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by hirundo 4y ago
> We need Congress to pass an act cleaning up the FTC's enforcement powers. Which is the constitutional design: Article 1. Section 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, whic
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by hirundo 4y ago
Rightists are more likely to approve of harassing a health official trying to shut down a small business for covid, leftists of someone harassing a judge who makes it harder to get an abortion. So the approval is to some extent a function o
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by hirundo 4y ago
I'll guess that the biological roots are the same as for any learned avoidance of painful stimuli. When people make social contact and repeatedly and predictably find that it is negative, they learn to withdraw from it. They try withdr
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by hirundo 4y ago
We are biological devices whose purpose in life is to replicate, as driven by our selfish genes. Happiness is just one metaphenomena that evolution opportunistically takes advantage of in order to achieve this purpose. It is a "purpose
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by hirundo 4y ago
> GPT-3 wrote text from prompts based on the 36 original headlines So, the lazy version. Plug in an already existing prompt and press a button. The interesting version is the one where they compare the headlines to the actual July 29, 20
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by hirundo 4y ago
"Our results add to other recent findings of zero mRna-vaccine effectiveness on all-cause mortality, calling for more research on this topic."
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by hirundo 4y ago
> The American shale revolution did bring the country “energy independence,” whatever that has been worth, and more abundant oil and gas. In the face of this, calling fracking an extraordinary boondoggle is a privileged, luxury opinion.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Identifying "fake news" in a non-partisan way is required for the consequences of such a law to be non-partisan, but is probably not possible with real humans. So instead you would get a Ministry of Truth that identifies fake news
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by hirundo 4y ago
I think of the abortion issue as like a necker cube. You can view the optical illusion as extending inward or outward. But it is difficult to see it both ways. You could easily see it as flat, but then you aren't really seeing it at al
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by hirundo 4y ago
> A limitation of the study was that cases of dementia were determined by looking at hospital records and death registries rather than primary care data, so milder cases may have been overlooked. I'd bet they'd find the same as
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by hirundo 4y ago
Since Hulu doesn't use scarce radio spectrum, I wonder how applying this restriction to them is rationalized.
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Broadcasters are required by law to accept ads from political candidates on any topic, no matter how controversial it may be. > Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press I think this law amounts
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School Choice, Sorry I Underrated You(betonit.substack.com)
20 points by hirundo 4y ago|15 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
This gives me a different impression of the Methodists than I had: https://acme.com/jef/religion_sex/
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by hirundo 4y ago
The link is a CSS file for fonts. Does anyone see an international disruption in it?
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by hirundo 4y ago
We're having an unusually wet year about 120 miles SW of Albuquerque, with a big monsoon cycle incoming now. We're not quite out of our long-term drought, but another couple of good storms would do it.
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by hirundo 4y ago
It would be useful to have a monotropism knob, to turn up when studying something technical or coding, and down when situational awareness is key, as in hunting or at a party. At least if we could experience different levels of focus it cou
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by hirundo 4y ago
For instance we have a neural-cognitive "bias" toward recognizing moving versus stationary objects. Our attention is prejudiced in favor of things-that-move. This is useful when it comes to detecting potential predators, prey, mat
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by hirundo 4y ago
So red and blue America will join together to demand a more authoritarian scale of corn syrup regulation, overthrowing the control of the armies of lobbyists and their megabucks, welding American ideological differences together from a toss
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by hirundo 4y ago
It would be a social good to do the inverse, to help the identities integrate instead of segregate. By living together we can more easily discover that our gender and sexuality define us less than our common humanity. As with our ethnicity
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by hirundo 4y ago
> The real takeaway is how an intrinsically competitive system doesn’t yield rational results. Democracy is intrinsically competitive too. If you wish to exchange capitalism and democracy for something non-competitive, it will be an econ
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by hirundo 4y ago
If there was one clock for everyone we'd all trust the time and agree on it. When everyone carries around their own watch, we all have somewhat different times, and trust it and agree on it less. Now we each have access to thousands of
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by hirundo 4y ago
I was involved in mindful eating training for a couple of years and ultimately found that it was not useful to me. I was misdiagnosing my eating problems as mental when they were physiological. The detour into mindfulness delayed my discove
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by hirundo 4y ago
The sephardic and ashkenazic ethnicities are closely associated with the Jewish faith. But I haven't heard any sephardic or ashkenazic jokes.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I'm in a cow county, but here both people and cows are outnumbered many times by elk and deer. A large part of the local economy is about supporting hunters from the cities. A local rancher told me that they make almost all of their mo
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by hirundo 4y ago
Gluttony is more about malnutrition than existentialism. When our food doesn't give us what our body demands it does the expected animal thing, it keeps eating. A purpose in life is nice, but the more immediate purpose is to find and
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by hirundo 4y ago
Create something. Make something, anything. For me it works fast, like chocolate against dementors. The more meaningful the better, but in a pinch even making a pile of rocks will do. A sandcastle. A sculpture of Karl Malden's nose in
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by hirundo 4y ago
From a quick look it doesn't seem that the graphical elements are inherent to the language. It could be expressed in a text syntax, and with more or less difficultly other languages could get a similar graphical overlay. If the graphic
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by hirundo 4y ago
There is this strange trend to introduce companies/products with vague music video commercials that set the mood but provide almost no actual information, like this one, and the whole site. I guess it works, because the trend is strong
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by hirundo 4y ago
> The company said it is required by Chinese cybersecurity regulations to examine and approve documents connected online, and does so using encryption that protects users’ privacy. What an astounding statement, like "we had to dest

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