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by holbrad 5y ago
You don't have to be an expert on a topic to see that something is either extremely unlikely or plausible. (Anyone can still be wrong in there conclusion mind you.) "There's a group of human's that can breath fire like a
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by holbrad 5y ago
"He also admitted that he believes in “HBD” which is an alt-right euphemism for racist views on IQ." Good to see an unbiased take such as this. Let's look up what that means. First hit on google: "HBD IQ" (For me)(
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by holbrad 5y ago
I think the sentiment that pacifism externalises the costs of dealing with violence to others, is spot on in both a personal and country context.
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by holbrad 5y ago
Unless we are in a monopoly situation there are other vendors for common goods. If a super market goes out of business there are several others though perhaps further away. The idea of "Food deserts" is around the poor availabilit
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by holbrad 5y ago
Optimising for profit can lead to both massive positive and negative effects. So the obvious question is how you balance those negative effects against the positive. This is where regulations and governments have to step in, though that cer
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by holbrad 5y ago
Markets provide availability of goods, as long as you can accept price variability. I'll reiterate for safety and land I think these things fail for the reason I mentioned originally. Healthcare I could certainly see working in a mostl
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by holbrad 5y ago
Generally for most goods markets work really well. There's two intrinsic failure cases: externalities and monopolies. So arguably housing fits into the monopoly bucket, especially if you lean towards a land value tax. Safety and a mono
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by holbrad 5y ago
Hate to be picky. But the planet is going to be just fine, for a very long time. Unless global warming triggers a nuclear war, humans as a species are also going to be fine.
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by holbrad 5y ago
I guess how would you implement monetization without an account in some form ? You could just allow a given IP address ? But that's just as trackable and has tons of downsides with using from other locations.
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by holbrad 5y ago
Looks interesting. In the FAQ they mention potentially charging around $10/month. Not sure if I'm being entitled or anything, but I was expecting something more like the original WhatsApp model of a few dollars a year. Perhaps I&#
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by holbrad 5y ago
I can't say I understand the full context, but not really. I listen to a few podcasts sometimes hosts get things wrong, sometimes really wrong. That's fine.
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by holbrad 5y ago
"apologists" as if there's anything to apologise for. You can disagree with that tweet and still be for open discussion and against censorship. Also that tweet is very old, people do change there mind. (Not that I'm a fa
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by holbrad 5y ago
I agree that hyperbolic isn't the right word, but do you really think people who call it horse de-wormer* are really being genuine. *(Outside the context of literally treating horses)
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by holbrad 5y ago
This is actually a rare case where profits and the public good aligned. Spotify did the right thing, for potentially the wrong reasons (Profit)
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by holbrad 5y ago
Ivermectin has widely been used in various countries. You can argue about the actual effectiveness, I think I remember a pre-print study being retracted. But talking about that doesn't seem to be anywhere near the scale of dangerous pu
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by holbrad 5y ago
'dangerous anti-scientific medical advice' Just a general point, but people really love throwing around "anti-scientific" and other such terms without appreciating that generating accurate scientific knowledge is actuall
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by holbrad 5y ago
Like most people under 50, I also had no idea who Neil Young was. But I literally took the opposite message away from it. Spotify did exactly the right thing, not giving into to arbitrary censorship is a principled stance. They should be ap
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by holbrad 5y ago
Intentionality is required for something to be misinformation.
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by holbrad 5y ago
I couldn't agree more. In fact if the JRE was pulled over this, I'd certainly be cancelling my subscription. Not that I'd expect it to do anything, but just out of principle. (I don't really listen to the podcast!)
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by holbrad 5y ago
"Vaccines were never expected to stop the pandemic." That's complete bullshit. You can find many examples of experts, governments and politicians claiming that's exactly what was likely going to happen. That was the mess
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by holbrad 5y ago
I agree being able to deploy a vaccine in record time is very impressive. I think an interesting thought experiment would be: take the modern COVID strain and go back to the 1900~'s UK/America? (That's where most the site is
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by holbrad 5y ago
I'm in a pretty similar boat, young guy, had COVID didn't even notice. But got a positive test because the rest of the family was sick. There doesn't seem to be a solid reason to take the vaccine, for me specifically. Could e
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by holbrad 5y ago
It's almost like the COVID vaccines don't work very well to prevent spread. (It clearly helps against being hospitalised)
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by holbrad 5y ago
If people aren't getting COVID and are staying at home because of a shutdown, then this exact same situation happens again just later in time... (After the school shutdown)
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by holbrad 5y ago
I think answer to #3 is no and in fact in hindsight should have always been no. Here in the UK we are in a terrible position of having to eventually pay for insanely expensive lockdowns that effectively did very little. And we are now in t
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by holbrad 5y ago
A common argument is that relative levels of wealth don't matter too much. Does it really matter if there is some Billionaire's if the average person is doing well for themselves ? It's the average persons absolute amount of
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by holbrad 5y ago
That isn't how hyperthreading works... It's completely dependent on the workload. If your using the CPU core as efficiently as possible, you'd see no benefit from hyperthreading. If your using it very poorly, you'd see a
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by holbrad 6y ago
I'm not defending Amazons practices, but from what I can gather it really isn't any different at other retailers. You just don't hear about it because the media has a dislike of Amazon.
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by holbrad 6y ago
Even once you factor all of the that in, you receive far less money.
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by holbrad 6y ago
Are you sure it's not 0.594% of his networth as opposed to 0.0006?

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