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by ksdale 6y ago
I agree that transparent pricing would be an excellent option to have, but based on some quick googling, FB's net profit is only something like 25 cents per monthly active user per month (assuming I did the math correctly...). If FB ga
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by ksdale 6y ago
This was exactly my experience too! I wanted to separate out the game narrative from the actual history when I played something like the campaigns in Age of Empires II, and it drove a ton of history reading.
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by ksdale 6y ago
This is great, I had a friend in college who talked this way about reading and it always felt to me like someone saying they don't like to use their eyes to see... Like how do you even have an opinion about reading? It's just a th
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by ksdale 6y ago
This sounds plausible and if I had to hazard a guess as to why efforts at reform have failed, I'd say it's because people who haven't thought very much about the goals of education have an idea in their heads of what educatio
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think the indirect approach is very underrated. Our kids have all learned to read ahead of “schedule” because they wanted to understand what was happening in their games, and they’re all also coming along very quickly at arithmetic becaus
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by ksdale 6y ago
As I said, I think it's perfectly fair to place other values above free speech, but I think the examples you give can more fairly be summed up as "the right to free speech doesn't extend to these types of speech" rather
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by ksdale 6y ago
This is what I was getting at with my question above. I think the distinction between censorship and social consequences blurs really quickly when you look closely, and a society that shrugs and says "social consequences" every
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by ksdale 6y ago
The government constantly forces people to sponsor things they disagree with, quite literally with tax dollars. Do you believe that this is also objectionable, per your last paragraph? If it is not objectionable because enough people agree
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by ksdale 6y ago
FWIW, I am only interested in economics as a hobby, and I knew immediately what Veblenian meant. It's a pretty common reference in the field. I think you raise a valid point about the impact of overly academic work, but I also think it
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by ksdale 6y ago
How do you distinguish between censorship and social consequences inflicted by other free people?
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by ksdale 6y ago
Tangential, but a while ago I got really into sports gambling - mostly golf. And a rather unique thing about golf is that there are over 100 players in the field, and only one can win (and obviously there are other things to bet on besides
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by ksdale 6y ago
Isn’t that what he’s saying?
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by ksdale 6y ago
Viewing this event in isolation, I think you're right, but the parent comment mentioned "cascades." With enough commitments like this, even if the average one is unreliable, it becomes part of the zeitgeist, and there is even
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by ksdale 6y ago
Low certainty * "large reduction in risk of infection" doesn't equal masks being marginal though, does it? (Not rhetorical, I'm an amateur at statistics) That means they need more data, but if an effect exists, it is lar
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by ksdale 6y ago
Further down, under "Added value of this study," it says "Physical distancing of 1 m or more was associated with a much lower risk of infection, as was use of face masks (including N95 respirators or similar and surgical or s
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by ksdale 6y ago
It may be similarly dogmatic, but there are degrees of correctness, and a world where everyone wears masks all the time is one with with much less coronavirus than one where no one except medical professionals wear them.
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by ksdale 6y ago
Even with this very charitable interpretation, he was still completely incorrect about their effectiveness for stopping public spread, was he not?
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I went to a well-regarded law school and happen to have witnessed first hand both how many students were surprised that they wouldn't end up seeing the inside of a courtroom in their careers, and how many students shifted their goals f
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by ksdale 6y ago
A lot of people end up in law school because of courtroom dramas, even though the vast majority of attorneys don't spend much time at all in a courtroom...
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think this is spot on, and not just because of creating the impression to people looking at police. I also think that if police see their tools as the tools of a soldier, they are more likely to act like soldiers. I don't remember wh
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by ksdale 6y ago
Thank you as well! 1. I guess it doesn't bother me so much that their lives are being cut short, for the same reasons that the killing in general doesn't bother me. I would say that waiting until they're old may make the meat
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by ksdale 6y ago
I meant kill them in general so that they don't have offspring at all, as most animals in nature die what we would consider grisly deaths. (Which, to be clear, I think is wrong.) I'm not a fan of factory farming, but I don't
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by ksdale 6y ago
Why? If we can create moral good by preventing the existence of animals, do we have a duty to prevent the existence of as many animals as possible?
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Doesn't it follow from this that it would be beneficial to kill wild animals so that their far more numerous offspring won't die grisly natural deaths?
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Very few animals besides apex predators in the wild live long enough to die of old age. Rather they die from starvation or disease or are eaten by something else. Life on industrial farms sounds terrible, for sure, but death in nature is al
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by ksdale 6y ago
The curve is more accurate going forward for sure, but it's possible to record an increase in new cases each day simply by doing more tests, even as the number of new cases per capita declines. This effect theoretically wouldn't s
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Very good point.
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Doesn't this also show daily case counts trending upward for the past month?
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by ksdale 6y ago
I know a lot of the sources say different things, but the NYT site does not show AZ improving on daily case count - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/arizona-coronavi...
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by ksdale 6y ago
That implies that if the Gates Foundation hadn't done anything, we'd be better prepared, which doesn't necessarily follow...

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