forlorn_mammoth

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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
Game theory seemed kind of useful when the US was negotiating nuclear weapons control with the Soviets. It allowed successful negotiations in an extremely low trust situation. Also, your own example is an application of game theory; you&#x2
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
> in the long term being the key phrase. Until we get to that long term, the less price sensitve buyer can buy up all available goods. for example, all of the gas turbines needed to generate electricity. so it is impossible to invest in
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
wait, so we have a pill that cures us from (some of) the effects of having turned all of out food into low-nutrition, high addiction items that negatively impact our health while they destroy our ecosystem? (ask where all the water that goe
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
I wonder how large the spread of ethnicities is in Native American Indian populations. Just for fun, let's estimate our answer based on data from 1600, just pre the mass European arrival on the continents (plural).
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
academic writing is designed so a paper is part of a conversation, i.e. 100 other papers strongly relevant to the current paper. And the author needs to compress the ideas from those 100 other papers, plus their own additions to the convers
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
eliminate malaria from the continental US. Check. eliminate smallpox. Check. eliminate measles. Own goal.
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
> power a modest sound system please don't inflict your music on everyone around you.
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
> Question: do you think reading is fundamentally worthwhile in terms of practicality, or is there some other medium that would achieve both pleasure and better information retention? If your quality bar is 'better information reten
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
> The new generations have lived their whole lives under this maligned structure, and they are sick and tired of it. Evidence in support: Compare the number of HN posts showing disfavor towards "billionares" and/or other m
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
> the Friedman doctrine makes the argument that the social responsibility of the firm is to increase its profits. That policy making should be left to governments. > His theory was introduced in 1970 and it seems has since become the
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
I appreciate the linked article. I wonder if the the list should be expanded to 'at least three times', and I start to think about intelligence in plants. See also recent work on honeybees, popularized here https://www.
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
> that 14 out of 64 samples had levels above the legally allowed limit (MRL), of which 12 pesticides that are not approved in the EU (page 12 of report).
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
The guy who carries a pistol and shoots the neighbor's dogs in self defense, I would expect that guy to face some social consequences and he'd be lucky if it was just the police. Hobbes. we create the Leviathan so we don't ha
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
apparently you enjoy drinking from permanently poisoned aquifiers.
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by forlorn_mammoth 4mo ago
Hey, I appreciate your insight. Especially your observation that when the underlying assumptions are wrong/broken then the model produces less reliable results. Like you, I also don't know what would work better, nor do I believe
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
Great idea! Let's scale this out so that everyone can have this same basic security!
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
SamPatt, it isn't necessarily individuals making individual decisions. Yeah, very few supervillains. But perhaps you've heard talk of things like "6th mass extinction event" or "global climate change"? both of
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
Yes it would, because if you don't start until you are 30, you've "lost" a decade of childbearing. That's a pretty serious reduction in the maximum number of children you are likely to produce.
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
Appreciate you putting it bluntly. I've found having children the most rewarding thing to have done with my life. And even so, you are right about the costs. "Million dollar baby" is not just a catch-phrase.
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
Indexes are not funds, correct. However, the SP500 index is one of the few indices that is strongly represented in 401K plan options. That changes its role from "communicate some metric about the market" to forced buying of the me
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
No, but how about the 500 that have been profitable under GAAP accounting rules for at least 12 months have a public float of at least 10% (so that new investors have some governance rights) have traded for at least 12 months (and won'
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
I'm picturing a banana with a label on it that says: Ingredients: banana Servings: 1 Serving Size: 1 banana
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
> I don't want to have to store a bunch of location or routing data in my head. hmmm, given how closely memory is linked to spatial navigation sense, and not just in humans, but in evolutionary terms-- think squirrels remembering wh
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirrors_of_the_Unseen > Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran (2006) is a travel book written by British travel writer Jason Elliot. And a fascinating history of mathematics as well.
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
Adult onset. It can come on slowly (as in over the course of a year). And many downstream symptoms include mood changes. Hard to know it is blood sugar related if you don't test blood sugar levels. Really glad you can smell it on peopl
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
I always drive better when my passenger recites the prime numbers in order. That sequence above 2^n-1 is just gold to my ears!
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
Love it! It would be great to have a 'training' mode, where you get to repeat ones you miss. This would increase the learning speed. Easy training- repeat the one you just borked Medium training- cycles through say 5 examples unti
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
> I used to get frustrated whenever my dad asked whether he should press "Next" on a screen, even though it was the only button available in the setup flow. For him, that pause wasn't a lack of technology background. It wa
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
https://www.empathiceurope.com/ has free courses/trainings on empathic listening skills. Spend some time on that website, see what you can dig up on specific skills, and then test using them in real life. That site ske
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by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
The most recent U Michigan 'Survey of Consumer Sentiment', which is THE authorative source in the US, shows consumer sentiment at the lowest levels since the survey started in 1977 From the U Michigan page: https://www.

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