drjesusphd

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by drjesusphd 7y ago
Yes. This is a feature, not a bug. With the US system, on the other hand, consumers have more protection precisely because the banking system is insecure. It's easy to get a fradulent charge reversed.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
I experienced the opposite. But then again, I was living in the north, but onpy visited the south occasioanlly, where there were more tourists about.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
So... like Wall Street!
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
The warnings will not be in English.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
These messages were listed in succession in an art installation as part of the Amsterdam light festival. An intriguingly dark contrast to the rest of the atmosphere.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
My thoughts exactly. I used to have a relatively high paying rock-stable job that enabled me to plan for an early retirement. Then I made the "mistake" of thinking about what I would do after said retirement. Then thought, why not
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
To the extent that the Syrian civil war was aggregated by drought, we may have already seen the first climate refugees.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
I really like the Enlightenment desktop environment, but always fall off it because I can't get the tiling working how I like. If the tiling is fixed to be consistent with Awesome/i3/dwm, Enlightentment would certainly be wha
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
This is why trade is such a strong force for peace. You get many powerful people on both sides invested in maintaining good relations between nations. It's also a marker for said peace. If there's a lot of trade already, many othe
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
Same here. I think one of the critical flaws of the US constitution is that it completely ignores the existence of political parties.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
That's the thing, I usually end up using this metric to take the more risky choice. "Making decisions to avoid future regret" and "playing it safe" are two different things. It's more closely related to Being
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
I've also used the aversion to regret to make several big decisions. When I explain this to people, the reaction I sometimes get is pity. Having ones life dictated by the fear of regret seems repulsive to some people. I don't real
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
That's a really interesting way to put it. I once remembered and applied a quote something like "if you could choose one thing to do if you were guaranteed to succeed, what would it be?" Luckily and paradoxically, both questi
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
You don't hear about he ozone layer and acid rain anymore because experts fixed the problem.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
Do you realize that acid rain and ozone depletion aren't problems anymore because the government fixed them ?
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
> Acid rain was going to destroy lakes, trees, rivers, eventually killing us all At that time, we had a functioning government that (relatively) promptly intervened to implement a cap and trade policy on sulfur emissions.
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
Im not sure about his genius compared to Einstein, but Hus contributions to physics are much more than popularization (which I think came much later in his career). He played a leading role in developing the most successful scientific theor
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by drjesusphd 7y ago
What software is this productivity tracker?
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
Another way to look at it... With thousands of people playing the game, some are bound to be the luckiest. It doesn't necessarily mean they have more insight.
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
To elaborate on "interesting things", at least as I understood it from a seminar by one of the authors... - The distribution of wealth naturally forms an exponential distribution. It takes effort/energy/negentropy to dep
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
Physicists have gotten very good at the statistics of interacting particles. This paper asks, what if instead of a bunch of particles exchanging energy, one interprets it as the theory of many agents randonly exchanging money. Interesting t
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
So? Government policy should incentivize constructive industries.
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
Results are often governed by factors you have no control over or knowledge of. If you get unlucky, it may not be because you made a bad decision.
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
If you have enough knowledge, confidence in said knowledge, and the discipline to consistently apply it, you will know how much money is required to make it a near certainty that won't happen.
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
If I may take a stab at it... I think it might have something to do with the disparate scales of thought vs emotion compared to what humans have evolved to deal with. Today, when you're tasked with creating something new, and your iden
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
What better reward is there to reap than doing what you love?
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
They did no such thing and its disingenuous to claim so. They provided a counterexample that illustrates a flaw in the ethical model "law = right".
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
I disagree. I was able to get into one of the best graduate programs in my field a few years after a mediocre undergraduate record. This took some preparation, but it came down to finding other avenues to prove myself. The committee knows y
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
Can you name a similar breach that happened in the past and was adjudicated by the court? If not, there is no judicial precedent, by definition.
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by drjesusphd 8y ago
Facebook is an unprecedented company with unprecedented access to users' private information that committed an unprecedented breach of contract. There's no reason why a judge should rely on precedent.

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