohm and grw theories as non-ridiculous)
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by curi 19y ago
Heh, you're right that it says that. That's a shame, it's largely good.
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by curi 19y ago
I don't really care what views are popular, (though MWI is popular among top experts to whom it matters), I care which views are true. So what matters to me is which proponents say things that make sense and give good explanations and arg
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by curi 19y ago
In Wave Collapse/Many Worlds, a parallel universe is created in which wave collapse occured but gave a different outcome. That is incorrect. Many Worlds does not say universes are created all the time, it says they already exist and becom
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by curi 19y ago
They have no clue what they are talking about. For example this: This is the same case with quantum suicide. When the man pulls the trigger, there are two possible outcomes: the gun either fires or it doesn't. In this case, the man either
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by curi 19y ago
umm you can't skip the audio. i got bored and left. and you shouldn't play audio w/out the user clicking something to start it. they could be at work, it could be 4am, etc
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by curi 19y ago
He said it himself. He's not replying b/c he's got a good point, he's replying b/c he's angry -- his blood is boiling.
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by curi 19y ago
why do you focus on sports instead of self defense?
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by curi 19y ago
Guns are designed to propel bullets quickly and accurately. This is used for whatever people want to use it for, including sport, murder, and saving lives.
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by curi 19y ago
Getting banned from places is fun.
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by curi 19y ago
if you're buying things (real estate, stocks, etc) from other countries -- ie, trading with them -- that has to count towards any reasonable definition of trade surplus/deficit. so, i think we agree, even though kingkongrevenge considers it
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by curi 19y ago
if all you have is money, what do you eat? this isn't a problem, you can buy some food. but if you do, that creates a trade deficit. if you never have a trade deficit after a surplus, that would mean your country is full of money that it ne
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by curi 19y ago
They are proud of a positive trade balance for the EU (of 3 billion, which seems tiny for a 16 trillion GDP). That's silly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism David Hume famously noted the impossibility of the mercantilists' goal

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