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by imgabe 4y ago
But every person who is buying a new car in a given year (usually via a loan they pay off over 3-5 years) is not going to just give that money to the government to build a train line that might be finished in 10 years instead (and they have
902.
by imgabe 4y ago
People don't have to all run out at once and buy a new car right away. They'll just replace their current car whenever they were going to anyway. Prices will come down over time. Taxi services that don't have to pay drivers w
903.
by imgabe 4y ago
There’s already extensive road infrastructure pretty much everywhere. Autonomous cars that could just use that would be much better than having to build out and maintain rails. Buses do not work absurdly well. They take three times as long
904.
by imgabe 4y ago
Unannounced, but not unnoticed. The article is about how consumers are complaining about the changes, with many saying they will switch to different brands, as you would predict. I mean, nobody who cares about quality toilet paper was usin
905.
by imgabe 4y ago
Olive oil would probably be a better vegan substitute for anywhere you would use butter. Although that can suffer from the same substitution problems.
906.
by imgabe 4y ago
The market has to value quality offerings enough to pay for it. There are already more expensive quality options, but most people prefer cheaper but good enough.
907.
by imgabe 4y ago
The minimum quality milk is still better than vegetable oil or whatever industrial byproduct they’re substituting for vegetable oil.
908.
by imgabe 4y ago
> One recent example of skimpflation that consumers did notice involved Conagra's Smart Balance spread, a dairy-free butter substitute. Conagra recently changed its formulation to reduce its share of vegetable oil from 64% to 39% —
909.
by imgabe 4y ago
When are you ever going to have to explain a sonnet or tell someone the the date of the battle of Gettysburg or dissect a frog or know what a precipitate is or… basically any specific thing you learn in school? It’s not that you have to do
910.
by imgabe 4y ago
Research should not be dependent on whether or not it hurts any cause. If the research is poorly done, exclude it for that reason. If not, maybe re-examine what your cause is in light of the research. Copernicus's research into the Ear
911.
by imgabe 4y ago
Yes, you might get some criticism for it, just like Haidt is. A private organization like the NFL or the SPSS might not let you be a member if you don’t follow their rules. That’s within the bounds of free speech. We only have freedoms by
912.
by imgabe 4y ago
Are you saying there is not a single aspect of personality that is unrelated to race? That seems pretty racist.
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by imgabe 4y ago
You are generally free not to stand for the national anthem. Suppose the SPSS (the professional society Haidt left in protest) had instead made a rule that they would play the national anthem at the start of every conference and anyone who
914.
by imgabe 4y ago
Indeed, and the problem with all that is that it’s stupid and wrong.
915.
by imgabe 4y ago
In other words, you make snap judgements and assumptions about people based on their age, race, and sex.
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by imgabe 4y ago
> newly adopted requirement that everybody presenting research at the group's conferences explain how their submission advances "equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals." Diversity is fine. But every single piece of res
917.
by imgabe 4y ago
Well, I hope you’re right. Sure, every other instance where over-educated white people who’ve never worked outside academia decide on behalf of minorities that something “causes harm” to them has been universally stupid, but maybe this ti
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by imgabe 4y ago
Except the journal won’t publish it, because it might stigmatize someone.
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by imgabe 4y ago
What if you check in and there is no hidden cultural element that explains the result? You seem to assume that of course there must be and therefore any research that reaches a conclusion people don't like must necessarily be wrong if
920.
by imgabe 4y ago
The people mining bitcoin are clearly getting value from it. Maybe it doesn't have a use for you in your life, but obviously for a lot of people it does, and not just as speculation. If it was not providing benefit to people, they woul
921.
by imgabe 4y ago
> Mostly the European microstates and several Caribbean and Pacific islands, but if you don't count a gendarmerie as armed forces, you could include Costa Rica and Panama--two not-tiny countries--in the list. (If you do count them,
922.
by imgabe 4y ago
> Fun fact: there exist currencies that have maintained stability despite the country in question lacking any kind of military. Such as? And for a further question, would they have remained stable if other countries had not invested in
923.
by imgabe 4y ago
Turn off location, buy a secondhand iPhone with a gift card, create an apple account with a throwaway email, move to a cabin in the woods to work on your manifesto. Easy peasy.
924.
by imgabe 4y ago
> iOS sends a lot of data about your phone to Apple, such as your phone number, your unique device identifier, your location and your IMEI number Oh no! The manufacturer of my phone knows the unique identifier they created and assigned t
925.
by imgabe 4y ago
No, the prank pointed out multiple failures in different stages of the process. > But even if we had been careful to avoid p-hacking, our study was doomed by the tiny number of subjects, which amplifies the effects of uncontrolled fact
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by imgabe 4y ago
If you were a mapmaker hired to make maps of the city for people, yes you should absolutely be shamed for trusting some random guy on the street without verifying it. What the study exposed is that science journalists, whose literal job is
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by imgabe 4y ago
I never understood the cliché about Ikea furniture being difficult to assemble. I always admired how they sidestepped the problem of producing directions in many languages by just using pictures. It's a marvel of clarity to me.
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by imgabe 4y ago
I got a new M2 Macbook and it's astonishing how much faster the web is. It seems a lot of the lag must just be javascript execution time and not content loading.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Florida is a state. Several counties in Florida are removing books from school libraries. There is no statewide policy in Florida to ban books from libraries in general. Libraries are generally managed at the city / county level.
930.
by imgabe 4y ago
Doesn't it? Pretty sure the Terms of Service would say something about not accessing the service in an automated fashion, except through the official API. They would be banning you then based on a ToS violation, not because of any view

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