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by hnracer 6y ago
There were lots of people protesting on that day in support of the statue that had nothing to do with the neo-nazis and white supremacists, in exactly the same way that there were lots of people protesting against the statue who were are no
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by hnracer 6y ago
I agree, I see it as a useful psychological trick that can be applied sometimes but not always
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Because about ten seconds later in the same speech he says he unequivocally condemns white supremacists. But the media (and the democrats in their advertising) cuts off that part of the speech, leaving a false impression in people's mi
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by hnracer 6y ago
If someone is struggling to understand it with three initial doors, instead start with a million initial doors and close all but two.
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by hnracer 6y ago
The problem with vetting is that it's unlikely to be done in an unbiased way. Facebook is a Silicon Valley company with a young staff that leans significantly to the left. As a right-leaning individual this makes me uncomfortable becau
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by hnracer 6y ago
This is scientism, word-thinking and a false dichotomy.
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by hnracer 6y ago
Are the Tesla build issues that most drivers experience (not the driver in the OP) anything more than a cosmetic annoyance if the safety of the Tesla is superior to other carmakers?
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Naval Ravikant has a healthy way of thinking about this. If you are envious or jealous of someone's accomplishments or wealth, you must realize that it's impossible to be in that individual's position without taking onboard a
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by hnracer 6y ago
You can love your job in the same way that you can love a hobby that you're passionate about, where you look forward to Mondays, and get genuine excitement and pleasure from the work. I think that's what people mean when they say
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by hnracer 6y ago
Simulation has been used extensively by economists going back decades. One example is the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model. Often the output is determined and easily predicted by the input assumptions and the results you get bac
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by hnracer 6y ago
I'm curious about the details of this for insulin. Is it a problem with one political party or with both? Does the pharma oligopoly control the politicians through donations/funding? Or is there a legitimate IP protection reason t
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by hnracer 6y ago
Why doesn't competition step in and increase the supply of insulin, thereby decreasing its cost? If insulin is 1/8th the cost elsewhere why can't I import it from overseas and sell it locally, making arbitrage profits? Is the
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by hnracer 6y ago
This talks to a society wide problem, basic logical thinking tools (thinking at the margin, elementary statistics, etc) aren't taught in school and most of the population are ignorant of them. They're not the most difficult concep
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by hnracer 6y ago
This would be a great exercise for primary school kids. Touch typing is an important skill and once it's learned it's with you forever. On a platform like this they can also practice reading and comprehension, and the teacher has
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by hnracer 6y ago
It's undoubtedly true that these companies' actions suppress wages at the margin. The first order effect is some level of harm to the impacted employees. I can understand the argument you put forward about second order effects but
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by hnracer 6y ago
In the post you responded to, I was talking about Asian Americans which have similar wealth to White Americans and earn 38 percent more than the national median income. Asian Americans are 6cm shorter than Black Americans who earn much less
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by hnracer 6y ago
He's the main reason the Tesla stock price is so high. If you are a shareholder of Tesla that cares mostly about capital gains, you really want it to continue.
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by hnracer 6y ago
Reddit has a lot of anti-Elon users, I'm not sure that on net the users of that site support him/Tesla.
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by hnracer 6y ago
I think interest and hard work is definitely a factor, but I also think that genetics is playing a role. The top 30 record holders in the 100m sprint are all of African descent: https://www.worldathletics.org/records/al
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by hnracer 6y ago
The height difference between racial groups has a significant genetic component. Asian Americans are 8cm shorter than White Americans, despite being about equally wealthy. This means that Asians are, on average, genetically disadvantaged wh
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by hnracer 6y ago
> But if there are more Asians in China than Korea, which obviously there are, they should be the more accurate representation of Asian genetics. The tallest province in China is still shorter than the average European height. And Asians
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by hnracer 6y ago
I heard somewhere that this was good if there is an auto-immune issue underlying the mental health problems - although I could be totally wrong about that. If no such auto-immune issue is present, is this still a valid therapy? Thanks.
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by hnracer 6y ago
> Did you look up statistics for Chinese basketball players and realize there were too many of them to support your narrative? No. I realize that there are many tall Asians, as well as that there are many tall Asians who play basketball.
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by hnracer 6y ago
Korean people are genetically shorter than other races. Do you dispute that this would give them a profound disadvantage in basketball, all else equal? The narrative of all races being functionally the same phenotypically is prima facie abs
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by hnracer 6y ago
I was just demonstrating the absurdity of your comment. Taking things to the limit to demonstrate the absurdity of absolutist statements like the one you made is a perfectly acceptable thing to do and is not "spin". You said &quot
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by hnracer 6y ago
We should delineate between resources (which has a fiat value) and fiat money. I agree that fiat money can't make up for a human life, since if money is destroyed, the remaining money supply increases in value through deflation and no
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The hivemind behind the press is a single entity
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I am a libertarian although you're right that that comment wasn't supposed to be an endorsement, just an explanation of the mindset of its more stringent adherents
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They are protecting their property from theft by force by the state. They view themselves as the moral owners of that earned private property, and the state as the thug hired by the masses which is attempting literal theft (in the moral, no
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by hnracer 6y ago
Does anyone know unconventional ways to treat depression (or bipolar), that are not widely known, but are nevertheless supported by solid science?

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