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by greenpresident 3y ago
Most theories of optimal fining are based on social costs S, discovery cost C, and discovery chance P. If, for example, you would like to maximize total welfare, you would fine S/P+C. A rational actor would only engage in the behavior
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by greenpresident 4y ago
I second your notion that being athletic is not a requirement: the actually fit I’ve met are all extremely calm, accepting and disciplined. In the right gym/club/group, it’s an extremely rewarding experience for any body type and
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by greenpresident 4y ago
She was married to a jet pilot in the 1950s. It‘s not like he lived an otherwise safe life, as evident by his death in a plane crash 7 years after his space flight.
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by greenpresident 4y ago
Thomas Metzinger would agree with the assessment that we are a hallucination of a self and that we are Being No One.
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by greenpresident 4y ago
> The risk with management consultants is that they tell management what they want to hear. This is a feature. You get outside expertise that recommends cost cutting and reducing staff. It’s not your fault though, the expensive consultan
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by greenpresident 4y ago
This debate is internationally relevant when it comes to moral agency of corporations. The question is whether corporations have first-order moral responsibilities or whether all the responsibilities fall onto the shareholders. It is separa
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by greenpresident 4y ago
The backups are distributed via torrents, so it's a bit of both.
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by greenpresident 4y ago
You might need to read up on the repugnant inclusion. It compares a small population of high individual welfare with a large population of lower welfare. If you assume the desirability of each option to be the product of individual welfare
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by greenpresident 4y ago
My high school physics understanding of reinforced concrete is that the coefficients of expansion for steel and concrete are similar to a degree that it is very resilient to heat stress. I doubt that's the case for silk.
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by greenpresident 4y ago
This could also be related to variance in ozone concentration which varies over time and is typically higher on hot days.
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by greenpresident 4y ago
It 404s for me in Central Europe.
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by greenpresident 4y ago
It was linked on the Dramaverse and got brigaded. The thread was a couple of days old so it was easy to tell who got linked from outside.
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by greenpresident 4y ago
„Wie funktioniert das?“ and it’s various versions are amazing books for teenagers interested in tinkering too.
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by greenpresident 4y ago
Where does it work well, tablets?
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by greenpresident 4y ago
One reason is that it compensates lower temperature with longer wash time and uses airflow instead of heating to dry. Both are measures to reduce the environmental impact. The same is true for energy efficient washing machines by the way, t
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by greenpresident 4y ago
This is what videolan player (also known als vlc) was originally built for. They built a solution to serve an internal television problem over LAN.
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by greenpresident 4y ago
This contributes another ethical quality though: if the other person can shoot back, you have a right to go all out in order to defend yourself. The same cannot be said for unmanned warfare, where the immediate danger is asymmetric.
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by greenpresident 5y ago
Parent is most likely basing their comment on the work of David Nutt, see my other comment on this thread.
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by greenpresident 5y ago
David Nutt did important work in this area. See for example his scale of drug harmfulness here: (Edit: see archive link below) And https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067361...
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by greenpresident 5y ago
The FED changed its definition of M1 by including deposits that were previously only part of M2. M2 always includes M1. The surge in M1 in April 2020 is because its definition changed. Would you elaborate on why and when you believe M2 was
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by greenpresident 5y ago
This absolutely needs to become part of grant requirements. The NIH is doing well (and good!) on this, and the new German government has announced that software funded by the public needs to be free and research should be open.
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by greenpresident 5y ago
In an active inference approach you would have the agent minimise surprisal. Choose the action that is most likely to produce the outcome you predicted.
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by greenpresident 5y ago
Sitting in an industrial area makes for large distances from where people actually live. For fast delivery times, storage needs to be decentralised. Newer delivery services promise "under 10 minutes" as your delivery time, see Gor
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by greenpresident 5y ago
I’d classify it as a public goods problem. The difference is rivalry in consumption. You compete over fishing grounds but you don’t compete over use of Babel. It makes a difference in user strategy too: with the tragedy of the commons, your
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by greenpresident 6y ago
The estimate I name is the number of additional people dying per week if we stop using AZ vaccines today.
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by greenpresident 6y ago
Casual estimates are at 1700/week. https://mobile.twitter.com/politicsforali/status/13714790084...
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by greenpresident 6y ago
I don’t have a sister. Did my parents rob her of the opportunity to live a meaningful life? There is nothing that could be robbed of anything.
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by greenpresident 6y ago
They used to run a large tracker in the past which facilitated the exchange of copyrighted material. iirc they don't do that any longer, as a result of their legal turmoils.
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by greenpresident 6y ago
I have spent some time in emergency receptions at hospitals waiting to be treated, often in severe pain. Here is what gave me hope every time: If it can wait, it can’t be that bad. There are a number of injuries for which treatment has seve
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by greenpresident 6y ago
There is no 15" model anymore and the 16" model has not been announced with an M1 yet.

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