dvorak365

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by dvorak365 7y ago
> We might lose a few hundred million in the next few decades > And we'll be fine. Maybe we should then consider how to prevent hundreds of millions of deaths in the meantime? Like, the holocaust didn't lead to the extinctio
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by dvorak365 7y ago
The left has no issue with building more supply. The issue they tend to have is when housing is commodified - the new units being built are for maximizing private profit, not number of people housed. (The former tends to lead to the breakup
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by dvorak365 7y ago
Climate engineering to stop global warming seems to me like trying to remove a bullet by shooting it out from the other side
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by dvorak365 7y ago
There are other ways to construct a voting system that places power in compromise without incentivizing weak opinions over strong opinions.
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by dvorak365 7y ago
I'm not denying that this is a type of voting system that biases towards certain outcomes. I'm saying that the bias it attempts to accomplish is not desirable as it gives more political power to people with weak opinions than peop
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by dvorak365 7y ago
But tokens aren't votes. A person whose ideology aligns with 100 options has 10x the ability to influence the outcome of the election towards their preferred outcomes than someone whose ideology aligns with only one option.
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by dvorak365 7y ago
What if we took this idea, applied it to wealth instead of votes, and called it something like "progressive marginal tax rates"? Seems like it would be a more effective way to fight zealotry than to attack the democratic principl
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by dvorak365 7y ago
It would be amazing if the US had an equivalent of the CBO for determining the impact of legislation on the annual total of labor-hours. Are there any estimates how many less labor-hours would be necessary if the US handled tax returns mor
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by dvorak365 7y ago
That's fair, but still by virtue of being successful (in this particular context of success) you have a lot more money which offers you a lot more freedom to express yourself. Musk is practically free to do most anything he wants to do
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by dvorak365 7y ago
Even more concerning is the belief that the ability to speak one's mind should be dependent on some arbitrary metric of "success".
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by dvorak365 7y ago
What's the point of freedom if I'm not free to force any random person obey my every word?
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by dvorak365 8y ago
It’s free in a similar way to how preventing citizens from owning slaves is free.
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by dvorak365 8y ago
“Civil software” is simple, accurate, sounds good, and is relatively unambiguous. It would get my vote
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by dvorak365 8y ago
I would blame the person, because the best case scenario of shooting an allegedly harmless gun into a crowd is equivalent in effect to the worst case scenario of doing nothing in the first place.
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by dvorak365 9y ago
If you're unfamiliar with "absolute pitch" I suggest you look it up. Some people claim to have AP by way of sound->color synesthesia, but for most people with AP, synesthesia isn't required. AP definitely gives some
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by dvorak365 9y ago
XCode?
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by dvorak365 10y ago
NTS is a form of moving the goalposts. If you say "No X would do Y", and then after an X does Y move the goalposts to say "No true X would do Y", that's the fallacy. If you simply stated in the first place that &quo
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by dvorak365 10y ago
When did FB invest in D?
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by dvorak365 10y ago
"Based on a true story" is one of those film-marketing buzzphrases that means almost nothing. If the initial inspiration for the story is a true story, even if it bears little resemblance to the final product, it is "based o
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by dvorak365 10y ago
That doesn't seem to bear any relevance to what you were replying to.
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by dvorak365 10y ago
Score ratings are not as useful when the scales are poorly defined, as many internet scoring systems are. Many internet scoring systems want you to measure quality to some universal standard that should apply to all things past and present
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by dvorak365 10y ago
More range -> greater expressivity -> better voting system There is no reason to give your favorite candidate less than max score, and no reason to give your least favorite candidate more than 0 score, but the middle does serve a purp