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by khawkins 7y ago
Free trade works. It turns out China is just "more efficient" at manufacturing than the rest of the world. As the Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman loved to argue, unilateral free trade helps both countries. ( https:&#
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by khawkins 7y ago
It's disappointing to see colossal amounts of money like this isn't used to address demonstrable human suffering happening all over the world right now. Microsoft could take this money, set up shop in Haiti, and develop over the
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by khawkins 7y ago
> The cost of running existing coal plants has exceeded the cost of building new solar & wind power plants. Over the next few years, demand for coal is likely to implode. That article cites a report written by climate change activist
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by khawkins 7y ago
What we're seeing isn't a breakdown in "rationality" or "care for truth", we're seeing a global breakdown in the trust of authority. Vast numbers of people, including the president of the country and his s
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by khawkins 7y ago
I had the misfortune of looking through your link, finding it to be a waste of time. The "committing three felonies a day" is the title of a book, the Amazon reviews claim it to be extreme hyperbole and just a series of case stud
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by khawkins 7y ago
Given that Amazon employs tens of thousands of people, there's certainly a non-trivial number of employees who support anti-vax causes. It would be ludicrous to suggest that any group of employees can borrow the trademark and branding
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by khawkins 7y ago
I used to see a heavy dose of my subscribed channels in my recommendations, now only a fraction of them are represented. We're talking channels where I watch nearly every video they post but they won't show up in my recommendatio
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by khawkins 7y ago
I'm not a big fan of NSA surveillance, but given that you acknowledge this case is activism, it's concerning to me that the nonprofit built to sustain the allegedly unbiased encyclopedia Wikipedia is moving in the direction of pol
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by khawkins 7y ago
For most, it's far more fruitful to jump on https://math.stackexchange.com/ and work on questions there. Low impact, but high probability it is within anyone's realm of capabilities. Answering 100 questions peop
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by khawkins 7y ago
Motion activated lights would be far more distracting. It's easy to become accustomed to a constant lighting, but if lights were going on and off every 1-2 hours through the night, it would be unnerving for anyone triggering them or p
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by khawkins 7y ago
Below replacement birth rates in 1st world societies seem to disprove the idea that humans inevitably expand to the point of environmental collapse. Further, having as many children as the environment can support, regardless of the conseque
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by khawkins 7y ago
The Democrat Party Platform of 2016 does not mention nuclear energy once. It does tout solar and wind several times in a whole section on reducing carbon emissions. https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform&#
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by khawkins 7y ago
41% of US emissions come from the power industry while in France, where nuclear power is widespread, it's only 13% from power. But very rarely do I hear calls from people who care about this stuff call for switching the nation's
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by khawkins 7y ago
It's a form of thinking that comes from a sentiment that human civilization is in need of radical change. The problem is that it's hard to get people to support radical change, which will necessarily come with extreme amounts of
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by khawkins 7y ago
Honestly, it's really tiresome dealing with fanatics who think we can meaningfully eliminate oil usage in the near future. It's nothing more than the delusional fantasy of extreme hypocrites. In a century I could imagine a 50-80%
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by khawkins 7y ago
"It's the white man's burden to take care of these uncultured peoples and give them the science to feed themselves."
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by khawkins 7y ago
Brick and mortar stores are going out of business left and right based on the market reality that people are more than willing to wait 2 days for their items if it's cheaper and is delivered to their door. I think it's an extremel
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by khawkins 7y ago
>Copying the genes of a single animal hundreds of thousands of times, killing the males at birth, plugging the females to a milking machine, feed them corn and soy which is totally not their natural diet and injecting them with tons of a
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by khawkins 7y ago
I was very active in the Ingress community around that time and while I appreciate their efforts, I don't think they were very successful in this regard. Using IITC (3rd party Ingress planning suite) we could track people's paths
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by khawkins 7y ago
I think spending money on your children shouldn't be culled. There's a good amount of benefit to society in entrepreneurs investing fiscally in their families. Sure, it might not be fair from a cosmic level, but creating new bus
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by khawkins 7y ago
They have no idea: >What would a post-meritocratic world look like? Markovits doesn’t know, and neither did Marx know what a post-capitalist world would be like. There will be less alienation and inauthenticity (as Marx believed, too); o
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by khawkins 7y ago
Can we put this into perspective? The Venezuelan economy is in shambles, a hyperinflationary crisis that has forced millions out of the country as food is so scarce people are forced to eat zoo animals and pets. The government is illegiti
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by khawkins 7y ago
Note that nearly every time communities begin discussing the authoritative forcing of community members to use "correct pronouns" in communications, it invariably ends in firings, resignations, and the community bitterly divided.
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by khawkins 7y ago
The NCAA doesn't really have to choose anything here, just enforce rules on the books and nothing changes. It seems as if the law only removes the restriction that student athletes can't be paid, not that it requires payment. Wh
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by khawkins 7y ago
I think this article has a distinct bias and isn't considering how most people discuss the issue today. I think that colloquially this word is used both by the left and the right to suggest the political tactic based on the sensibility
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by khawkins 7y ago
At the very least, we shouldn't be comparing quantum computing to air flight. The Wright brothers were basically hobbyists, incomparable to the global leading technology corporations in the history of human civilization. This seems mo
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by khawkins 7y ago
You're being driven into mass hysteria by shitty research and a pop-sci bias which only selects for you the absolute worst possibility under the weakest academic standards. Take this paper for example. See figure 2? Those numbers come
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by khawkins 7y ago
If these features were critical enough that you could found a company on them, then clearly they brought innovation to the scene. If they had not come along, it's unclear as to whether Facebook would have ever introduced those feature
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by khawkins 7y ago
You have to wonder how many beloved chick flicks pass this test and what that says about its capability to disentangle some form of bias against female characters from the types of stories people generally like to watch. No doubt most stra
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I wouldn't say "no reason", I'd just say that it should be self-aware that they are functionally similar to a news website in that they live and die on their reputation. The second someone can demonstrate that they&#x27

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