fighterpilot

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by fighterpilot 5y ago
"news site" Because social media is a status and looks competition between peers which is where the depression comes from. If they're just reading news and commenting that's fine. The internet itself isn't t
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Is KYC that expensive? It's a mostly automated process that takes at most 10 seconds of human time per user and has a number of outsourced solutions available. Or the government can provide a solution. Or they can implement these regul
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
The incentive for kids to break the law will be greatly diminished since the network of their peers won't be at a critical mass and it'll no longer be a requirement for their social status.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
The two best ideas I've heard: - Require age verification by law and ban kids from using it. We ban kids from alcohol we should ban them from this. - Require ID verification by law but allow people to use a fake name. Fixes the bots is
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
He predicted 0.57C of warming by the year 2000, and we saw 0.54C of warming. So accurate at least according to that. https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1445359093905084417
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
That isn't a network effect
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
I dislike means testing as much as anyone, but a simple test of "are you a private business/facility with more than 1 employee" is one that I could get behind due to its inherently low bureaucratic overhead.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
The second explanation seems plausible to me. The first one is a bit farfetched since they could've just waited two weeks in order to make it look less suspicious given that the leak would not be front of mind for everyone by then.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Then don't fine poor people. Fine private care homes only as was suggested elsewhere in this thread. In the article it explains that they're only considering a fee for facilities, not for individuals.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Many places outside the US have a fee associated with call outs (Australia), not even just frivolous call outs, and there's no issue.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
I'm not disputing that it's a neoliberal solution, I'm disputing the claim that it's a non-solution. If you charge a sufficient amount for frivolous calls from private homes then private homes will stop making frivolous
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
It looks like they're considering what I proposed, it's just taking them a while to implement it. "The new ordinance also allowed the city to levy fines against facilities deemed to be making frivolous or excessive emergency
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
This snarky reply isn't a rebuttal of any substance. A frivolous call-out fee is a clear and simple solution. If you fix the price then the problem goes away because the incentive for the frivolous call-out no longer exists. It's
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
"because they are cutting costs by not hiring sufficient staff." Or because the fire department has failed to implement something as basic as a call-out fee for frivolous calls. Of course a service is going to get over-sub
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
That's false. It's correlated very highly with intelligence. Moreover I'm not mounting a defence of the SAT here. I'm mounting a defence of meritocracy. I was merely pointing out that the SAT is the most meritocratic as
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
To pay back the loan they need to sell the stock which is a capital gains event. The two main tax avoidance strategies would be people running and retiring overseas just before selling, or never selling and waiting for the cost basis to be
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Just charge a call-out fee for the homes that use it. No need to punish well-run homes or pass new tax laws for something very easily addressed and internalized.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
I don't think that's accurate if we're talking about large publicly listed companies, the only way for shareholders to spend the money on themselves is to take it out via dividends or sell the stock for a capital gain.
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
China became successful after the market liberalizing policies of Deng Xiaoping that turned it into a mixed economy. They had a few hundred dollars in GDP per capita before that. So isn't this evidence that central planning was a failu
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
"define why individuals are offering goods and services to one another." Because these individuals think it's mutually beneficial to enter into the trade. This explains all voluntary cooperation including barter and m
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
I would clarify the sentence "Wealth transfers daily to and from ". What's important to keep in mind is that while money may transfer, utility doesn't. Utility is generally increasing on both sides of the exchange, othe
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
"who gets to define what "intelligence" means and how it is measured?" "best ones to use to determine academic success, or are they arbitrary" "defined it to mean just what they like" In
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
If we're talking about job hiring, meritocracy is just defined as hiring the person who is going to be the most competent in the role. That's what people mean when they talk about meritocracy. This leads to the best outcome for th
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
A Harvard legacy/donor/child-of-famous-person admission gets the same amount of prestige (and the same amount of "high relative standing") as someone that got there by virtue of their intelligence and competence. The for
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
These attacks on meritocracy by journalists are getting tiring. Meritocracy as it is defined by its proponents just means the most competent person gets the job or gets admitted. It doesn't mean that it's someone's hard work
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
To be clear, I think anarchy would be much worse and that governments are necessary. Evidence from the genetic record shows epochs where almost all men died due to violence, and anthropological evidence shows societies can have extremely hi
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
"I'm just confused why people seem to be so afraid of the government getting too big and not also at least a little afraid of corporations getting too big." You raise valid points but it remains the case that there is
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Zero Covid makes sense as an objective prior to the recent Delta outbreak. Delta's R0 is too high for zero covid to be a realistic objective. The experiences of other places that have tried to go for elimination and failed is evidence
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
It's consensus for slowing case growth until everyone's had a chance to get vaccinated. It's not evidence of a consensus for covid zero, which is another thing entirely. Covid zero is an ideological pipe dream unless NZ wants
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by fighterpilot 5y ago
Addressed by an ICE tax. The only argument I'm willing to buy is that EV subsidies is a political compromise made out of necessity, not that it's superior policy.

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