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by kevinpet 6y ago
It's a poor article that talks about Microsoft "bucking the trend" on this when NIST put out new guidance four years ago saying this.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
I was adding this as a top level, but realized someone probably already mentioned it. If: * you're under 30 * you don't have any health problems or diagnosed mental health issues * you don't have a criminal record (or it&#x27
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by kevinpet 6y ago
I'm confused. If you are talking about wilderness, I maybe agree. But then you talk about the AT. If you are hiking on marked trails, you don't need to go drop $200 on electronics before you should feel safe going for a walk in th
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by kevinpet 6y ago
My understanding of effective altruism comes from the rationality movement. The impression I got from there is essentially: IF you want to help people (or reduce some specific type of suffering) THEN this is the most effective way to do so
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Given COVID prevalence in my state (approx 1 out of 10,000 people test positive each day, so assume 20 out of 10,000 are infectious at the moment), and the IFR for those under 50 of about 0.01% (1 out of 10,000 coincidentally), I would have
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Not in California. Political activity off the clock is legally protected. Because it isn't ever actually carrying a swastika flag. It's supporting the opposite side of a current contentious issue like abortion.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
No, because of group dynamics. Once you start un-personing people, you have the in group and the out group. The in-group repeatedly redefines acceptable behavior to exclude some small margin. Repeat and you end up with absurd extremes.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Not a question unique to NFTs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_...
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Is it? Are you sure? Are we following the ISO standard, or the Wikipedia standard?
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by kevinpet 6y ago
I haven't seen their page, but I've seen this kind of thing before. After lining up approximately where things should fit, one piece is cut in a smooth curve just back far enough to remove the live edge. The other piece is cut to
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Well, you're lucky. Where I am, the education report appears to just rephrase whatever they get from the teachers union.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Next up, "making their own X, without even building their own parallel internet"
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Arizona doesn't swing between anything. They are on MST. It happens that MST and PDT are the same offset from UTC, but the middle letter means something.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
You're equating legal obligations with expectations. Firing someone after two days because you realize you found someone better might be legal, but a company would be rightly criticized for doing that.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Thanks. I suppose it should have been too good to be true.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
I tried to read "The End of Policing". I got half way through chapter 1 before the author stated, as support for his argument, that The Bell Curve was "overtly racist". Now, you could argue that lots of racists like that
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Agreed. I have long wanted to see a social network or recommendation engine that generated those arguments most likely to appeal to those who disagree. What Julia Galef calls steelmanning.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
So you think Voltaire was a liar? That no one could ever support free speech as a principle, even while disagreeing with the content of that speech?
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by kevinpet 6y ago
So the world's elite are getting together in close proximity to discuss how to recover from everyone getting together in close proximity. I think that you will be able to tell who the "elite" that should actually be listened
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by kevinpet 6y ago
I think the article glosses over a few critical points. Pedals and cranks break today on cheap bicycles. The cost of good steel decreased by a factor of 6 between about 1855 and 1875.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
In theory, Tax should be based on land value, not your improvements. So a really nice house isn't taxed more than a run down house. Fixing up the house, or knocking down a post war box and putting up a nice modern house, should not cha
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by kevinpet 6y ago
A charming bakery in a now expensive part of town is in fact an economic inefficiency. You can argue against it on non-economic grounds, but living in a luxury apartment is a good that people consume, just like madeleines.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
That's the whole point. If you want to sit on an acre of land in a dense area, you should be taxed at the highest and best value of that land. You make a valid point about services that can be measured, but the point of a Georgist land
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by kevinpet 6y ago
DOD budget is about $350K per employee. A typical E5 (sergeant or PO2 in the navy) makes $3K/mo, or 1/10 of that.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
This was my thought. Showing a single year chart is a red flag that it's clickbait. I have adjusted my beliefs about people leaving SF downward as a result of this article. I had expected lots of people to be leaving, I am personally c
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by kevinpet 6y ago
I'll be briefer than the other reply. The FT excess mortality graph doesn't care whether anything is flagged as a COVID death or not. If there's a lethal pandemic, you don't need to rely on doctors classifying deaths, yo
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by kevinpet 6y ago
Some of this is "yes, I wish people understood that" to me, like: "It’s to make it as clear as possible which types of problems you’ve solved in the past, and how well you solved them." This is all I care about. I want t
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by kevinpet 6y ago
You're replying to a comment about kids trying to distance learning on their parents phone or without a desk. You're missing the point.
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by kevinpet 6y ago
"it's slightly different" confuses the issue. It seems easy to say, "actually, no, India has multiple unrelated language groups as different from each other as English is from Hindi, and I don't just mean in isolate
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by kevinpet 6y ago
It's literally right there in the law that it needs to be effective.

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