lordlic

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by lordlic 5y ago
I understand why people take up smoking but I don't understand why people expect credit for breaking out of it. Addiction is an ugly thing and seeing a public personality parlay their experience into an excuse to write a blog post is p
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by lordlic 5y ago
Yeah I mean that seems like a weird narrative. Some people get wealthy because they bought land and then did nothing and held on tenaciously to it even as the rest of society increasingly needed it for something else? How is that a victor
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by lordlic 5y ago
In other words, you're saying that it hurts them...
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by lordlic 5y ago
Their goods will cost more, but they'll also have more income, both from employers paying more for labor and from the direct payments from UBI. And even if the benefits are entirely "inflated away" in aggregate (which is extr
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by lordlic 5y ago
That just doesn't add up. Even without progressive taxation, if you give everyone a flat increase in income then lower-income people come out ahead relative to where they were before wrt the average. It's directly a wealth trans
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by lordlic 5y ago
If the jobs really need to get done, then the working conditions and wages offered will improve until someone's incentivized to do them. Usually people's objection to this is "but this will raise the prices of consumer goods!
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by lordlic 5y ago
I've held one myself, and what I think is "absolutely horrifying" is your moralistic justifications for worker exploitation as being simply bestowing "the pleasures of hard work" and "the foundation for what
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by lordlic 5y ago
I think you're overstating the importance of small companies to the vast majority of people. If Amazon comes along and annihilates all the small bookstores by undercutting their prices, people will just get their books from Amazon. Tha
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by lordlic 5y ago
Why would "society" care whether company A makes money instead of company B? This kind of thing is only remotely concerning to, like, VCs and tech workers hoping to strike it rich in the startup game.
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by lordlic 5y ago
I like the overall framework of trying to identify asymmetries that web was able to exploit in each epoch. Unfortunately, the details are a real mixed bag: * Why did the web disrupt desktop? It's not even really worth addressing these,
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by lordlic 5y ago
How about a "Find everything you needed?" popover that appears near the top when you move your cursor up to the tab bar to close the tab?
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by lordlic 5y ago
But it's not e2e encrypted so I don't know what point you think you're making here.
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by lordlic 5y ago
A better way of saying it would be that they just don't care that much. Most people care in theory about taking care of the environment, but that doesn't mean that they're willing to tolerate even 1c/gal higher fuel taxe
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by lordlic 5y ago
No, architecturally there's no reason to do it on the client side. You're uploading a photo to iCloud, encrypted with a key that Apple controls. The only reason to use even a little bit of battery power to do the check on the clie
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by lordlic 5y ago
This is an absolutely bizarre proposal. You want moderators to willingly pollute their subreddit with ads in exchange for personally getting a kickback from reddit? Users would either migrate en masse to competing subreddits with decent mod
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by lordlic 6y ago
It's not too expensive for governments to do it, and it doesn't have to be private enterprise. Neither of those things are true. Nor is it even clear that it would be cheaper to contract with some private provider to boost the ISS
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by lordlic 6y ago
No, the argument is that there's plenty to learn, and it's all very interesting, but it doesn't stand up against people's very real needs here on Earth. I'm about the biggest fan of space you'll find, but even
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by lordlic 6y ago
Gigadollar-scale space projects seem like a particularly poor fit for the private industry model, though. Conventionally the idea of free-market competition is that companies stand to gain if they succeed but have to eat the losses if they
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by lordlic 6y ago
You think NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, etc can build the ISS but they can't raise it to a higher orbit? Honestly, this cheering for privatization of space research is getting out of hand.
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by lordlic 6y ago
If you want to geek out over the pharmacology, ketamine is mainly an NMDA antagonist, same as the other dissociative hallucinogens, and apparently that's one of the mechanisms of ethanol too, though anecdotally I've only heard com
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by lordlic 6y ago
Ah, I see. I was conflating the IM and IV dosages; 0.5mg/kg seemed much too low to induce general anesthesia from what I vaguely remembered of IM dosages. Thank you for elaborating.
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by lordlic 6y ago
If you're dropped into a totally foreign culture and one remark to your guide results in a slightly-discomfited "that's not really how we do things" then you might not think too much of it, but if you venture a comment t
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by lordlic 6y ago
I'm bewildered by what line the Seattle Times thinks they're trying to draw here. Looking at the "CRAZY TOWN" headlines in the image in the article is like looking at the covers of tabloids in the checkout aisle. I don&#
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by lordlic 6y ago
Well, there are lots of people with unhealthy tolerances for risk who write about brain hacking with nootropics.
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by lordlic 6y ago
I was confused by how low that was until I realized you meant per minute . I assume you use a higher dose at first to actually induce unconsciousness?
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by lordlic 6y ago
I feel like you're blowing past some pretty significant psychological factors. People find it interesting and valuable to own a one-of-a-kind item that nobody else can ever have. An artist might paint pretty much the same thing a hundr
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by lordlic 6y ago
> High tourism locations will often have lots of junk food places. If you can move larger distances (i.e. rent a car and the like) you'll find wonderful and cheap restaurants pretty much anywhere. I'm pretty sure this is the op
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by lordlic 6y ago
This whole argument strikes me as very silly. If I want to eat healthy foods badly enough to change my diet and check the ingredients every time I buy something, I'm not going to want to oversimplify it to the point of near meaningless
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by lordlic 6y ago
If you IV a single 24mg/kg dose like the sheep in the study, I suspect you won't be experiencing anything at all before you lose consciousness.
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by lordlic 6y ago
From TFA: > Throughput is the amount of work that comes out of your project by unit of time. It’s up to you to decide what units make sense for your context. Days, weeks, sprints, stories, bugs, epics – anything goes as long as you’re co

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