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by larnmar 7y ago
I wonder what sort of government the mainlanders would elect if they were ever given the opportunity to do so.
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by larnmar 7y ago
I don’t think we should feel the need to comprehensively entertain every idea that is different and sounds silly. For a healthy ideas ecosystem: If you hear a new and silly idea, and you don’t have the time or energy or interest to look int
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by larnmar 7y ago
Pretty much every comment on every subject comes down to someone claiming that their ideas are truths, though, and not every comment gets downvoted so much.
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by larnmar 7y ago
In the US, for instance, you have a massive (and very deliberately created) population of illegal aliens who can’t legally work anyway, so are unaffected by minimum wage laws. Raising minimum wage has the effect of making legal employees ev
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by larnmar 7y ago
It probably just seems that way from a middle class vantage point. Outgroup homogeneity bias — they’re both unlike us, therefore they’re both kinda the same!
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by larnmar 7y ago
The US doesn’t really have a class system though — it has a middle class and an underclass. The fact that some middle class Americans are very wealthy doesn’t change the fact that they’re essentially middle class in behaviour and outlook. T
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by larnmar 7y ago
The question doesn’t presuppose that sending in the Army was the right thing.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Hoo boy, it’s a trap. That’s the thing about heretical ideas, I can get downvoted and possibly banned from the site from even gesturing in their general direction. But okay, here goes. Here are some areas where there’s a very large “dead zo
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by larnmar 7y ago
Taxi drivers swindle everyone, they just have a wider array of tricks for swindling tourists.
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by larnmar 7y ago
The black cabs in London were excellent but ridiculously expensive, which is why I’ve only caught one, like, once. Most people have to rely on minicabs, which were sketchy and unreliable. Uber was a huge boon to London.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Well if we want to be like that, then everything requires violence to maintain. The Empire State Building takes violence to maintain because without the threat of violence someone might carry away all the rocks. Your local library takes vio
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by larnmar 7y ago
Drama only lasts a long time when there’s people on both sides arguing about it though. This is what these “grand unified theories of American prudery” miss — the US isn’t a uniformly prude nation; it’s just a very large and diverse one. It
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by larnmar 7y ago
I feel like decades stopped having distinctive identities somewhere round 2000. Previous decade-by-decade changes from the 50s to the 60s to the 70s to the 80s to the 90s were, it must be admitted, mostly aesthetic rather than being the “fu
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by larnmar 7y ago
Interesting but not as remarkable as the author seems to think, and certainly the New World parts of the maps are copied from European maps rather than being the result of independent and previously unknown exploration. The “island of Calif
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by larnmar 7y ago
In any market, there’ll be a limited number of contractors capable of doing a really big job like building a railway line (or constructing an aircraft carrier, or a fighter jet, or whatever). These contractors have a game theoretic choice t
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by larnmar 7y ago
I’m sympathetic to David Stove’s idea that the main value of academic philosophy is in saving ordinary (productive) people from the trouble of having to do philosophy themselves.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Almost all the points are deliberately left so vague that almost anyone can claim that they’re abiding with them. A goodly number of points are also left so vague that almost anyone can claim that their opponent isn’t abiding by them, pro
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by larnmar 7y ago
Realistically you don’t, but... You’re definitely not building hardware without much money. Maybe you can build software? Spend a lot of time talking to companies that already operate in the space industry, find some unmet software need tha
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by larnmar 7y ago
Personally I’ve never had any trouble with the distinction between who and whom. I like the fact that the English language contains all these little shibboleths that tell you about the class and/or education level of the person speakin
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by larnmar 7y ago
There’d be no reason to suspect anything could be conscious, if it weren’t for the observation that a pile of meaty goo can be conscious. Given that meaty goo can be conscious, and assuming that this arises from physical properties rather t
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by larnmar 7y ago
As a moderately bad chess player, I would love to see chess AIs get better at playing bad chess — that is, in being bad at chess in the same way that the average human who knows all the rules and plays a few games of chess every year is. I
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by larnmar 7y ago
> Over the next 20 years, more than a quarter (27.4 percent) of the nation’s currently owner-occupied homes are likely to hit the market That doesn’t sound like all that much. I mean, roughly a quarter of the population dies in any given
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by larnmar 7y ago
An AFL field is about three times the size of those used in most other codes.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Handling tech transitions is the responsibility of the people being replaced, not the people doing the replacing. If you sit around expecting the rest of the world to take care of your best interests, you’re going to have a bad time.
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by larnmar 7y ago
$A150-200K.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Neural networks followed a typical hype cycle — before they were ignored they were the next big thing. Then they got ignored, and then they finally got useful.
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by larnmar 7y ago
You’ve just listed off a dozen obsessive interests, and that’s the problem — you can’t have a dozen obsessive interests, there’s only enough room for one. When I was twenty I could afford an obsessive interest in my studies. Now I’m in my l
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by larnmar 7y ago
Unpopular (or possibly popular, we shall see) opinion: “Outsider art” is just a way for art establishment insiders to maintain their power over the arts, by controlling which “outsiders” are deemed worthy of notice. Of the millions of amate
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by larnmar 7y ago
Or, for another random example, check out Wall Street Oasis: > How to quit the rat race > Depressed from recruiting > Finance sucks compared to tech if youre (sic) smart And so forth
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by larnmar 7y ago
Did you mean to say “for instance” instead of “but”?

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