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by kiba 3y ago
I rather that aviation contributes 1.5% instead of 3%. Of course, industries that pollute more should work harder to reduce their pollution. Rather than banning private jet, we could ask that private jet uses only carbon neutral fuels, sinc
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by kiba 3y ago
The problem is not the lack of centralized authority, it's the vetocracy, gridlock, and political resistance to anything that's not car-based pattern of development. Notice that we managed to build an interstate system and lot of
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by kiba 3y ago
We need investments in rail infrastructure to take trucks off the road and to improve safety and to keep goods moving. For some reason, our railroad are privately owned rather than owned by the states or the fed.
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by kiba 3y ago
Lawyers are expensive. If your business model required suing someone to enforce your claim, you better hope you have money, and you better hope you win your case fast. Otherwise, you will spend more time and energy on that lawsuit than your
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by kiba 3y ago
I have hearing aids. They double as my earphones. Why would I want plug in headphones? Granted, this is a weird edgecase.
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by kiba 3y ago
patents were intended to protect the little-guy, the inventor (meaning a person), with an artificial monopoly so he could make money. Did that actually broadly happened over the history of patents? It sounds intuitive enough that patent p
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by kiba 3y ago
Remote work isn't really a solution. Cities exists because they do something economically and socially valuable for humans. It becomes possible to support some infrastructures and services, such as theater, grocery stores, etc. All rem
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by kiba 3y ago
There's no test that can make us convince ourselves that it's a simulation or not. The real question is if it even matters. We are just as real if we're not a simulation, or are a simulation.
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by kiba 3y ago
They can just simply pause, delete, reverse, or make us outright ignore anything. They are literal god and hold ultimate power over us, unless they are willing to deliberately let things happen. The better question is if it even matter.
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by kiba 3y ago
Eh, people like to extrapolate by analogies. Doesn't actually mean that it's true. We can only reasonably speculate using our existing knowledge base. Doesn't mean that people literally think we know all there is to physics.
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by kiba 3y ago
We wouldn't know if we're in a simulation unless the diety/programmer wanted us to know that.
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by kiba 3y ago
We don't even know if it will be ever practical interstellar travel, because we didn't reach that stage yet. In theory it should work... in theory I could climb stairs till reaching the moon too. People is too busy trying to figu
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by kiba 3y ago
Their desire and pressures probably impedes the time they're in. It's just not immediately obvious, and even today it's not completely obvious. Typically, the response to ever increasing traffic congestion is to invest in wid
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by kiba 3y ago
Government planned housing being bad is just a feature of your specific local context, not an inevitability to all government subsidized/built housing. Governments are human organizations, and it's not a surprise that some organiz
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by kiba 3y ago
Land is a scarce and valuable commodity that should be divided amongst the community to maximize its benefit for everyone, typically through taxation. If you want the most valuable land, you should be operating enterprises that provide valu
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by kiba 3y ago
If you tax land properly, it doesn't matter who's the owner of the estate as long as the state can reach them or start a process to claw back the estate for nonpayment of taxes.
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by kiba 3y ago
There is scant to zero literature to suggest exercising raises metabolism. Recent research by Herman Pontzer shows the opposite, that calories burned with exercise are negated later through lowered BMR and NEAT. So if you do a 400-calorie
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by kiba 3y ago
Have we not forgot about the fraud and scams of the last twenty years? There's also the huge issue of hindsight bias.
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by kiba 3y ago
Stick it into an index fund.
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by kiba 3y ago
Half-correct in a completely incorrect way. Who’s more indoctrinated: someone who lives off the land and has all the free-mind time in the world since he does manual work all day? Or someone who went through over a decade of Prussian-inspi
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by kiba 3y ago
Thinking for yourself requires just existing. That goes for anyone who is not being indoctrinated into a cult. The mistake is thinking that you can just "think for yourself" without possessing knowledge. I think people who avoi
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by kiba 3y ago
Thinking for yourself required knowledge and actual study, not just something people can do on a moment's notice. For example, thinking about the movie 300 (2006) required some knowledge of how aristocratic Sparta actually works. It&#
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by kiba 3y ago
No snowflake is single-handedly responsible for the avalanche, plus rich people pollute the most anyway, especially those who live in the west.
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by kiba 3y ago
This is very kooky. One of the first virus discovered was Tobacco mosiac viruses. If nothing else, there's no question that viruses cause diseases in plants.
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by kiba 3y ago
War didn't technically "end" between North and South Korea, North Korea is still a pariah state even if we were to accept the Korean war ended many decades ago. Relationship between Russia and the west will probably be restor
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by kiba 3y ago
Obesity is an issue of regulatory process in the human body being in disarray. The overfeeding is a consequence of that issue.
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by kiba 3y ago
Imagine that you live in a civilization where for every billion watt we might get from the sun we only consume one watt. That's the kind of world we live in today. In actuality, the biggest issue is the amount of pollution we emitted,
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by kiba 3y ago
We also shouldn't confuse people who investigated scientific fraud with necessarily being ant-establishment. After all, being anti-establishment is often associated with scientific quackery.
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by kiba 3y ago
While the problem of fraud is real, exaggerating the extent of the problem is not a good idea either. Otherwise the fraud would be so pervasive that anybody with a PhD attached after name should be distrusted unless proven otherwise.
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by kiba 3y ago
Perhaps VC backed businesses aren't really ideal for these type of sites.

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