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by dools 2y ago
Fun fact: coffee with cow's milk tastes disgusting to me now. I'm a total soy milk convert, and that about does it for dairy. I rarely eat cheese. Eliminating dairy was trivial. I still eat meat though, but I live in Australia so
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by dools 2y ago
My point is more that cows are great at taking inedible grasses and turning them into protein. Growing a rich protein and then feeding it to a cow to make slightly different tasting protein is dumb.
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by dools 2y ago
I don’t think Europeans should stop eating meat but I think we should stop using protein rich food suitable for humans to feed livestock. Livestock are good for taking inedible grass and turning it into protein. Deforesting South America to
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by dools 2y ago
Reminds me of the statistic I heard recently that something like 95% of soybeans grown in South America are used to feed livestock in Europe, even though soy is already a complete protein and could be used to satisfy the protein requirement
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by dools 2y ago
Let's assume there was stuff that needed to be leaked in the public interest: we have a perfectly good counter example which is Snowden. You know who didn't go to jail? Glenn Greenwald.
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by dools 2y ago
He wasn't "doing journalism". WikiLeaks just posted a completely unevaluated firehose of data fed to it by whomever, which is why they were such an easy asset for Russian intelligence.
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by dools 2y ago
When other countries export to the US, they send real goods and get USD denomiated reserves in accounts at the fed in return. They swap some of those USD denominated reserves for USD denominated bonds, because the US federal government has
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by dools 2y ago
Japan had an asset bubble that monetarists blamed on their lack of action to tighten the money market by increasing interest rates. Their economy tanked and they switched to ZIRP in the late 90s and have been there more or less ever since,
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by dools 2y ago
I don't know if I can say that I speak for MMT proponents generally but in his lecture on stabilising an unstable economy[1] Wray puts forward a series of very simple regulatory changes that would avoid those types of problems. In othe
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by dools 2y ago
ZIRP stands for Zero Interest Rate Policy. BTW it's also the only sensible monetary policy in an economy that issues its own currency on a floating exchange rate. Paying interest on reserves or bonds is solely a policy choice and acts
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by dools 2y ago
I think the same thing happens with mathematics education. Even though I took maths up to 2nd year university, I never really got what it was like until many years later when I watched all of Leonard Susskinds Stanford lectures in order o
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by dools 2y ago
Right to free speech != Right to a social media account
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by dools 2y ago
"has given up on trying to reach a settlement that would reduce the $1.5 billion that he owes to the relatives of 20 students and six staff members killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticu
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by dools 2y ago
Pretty simple fix for Apple might be a warning notice that some of these apps are unofficial and a user option that is part of the system setup where it says "Would you like to allow install of apps from unofficial sources? WARNING: yo
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by dools 2y ago
The problem with these sorts of ID requirements is that, even though we have lots of very good examples of government issued IDs, everyone immediately jumps to dissidents in authoritarian regimes and government overreach and Bill Gates cons
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by dools 2y ago
I remember watching those little droplets form and bonce arond on the old solid stove tops we had when I was a kid, I loved it!
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by dools 2y ago
CROSS POST: I posted this in reply to your linked explanation. Okay yep I get it now. The 4mv2 did it for me mathematically but I still couldn't get it intuitively until I imagined a car going 50mph rear ending a car going 40mph. If th
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by dools 2y ago
Nope :)
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by dools 2y ago
Yep okay I retract my "confidently wrong about physics" statement, someone else explained it and I get it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631089
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by dools 2y ago
Yes I retract my "wrong about physics" assertion, I have had it explained to me and I get it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631089 Although I still think Chicago school/libertarian economics is &quot
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by dools 2y ago
Okay yep I get it now. The 4mv2 did it for me mathematically but I still couldn't get it intuitively until I imagined a car going 50mph rear ending a car going 40mph. If they wind up going the same speed as a result of the collision th
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by dools 2y ago
That’s not the argument he is making. He is making the argument that if you imagine a sheet of paper in between the 2 cars into which they crash, then since they both stop since they are perfectly symmetrical then the fact that there is ano
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by dools 2y ago
> The irony is that he is correct about the physics. He definitely isn’t
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by dools 2y ago
If a car crashes into a wall, the wall feels the force of the car and the car feels the force of the wall. If the wall doesn’t move then the force acting on the car is the same as the force of the car on the wall. If the wall is also moving
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by dools 2y ago
Well that’s what you get when Milton Friedman’s son comes out as being as confidently wrong about physics as his dad was about economics
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by dools 2y ago
So sum the forces: For Car A: - Force of Car B accelerating Car A opposite to direction of travel - Force of Car B opposing force of Car A trying to accelerate Car B And vice versa for Car B. EDIT: Like if you hit a wall, the wall feels the
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by dools 2y ago
Not true, because when you exert a force on the vehicle coming the other direction, an equal and opposite force is exerted on your car. Then you also have the force exerted by their car attempting to accelerate you backwards. For each car,
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by dools 2y ago
If you do that then you're considering 2 collisions, ie. you're considering 2 cars, both hitting a brick wall at 50mph. The assumption therefore is that the force felt by the wall is not great enough to overcome the inertia of the
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by dools 2y ago
> What is true is that the 50mph collision with a brick wall is equivalent to a 100 mph collision with a car that is standing still, but that wasn't the claim. Ummmm ... what? I mean, sure if you assume that the dynamics of a brick
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by dools 2y ago
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Jazz Randyboy https://www.theage.com.au/national/angry-cabbies-stage-sit-i...

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