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by jlawson 8y ago
Merry Christmas!
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by jlawson 8y ago
Your last line about the Dems was kind of lame and pointlessly inflammatory; it gave an excuse to delete. However, a number of comments downthread have also been rapidly flagged to death. The speed of it suggests a moderator has decided tha
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by jlawson 8y ago
You need to get into political satire writing :)
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Yep - because they're market economies. Index of economic freedom: Sweden 76.3 US 75.7 Norway 74.3 Finland 74.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom
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by jlawson 8y ago
The number is extreme... but it's worth noting that Facebook and Google both manage more users, often with more complex information, including people intentionally trying to break and trick their systems - at very low cost. (I'm n
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https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/World-... Seems to be working very well so far. The record for those large societies that went for alternatives to capitalism are... not so good.
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by jlawson 8y ago
Big farm machines are dumb. If we could instead build swarms of self-maintaining intelligent human-scale robots, perhaps working with genetically engineered work animals (monkeys?), they could hand-plant, hand-till, and hand-harvest crops a
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by jlawson 8y ago
I'm reminded of almost every image you see of Trump interacting with world leaders. Merkel A: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/angela-mer... Merkel B: https://www.thenational.
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by jlawson 8y ago
The US can't do the same. Bills of attainder are constitutionally prohibited in America.
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The issue is that it's often possible to stretch the category "attacks" to encompass to useful arguments, if you're motivated to do so. This becomes a mechanism to shut down discussion, ultimately weakening the conversat
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by jlawson 8y ago
I love how the lower part of the rocket is battered and burned by repeated re-entry. It's starting to look like something from a gritty sci-fi movie.
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by jlawson 8y ago
My favorite is: upvoted, with tons of responses, and flagged to death. At this point being flagged is mostly an indication of speaking outside the window of permitted opinions on HN, which makes the comments actually more interesting.
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by jlawson 8y ago
Dart will stop within a few centimeters due to water resistance (unless it is very long and dense, like a metal harpoon, but you can't make such a thing). Poison will dissolve and drift away within moments of applying to a projectile.
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by jlawson 8y ago
I think the lack of thrown weapons would be more basic than fire. Maybe even held weapons for striking enemies. You can't swing a club underwater due to water resistance, and spears are hard to use well because you don't have feet
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by jlawson 8y ago
Honestly my completionist instincts make me like 4K/8K. It's the point where I think we can pretty much say, okay, we are now finished with resolution increases. There's nowhere else to go. We've 100%'d that part of
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by jlawson 8y ago
A lot of these ERGs link together peoples with little cultural connection. Black -> AA as well as African immigrants Asian -> Japanese, old migrant Chinese, new communist-raised Chinese, Indonesian The religious ones make more sense;
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by jlawson 8y ago
I agree that human connections are important and valuable. I just find that they can't have anything to do with work, and they certainly don't help you with your work (which is what the post above said). The people I interact with
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by jlawson 8y ago
Well I noted belief; as an atheist I don't get to go to church groups. Which leaves interest groups on Facebook... that's okay but talking about board games or model trains isn't really the same as talking about who you are a
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by jlawson 8y ago
If you mean WW1, there weren't. There were three Africans (musicians in the German army). Yes, exactly three. Not four or five. Indians were involved as part of British forces, but numbered well under 1% of men deployed. I wouldn'
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by jlawson 8y ago
Traditional diets include lots of carbs. Bodybuilders realized early that protein is good for muscle growth. So they started eating tons of protein, and reducing other macronutrients. They realized after a while that carbs can actually be c
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by jlawson 8y ago
I wish people of my color, gender, or belief were allowed to make a club, or join yours. It sounds great. Maybe something like this is why whites commit suicide so much more than blacks in America (per CDC [1]). Blacks suffer in many ways b
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by jlawson 8y ago
These aren't really true in my experience. I never had someone I'd consider a 'mentor'. And I've had friends but I don't spend a lot of time with them and they don't relate to my business at all. At the sa
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by jlawson 8y ago
This applies to the development of many medicines today.
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I think the idea was that the woman scientist "in insurance" in the plane at the end was in fact the next agent working on getting the pre-mutated virus. She knew to go back to that time and get on that seat of that plane because
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Cole's time was 2035; the plane scene was 1995. If it was just her before the epidemic she'd appear in her 20's. She must have been a time traveler.
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I don't want to fight with anyone either. "when you say that we should rightly devalue women's work in comparison to medicine" I said the opposite of this, with emphasis. It was my whole point. It's such a struggle
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by jlawson 8y ago
Some amount of randomness/inconsistency is to be expected for the reasons you're indicating. As you said, it's just some moderators, not a court system. But, when that arbitrariness always, always favors one set of viewpoints
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The boss management company is then incentivized to hire incompetent bosses. Their entire business model is profitable in proportion to how often it fails. The perverse incentive has to land somewhere; not sure there's a way to neutral
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I used the word "cook". You seem to have substituted "professional chef" into that sentence, and then responded as though that's what I wrote. Obviously nothing I wrote will made sense if you're substituting ou
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I've heard this notion that "we devalue women's work" but I can't actually put my finger on any example of this. I'm not sure it's really true. Yes, homemakers are not paid in money. That doesn't make

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