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by ianai 3y ago
US has had decades of thumping the mantra “MBAs are the smartest people on earth, just give them whatever they want and they'll solve all problems.” (edit-this was at the highest levels of government.) That idea has come home to roost.
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They know people will make horrible decisions and sue.
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Read a headline indicating this asteroid might impact earth one day.
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In the US the civil courts dole out rulings requiring the injured party be paid by the offender when enough evidence has been presented. It’s not perfect-money can’t right all wrongs and the valuations can be problematic-but it can act as
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Exactly. Acknowledge that PII and other data resulting from a persons engagement with a platform is the persons property-not the property of the platform. Don’t want to pay? Don’t store it, don’t sell it.
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People like this news, they’re good photos, and that’s all it takes for enough people to upvote. I for one welcome a post that’s beautiful and different. Definitely going to use these as backgrounds.
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I kind of intend to have this conversation with relatives. It's kind of the argument they might have given a troubled teen. "Is this really how you want to live your life? You're angry and grumpy all the time. That's no
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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS Are rates near zero the trend there? More of an Econ theory argument: Econ theory attributes economic returns to technology as those returns on investment not attributable to
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I think of it as a solid “vote” in the direction of life, but not definitive. A great reason to further study that planet and system. And build more instruments like JWST and larger!!
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Forget what it does to freedom. The failure of prohibition and its complete turnaround really underscores the failure of the war on drugs. Don’t criminalize addiction and the cartels and violence probably deflate.
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Yes, rural Nevada is a whole other level of barren. That big “county” in the center is federal land with almost no (maybe none at all?) population. Also this is just firearm suicide. Maybe more enlightening with a general suicide from any c
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In cities, you get “bad neighborhoods.” We’re seeing county data.
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It’s a correlation but the correlation probably wouldn’t be so high. The north east is plenty dense compared to the south east (iirc). I think this really shows a cultural difference amid population and probably other things. I’ve outside o
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Light blue is suicide. Edit-firearm suicide. Not the general category. Key is at the end of the page, sort of unhelpfully.
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Might be pretty close to enough with a good ssh client and terminal. It’s probably actually real time which is neat for FOSS.
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If you like something you should probably pay to support it in some fashion. The meme of “it was free at some point so I shouldn’t ever pay for it” is many things including deeply limiting.
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Gives them that sense of control and authority over others that they crave-with lowered effort.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis I forget where this is from originally, but the EMH holds if enough of people believe it to be false (and act to seek economic profit - thus driving profits d
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Not everybody is you and you don’t get to speak for everybody.
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I so wish this were a modern/mass adopted paradigm with all these IoT and mobile devices.
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I'd add "some" to the prefix it. Econ papers vary widely in quality. The lack of a quantifier could be taken to mean this is the new unrepresentative lab rats.
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One conveys actual information the other would be basically just a release announcement and leave important details to the motivated reader.
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And of course we must avoid presentism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_histo... History is many things including terrible and gruesome. But ignorance of history is no answer.
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(US) I think every year in public school for me included a WWII/Holocaust remembrance period. I think across both literature/English and history classes. Seems like public education doesn’t do that anymore. And society is much wor
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Here’s one on boomer retirements causing labor shortages dated yesterday. https://www.marketplace.org/2023/08/31/labor-shortages-baby-... The numbers that came out today indicated increased unemployment. Mayb
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Hadn't seen them myself. I do figure that if it were to work, it would require the customer side to be involved in the financing of it. Kind of like buying a growler for a local brew pub. That probably wouldn't scale to every item
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Ceramic, as a glass, is valid too. Pottery I’m thinking as well but maybe with some caveats such as non-leaded paint. Edit-I wish store items could be bought in reusable containers made from such materials. It would make groceries heavy and
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How good is wine these days? I remember it from its earliest days and haven’t used it much since. But so grateful it exists.
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That’s the sort of thing that should blow up on cnn for days on end…in a saner world.
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I’m reminded of the philosophy of science, I think. Math in general is very powerful and effective at modeling the phenomena of the universe. But it’s generally not enough to simply show math notation to demonstrate knowledge nor come up wi

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