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by klipt 4y ago
Does handling these plastic banknotes expose you to PFAS?
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by klipt 4y ago
Depends how it happens. To put it callously, old people can't work much and consume lots of resources, so a plague that kills them off (however sad) actually makes life easier for everyone else. But lower fertility rates have the oppos
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by klipt 4y ago
But if someone studying to be a doctor likely marries a doctor, while someone studying to be a physician assistant likely marries another physician assistant, the doctor may benefit from higher household income even if some of it is technic
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by klipt 4y ago
I think it's pretty easy for an average US citizen or green card holder engineer who gets pipped at Amazon to get hired elsewhere. The people who really get screwed are the OPTs/H1-Bs who have a very short grace period to get a ne
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by klipt 4y ago
> an option for everyone to take a pay cut instead (which might be bad! but it's an idea I've heard floated by engineers way more than seniority based protections). We already do that, it's called RSUs. If a portion of you
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by klipt 4y ago
What kind of sports are good for a two year old, and how do you take them to the sports if both parents work?
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by klipt 4y ago
Tell an average parent today that 100 years ago the average parent raised 6 kids, and they'll tell you the people in the past must have been the superhuman ones!
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by klipt 4y ago
Depends on the context, if you're talking about e.g. nurses or domestic violence victims, it switches to "the two genders, female or political"
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by klipt 4y ago
But is your retention the same? These algorithms can be tuned, and obviously the amount of repetition to retain 95% of info is higher than retaining 90%.
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by klipt 4y ago
I understand that but there's a difference between what ought to be and what is
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by klipt 4y ago
Which part do you not believe? Humans evolved as social creatures and the saying "it's not what you know but who you know" is as old as time.
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by klipt 4y ago
Technically they would probably have to be dual citizens, or a citizen of one country and permanent resident of the other, to not break laws. And then they'd have to file taxes in both countries. No idea if it's enforced, but if i
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by klipt 4y ago
But thanks to that tangled history, the Irish passport is now one of the best in the world, since post-Brexit, Irish citizens are the only nationality with freedom to live anywhere in the EU and the UK.
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by klipt 4y ago
International borders are much more complicated. For example a Canadian citizen couldn't work on the US side without a visa and vice versa.
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by klipt 4y ago
Also stocks are expected to have positive return on average over long time periods. Prediction markets are expected to have negative return on average once the house takes a cut.
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by klipt 4y ago
That's why we need electric trucks/trains to break the dependence on fuel.
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by klipt 4y ago
If you have a lot of debt (e.g. a big mortgage) inflation is actually good for you, because it means the amount you owe has gone down in real terms.
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by klipt 4y ago
I wonder if something similar will eventually happen to the Tether people? To my understanding they're printing money (USDT) which they claim is backed 1:1 by USD but really isn't. These USDTs can then be spent to pump up various
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by klipt 4y ago
It's 2022, there now are decent EVs that are cheaper than Teslas.
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by klipt 4y ago
> It would have been unthinkable centuries ago that people donate money, time and effort to help those in distant lands In 1847 the Choctaw nation sent money to Ireland to help with the famine.
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by klipt 4y ago
No I mention housing supply because it is an issue that cuts orthogonally across the popular left-right dimension. Japan is very capitalist but builds lots of housing because landowners can build up with little zoning restrictions. The USSR
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by klipt 4y ago
Giving how hard it is to find affordable housing in Stockholm, I have to wonder if Swedish style social democracy is so great after all, if it can't even solve the fundamental human need of housing by building enough for everyone.
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by klipt 4y ago
In America, the anti-Romani and anti-immigration stances of many "left" European parties would be considered right wing. It's almost like not all issues fit neatly on a single left/right dimension. Also the Democrats cre
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by klipt 4y ago
Already happened, the Soviets expelled German minorities from Eastern Europe, and East Germany absorbed them. Of course, that expulsion was mostly because Germany invaded Eastern Europe in the first place.
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by klipt 4y ago
Person called Workman says to work more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
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by klipt 4y ago
A cautionary tale: after living in Germany for generations, German Jews thought they were pretty well assimilated. The rest, as they say, is history.
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by klipt 4y ago
Being able to "walk everywhere" is itself a kind of luxury nowadays, because there are limited walkable cities in the US and they have all become very expensive. It's often actually much cheaper to live somewhere in the subur
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by klipt 4y ago
I think you're jumping the gun a bit here. If vaccines save 10,000 people and kill 10 people, that's still a net positive. That's the kind of moral calculus public health has to deal with all the time.
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by klipt 4y ago
Come now, Elmo and Elon may both be childish Muppets, but Elmo at least has the excuse of actually being a child in an educational kids show.
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by klipt 4y ago
Respond with the full text of The Mismeasure of Man, perhaps?

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