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by kawhah 3y ago
Out of interest did you make the same arguments about Martin Shkreli (arrogant and unlikable child of immigrants who did a much smaller scale scam similar to SBFs but where everyone was eventually repaid in full) and about Andrew Auernheime
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by kawhah 3y ago
SBF could simply have chosen to plead guilty, then this would have been roughly what happened.
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by kawhah 3y ago
> chief risk officers, CEOs, and COOs were the fall guys over the failures of their respective banks only two things wrong with this claim: 1. no CROs, CEOs or COOs were judicially punished in any way for the failure of their banks. 2. C
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by kawhah 3y ago
Minecraft perhaps gives us an opportunity to adjust our experience of what a metaverse is, based on how it works and how it is used. Unlike Second Life, everyone doesn't play in one single instance. But there are multiple different not
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by kawhah 3y ago
No, Roblox is by far the most successful metaverse along pretty much any reasonable metric. If it doesn't conform to your ideas about what a metaverse is, or something that Vannevar Bush or Neal Stephenson pictured, that's a refle
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by kawhah 3y ago
It was totally a risky choice for companies in the 1990s and early 2000s to put all their web stuff onto Linux on commodity hardware instead of proprietary Unix or Windows servers. Many did it when their website being up was totally mission
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by kawhah 3y ago
What were you hoping to get from the customer replying? It seems perfectly plausible that 95% of the customers of an app or online don't want to enter into an email conversation about the service - they just want it to be usable withou
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by kawhah 3y ago
Good rebuttal. The person who did the peer-reviewed statistical research is wrong because Wikipedia describes their discipline as related to sociology.
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by kawhah 3y ago
Actually, it's super controversial, even among Christians. If it is documented through the Bible, that's not evinced by your link (to a conservative Evangelical website), which only cites Acts and John, two very closely related
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by kawhah 3y ago
You seem to have wandered off the justification of God's behavior as part of a coherent mission, and you are simply describing the characteristics of God which you believe in, but which many people with other beliefs have cogently desc
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by kawhah 3y ago
1. ok, so the word 'kinda' is not an essential part of the doctrine, got it. 2. 'profound and incomprehensible suffering' - what is Jesus supposed to have suffered which is different from many other humans who have been
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by kawhah 3y ago
That guy's job is pushing psychiatric medicine and techniques on society though, right?
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by kawhah 3y ago
'ego-death and dimensional transcendence' and 'lots of paranoia and distress' just sound like different framings of what could be remarkably similar psychic states.
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by kawhah 3y ago
If the goal is to evolve an entity which can pursue light independently, why compromise this goal by "relocat[ing] an entity that was very far from the light to be much closer to it"? And if the goal is just to allow as many entit
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by kawhah 3y ago
Which part of the following is not believed by most Christians? > That God kinda-became human to "sacrifice" himself (with no loss, got up 3 days later to live forever, nothing was sacrificed) in order to forgive the sins of pe
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by kawhah 3y ago
Ok, so the middle-brow infotainment psych blogger's essay is valid, but meta-analyses are 'fundamentally flawed' because 'different SSRIs affect people differently'? This news will probably come as a huge surprise t
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by kawhah 3y ago
I don't think Scott Alexander's page is a 'relatively objective resource'. He is, as you point out, a 'psychiatrist who regularly prescribes them' and also used to take them. It is full of special pleading wher
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by kawhah 3y ago
> Is this actually true? GlaxoSmithKline paid the Department of Justice $3 billion for covering up evidence of this while promoting their SSRI to under-18s. They paid the fine in 2012, 11 years ago. The medical trial was done in 1994-199
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by kawhah 3y ago
An order of magnitude faster sounds unimportant. Is all the time spent by researchers sitting around waiting for 0.4s for a paper to download really an issue?
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by kawhah 3y ago
Because social media is at an inflection point. That is of interest. And the small pieces of signal related to that are of interest, because while incomplete and noisy, they are the best indication we have of what's next. Edit you work
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by kawhah 3y ago
This seems to be a key element of Twitter's success that Musk does not understand. Much of the utility of Twitter was that it provided a record of all sorts of public communications, from automated updates about a museum being closed,
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by kawhah 3y ago
Mastodon has around 2 million monthly active users.
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by kawhah 3y ago
If MS come up with significant technicalities or challenges to the amount due, the IRS will have to choose between litigating each one of them, which both costs them money and involves the risk of losing in court, or coming to an out-of-cou
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by kawhah 3y ago
I don't think you've successfully checked any facts. The GP correctly and idiomatically described a tax deal between RoI and Apple as a 'sweetheart' deal. This is not a legal term of art. The fact that Ireland won its co
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by kawhah 3y ago
I think you hit on the right answer. The justifications given above don't really make sense - "how would you know when to call Sydney" or "the sun being overhead at 10PM would feel strange". They are just rationaliz
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by kawhah 3y ago
Sounds fine.
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by kawhah 3y ago
The GP's estimate is out by almost an order of magnitude.
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by kawhah 3y ago
the point is that discarding lumps of metal in space is not wasteful, since it would require much more material brought into orbit to make them useful than to replace them if discarded.
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by kawhah 3y ago
It is not true that central banks "frequently" settle balances between each other by transferring gold. This is an event rare enough that it would typically be reported in financial newspapers if it happened.
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by kawhah 3y ago
I don't think I'll be retaining you as my tax advisor.

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