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by ddxxdd 9y ago
I've never understood this. What do you do when you need to defecate?
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
According to game theory, the easiest way to win a game of Chicken is to tear off your steering column and wave it out your window. In other words, preparing for nuclear war instead of preventing a nuclear war is how you win small battles,
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
>Another thing to note is that the multi-megaton weapons aren't in style anymore, due to improved targeting accuracy. I think it was due to the opposite, actually. The development of Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles (MIRVs) ma
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
::nostalgic tears::
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
But you would be splitting limited supplies among more people, right? Was the church only meant as a shelter for the blast, and not an actual fallout shelter?
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
I've been listening to the audiobook "Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence" by Daniel Goleman, and in one of the chapters, he brought up this experiment, along with many others (I think there was an Australian experiment th
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
Freedom of speech is a principle that outdates and transcends the 1st amendment.
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
If you want to understand the motives of the Revolutionary War, look at the Articles of Confederation rather than the current Constitution.
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
Re: incarceration rate We have one of the highest crime rates in the world. If our penal system didn't work the way it did, America would descend into chaos.
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
Can anyone attest to the validity of the No Free Lunch theorem? What if I created an algorithm that had access to every other possible algorithm ever created, and chose to use the optimal algorithm for the given task? Would that algorithm-s
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
>Nobody is questioning whether dentists should be payed more than fast food workers, it's just how much more. This doesn't actually answer any questions or address any actual issues, unless you're willing to force dentists
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
>For example (this is just a theory, I have no evidence whatsoever here), the men who tend to advance politically and in their careers are usually the ones with the best social skills. They're the ones who are the best at making adv
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
But is the cure really worse than the disease? If it can be shown that broad, across-the-board legalization of all drugs would triple heroin addiction, would you be okay with that?
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
The answer would likely be AI risk. Then someone similar to this author will write an introduction to computer science that starts with a science fiction-esque warning of doom and gloom
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
10%, sure. But are you any worse off if, out of those 10%, 1% can afford a private jet?
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
My point was actually that there is no way automation could possibly leave more people worse off, since it brings more goods into circulation.
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
Even if we assume that your premise is correct that the rich deserve to pay more, there are 2nd order effects to consider. The rich may respond to tax hikes by raising the price of their goods and services, by moving their taxable income&#x
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
The counter to that argument is that if the owners of robots make 100% of the income while customers make 0%, then the owners of the robots will have a very small market to sell their goods and services. If you are capable of making 10 bill
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
You're missing the commenter's point. If everyone ends up wealthier due to IT, then everybody's utility would be going up. Hence, IT would end up being a net positive thing even if it increased inequality. In other words, if
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
I'm just going to throw this out there as well, but 1973 was when the Great Stagnation began ( http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/2011/02/great-stagnat... ), and it coincides quite closely to when Richard N
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
I read a statistic stating that somewhere around 80% of the violent crime in America takes place in about 5% of the counties. In other words, there are certain niche demographics in America that are pulling up those gun murder stats, and it
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by ddxxdd 9y ago
Or possibly that older women get less unwanted male attention overall.
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by ddxxdd 10y ago
>Require that pharmaceutical companies do not charge Americans any more for their drugs than what they charge any developed country If i recall correctly, that has been part of Trumps platform for several months before the election. Or r
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by ddxxdd 12y ago
Your comment, while informative, puts the cart before the horse. High work stress and poor employee treatment are usually symptoms, not causes, of a business going under.