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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Don't forget 9/11 truthers. They were at least as popular as any modern-day form of crankery, and that was nearly twenty years ago now.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
I've invested in a few smallish ($200M to $2B) biotechs over the past decade or so. While I eventually got out with a small profit, I have sworn off ever investing in one again. Too much time and too many grey hairs from following the
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Out of curiosity, which category do you think you fall into? And how do you know?
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
That is fair. But I think that the fraction of people who individually benefit from getting the vaccine is less than the 70% who need to get it, do there's going to be a gap that will need to be filled with lies, bullying and shaming.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
How can you be sure that the censors will always be on the side of the angels? Follow-up question: how can you be sure that you , personally, are on the side of the angels? Especially if you have never been allowed to hear the opposing poi
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
With 20/20 2020 hindsight I don't lock down my own country, I lock China in.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Would you? Thanks, that would be great! I feel like we are about to enter the variation on the prisoner's dilemma where we all get a massive benefit if at least 70% of us get the vaccine, but getting the vaccine has a cost (please roll
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
> I think that almost everyone should be able to achieve a solid 2000 elo rating, with enough dedication over the years I think you are massively underestimating the natural range of human intelligence. I don't think the average IQ
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
You seem to be suggesting that humans only prefer certain smells (eg a nice perfume) to others (dirt and sweat) because advertising has created this desire. I don't believe this is true.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
I would say that the more parsimonious explanation is that: a) they've got a model that has learned that people who buy X tend to buy X again, and b) they don't have a model that can properly distinguish between classes of X for w
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
In the long term I'm thinking that planets are the wrong approach. If you're going to get a significant fraction of the human race living off Earth you'll need to build something nicer than Earth, and Mars doesn't cut it
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
I like the fact that the BBC felt compelled to add pictures to this story at all, for the benefit of readers who might be unfamiliar with what a swimming pool or glass of water would look like.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
This is one of the better written pieces I've seen on Qanon, one of the few that seems to have actually understood the phenomenon (the average journalist seems to go as far as reading and regurgitating the first line of the Wikipedia a
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
It quickly turns into one of those almost but not quite fractal problems. By the time you get down to the scale of individual grains of sand, you are having to make some tricky calls. If this grain of sand is sitting on top of this other on
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
When I went through high school (in Australia) the memorisation parts of geography had long since gone out of fashion, and what had replaced them was a series of "case studies" where you learned about the lifestyles of some obscur
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
Seems like culture and poverty are one and the same, in this case. If you are poor then maybe you will behave like that, but if you behave like that then you will certainly be poor.
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by hvdfhbj 6y ago
The latter part isn't really true in this case, the east coast was the last part of the continent to be discovered by Europeans. The west and north had been explored and mapped centuries earlier by various explorers (Hartog, Tasman, Da