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by lev99 8y ago
A few things make me thing it's a much larger risk than 10e-16. 1. My numbers are on uniform distribution of planets. The milky way is not uniformly distributed, and I suspect this isn't either. I hypothesis most of the planets w
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The article states that planets may outnumber stars 100,000 to 1. The Milky Way has 4E^11 stars. It has an upper estimate of 4E^16 planets. It has a lowest estimate diameter of 100kly. It has an estimated thickness of 2kly. It's lower
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I don't fully understand what single machine could do to "jumpstart" civilization. Does the robot focus on agriculture, medicine, education, culture, or industry? If it is "general purpose" it could work on all, b
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> I try not to read a lot of news and outside media I work from home and did the same for a long time. When I tried to enter casual conversation with people I noticed I was unable to discuss world events. In addition I was missing impo
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As you increase driver pay delivery costs increase. If the shortage was real it would mean deliveries are not being made that would have happened at an increase in delivery cost.
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My stance isn’t that we should maximize population instead of lifestyle. My argument is that involuntary interventions are morally wrong, and the global population will not decrease without them.
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I covered that in illness. I think we are better armed to handle epidemic infectious disease than we ever have been, and a Black Plague level of population decrease is unlikely for a few reasons. 1. The disease model is very useful for iden
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I don't see how significantly reducing the number of people on the planet is practical. Yes, current models predict global population capping, but it will stabilize higher than it currently is. There are two actions that modify the pop
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This is crazy, of course shows get canceled. Ratings are a huge portion of why shows are canceled on cable because ratings are directly tied to revenue. I guarantee Netflix is looking at revenue when deciding how to spend their Original C
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> Because the obese likely are net contributors While you did plenty to explain the economics of obesity in our health care system, you did not do enough to tie the economics of obesity back to morality. Sure obesity is probably a net c
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I find that even a highly curated subreddit subscription adds little value to my life. A subreddit often looks appealing at first, but after a few weeks I notice a pattern in the submissions, and I notice the echo chamber in the comment sec
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by lev99 8y ago
> Of particular interest to me are Wikipedia and StackOverflow, where the pedantic rule-following, rule-enforcing insider group eventually squeezes all joy and then all productive life from the the system. I can't be the only person
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General thoughts on the advantages of institutional learning. * Experts know the relevant information, and learning from them is the best way. Colleges provide access to experts. * A good lecture can be just as informative or more informat
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by lev99 8y ago
The $60million dollar in funding shows the NFL is taking the issue more seriously than it ever has. I suspect there are individuals in the NFL organization that care about the health of their players, but most individuals see this as good
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by lev99 8y ago
Wow. This really highlights the differences between a small company and a large company. I have a hard time justifying keeping B- employees on my team, I couldn't imagine calling people under me in the org chart "losers" wi
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by lev99 8y ago
Adding "What is an acceptable response time for emails?" to my list of interview questions.
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by lev99 8y ago
That means the real cost of installing a septic tank increased 4x. Although, we don't know how similar the two projects are. Maybe one has more rock to dig through, the tank is farther away, or new tanks are better than 1980s tanks in
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by lev99 8y ago
This is my first encounter with Townhall. I am embarrassed to cite a publication with a blatant political agenda without specifically commenting on it's agenda. This is specifically true because I provided a summary which talks about
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by lev99 8y ago
You could frame it as a class issue, but democrats have a much stronger hold over the African American voting population than the poor population. So it's better for democrats keep to framing conversations around race instead of class
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Wow! I suffer from chronic tunnel vision and missed some important context about that website.
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Here is an article written by Thomas Sowell in case someone wanted to read from him first hand. https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2002/10/01/race... I am not well read enough on the subje
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by lev99 8y ago
I think that's an over simplification of sleep. I'm citing the large amount of scientific discussion on the nature of sleep and what happens as the source of my doubt.
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While this is true in general, I haven't seen plans that make me confident in Blue Origins long term vision. It's perfectly okay for a rocket company to blow up a few rockets. I cannot think of a single space program that has a p
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> Knowing that a private citizen can start a space programs is exciting enough for me. I interpret SpaceX and Blue Origin as signs that nation states are decreasing in power relative to corporations. Many executives in very large coopera
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> Personally, to live a humble life is not very inspiring or interesting to me. Personally, Blue Origin has not done work that inspires me. Specifically Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft seems to be reaching for the wrong benchm
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> Overall, though, I think the subscription model exists to take advantage of inattentive customers, which makes up the bulk of any user base. This may be true for some services, but I don't think it's true of the most successf
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My point is the article doesn't ignore it, and are specifically targeting data points less likely to have gender/race bias. You presented your comment like it was a point of view not covered in the article.
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> The CaaS form already asks applicants for some personal information, such as LinkedIn profiles and educational background. Carroll is resistant to the idea of using such data to glean insights about businesses. Because well-educated wh
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Part of it is the committee, Nobel prize selection committee is filled with some of the most prestigious people in that field. In addition, their selection process is very good. Part of it is their long history of very good selections. Par
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> We've spent too much time as a culture celebrating fairly useless achievements and being unwilling to dare to do the things that will truly take us forward. Are you kidding? Society had progressed more in the last 10 years than i

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