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by kbutler 3y ago
This clearly demonstrates that the worker's labor is not the primary source of value of the product.
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by kbutler 3y ago
What's messed up is the oversimplification. An hour of labor can produce wildly different amounts of value with different tasks, skill, materials, and especially capital equipment. What's the value of a brain surgeon working with
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by kbutler 3y ago
Labor Theory of Value: The value of a commodity can be objectively measured by the hours of socially necessary labor required to produce it. So the "value" of a commodity is fixed at the time of production. But what is "value
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by kbutler 3y ago
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr... . """ The administration of fecal microbiota is thought to facilitate restoration of the gut flora to prevent further episodes of CDI.
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by kbutler 3y ago
The biggest effects helping me fall asleep are: - get some exercise during the day. 30 minutes of exercise is basically free from a time perspective, because of improved sleep - if I need to fall asleep earlier, get up earlier Sometimes my
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by kbutler 3y ago
I think autotune was saying that software often does shortcut hacks violating some of those principles as an optimization. This can be a topic for research into the tradeoffs (e.g., CAP theorem), but may be more common in non-research-based
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by kbutler 3y ago
Yes - it hurts you, but it kills the bee. Honeybees don't want to sting you, but will if they need to. Note also that the "continuing to pump venom" is why you shouldn't pinch a stinger to remove it - scrape it out w&#x
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by kbutler 3y ago
That sounds awesome, actually. I'd love to attract bumblebees. I like to watch them, and love the sound they make, plus all the benefits of native pollinators... Bumblebees are usually not aggressive, though they can sting multiple ti
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by kbutler 3y ago
The development and enforcement of Berne and TRIPS have largely been pushed by US interests. We can push to change them.
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by kbutler 3y ago
You are correct that Debt-to-GDP is not dimensionless, but the ratio is a common comparison in evaluating national finances. It has units of time: $ / ($/year) = years of full GDP required to pay off the debt. Similarly power-to-m
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by kbutler 3y ago
Then there's this - When a woman went to the hospital for help with suicidal ideation, a clinician told her the waits to see a psychiatrist are long, "the system is broken", and "have you considered [assisted suicide?]..
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by kbutler 3y ago
"Man is an endangered species." -- opening line of Battlefield Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard (would not recommend author's other works)
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by kbutler 3y ago
Correlation vs causation is particularly problematic in studies where people may be trying to change the result under study "I skip breakfast, so I am overweight." or "I am overweight, so I skip breakfast."
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by kbutler 3y ago
I actually drove someone across the border from Mexico to the U.S. for healthcare (voluntourism injury). The reason to go to Mexico is price. The reason to go to the U.S. is quality. How about for Canada vs the U.S.? If you're a Canadi
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by kbutler 3y ago
I know people in Canada who come to the US for healthcare (better care for specialties, shorter wait times). I'm not aware of the reverse (admittedly, that would require more than just $$).
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by kbutler 3y ago
AI model-sharing platform, named after the emoji: https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojiology-hugging-face/ (I don't know that I've ever attempted to paste an emoji into HN before, and I'm rather glad to lea
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by kbutler 3y ago
Apparently you can: https://rightasrain.uwmedicine.org/body/sleep/melatonin-over... A study of poison control calls in the U.S. found the number of melatonin poisoning–related calls increased six times from 20
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by kbutler 3y ago
On a youth camping trip, one morning a boy found his (contraband) snacks had been raided. A raccoon (probably) had chewed through the tent, into his backpack, eaten various snacks, and opened his bottle of melatonin and eaten quite a few pi
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by kbutler 3y ago
Would the category of "mid-size star with a large planet" be useful? Maybe if it is predictive of having earth-like planets in the habitable zone...
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by kbutler 3y ago
Although my understanding of economics supports taxation as a mechanism of changing behavior (marginal changes in the economic jargon not meaning "minimal"), my understanding is that cigarette taxes haven't had much effect ch
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by kbutler 3y ago
> vendors discovered if you tell people that the handheld computer you're selling them is a "phone" they'll buy that, and then of course they actually wanted a handheld computer, so they'll keep buying them even
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by kbutler 3y ago
A few more comments: - would be nice to display current score, as well as lowest - trying to get a clear board is really difficult - need to have a multiple of 4 bricks from your latest reroll (1/4) and a sequence of pieces that lets
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by kbutler 3y ago
A few more comments: - would be nice to display current score, as well as lowest - trying to get a clear board is really difficult - need to have a multiple of 4 bricks from your latest reroll (1/4) and a sequence of pieces that lets
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by kbutler 3y ago
Didn't expect to like this, but enjoyed it. - Mentioning that you can't rotate would have helped me get started - I'd like to not have to "unclick" blocks to select others - probably just a list of the last 4
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by kbutler 3y ago
Hopefully two spaces after /each/ period!
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by kbutler 3y ago
1981 Getting Started with TRS-80 Basic was also playful - https://archive.org/details/Getting_Started_with_TRS-80_Basi...
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by kbutler 3y ago
"the effects are unlikely to have been material" "material" means "having real importance or great consequences". So the Economist is directly stating the opposite of your conclusion: the opportunistic and ant
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by kbutler 3y ago
Key words are "would cost _you_". The providers get much better cost per GB at scale, then sell to you at a profit. For example, transfer out from S3 gets down to $0.05 at just 150TB, including the AWS markup. (Note that CloudFron
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by kbutler 3y ago
Sounds like you're doing great! But why floss in the morning instead of at night to give the longest time without food particles between your teeth?
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by kbutler 3y ago
"""At what point did we expect to have the right to determine our own lives? When did we think it was our right to take what we wanted? . . . When did we first ask the question, how can I be free?""" I

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