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by hirundo 5y ago
> A Modest Proposal: Mr. Bateman needs a 72-hour involuntary admission to a good psychiatric hospital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_...
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by hirundo 5y ago
Louis Rossmann just weighed in on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBVqUuzUWEY He says the "not permitted" is evidence of our receding risk tolerance. I agree. Warn me of the chance of sudden painful death, s
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by hirundo 5y ago
This podcast also had a strong impact on me. I'd love to hear some substantial debunking. In particular Dr. McCullough alleges that pre-hospitalization treatment of Covid has been de-emphasized at the cost of hundreds of thousands of e
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by hirundo 5y ago
I just finished listening to JRE #1747, and it was the most eye opening piece of media I've ever seen on Covid. If I could recommend only one piece of samizdat on the subject it would be this. It pairs well with the Malone interview. D
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by hirundo 5y ago
Correcting whatever is suboptimal needs to be done in the context of the larger forces. E.g., if you're being carried away from shore by a rip tide it's useful to have enough theory to understand that you should swim parallel to t
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by hirundo 5y ago
Combine this with the correlation between rent and population density, and the rise of remote work, socializing and entertainment, and this creates an outward, de-clustering pressure on population. It increases demand for suburban and rural
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by hirundo 5y ago
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
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by hirundo 5y ago
It's a problem that we've made a reasonable amount of bragging into a social error. Your HN rank is in fact a substantive accomplishment, acknowledging that you're in the top small fraction of contributors to one of the most
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by hirundo 5y ago
"Also, I'm surprised and a bit ashamed to be #415 in this list." "humblebrag, transitive + intransitive: to make a seemingly modest, self-critical, or casual statement or reference that is meant to draw attention to one&
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by hirundo 5y ago
I think a large portion of the internet agrees with you: the problem isn't that this podcast was de-indexed; the problem is that I was able to learn about it in the first place.
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by hirundo 5y ago
Yesterday I heard a Joe Rogan guest mention a particular non-Rogan podcast episode. It was a discussion about science and policy by two professional, well credentialed scientists and a layperson. I Googled it, couldn't find it. Same fo
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by hirundo 5y ago
A flag has two sides.
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by hirundo 5y ago
> Purpose of the flag 1. To be used while representing planet Earth. Whoever you are, you do not represent the planet Earth. At most perhaps you represent some fraction of one species on the planet. To claim otherwise is a kind of colo
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by hirundo 5y ago
Fascinating that in the video there's one seemingly undamaged house surrounded by others that were all burnt down to their foundations. There has to be a story there other than just luck.
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by hirundo 5y ago
I hope we someday get the story of why Peter Attia mysteriously bailed out of his own project.
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by hirundo 5y ago
The implied comparison of the accuracy of orbital mechanics with that of climate prediction is absurdist.
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by hirundo 5y ago
I can see why the people who believe that vaccination hesitancy justifies censorship would like to silence Dr. Malone. He is calm, measured, well spoken, very well credentialed and convincing. https://tennesseestar.com/2021&
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by hirundo 5y ago
I don't have that citation. But Google doesn't spend billions on growing and maintaining apps just for public benefit. Those services pull their weight (now or prospectively) or Google would pull the plug. Generally their strategy
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by hirundo 5y ago
This is Google Earth and Maps. They're free to users, but make Google billions on ads.
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by hirundo 5y ago
She lived a long, wonderful life, bringing joy to millions, and the hot take is what a shame, she didn't hit some arbitrary round number. But I had the same thought. Somewhere inside me there's a numerologist struggling to get out
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by hirundo 5y ago
So Clearview has a database of billions of faces scraped from the internet, and sells subscriptions to match photos on that data. I don't think we can put this capability back in the box. There is no moat around it. Keyhole once had a
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by hirundo 5y ago
The homeowner was ready to pay whatever at the time. It would seem to be just good business to offer right-now service at a price that reflects that this had moved from insurance to rescue, high enough to make anyone wish they'd paid f
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by hirundo 5y ago
> break into their briefcase rifle through their documents I think I gave you that misleading impression by poorly abbreviating the headline. The warrant was not for the contents of the phones, but for identities of people carrying them
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Court Upholds “Geofence” Warrant for Information on Phones Near a Crime(reason.com)
17 points by hirundo 5y ago|8 comments
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by hirundo 5y ago
I live in a very rural area where wood burning for heat makes a lot of sense. We have vastly too much deadwood on the ground and it is a serious fire hazard. There is simply no other economic way to dispose of it than to burn it. Most of it
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by hirundo 5y ago
I saw the new James Bond movie last night and hated the ending. Not so much because it wasn't appropriate, as because they broke the rule. And not so much the rule, as the Prime Directive. My reaction felt like a kind of disgust. At th
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by hirundo 5y ago
In college I had a 300 baud connection to a school PDP-11, with a phone handset coupler. The modem dropped the connection constantly so the handshake connect was constant. And those sounds were increasingly annoying. You whippersnappers wit
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by hirundo 5y ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. This seems to be a very good environment for them to grow in. I'd be interested in giving them a try. I've recently used a dog boarding service with a similar model, rover.com, with great succe
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by hirundo 5y ago
This seems to be a coordination problem, and we have a kit of new tools to solve those. For instance, Uber, but for rentals. Basically vanilla ride-sharing, but the customer is the driver instead of passenger. The rental fleet consists of p
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by hirundo 5y ago
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” ― Milton Friedman If you can accept this, inflation becomes a lot

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