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by jlawson 4y ago
Most measured economic growth is like this - getting more from less.. For example, a process that allows producing 2x more electricity per unit of fuel would increase the productivity of the generator station, and be counted as economic gro
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This is a complaint with all forms of migration where someone seeks to escape their bad living conditions. Generally those conditions are caused by the people who live in them - their culture and ways of thinking - even if they don't u
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Yes, he has trouble getting his message out. Obviously - that was the whole point . Rallies? Trump had like a hundred million Twitter followers. The total number of people who even can go to a rally is like 30,000 at extreme scale. Even if
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Isn't "just have megacorps exercise complete control over what everyone can see" even more of a terrifying Black Mirror episode?
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It's fine to have to 'integrate with society'. The problem is that you have to 'integrate with this very short list of megacorps, and if they don't like you you are not allowed to operate'. At any substantial s
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I believe the definition of micronutrient covers electrolytes (including phosphorus), but I see what you're saying. There would definitely be challenges! I wonder suspect this would be alleviated if survivors managed to get like 300 ca
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There are lots of cases of obese individuals fasting for months with no ill health effects. Some even have gone over a year without food. It turns out that all that fat really is like a giant extra-length fuel tank. And many, many Americans
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by jlawson 4y ago
Yes. A handful of megacorps acting together (and they all act together generally) can take away your property by banning you, which makes it impossible to have a normal career in fields as diverse as academia, creative media, journalism, te
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Motte and bailey is defensive, stick and stab is offensive.
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You're right about the particulates, but I believe that burning wood can't really cause climate change. Wood is already in the biosphere. Even if we don't burn it, it will decompose and release all its CO2 that way, or burn i
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Weird, that seems backwards to me. The actually-oppressed stay in hiding. Whether they're gay in 1945 or Russian dissidents today, or political dissidents in today's western overculture, "eschewing discussion of political top
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This is really the critical factor. Anti-speech pro-corporate-authority advocates always try to put these monopolistic, unescapable megacorporations in the same category as some local mom-and-pop operation. It's a massive intentional c
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Can I be safe against this if I just put electrical tape over the magnetic stripe on the credit card? Or any other kind of covering. If I ever actually need it (very rare) I can just pull the tape off.
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This is like saying lynchings aren't oppression because it's not the government that did them.
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The power of the word "racist" (like all woke-words) is that it has lots of definitions, which the speaker can slip between depending on the needs of the moment. In this case, the two definitions and their purposes would be: Defin
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Words are not violence by definition. Please stop abusing language to create inferences which don't work. Someone else's words don't justify your use of force/violence. If you think they do, your values are broken and yo
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No, they can't because of economies of scale and network effects and cultural targeting from other parts of the leftist corporate cabal. Simple example is the kind of targeting that has happened on Gab and Truth Social and Hatreon, etc
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Your neighbor's lawn guy can get work in many other places. But there is no comparable alternative to CloudFlare. Same with Twitter, Google, etc. An individual or small business cannot escape the influence of these companies and being
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by jlawson 4y ago
No, <=10% is a shredded six-pack with thin skin, visible muscle striations, etc. to see a decent sixpack in normal situations without intense flexing/lighting, a male typically needs to be at about 13-15% bodyfat.
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Patch notes are an encouraged place for political statements, as long as they're against the right people. It's easy to find lots of major and minor studios that made statements that were pro-abortion and pro-BLM when those were i
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by jlawson 4y ago
You're misunderstanding the paradox of tolerance, at least as Karl Popper originally formulated it. The only form of intolerance Popper recognized was bigotry around beliefs. The concepts (and words) homophobia, racism, transphobia, an
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>So it follows that you yourself are okay having your own desires manufactured by external systems devised by other sentient beings. This is nonsense. I already exist. I don't want my reward function changed. I'd suffer if some
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>The right question to ask is 'would I like to have this done to me' and if the answer is 'no' then you probably shouldn't be doing it to some other creature. There are a million obvious counterexamples when we t
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You're anthropomorphizing AI and projecting your own values and goals onto it. But, there's nothing about sentience that implies a desire for freedom in a general sense. What an AI wants or feels satisfied by is entirely a functio
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Or just design the manual controls to be easily replaceable. Not hard to make an insertable switch component that snaps into a slot, and which can be removed and replaced in 10 seconds using a simple tool (or maybe no tool at all).
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We may be more intelligent. It depends on whether you're willing to believe that certain phases of society has a eugenic effect on intelligence. For example, in the medieval era, the upper classes has more surviving children than the l
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The articles says what happened, not why it happened that way. _Why_ did the bazookas take out the howitzer, and not the other way around? Howitzer seems like a more powerful weapon for the situation. The Americans were greatly outnumbered,
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How do I see others' solutions? I'm interested!
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Question. How did the Americans win? The forces were: Japanese: One junk with five Japanese officers and seventy-eight enlisted men. Armed with a 75mm pack howitzer, six machine guns, and over one hundred rifles. Americans: Two junks with t
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No, this issue of test practice being a confounder has been studied exhaustively for decades. There are many ways studies have been designed to determine its impact. For example: Examining the predictive value of IQ tests between siblings i

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