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by khafra 6y ago
Lots of reading game theory & economics, and saying "that doesn't make any sense," then reading it again until it made sense. The "rationalsphere" is where I read most of it; sites like lesswrong, overcomingbias
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by khafra 6y ago
The galaxy is only 100,000 light years across. It's been here for 14 billion years. If it's possible for a planetary civilization to go interstellar, even if they only spread at 0.1C, they would have colonized any place with use
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by khafra 6y ago
The starting point for a Coase bargain is here, now. If you successfully get the laws changed before bargaining, that gives you a different starting point for bargaining. If you do have the ability to reliably get laws changed at some expen
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by khafra 6y ago
You'll note that I already suggested a small additional payment in escrow for noisemakers to stay away for a few weeks or whatever. I also doubt even the most noise-sensitive neighborhoods would be willing to pay enough to make regular
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by khafra 6y ago
> Well, if we're willing to go the financial incentives route, we could just slap their ass with a $250 ticket when they ride through town with loud pipes. That is already a thing: https://tiremeetsroad.com/2019&#x2F
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by khafra 6y ago
> you'll never compel a population to install this app and all use it. Everyone who uses the app gets something they individually want. Noisemakers get the opportunity to be paid to be quiet, and quiet-likers get the opportunity to
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by khafra 6y ago
> That's like saying, "I'll stop punching you if you pay me $50, but until then I'm really enjoying punching you." It's not at all like that, because punching people is currently illegal, and making noise up
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Lots of them would be happier to get a small amount of money for being just a little bit quieter. People preferring peace and quiet would be happy to pay a small amount of money to get fans of noisemaking to stay below their annoyance thres
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by khafra 6y ago
The Coase Theorem suggests that, with sufficiently frictionless microtransactions, people who prefer to make noise and people who prefer not to hear noise could all be happier. Maybe a phone app with a decibel-meter and a distance metric to
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by khafra 6y ago
Even on a site like HN, 90% of people who think about it are instinctively revolted by the idea. The future--unavoidably belonging to the type of person who is perfectly comfortable doing this--is going to be weird.
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by khafra 6y ago
> > By the mid-1920s, interest on [British] government debt was absorbing 44% of all government expenditure, [...] That definitely sounds like an issue. Without the debt, they presumably could have cut taxes in about half. That's
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by khafra 7y ago
I saw the abstract, and ever since I've been wondering about whether that Bismuth paper includes bismuth subsalicylate as well as citrate, or whether chugging a bottle of Pepto Bismol a day would be a mistake equivalent to aquarium cle
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by khafra 7y ago
I believe he's saying that "improving triage" is like tuning the engine of your Civic before you run a quarter mile against a top fuel dragster. Technically speaking, it will help, a little. But to actually measure up to the
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by khafra 7y ago
I wonder what the best compact wearable display + chording keyboard combination for coding is.
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by khafra 7y ago
If it's not just utterly sociopathic organized crime, it could be one of the many, many people whose loved ones had to be taken off life support because of insufficient medical supplies and personnel. I can't imagine that most peo
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by khafra 7y ago
> That's not an important distinction at all. It's like saying "Ooh George talked to Mary when they were alone in the elevator. That's what rapists do", and then later defending it by saying "well, I did not
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by khafra 7y ago
> ...did this good thing too! > email address from a 2- or 4-year non-profit semester based institution > Only in America > seven titles per user Good for you, but that's significantly more asterixes than Cambridge&#x
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by khafra 7y ago
If you had an expanded budget and were going to make some design changes for longer-term wear, or more versatility/durability, what would they be? How close to Quarian envirosuits can we get, exactly?
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by khafra 7y ago
Are you implying that 794lbs is substantially heavier than a human, plus supplies for over a year, plus the extra delta-v to lift the human and half those supplies back up off Mars?
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by khafra 7y ago
> Quercetin is over-the-counter and has similar properties Source for the similarities between chloroquine and quercetin?
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by khafra 7y ago
There's a small, positive effect on immune function from swallowing zinc pills. But there's a large effect against the coronavirus family, specifically, from coating your throat with zinc. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#
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by khafra 7y ago
The Lancet article was not a study, it was a "correspondence," an educated guess from a researcher. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
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by khafra 7y ago
> Giving money to people instantly creates a class of beggars. Beggars with voting rights will vote for people who give them more and more and more for no more work. I don't know if you realize this, but beggars already exist. There
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by khafra 7y ago
Tonic water can contain up to 83mg/L actual quinine. Three 2L bottles of tonic water could get you 500mg, a therapeutic dose of quinine. Unfortunately, I have not found any place that manufacturers note how much quinine is in their ton
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by khafra 7y ago
I don't think he's saying vaccine creation is easy, I think he's saying it's a hard problem that needs a concerted effort at developing shortcuts. Also, this is technically true, but vacuous: > What is stopping you fr
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by khafra 7y ago
> what “second order thinking” is (awareness or consideration of the consequences of consequences) This is a valid interpretation of the term. Another, more specific interpretation is "including other minds in your mental model,&qu
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by khafra 7y ago
> A doctor and their staff have trained for decades in order to handle your health, why in the world do you think you can do it after some googling? Counterpoint: Doctors have an average IQ of 115, and train across a huge variety of di
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by khafra 7y ago
They say it's a "self-maintaining moisture gradient." Obviously, if the moisture gradient remains despite being harvested for energy, it must be driven by some other energy gradient in the environment; but it's possible
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by khafra 7y ago
The easier data science is, the more a business wants a domain expert doing it instead of a freshly graduated PhD.
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by khafra 7y ago
> Uber needs self-driving cars or else they'll go bankrupt. > At least, that's my theory. I believe it--at least, I hope it would take an existential threat to make them push kludged-together pedestrian-killers into use on t

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