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by kansface 5y ago
>The ratio you ask for is almost certainly decreasing over time, not increasing, right? Since the 40s, most likely. Since some time in between then and now, I'm not so sure.
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by kansface 5y ago
The richest families in the US are certainly not the richest ones from 1950 let alone 1427. The largest companies by market cap are Apple, MS, Google, Amazon, and FB... None of those businesses existed a generation ago let alone the techno
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by kansface 5y ago
Did the lifestyle of people actually decrease from the 60s to today? I don’t think that is possibly true. Pretty much no American man would choose to go back in time and live in the 1960s (at the age of 25) given the extra purchasing power
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by kansface 5y ago
The problem is that this ruling was unequivocally outside the rule of law in my estimate. You want to stop climate change? Great! Pass some laws via the legislature, enforce them via fines and jail through action initiated by the executive
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by kansface 5y ago
> And the fact that the evidence doesn't exist is being cited as an argument that it must exist because of asserted suppression. No, its not "the fact that it doesn't exist" that lends credence to existence. The inc
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by kansface 5y ago
As claimed by Rogin, the medical research community is privately divided but largely unwilling to speak out publicly because they don’t want to be labeled conspiracy theorists, don’t want to be associated with supporting a position tangenti
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by kansface 5y ago
I am not an expert in the field, but I don’t find this math convincing - I arrive at the opposite conclusion. This was not a random lab and the outbreak didn’t just start anywhere.
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by kansface 5y ago
I'm highly skeptical of this source. What percentage of that water usage for animal agriculture is actually in the form of grass (or rainfall more properly)? What percentage of the land used could be productively farmed by humans for
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by kansface 5y ago
I've been reading "Seeing Like a State", and this reminds me of the sort of legibility problems that States historically had around taxation. The premise of the book is that the State reorganizes society to make it easier to
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by kansface 5y ago
It’s not sloppy reasoning. We should update our beliefs in light of new evidence in proportion to the strength of the evidence and the strength of our prior belief. How much would an equivalent study on the existence of ESP move your beli
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by kansface 6y ago
Not that I disagree per se, but there is no way of verifying the co2 emissions that goes into making anything from any foreign country ... even approximately. Edit, meant to reply below
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by kansface 6y ago
If we did that, we’d merely outsource all carbon heavy industries to where they’d inevitably pollute way more. You could try to do a carbon VAT I suppose - sounds tricky in practice because there is no market price discovery equivalent for
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by kansface 6y ago
They can just issue more stock, dilute everyone by 1%, and net ~1 billion dollars, no?
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by kansface 6y ago
Predictability in the short term has a definite business value in and of itself, regardless if it makes development slower - or perhaps, a value to management. Certainly the degree matters.
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by kansface 6y ago
Plenty of people in this thread have effectively endorsed McCarthyism. You don't have to look far - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26730485
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by kansface 6y ago
Why do you think jail is the only punishment doled out by the judicial system? As I just wrote, we ban computer hackers from using computers for life - that's not jail. ~Cancellation~ exile was a preferred punishment, also not jail
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by kansface 6y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree about the current state of affairs. Our relationship to the internet has profoundly changed. It’s deeply entwined in our daily life, inescapably so, in exactly the same way that forums were not.
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by kansface 6y ago
How is losing your livelihood, potentially being blacklisted from the industry entirely, not commensurate to judicial punishment? That’s exactly the sort of punishment we impose on computer hackers.
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by kansface 6y ago
What is the record of our corporations? When did our multinationals become paragons of moral virtue and arbiters of righteousness? Do you think companies will only do things you like with this new found power?
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by kansface 6y ago
Right, I’d concede you have a point if it weren’t the entire fucking US Internet hell-bent on doing this. This comment exists in every thread every time yet another company acquiesces to the new moral police. I’m not personally interested
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by kansface 6y ago
> Part of the problem is that "well written code" is unbelievably subjective. I'd recommend you check out Code Complete if you haven't read it. It is an excellent intro into best practices although its about 1000 pag
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by kansface 6y ago
Being the valedictorian of a class of 12 brings less information than a class of 1K. Its the same story for the rigor of the classes themselves between different schools/states/countries and the actual classes taken by any given
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by kansface 6y ago
Test prep has a more or less negligible effect size. Extra curriculars and paying someone to write your essay for you on the other hand are all about privilege.
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by kansface 6y ago
> Slow government is like reducing the clock of your cpu in order to protect against security vulnerabilities. Negative. Bad laws are the program (business logic) itself, not the vulnerabilities. In lieu of refactoring society, I'
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by kansface 6y ago
China is responsible for murdering many 10s, possibly 100 million of its own citizens and is actively and purposefully engaged in genocide of its own people right now. I have a very hard time separating the good from the bad here. >
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by kansface 6y ago
The a priori expected outcome of any government intervention is neutral at best, net negative on average. Worse still, government interventions are sticky - essentially append only. We create government, policy, institutions, and regulati
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by kansface 6y ago
The author is really making an argument for bypassing institutional inertia or vestigial process via tool selection rather than a robust argument for opinionated tooling... which is very easy to agree with. To the extent to which your org
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by kansface 6y ago
> Edit: come to think of it, it is like the halting problem, your project may never finish Uncertainty in the solution can only be reduced to the extent you have actually solved the problem. Of course, the problem may may not be solvabl
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by kansface 6y ago
> Still, start up opportunities will not be hyper critically different in the future than they are now. In the future you may not be able to have children. This is not accurate for people with kids. A startup is an all encompassing job
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by kansface 6y ago
Does Walmart care about low quality products? Or alternatively, what would an online marketplace that avoids fraud, intentionally low quality reproductions, or just low quality products in general look like? We'd really like to align

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