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by deciplex 8y ago
If I elect politicians who are likely to trade away list A then that indicates I either don't value list A so highly after all, or that the politicians are liars. I don't see how your system solves the latter problem - either way
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by deciplex 8y ago
> First past the post works because it is simple, understandable and it forces politicians to do the deals ahead of the election - or suffer the consequences of being ignored entirely. Let's change this slightly: > First past the
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by deciplex 8y ago
Newer buildings have a "trash room" of course, but mountains of garbage in the street in busier areas are still the norm in some places, on collection days.
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by deciplex 8y ago
If you attempt to identify a canonical "you" which ignores the basic fact that your particles are entangled with virtually every other particle in the visible universe, you're starting with an assumption wrong enough that of
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by deciplex 8y ago
You're generally not creating value when you brush your teeth, at least not in any significant sense, and not in the same way as putting Windows on a bunch of office computers and doing work on them. No one is buying a bunch of toothbr
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by deciplex 8y ago
>But the trait that ALL domesticated species demonstrate relative to their wild species is a smaller brain. I’d bet it’s happening with humans, too, but that’s just an observation for another day. It is: http://discovermagazin
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by deciplex 8y ago
Well, okay, but we can map different cause-and-effect relationships to other ones. Like for example, I can say that so many trillions of energy state transitions in a caesium atom will occur in the time in takes me to walk to the park down
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by deciplex 8y ago
I said "what" is doing the math, not "who".
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by deciplex 8y ago
It seems like "multiverse" is used to describe a half-dozen mostly unrelated things or more (just based on the contents of this thread) including among them many-worlds. But, for example, eternal inflation has nothing directly to
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by deciplex 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes... I get it, but I can't quite wrap my head around a mathematical universe with no substrate. As though any internally consistent ontology with self-a
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by deciplex 8y ago
Isn't this post conflating multiverse hypotheses with the relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics?
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by deciplex 8y ago
Multiverse and universe-outside-the-visible-universe are not the same thing.
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by deciplex 8y ago
A lot of the regulations are there to protect existing players in the market as well. It seems that the market-based approach degrades when it comes into contact with democracy, probably because the equilibrium the market is trying to achie
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by deciplex 8y ago
The government. Thanks for asking.
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by deciplex 8y ago
If this isn't just another tool used by the powerful to the oppress the weak then it will be a milestone in human history. The rich and powerful in China have nothing to fear from this.
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by deciplex 8y ago
Did you just look at print? Talk radio has been hammering this since the late eighties. Hell you can probably draw a line straight from the "Moral Majority" shit in the seventies, to where we find ourselves now. I suspect this has
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by deciplex 8y ago
You mean like, for example, by submitting opinion pieces to the New York Times?
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by deciplex 8y ago
Or, you support the good and try to change the bad? Is that not allowed?
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by deciplex 8y ago
> While skilled, I doubt than more than a small fraction of FB work force is close to Feynman's IQ. In fact Feynman's IQ was merely "above average" according to Feynman himself, who got a look at his score after takin
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by deciplex 8y ago
I think if you can twist your head enough to believe that our current system "at least attempts" (but, by implication, even you seem to agree still fails ) to be representative of the people, but also believe that any employee un
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by deciplex 9y ago
It's not clear to me that America is not on the path that Germany was headed down in the early 30s.
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by deciplex 9y ago
This post seems like it was probably sarcasm but I can't tell. Just in case, though: we already have that.
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by deciplex 9y ago
This is the budget that Trump threatened to veto and whined and complained about before he signed, and the one they're writing articles about the Democrats getting heaps of stuff they wanted in it. I don't think it should be taken
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by deciplex 9y ago
It's almost as though we can take that particular example in context, rather than mindlessly calculating which side has more money and then crafting arguments against their case.
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by deciplex 9y ago
There's not really any value in having that sort of chat with anyone in a professional context.
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by deciplex 9y ago
Mojang is particularly aggravating about this. They spent like a year completely reworking The End and adding hang-gliders or whatever, and meanwhile furnace carts have been broken for like three years, and the fix is apparently like a doze
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by deciplex 9y ago
To add to this: at some point I want a developer to stop development on a game. This is especially true for games with a lot of mod content, and it's especially true when developers start prioritizing new features over bug fixes (l
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by deciplex 9y ago
> When my non-tech enabled friends complain about tech support, it's usually with a fake Indian accent. Find some new, better friends.
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by deciplex 9y ago
> You have to recognize the people who are just cargo culting, of course, and not waste time with them. That's the thing: so much of modern conservatism is just cargo-cult thinking. Lower taxes (esp. wrt the mythical Laffer Curve
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by deciplex 9y ago
> What's the third act? Hopefully exit the OS business altogether and focus on Office. I kid, of course, but a man can dream.

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