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by hnracer 6y ago
You can't though. Bitchute was banned on Twitter for a long time. The barriers to entry for a new competitor, including network effects in addition to hostility from other platforms, is incredible. YT have a monopoly in their domain.
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by hnracer 6y ago
You're comparing a nearly perfectly competitive marketplace (newspapers) with an oligopoly due to network effects (social media). The customer has free choice in the former but very little in the latter.
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by hnracer 6y ago
I agree with this. The fact is that nobody could've foreseen that a private entity could have so much power over public discourse. Nobody could've predicted the impenetrable network effects of social media a century ago. The laws
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by hnracer 6y ago
This is what someone who believe the election was stolen would say in response to what you've said: (1) It's not 8mm votes (popular vote disparity) that needed to be flipped, it's only the disparity in swing states that needs
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by hnracer 6y ago
It's the spirit of the First Amendment that people are concerned about wrt silencing of particular perspectives. Of course YT is privately owned so the First Amendment doesn't literally apply.
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by hnracer 6y ago
Here's the paper that the article cites (1). It's a RCT thankfully. (1) https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2020/11000/Exerc...
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by hnracer 6y ago
TLDR- There is a strong correlation between Q-tip use and wax plugs but it might be reverse causality and this possibility hasn't been studied. I wouldn't exactly call it "basically no evidence" as he says in the article
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by hnracer 6y ago
The study mixed older children with younger ones. The younger ones have no handedness bias but the older ones may have. The presence of these older children may have been sufficient to cause the asymmetric p values that we saw.
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by hnracer 6y ago
If I provide significantly large value to enough clients (i.e. I make a lot of money) then the state will take 53 percent of my marginal profits. As far as pushing back against crony capitalism and corporatism goes, we are in total agreemen
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by hnracer 6y ago
If I'm a fitness coach charging $60/hour, all my customers are there because they think I'm providing a service of value greater than $60/hour. Perhaps their subjective value is $80/hour, so they get $20/hour b
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by hnracer 6y ago
I fully agree with this, I see it as one value to be upheld among many others in a Pareto-like trade-off. Optimizing for only a single value is going to lead to pathological outcomes as you rightly point out. But I do consider it an importa
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by hnracer 6y ago
I made my money by creating software and engaging in voluntary transactions with people (mostly wealthy people) who wanted to transact with me and would've been worse off having not done so. It was totally positive sum with no harmed t
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by hnracer 6y ago
1. As for what decides the individual's rights in a society, this is a pretty complicated question but the answer is going to be rooted in evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution and memetic evolution. On what grounds do they hold
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by hnracer 6y ago
Familial wealth disperses and collapses pretty quickly, eventually being split up between 2 to the n heirs thereabouts. Irrespective, the wealth is the property of an individual who earned that wealth through voluntary exchange. If they wan
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by hnracer 6y ago
I would really like to see a study of the prevalence of all the major chronic diseases adjusted/controlled for an ageing population. I would be most interested in the number of people who are diagnosed, since the number of deaths could
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by hnracer 6y ago
I'm not defending the internment camps but they're not morally comparable. The Japanese were treated relatively well (compared to the Uyghurs who get tortured), were released afterwards, and the US has since apologized for that in
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by hnracer 6y ago
China had a long way to go before they reach a Japan situation, their GDP per capita is so small and they only need to bump it a few K to overtake the US. They might asymptote before then but my money is on afterwards, perhaps when they&#x2
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by hnracer 6y ago
This is just going to help right wing populists get elected. When I read this I feel angry, it strikes me as deeply racist and antithetical to my values. It's the type of feeling that I imagine pushed a certain number of people towar
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by hnracer 6y ago
Polling shows that a significant majority agrees with you. It just seems like the other stance has more support than it does because SJWs feel confident in voicing their opinion more loudly because it's the opinion held by a majority o
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by hnracer 6y ago
Yes and that's exactly my point... Iran building a nuke to counter Israel is not morally equivalent to the US building a nuke to counter the axis powers.
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by hnracer 6y ago
What do you make of the Israeli's sharing of intel to the public regarding a purported illegal nuclear weapons research program currently ongoing inside Iran. Is that evidence fabricated, and if so how do we know that?
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by hnracer 6y ago
Not a valid analogy. The allies were trying to beat a fascist autocracy that had just ravaged multiple countries and committed heinous war crimes with no indication of having a willingness to slow their pursuit. That's in no way compar
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by hnracer 6y ago
Not to detract from your point but I think that's the point of constitutional republic over direct democracy. Statute and the judiciary constrains actions such as this which would require a supermajority to enact.
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by hnracer 6y ago
This makes logical sense for another reason too. If you hold a view that very few share, you're more likely to have thought from first principles about why that view should be held. If you hold a view that everyone shares, there's
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by hnracer 6y ago
I can think of some other reasons why employers value degrees: 1- conventional mindedness, funnily enough. Everyone else has been doing it that way so I should. 2- protecting career risk in case the new hire sucks. You can point to their qu
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by hnracer 6y ago
It's possible to be independent minded and not question management. You know internally that it's all BS (because of your independent mindedness) but don't vocalize it because you're employing a political strategy to whi
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by hnracer 6y ago
Although it could act as a good filter, if they lash out it's a valuable red flag
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by hnracer 6y ago
It's a spectrum and I'm not sure that Paul would dispute that, he might define the bottom 60 percent of the spectrum as "conventional-minded" and the top five percent as "independent-minded", especially if we t
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by hnracer 6y ago
He hit the nail on the head but I think the framing of the investor's objective is not complete. The search for alpha is usually not about finding ideas that everyone thinks is bad but are actually good, although that does sometimes ha
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by hnracer 6y ago
Agree with your first paragraph. Regarding whether it'll be used in a deleterious way I guess that'll depend on the boss. I could see it making bad bosses even worse but leaving good bosses unaffected.

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