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by hirundo 4y ago
There is a third online opinion on that with a significant following: https://www.aei.org/economics/the-us-middle-class-is-disappe...
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Among those aged 40-64, safe alcohol consumption levels ranged from about half a standard drink a day to almost two standard drinks. For those aged 65 or older, the risks of “health loss from alcohol consumption” were reached after con
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by hirundo 4y ago
It's a rare gathering that doesn't contain one person who would betray anyone for a half-year's pay. Judas was venal, but not unusually or unexpectedly so. If even Christ can't count on that kind of loyalty we can't
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by hirundo 4y ago
> To solve the bias problem, we need to require the Poster to put up collateral that can be forfeit if the post is judged biased. This doesn't solve the bias problem, it just helps align the bias between producer and consumer. That
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by hirundo 4y ago
What would the legal status of the video be if it also contained images of George Floyd?
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by hirundo 4y ago
Derek Chauvin would appreciate that.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I lived and worked in Silicon Valley for years. It has a mild climate. That's about the best I can say about it. It's near other places that are nice, so it's tempting to have a long boring frustrating energy sapping commute.
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by hirundo 4y ago
The response to @libsoftiktok has created a huge, rapid streisanding of that account. She went from niche to ubiquitous almost overnight and her message has been hugely amplified. There has to be a better reaction than to hand your enemy su
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by hirundo 4y ago
It's unfortunate that the article doesn't mention the great villain of sleep debt, caffeine. The substance we use to wake up is the one taking away our deep sleep. https://michaelpollan.com/books/caffeine-how-
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by hirundo 4y ago
"Helion hopes that Polaris, will generate more energy than it takes in by 2024. When that target is reached, the company plans a manufacturing facility that can produce 20 fusion generators a day ..." That is some of the most brea
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by hirundo 4y ago
It has been 20 months on carnivore. I never made it past a year on the others, and it was a strain to go that far. Doing this is no strain. If protein alone has this effect it is more than a mild advantage for me. I did not start from a sta
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by hirundo 4y ago
I lost over 100 pounds on a potato diet. And then gained it all back, plus some. Same goes for a raw vegan diet and a less strict McDougall vegitarian diet, and then a paleo/keto diet. When it comes to yo yo dieting I'm an overach
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by hirundo 4y ago
I keep noticing this, and then keep reminding myself that it's cliche for seniors like me to see adults as kids. But then I watch, say, an episode of Dragnet, and the feeling comes back. Jack Webb was 35 in 1955, in that show's pr
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by hirundo 4y ago
When I was a kid I "won" a Stratego game with a non-move that my friend claimed was against the rules. So he claimed the win. Could I get an umpire's call here? The issue is that when considering my next move, I picked up the
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by hirundo 4y ago
You could prep him with decoding games, have him invent a code for you to decode and visa versa. That was a hit when I was a scrub. My brother and I would spend time insulting each other and then had to work at it to decypher the insult. It
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by hirundo 4y ago
The same arguments apply to HN comments. Up/down could profitably be replaced by a spectrum of adjectives mapped to floats, e.g. { worst: -1, best: 1, meh: 0, ok: 0.5 }, etc. ad infinitum. It would give us a nuanced way to express sent
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by hirundo 4y ago
If the behavior of the software is unchanged and this is just an install message, then I agree.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I think the malware designation is appropriate, though I support their cause. Malware detection should not be put in the position of deciding if a protest is righteous. If the change degrades the behavior of the package in a way that isn&#x
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by hirundo 4y ago
Whether someone benefits or not from such credit is almost entirely due to their own behavior. As the seller, I think you have an ethical obligation to deal with them openly and honestly and to go out of your way not to mislead them. But it
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by hirundo 4y ago
> if you don’t believe a word you say, you just mutate state when it suits you. I am pro choice, but am entirely convinced that many many pro lifers are entirely sincere. If you think they are just holding that position out of convenienc
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by hirundo 4y ago
> walked an unbelievable 2,737 feet on a square circuit of red, four-by-two Lego bricks at Philly Brickfest, in front of a cheering crowd And the crowd well knows it's painful. So they are cheering self-inflicted public torture. But
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by hirundo 4y ago
> There needs to be a secondary police force with a different chain of command and funding to act as a redundant mechanism. A.k.a. "militia"
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by hirundo 4y ago
Thank you. I feel seen, I'm a 10 but only play single-player games. That explains why I'm not surrounded by admirers.
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by hirundo 4y ago
> They’re a 10 but they only like playing single-player games Could someone please interpret this tweet, and what is offensive about it? The article makes no effort to do so. Who are "they"? What does being a "10" mea
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by hirundo 4y ago
The primary value of interest is in exchange for the time value of money, the opportunity cost of not being able to use it elsewhere. That remains even if risk reaches zero. If we loan it to Alice, we can't loan it to Bob. Interest is
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by hirundo 4y ago
This is a bizarre misuse of language. True, as in conforming with reality, is what is rather than what is believed to be. Therefore the true self is the self that is rather than the one you want others to believe in. Henderson's "
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by hirundo 4y ago
Profit would seem to be the default explanation. For malice the burden of proof is yours. The size of the increase isn't good evidence of malice since it is generally consistent with the profit motive.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Dective fiction is usually about the process of justice when someone breaks a commandment, frequently the sixth, often involving seven, eight and nine. I'm looking forward to the meta-detective novel in which a critic investigates viol
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by hirundo 4y ago
This appears to be a modern variation of phrenology. That doesn't make it a hoax or useless, maybe phrenology was just analysing the wrong features of the head. But it should start with the same (skeptical) epistemic status.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Imagine an AI with the power of computation and prediction such that it could centrally plan an economy better than capitalism, communism, or anything else in between or more extreme, by whatever measure you pick. That same predictive power

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