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by kbelder 3y ago
That seems dismissive of a lot of death and suffering.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Kind of corresponds to unemployment. 10 OECD countries have lower rates, 30 have higher. https://www.oecd.org/employment/unemployment-rates-oecd-upda... .
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by kbelder 3y ago
There is a distinction there, but the real economy is the informal economy. The 'formal' economy is just an approximation, constrained by what can be easily measured.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Right. People are mistaking the map for the territory. Barter absolutely is part of the economy, and benefits the traders to the same degree a monetary transaction would; it just isn't included in most economic measures , because th
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by kbelder 3y ago
Would dumping some chunks of dry ice into rat-holes generate enough CO2 to accomplish this?
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by kbelder 3y ago
This movie and the 'ex-ransom negotiator now teaching 3rd grade' movie.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Funny that I trust the Mozilla Corporation more than I trust the Mozilla Foundation.
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by kbelder 3y ago
And 99% of them are correct.
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by kbelder 3y ago
I'm doing everything I can to raise my children unequally.
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by kbelder 3y ago
I remember reading Rand where she argued that free will existed solely in the decision to focus or not. When you focused, what you thought was determined by your characteristics and history; and when you didn't, the same, although not
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by kbelder 3y ago
I think that is exactly my stance. You are a system that is complex, iterative, and chaotic (in the mathematical sense). You are probably deterministic, but the only way you can be accurately predicted is by simulating your entire brain a
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by kbelder 3y ago
But the effect is not the same between genders.
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by kbelder 3y ago
We need to somehow get it to Mars.
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by kbelder 3y ago
It's vastly male dominated, so you could argue that if there's discrimination against men it's not very effective. Probably there's discrimination for and against women, and for and against men, in all sorts of ways. Bu
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by kbelder 3y ago
It should be labeled the 'Star Trek Away Team' effect.
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by kbelder 3y ago
They were like a child's toy; you would spin it a dozen times counterclockwise, and then it would slowly rotate clockwise for the next several minutes. Obviously, it couldn't be battery-powered. Thinking about it now, it must hav
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by kbelder 3y ago
You got me.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Don't worry, most aren't.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Don't make it partisan. Remember, for decades prior to covid, antivax had been more predominate on the left. Both parties have plenty of ignorant members.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Specifically, the atomic mass of carbon is 12 and oxygen is 16. So for CO2, 12/44 of the mass is carbon, or about 27%. So of that 20 pounds of CO2, about 5 1/2 pounds are carbon, the other 15 pounds is oxygen sucked out of the a
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by kbelder 3y ago
To expand on that, the idea is that a password-protected encrypted volume may have, in its empty space, another password-protected volume, which is indistinguishable from random noise. You can't tell whether it exists or not. Inside
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by kbelder 3y ago
Yeah, I'm 100% atheist, but often feel horrified by the shallow understanding of religion and theology that many other atheists exhibit. I want shake them and say "do you really think you're smarter than Thomas Aquinas?&quot
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by kbelder 3y ago
You know, I think this sounds like a horrible overreach by the UK government, but your point is at least worth considering. This isn't reading emails or tapping phone calls, this is public info.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Pessimists really hate optimists. Really, really hate optimists. And optimists feel sorry for pessimists.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Sure, but you're talking about a fraction of woman, and a tiny fraction of men. The effect size is not equivalent.
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by kbelder 3y ago
The irony of writing that question...
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by kbelder 3y ago
>can't Won't. Some can't, but we can't tell how many.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Imagining the ridiculous responses you would like your opponent to make does give you an opportunity to win arguments in your mind. I don't imagine that kind of intellectual self-pleasuring is really convincing many other people, thoug
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by kbelder 3y ago
>Amazon comes across to me as having a toxic work environment. I'm super wary of them bringing those habits over. Now that sounds like toxic behavior.
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by kbelder 3y ago
It's one of those right/left differences that actually spring from the same flawed human impulse, it's just expressed differently.

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