lidHanteyk

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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Your tweet links to an unmasking of a police officer committing false-flag violence in order to justify counter-violence towards protestors and rioters. People are rioting because they are angry. It happens that people are constantly, very
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Sure. The oral polio vaccine was given away for free, undercutting and disrupting any attempts to region-limit its availability. To this day, it's hard to charge more than a dollar per dose, and nearly all countries have eradicated or
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
You are over-complicating this. People are not infinitely deep; they have strange loops which make one level of depth look like many levels. Consciousness is a hallucination.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Let's finish the analogy. Rose gardens and other community parks are usually community-funded; my local gardens are funded with taxes. There are not only paid moderators (police), but paid curators (gardeners and arborists) who deliber
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Yes. Worse, as I understand it, public figures may have lawful claims for defamation even if all statements are already known true to the court! This is a mind-boggling situation, and helps contextualize why the United Nations Human Rig
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Another "bad actor" here. I think that it's a combination of two phenomena: * I have accounts not just here, but also at places like Lobsters and Something Awful. In those places, because accounts are rare and can be banned s
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Beyond the title, there's a whole bunch of folks slapping their cheeks and being amazed that Joe Rogan has a popular podcast. Lots of money-making is discussed. I am criticizing the entire orientated worldview of the article.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
The author talks about three people, two of whom are accomplished mathematicians and one of whom draws pretty pictures. I don't quite understand where they are headed; they're researching for a novel, which is a path that I'v
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
I don't really understand why "innocence" is used here; I know that it can be used to denote novelty rather than naivete, but I'm not really sure that podcasts were ever so innocent. After all, podcasting draws heavily o
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
I wonder if there is a name for this sort of behavior, which seems common to evangelical Christians, where older folks are coerced to question their earlier works in life in order to try to effect some appearance of "deathbed conversio
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Nobody's mentioned the Conway-Specker-Kocken Free Will Theorem!? It lines up perfectly with the idea of "quantum choice" discussed in the article: Free will is when particles choose to reply to quantum measurements with non
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Yes. We know, more specifically, that genes are to blame for diseases like hemochromatosis [0], sickle cell anemia [1], or Tay-Sachs [2]. We also know, from pedigree collapse [3], that humans broadly form one single race. Therefore we kno
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Honestly, you got three replies, when you deserved zero. I discussed your original questions with real people offline, and everybody else was unable to get through your first three questions without making personal attacks against you; your
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Businesses are not inherently desirable; they are a concession that we haven't agreed as a society how to distribute capital. Lowering their ability to dominate laborers is morally good for basic utilitarian reasons. If it gets a littl
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Okay, I think I see the root of the misunderstanding. UBI can be fully paid for by taxes [0], and the resulting system is administered using existing tax authorities. In the USA, this would mean that the IRS, which already administers taxes
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Your questions aren't hard. 1) People will exit the labor market, especially in cheaper jobs, since some folks currently only need to work in order to make up a small income disparity and will gladly quit their part-time jobs. Labor mi
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
The goal of UBI is not to invest in works, but to invest in people. From this altered framing, putting any conditions on payouts will only disenfranchise people.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
I think that you are overcomplicating the underlying reasoning. Consider: How many functions are there from the empty set to the empty set? One, right?
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
What were those points, exactly? Also, which year was that man born, and by what evidence do you know that?
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
No, as long as one entity can derive exponentially more utility than another, utility monsters are possible; such monsters cannot be satisfied only with polynomially many sacrifices.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
It is amusing to me that you think that psychology is such a solid science. After all, the entire field is based on a remarkable and unfalsifiable assumption: We assume that people have inner experiences above and beyond observable mental s
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Which languages are you thinking of? I just checked Haskell and Python, and they both give 1 for both integer and floating-point exponentiation.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Interesting; Shopify doesn't use TruffleRuby, but instead prefers MRI?
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Maybe this means that software shouldn't be distributed as products, but as code. Maybe people should be free to run code of their choice on their computers.
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_...
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Thank you for explaining why you downvoted. Allow me to reply with the following observation: Boeing depends on airlines. Or, at least, Boeing's commercial division depends on airlines. A future where Boeing's commercial arm is sh
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Bet what, exactly? I already wagered and lost karma, and I'm wagering more just by replying to you. Air travel around the Pacific Rim is down by about half a nine to 1 nine [0]. Worldwide, airlines are taking beatings of about half a n
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Which other companies, though? As of last year, Boeing and Airbus were 99% of the passenger plane market and 90% of the entire plane market [0]. Airbus is currently reeling from not just COVID-19 [1][3], but also a bribery scandal [2], and
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
During the Bronze Age Collapse [0], we lost the ability to write in many civilizations around the Mediterranean. Literacy rates could have been as low as 10% in these places, and so when systems collapsed, literacy couldn't be sustaine
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by lidHanteyk 6y ago
Nice work. I'm reminded of bocker [0], which also implements this sort of functionality in only a few dozen lines of code. The function which corresponds to this post [1] is relatively short and readable. [0] https://github.

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