dennis_jeeves2

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by dennis_jeeves2 5mo ago
Should have been jumps BY 3.8%
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by dennis_jeeves2 5mo ago
>are usually discovered "for their own sake" Like prime numbers? (used in cryptography)
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by dennis_jeeves2 5mo ago
Get a better f* meaning to life, will you? Example: spend time looking at health/nutrition. I assure you that in 5 years you will get more satisfaction and returns than the assembly code you wrote. One important caveat - the subject o
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by dennis_jeeves2 5mo ago
Moral of the story: It's ok for the govt to print as many notes as is needed to satisfy the govt's needs needs but it is not ok for the common Joe to do the same. One is labeled as inflation or quantitative easing and the other is
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by dennis_jeeves2 5mo ago
>But you could use the same logic to not make any advancement ever. No antibiotics because it will cause resistance. No chemo because it will cause damage and death. I understand the argument you are making, and I'm no fan of govt&#
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by dennis_jeeves2 5mo ago
Leaders with a vision for all of us.
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by dennis_jeeves2 5mo ago
Distraction from the mortgages, taxes, inflation etc. all of which is the modern equivalent of slavery. When the slaves are distracted they are unlikely to rebel.
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by dennis_jeeves2 5mo ago
>Virtually all the drugs you take, interventions, cancer treatments, etc. are based on such science. So it's 'science' done wrong. The implications are that most drugs are useless if not outright harmful.
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by dennis_jeeves2 5mo ago
True, the guy is has somewhat banal views. Guess he still has an audience.
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by dennis_jeeves2 5mo ago
> But spending is not automatically good. Productive spending and productive investment are good. Wasteful consumption, speculation, and forced risk-taking are not. That is indeed a great distinction that you have pointed out.
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by dennis_jeeves2 5mo ago
>In a deflationary system, rich people just hold money, and earn more in interest from holding the money, than everyone else earns combined. Wrong, in a 'deflationary' system the more a rich person holds money in proportion to
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by dennis_jeeves2 6mo ago
Could be the case. But the explanation of crowded tooth being ascribed to evolution is completely false. If one dug around literature even a teeny bit one realizes that many hunter gather groups even today have a a full set of tooth perfect
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by dennis_jeeves2 6mo ago
>The common crowding of human teeth—especially "wisdom" teeth, which erupt last >is traceable to the evolutionary shortening of our jaw. Complete baloney.
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by dennis_jeeves2 6mo ago
> It's entirely common for the government to wipe their ass with the first amendment during wartime. Happens even without a war, just saying...
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by dennis_jeeves2 6mo ago
>It sounds like you want the conclusion to be true, or you already believe it to be true, that EMFs are harmful, and Wouldn't it be more accurate to hypothesize for a start, that man-made EMFs are likely to be harmful than safe. We
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by dennis_jeeves2 6mo ago
Perhaps naive, but he sounds like an optimist to me. Because govt/social stuff can often negate technological advancements as it already has.
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by dennis_jeeves2 6mo ago
I spent the last minute observing in silence, in memory of this remarkable creature. HN sheep, I command thee all, to do the same.
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
>My point is, that for the private, we do offload some responsibility to the system Fair enough.
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
>Sounds weird to me. Is it a "just saying - my observation" kind of take, or is it statistics? It cannot be both, can it? No, this is not any official statistics. It's personal observation. Just like I can conclude that st
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
>That's my argument in favor of quotas (e.g. for women): Just saying - my observation: statistically the most competent will be white old males. Same goes for humility.
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
>If you see a system in which so many fail, then the problem is the system. Nope, it's start off with individuals, often way up above. Calling a system problematic is, essentially saying no one is responsible.
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
> there is an awful lot of legacy thinking and "way things are done" taking lives. I think one of the legacy thinking is to treat it like an infection rather than a systemic disease.
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
>it seems like the treatment is almost worse than the disease. You seem to be indeed factually correct in most cases, judging by views of physicians who have gone against the orthodoxy.
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
>I used a simple “tell me what you had for breakfast” line to filter out people who don’t read. Seems like a good screening. Atleast it's better than - "what are your accomplishments.?"
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
>considerably worse place if everyone abided by such rules Those rules are not meant for everyone.
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
We are special of course. Edit: Actually just me, I'm special
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
>whats incredible to me are how many useful idiots out there STILL fall for it. That's about 99% of the population.
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
Perhaps even worse. I'm over simplifying: but at least some childless people know it's a lot of work and sacrifice to be a good parent, hence they opted out. On the other hand for the clueless ones, they thought of a child as some
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
>Good parenting is only doing better than your parents. Also making the mistakes that your parents did not make.
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by dennis_jeeves2 7mo ago
Hence they delegate it to the experts: daycare, school etc. /s

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