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by lend000 3y ago
Practical considerations aside, it intuitively seems like making green covered skyscrapers like this can actually increase the primary productivity of a given ground area. In a typical dense forest, plants at the top of the canopy are proba
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by lend000 3y ago
Why is it pseudoscience to label the medium by which particles are entangled as consciousness? We have no better definition than that, since the observers of any delayed choice quantum eraser experiment are ultimately conscious, and we have
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by lend000 3y ago
You can see what's going on on your roof perhaps? I'm very interested in the subject and spend a lot of time meditating but have yet to experience anything one might consider mystical, outside of the use of psychedelics.
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by lend000 3y ago
It makes sense in my case where I want strong single threaded performance, but it doesn't seem compelling to switch from Graviton if single threaded latency isn't important.
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by lend000 3y ago
The difference is that this guy has a history of unpalatable opinions, not refutable claims. For someone who makes consistent, provable errors, I completely agree not to waste the effort. But I don't agree in the first case, especially
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by lend000 3y ago
My understanding is that doctor assisted suicide is legal under certain circumstances in California. My father watched his terminally ill friend pass this way, and apparently the person needs to be able to drink the poison themselves, which
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by lend000 3y ago
Lmao the Taleb thread is gold as he devolves into an Elon Musk level of maturity with the trolls while chiding Elon. I think he is partially correct in that extreme risk taking is necessary to achieve extreme success, but I can't think
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by lend000 3y ago
Intolerance of ideas and opinions (or people based on those opinions) is inherently bad, if it means excluding people from a debate or public discourse, or denying them other rights in public society (which should be obvious). But if you ar
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by lend000 3y ago
Doing an MRI without contrast is probably benign (and typical of what you would do for sports injuries), but gadolinium contrast is likely to be reevaluated in the near future, as it is a toxic heavy metal that is not fully removed from the
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by lend000 3y ago
You seem smart and it always amazes me how popular communist concepts are with smart people on HN. Didn't you have some assigned group projects in school? Perhaps some people are easily satisfied by carrying the burden of other people
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by lend000 3y ago
That's your pet issue, not mine. I find the topic interesting enough that I would certainly read any sources or logical arguments you presented, but so far I'm just seeing "feelings". As for CPI, there are two fundamenta
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by lend000 3y ago
I see. It would seem your feeling on that then rests on CPI being accurate, because if inflation has been underrepresented to the point that that median real wage chart would actually show a significant decline with "true inflation&quo
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by lend000 3y ago
You seem to have missed the point -- I'm saying that only one of the two viewpoints can be true, because they are logically inconsistent, according to real wages. Where the two options are that CPI is accurate, and median standards of
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by lend000 3y ago
While inflation may be decreasing, keep in mind that reported CPI numbers have consistently under-represented inflation since at least the early 1980's. This chart demonstrates the inaccuracy concisely: [0]. According to FRED, the medi
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by lend000 3y ago
> So no, the point of the CPI isn't to track the price of a specific item. Strawman. No one ever claimed that. I'm not sure why you're continuing to argue here. > but that doesn't matter because it is not possible
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by lend000 3y ago
> The CPI isn't tracking the price of beans, it's tracking the overall price of food First of all, this is incorrect. They do track per-item [0]. The point that I think you are missing is that, to me, beans are of a lower quali
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by lend000 3y ago
No, I've described financial necessity, because I can no longer afford the item I prefer (which was recorded as my preference in a prior BLS survey, before the prices rose). But sure, if you think pedantry benefits the discussion...
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by lend000 3y ago
For everyone who thinks CPI is an accurate measure of inflation, consider this chart: [0] It shows real wages mostly flat or increasing since the 1980's. I've noticed that the same people claiming CPI is accurate also tend to comp
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by lend000 3y ago
+1 One more problem with CPI is that the way it works is they survey a bunch of median households about what they bought and how much of it they bought , and they don't adjust for how much money they saved. So in economic times when t
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by lend000 3y ago
> We know that these chemicals are terrible for human, animal, and plant health. There isn't a debate. Is that really true? My understanding is that studies show that people with the highest levels of PFAS have increased risk of liv
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by lend000 3y ago
I agree we should avoid appeals to authority, but Mick West's argument is essentially saying all the secondary evidence, including witness testimony corresponding to the video he is trying to disprove is false (or ignores it altogether
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by lend000 3y ago
Yes I'm a bit skeptical of the parent's numbers, but if true, I imagine it's very much the exception, not the norm. Technical employees at the contractors did not do much better than the price ranges posted for government job
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by lend000 3y ago
Not if cybersecurity is supposed to be one of their core competencies.
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by lend000 3y ago
All the people here claiming new types of drones and secret programs dating back decades have clearly never worked in defense. Most of the US military, the best funded in the world, is decades behind the private sector on computing techno
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by lend000 3y ago
I agree; it's as abstract as software but you can't really go to school to learn about it. It's more of an indictment of the tribal nature of humans and today's popular political narratives than of the intelligence of th
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by lend000 3y ago
If anyone read the paper, you would see this is a sensationalist headline that bundles the rising price of imports (global inflation) with domestic profits, which makes no sense. When a narrative defies logic like "corporations suddenl
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by lend000 3y ago
That's the price you pay for liquidity, and the alternative (paying a difference in price far more than 0.01%) makes everyone worse off except other people competing in the markets. The money HFT's make comes from other people tra
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by lend000 3y ago
Where do you think all your liquidity comes from when you want to buy or sell some instrument? The difference in price isn't all that substantial if all you do is buy now, sell when cash is needed in retirement, but if you're that
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by lend000 3y ago
While you're correct that high social spending that relied on high oil revenue was probably the primary cause of Venezuela's economic collapse, they had price controls on food starting back in 2003 and they began nationalizing maj
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by lend000 3y ago
The output (generally speaking, not specific to money markets) is better prices. There are large scale examples of economies in which prices were mismanaged either due to lack of information/technology or centrally planned prices, some

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