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Oregon Tried to Silence This Engineer's Research. Now Experts Say He Was Right(reason.com)
2 points by kauffj 7y ago|1 comments
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by kauffj 7y ago
Archive link: http://archive.is/59nJN
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by kauffj 7y ago
At least to me, the discontinuities in things like TANF, Medicaid, CHIP, etc. are some of the greatest signs of political dysfunction. There's nothing remotely partisan about these being a bad thing. _Everyone_ should agree that these
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by kauffj 7y ago
This is a fun idea, but it's a shame to see them funding the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is quite questionable. John Stossel: The Southern Poverty Law Center Scam ( https://reason.com/video/the-southern-pover
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by kauffj 7y ago
I think this is one of if not the most important issue in the entire world. We currently have two primary forms of government: dictatorship and democracy. Almost everyone prefers democracies. But many, if not most, living in democracies als
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by kauffj 7y ago
What's misleading about it? Check a PPP adjustment, it's still easily top 50% worldwide.
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by kauffj 7y ago
- There's no need to take on credit card debt while making $10/hr - Proper diet and exercise is far more important to your health than health insurance. Health care has little influence on health outcomes (see the Oregon Medicaid
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by kauffj 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
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by kauffj 7y ago
Child care is likely expensive for at least two reasons: - Child care is a superior good (in the economics sense). As we get richer, we almost certainly spend more of our money on it, as we do in other areas that are substantially driven by
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by kauffj 7y ago
From a purely consequentialist perspective, it's not clearly a net good if it has a chilling effect on legitimate research, increases economic costs due to regulatory uncertainty, or has other negative second-order effects concomitant
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by kauffj 7y ago
Thank you for providing this. Please avoid clicking the OP link and giving traffic to a company that engages in gray/black web and SEO patterns.
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by kauffj 7y ago
> Peer groups are the dominant influence on a child’s personality and development, full stop. Genetics are likely the dominant influence, with peer groups (shared environment) being the second largest influence. At least, that's wha
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by kauffj 7y ago
You could look at LBRY ( https://lbry.tech https://lbry.com https://beta.lbry.tv ). LBRY is similar to PeerTube in open and decentralization, but all content metadata is written to a blockchain, which means
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by kauffj 7y ago
Avoid giving clicks to companies like the NYT that are working to kill the open web. http://archive.is/i60kZ
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by kauffj 7y ago
I'm very sensitive to this. The notion of "buying" a piece of content on Amazon is borderline offensive to me. You don't own anything! I own a DVD that I can continue to play as long as I own a DVD player. What I'm
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by kauffj 7y ago
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/fi...
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by kauffj 7y ago
There are 15 reps in the state house and a much larger number in local positions. There are some well developed machines to help people get elected. Perhaps most importantly, I think NH is relatively established as the Schelling point for c
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by kauffj 7y ago
I'm on the board of directors for the Free State Project ( https://fsp.org ) mentioned in the article, which aims to concentrate those who support liberty in one place (NH) for greater effectiveness. If anyone has questions a
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by kauffj 7y ago
http://archive.is/gNmAt (Archive link for those who prefer non-broken web experiences or want to avoid supporting publishers that actively want to break the web.)
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by kauffj 7y ago
http://archive.is/CAIBq (Archive link for those who prefer non-broken web experiences)
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by kauffj 7y ago
In honor of the IRS fork guidance I’m announcing BBV — Bitcoin Bruce’s Vision. It’s a Bitcoin fork that gives me an extra 1 million coins. I’ll sell one sat to you for $300. Also: I’m sending a 12 word seed phrase poem to each member of Co
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by kauffj 7y ago
Excellent. This entire incident has been re-enforcing of how willing the media is to lie and how little people care when the lies support a narrative they believe in. Here is what reporter Edward Ongweso Jr. wrote for Vice [1]: > Early i
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by kauffj 7y ago
If you or anyone: - Provides a link or method to create the scan that takes just a few minutes (on Ubuntu) - Sends $5 to kauffj@gmail.com via PayPal or via BTC to 17h2GtaBzivnNtP24qoGg4a3pjgShkw7MD I will complete the process and post the r
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by kauffj 7y ago
Kudos to Google's contractor for offering this opportunity to the people who need it most. I would happily sell anyone a picture or scan of my face for $5. But I would even more happily have that chance go to someone who needs it more
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by kauffj 7y ago
http://archive.is/yqb83 (Archive link for those who prefer non-broken web experiences)
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by kauffj 7y ago
http://archive.is/6lbCR (Archive link for those who prefer non-broken web experiences)
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by kauffj 7y ago
This seems like a distinction without a difference. Being granted exclusive access to put a fact to productive use (or any use) seems roughly equivalent to "owning the truth" to me.
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by kauffj 8y ago
Appreciate the response. I wish I had some great ideas here, but I don't. Maybe allow a discussion area, but only from those willing to go through some kind of accreditation process? The blog post that you link ( https://ourw
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by kauffj 8y ago
One possible improvement is to provide a way for the community at large to discuss/criticize possible problems with the data as well as for Our World in Data to respond to criticisms from the public. Recently, Bill Gates issued a Tweet
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by kauffj 8y ago
The nature of open protocols and standards is that they can be used to do illegal things. HTTP is regularly used for illegal activity. This does not make HTTP bad. I agree that what we're doing is at a legal frontier. Existing laws lik

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