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by dwiel 6y ago
First off, as someone who has spent many hours trying to use dat, I agree 100% with your assessment. I have been using dat command line tool to p2p synchronize files on a LAN (and also over the internet) for a year or two now. The latest ve
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by dwiel 6y ago
Let's say a food manufacturer finds a chemical that is tasteless but addictive and starts adding it to all their food. Would you also argue that this is very clearly food the people want to consume?
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by dwiel 6y ago
He is a convenient scape goat for all the other Republican senators. They could replace him if they really wanted to, but they dont.
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by dwiel 6y ago
This seems like an obvious assumption to make, but it isnt always true. It is easier to see why if you are measuring a single value multiple times in order to get a more accurate estimate of the true value. In that case your "model&quo
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by dwiel 6y ago
It is absolutely not as simple as clear mechincal fact. See for example the rat park experiment [1]. There is also the case of huge numbers of people addicted to morphine during the Vietnam War, who upon arriving back home to families and s
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by dwiel 6y ago
What are you referring to when you mention hydro cut stone? A quick google shows gemstone cutting, small subtractive milling of gargoyles and cutting/etching of thin decorative stone. Are you talking about a quarrying process? I'v
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by dwiel 6y ago
Exactly. Also, proportion of income spent on student loans at 25 years old. My grandpa had a random part time job and put himself through university.
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by dwiel 6y ago
I wonder if paying out the dividend on a weekly or monthly interval might help with this some degree. Only getting paid at the end of the year tax refund style feels a lot more like a bonus than a reliable paycheck.
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by dwiel 6y ago
Even at a neutral tax, carbon use should go down since it becomes more expensive than non-carbon alternatives. There two obvious knobs: 1) tax rate: $/ton of CO2 2) wealth distribution: 100% goes to state vs 100% goes back to populatio
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by dwiel 6y ago
Not necessarily. Tax carbon heavily and then redistribute the tax equally among all citizens. Anyone using above average carbon net pays into the system, anyone using below average gets a net payout. Then markets, our most advanced coordina
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by dwiel 6y ago
I tend to agree with this line of thinking, but I wonder if banning advertising wont have similar difficulties. There will be more sneaky product placement, anonymous donations to podcasters who tend to promote certain products/beliefs
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by dwiel 6y ago
Even chemical dependency is more complicated than initially thought. See the rat park experiment. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/what-does-rat-park-tea...
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by dwiel 6y ago
I ran a similar app and it was surprising how many requests were getting made, it wasnt super helpful as they were all either AWS or gcloud requests. I did see which apps were making the requests and at what frequency, but that was about th
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by dwiel 6y ago
I like the approach Cory Doctorow has been advocating. Make it not illegal to scrape facebook/google/etc. Facebook got its start by being interoperable with Myspace. Now they wont let anyone do the same to them.
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by dwiel 6y ago
Wont nation states be able to use basic triangulation to find out where people are and prosecute them heavily? Also wont nation states be able to tell Starlink to not transmit in china if they dont want Tesla factory nationalized or other s
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by dwiel 6y ago
It may still be helpful to delay the counting of these votes to further the narrative "look, Trump won by a large margin the first day, then all these mail in votes come in a week later and the winner is now Biden? Obvious mail fraud!&
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by dwiel 6y ago
What do you mean vertical integration?
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by dwiel 6y ago
How about a carbon tax which once collected is redistributed evenly amongst everyone. This way people who use the most carbon will be paying the people who use the least carbon for the priviledge. It also prices in the externality through t
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by dwiel 6y ago
The competition is specifically constrained to a specific version of ubuntu and provides the following reference: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man1/
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by dwiel 6y ago
It doesnt have to be a conscious process for everyone. It could be that google just prefers to show you pages with these patterns even if most pages dont. Or could be writers that dont do this quit because no one reads them.
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by dwiel 6y ago
It's also possible that people who felt most at risk were also most likely to turn off their phones or leave them at home. It's hard to know what kind of biases are in this data without access to it.
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by dwiel 6y ago
I heard of this first with respect to a carbon tax, but one solution is to evenly redistribute the collected tax among all citizens. This way, the market can internalize the externality while keeping the average person no poorer.
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by dwiel 6y ago
It is, except there seems to be a sweet spot in medium sized towns where commutes/groceries/activities are all close so no/less driving. If you get too small though you go back to everything being 45 min drive away again like
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by dwiel 6y ago
I gave altair a try but I found the data format requirements a pain that got in the way of the nice plotting API. For example, I wanted to plot n lines, stored in a (timestamps, n) shaped matrix. First I had to convert this into a format: (
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by dwiel 6y ago
Is there a way a startup could set up this business model, or would it necessarily require all the tax and legal implications of a publicly traded company?
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by dwiel 6y ago
This can also backfire when it's easier to avoid confrontation which if resolved would be a net gain for everyone.
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by dwiel 6y ago
If we were ever lacking a clear counter-example of intelligence as a singular metric, we certainly aren't lacking any more.
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by dwiel 7y ago
What is the source of that imgur meme? Here is an article with a link to the pdf which claims 55% of voters are in support of M4A https://morningconsult.com/2020/04/01/medicare-for-all-coron...
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by dwiel 7y ago
luckily there has been some research on averting such tragedies: https://wle.cgiar.org/content/elinor-ostrom-%E2%80%9Cnon-tra...
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by dwiel 7y ago
Are you not concerned about smoking making covid19 symptoms more extreme?

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