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by jbay808 5y ago
Have you ever tried to pick up seawater with an electromagnet?
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by jbay808 5y ago
Sorry, I think this is a pretty pedantic distinction. It's along the lines of argument that your employer can't make anything mandatory, because you can always quit and work for another company. But anyway, if you follow the log
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Location is only not a personal choice because of the location-based pay! It's funny, because that logic means that location-based-pay becomes its own justification. The city I live in is normally a personal choice. But by paying b
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by jbay808 5y ago
Location is one factor in cost of living, but there are a lot of others too: the type of car you drive (if you drive a car), the quality of food you buy/coffee you drink/restaurants you frequent, the number of kids you have, the s
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by jbay808 5y ago
I've long been a big fan of "more is different" myself, but perhaps you and I have different takes. I think that essay elegantly defines the quintessential nature of emergent behaviour , and the limits of reductionism. But n
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by jbay808 5y ago
Is it though? As Feynman said: It is like a chess game. If you are in a corner with only a few pieces involved, you can work out exactly what is going to happen, and you can always do that when there are only a few pieces. And yet in the r
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by jbay808 5y ago
> if someone claims to be a scientist who understands the structure of the entire universe and creation, but can't understand the structure of the windows in your house, they are probably full of... Isn't that like saying that
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Then what change in behaviour were you expecting your incentive scheme to result in?
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It's very hard to align an explicit incentive scheme with the outcome that you actually want. In this case, you'll get your features, but they very likely won't be bug-free. They'll probably be quite slow and fragile. Th
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But aren't those the contracts that they cancelled in 2020?
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> Why sell Ford some chip for $1 when they are paying $12 today? That's a very good point. When you're competing to get your part selected for a new design, you want to sell it cheap, but once they've done all the work of
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by jbay808 5y ago
Maybe, but we're already dealing with increasing food and fertilizer costs here in North America. That grain may be produced, but not cheaply.
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by jbay808 5y ago
> and specifically for Ukrainian sovereignty to matter to the rest of the world. Probably not, since it appears that this capacity dates back to a Soviet laser-defence project.
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Aren't there also second-strike weapons, like nuclear submarines? As hesitant as soldiers might be to press the launch button just in response to a radar signal, they might find the conviction when they learn their hometown is gone.
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by jbay808 5y ago
There could very well be HeNe lasers used as an interferometric length standard in lithography equipment. There are some solid-state lasers that could substitute for that role, such as NPRO lasers, but they're much more expensive and n
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by jbay808 5y ago
I think that would depend a lot on your workshop space, ventilation, available power, and the prevalence of nearby flammable surfaces.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Are you me? I started doing this in elementary school, and ever since, I've been pretty much unbothered by the cold. Even if it drops well below freezing I'm comfortable in shorts and a T-shirt. I don't even get goosebumps. U
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by jbay808 5y ago
> Put it another way. You are a firm that needs steel as an input. You can buy identical steel for $1000/ton from supplier A, or $800/ton from supplier B, who saves on costs by locating their steel mill in a cheaper geographic
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by jbay808 5y ago
For a real example, one of my friends worked at a FAANG in Vancouver. When he asked for higher pay, the FAANG told him he would need to move to Seattle or else, by internal policy, they wouldn't be allowed to pay him more. So instead o
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by jbay808 5y ago
Headlines omit some grammar which readers infer themselves, meaning that most people will read " Americans retiring to Vietnam for... " as: Americans are now retiring to Vietnam for... When another valid reading is: Here are so
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by jbay808 5y ago
I definitely think both extremes become... extreme. The freedom to drink alcohol while driving your car down the sidewalk without a license as people dive out of your way is also pretty anti-human! Of course, we could allow that freedom and
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by jbay808 5y ago
I guess I meant that the restrictions are justified based on the harm prevention to your neighbours, rather than to yourself (I didn't mean to imply that it's based on some ratio). In that sense, if a vaccine purely reduced transm
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by jbay808 5y ago
Fair enough, if that's your view! For me, this hypothetical is more a situation where we're talking about one's freedom to make choices that endanger those around them, in addition themselves. When the principal danger is to
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by jbay808 5y ago
Thanks for the answer! I posted a followup question to the sibling but I'm curious about your thoughts there too, ie if hypothetically, say, the virus had selective lethality based on eye colour or blood type, so most people with that
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by jbay808 5y ago
Thanks for your answer! I really want to get at the root principles here, so let's veer even further from reality and say that the virus is lethal only to people with, say, type-AB blood, or blue eyes, or whatever. But other people are
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by jbay808 5y ago
This sounds scary, but is it a bad thing? It depends on the mandate but the gun barrel is generally at the end of a long chain of escalating non-cooperation that starts with a sternly worded letter. Some governments are more trigger-happy t
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by jbay808 5y ago
This answer seems to be a mix of principles and practicals. I'm curious which matter more to you. Hypothetically, in an alternate reality where the vaccine is super effective at reducing transmission of Omicron, and where Omicron is su
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> economics thru the lenses of chaos theory, control theory, or cybernetics? I'm looking too. In my mind this is absolutely the way to look at the macroeconomic landscape, and as a control theorist, I don't like what I see, whi
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For sure, and I strongly believe that a dual mandate was a grave mistake because a single-output controller simply can't control two variables that respond in opposite directions to that output. This allows their policymaking to be pol
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by jbay808 5y ago
Housing debt is mainly held by the wealthier half of society. Credit card interest rates, as well as other unsecured consumer lines of credit, are so incredibly high that inflation is far from reducing the value of those debts, it merely sl

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