fighterpilot

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by fighterpilot 5y ago
This was one of the world's foremost mathematicians, an unprecedented genius who was born into relatively poor circumstances (by Western standards and by modern standards) and who was completely self-made. There's footage of his v
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
"if Von Neumann were to be born to an average milieu it is impossible he would have been able to reach those milestones." False. Ramanujan disproves that statement.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
I don't think it's an absurd comparison. Nuclear is so safe and always get replaced with fossil fuels when a plant is decommissioned. The anti-nuclear sentiment is therefore detached from the reality of how safe it is relative t
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
"We need to find ways to combat at the very least the state-sponsored disinformation campaigns" Require each account to have unique ID verification in order to confirm that it's a real person. Government can provide t
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
There is an innate ability that drives it to a large extent: inherited intelligence. Recognizing this might not be helpful to the individual's motivation but that doesn't make it untrue. Not everyone can be a 10x (or 100x) Ramanu
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Moreover it's gross that Jack Dorsey is put on a moral pedestal and Zuckerberg/FB employees are villainized. I'm not saying there's an exact equivalence between Twitter and FB (due to lack of transparency around news fee
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
"high frequency trading" It's wrong if you think HFT belongs in a category like tobacco. HFT has significantly reduced rents collected by market makers and significantly reduced bid offer spreads, and most importantly
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
I feel like this should be obvious but wide roads don't imply sitting in traffic. If traffic is 1.5x but road width is 2x then you're less likely to be sitting in traffic.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
That correlation analysis is not good, you've got N=1 there and an astronomical number of confounders. A better analysis would be to look at inter-city or inter-municipality variability in crime and correlate that with the cross-sectio
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
And bitcoin has value to some people who wish to avoid local hyper-inflation or who wish to do transactions not allowed by financial institutions.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
> gold > real estate > stocks Sure, these things aren't ponzis. What about art and stamp collecting, though? How are they not ponzis under this definition?
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Where can I read about that?
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
It would depend on individual ability to metabolize D3 and amount of outdoors sunlight and the extent that local food is fortified with D3. So everyone's situation is unique. I'm confident that 2,000 IU daily is safe, though.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
International units. OTC quantities tend to be quite low, e.g 300-400 IUs, which aren't sufficient unless you're also getting daily sunlight not through a window. 1000-2000 IU is better - widely regarded as safe and no cases I&#x2
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Megadosing D3 on the rare occasion is similar to gradually taking normal amounts as far as serum levels go. It's common to see in studies. You wanna be careful doing it without supervision obviously but I don't see why there would
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Why? It should increase low-skilled wages since you're removing a chunk of low-skilled labor supply. It'd reduce rents by a little since the housing stock remains unchanged but demand is reduced, but the effect is probably small.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
After Ross Perot's modest success in 1992 I think a very charismatic person could do it. But Yang lacks charisma and the mainstream media hates him (remember MSNBC and CNN editing him out of 30 infographics, which Yang says is intentio
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
It reminds me of when some atheists ran a campaign to be called The Brights. A name that can be seen as a little pretentious doesn't help. I think calling his party the Liberal Party, to borrow from Canada and Australia, would have wor
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Great and we should invest in this tech but be weary of politicians who use this as a misdirection. Australia is investing large amounts into carbon capture even though the grid is mostly fossil fuels. It's a misdirection to avoid chan
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
My anecdotal impression is that YouTube and Twitter played a big role in spreading election misinformation. The main basis of the Kraken conspiracy theory came from a YouTube video which was spread on Twitter and I remember numerous electio
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
I don't get why Twitter always gets a free pass on the harms from misinformation. I have seen so much fake news around vaccines, election integrity on there not to mention that it's the nexus of woke cancellation mobs. I think it&
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
I think the facts on the ground preclude the moral panic angle. Skyrocketing teen depression since 2012, a genocide in Myanmar, ethnic violence in India, a riot/insurrection borne out of fake news on election integrity, woke cancellati
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
We need to see the actual data to conclude either way. It's so easy to make a statement like that which sounds compelling but conveniently hides some nastiness somewhere else. Just as it is so easy for the whistleblower to cherry pick
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Not sure if I fully agree with that argument. With the US being a superpower, the stakes are high and this invites unique foreign influence via social media. That foreign influence could be state coordinated or just come from regular people
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
If we split insta from FB, what incentives change that will cause a change in behavior?
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
The problem is roundabout externalities. If you're a genocide victim in Myanmar, whether or not you stayed off FB is irrelevant. The other problem is informed consent. Kids don't have the mental defences to avoid the dopamine trap
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
The leaker herself says breaking up FB won't solve anything and what's needed is far more resources internally
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Video games are a flawed analogy because the evidence that video games are harmful for kids (except in situations of extreme addiction) is far more flimsy than the evidence for social media's widespread harms to kids. If you're fo
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
What if the government gives each valid person a unique token that they can use to register once per social media site?
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
"Free speech is a right in the USA, not a "value"." Speech on someone's private platform isn't a right, it's a privilege that they're choosing to extend to you. That's why in this instanc

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