losteric

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by losteric 8y ago
Regulations across borders are ineffective, usually useless... and good luck promoting conscientious consumerism. We need tariffs on imports from polluting countries.
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by losteric 8y ago
I think you're just losing naivety. Everywhere is always flawed because the world is evolving, our understanding of problems and solutions require constant adjustment to fit the present. The flaws you see are an invitation to participa
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by losteric 8y ago
And if private companies were governments, they would quickly collapse or turn into dictatorships. What's your point?
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by losteric 8y ago
What about offering a reward to unregistered immigrants in exchange for ratting out their employers? Works for other types of illegal labor... maybe a slice of the fine and the option of fast-tracked citizenship. Anyway, policing businesses
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by losteric 8y ago
That'd not an argument that carbon-neutral supersonic jets are impossible and should be abandoned. Biofuels doesn't necessarily mean subsidized corn fields... for example, algae and bacteria grown under specialized LEDs powered by
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by losteric 8y ago
Why is that an absolute? Can't biofuel sources be refined into jet fuel? I understand that subsidies currently create perverse incentives in that industry, but I struggle to see why bioengineered carbon-neutral jet fuel is fundamentall
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by losteric 8y ago
Epigenetics is fascinating because methylation is a basic read/write layer on top of static DNA - changes can appear in a living organism and propogate to offspring. > Even short-term substance abuse can produce long-lasting epigene
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by losteric 8y ago
> Also, it puts us in a morally difficult situation because we are benefiting from the ones we criticize, and as such, it is hypocritical. What moral difficulties do you see? My opinion is these companies are despicable but taking advant
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by losteric 8y ago
I agree with the sentiment that ads are such a savage application, but... * I'm confused by why you bring up tax-payer funded education... do you think these employees don't pay taxes? * What is your definition of "valuable&q
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by losteric 8y ago
Huh. I thought this was stupid, then realized I was... maybe? Space tourism is pretty niche. A booking marketplace doesn't really make sense right now, so I assume your real goal is to create the market by incentivizing supply throug
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by losteric 8y ago
The college student would be regarded as pretentious because they can't follow through with the expectations set by that sentence. They haven't developed a mastery of all the techniques and an intuition around using/abusing r
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by losteric 8y ago
All deadlines have an implied "with equivalently aggressive funding" addendum
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by losteric 8y ago
I recently learned about epigenetics and it's mind blowing . In a nutshell: the expression of a gene within an individual can change over their lives, and the changes can be inherited . There are multiple mechanisms of alteration and
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by losteric 8y ago
Developers rarely build blindly. If they build high-end housing, there is some demand which will definitely buy-in... and that opens a new option: 4. Wait, because operational expenses are cheap compared to the capital expenditure. They w
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by losteric 8y ago
SF has to deal with zoning restrictions. Between rapid immigration, the tech wealth boom, and restrictions on lot size/height/residency - obviously all the new constructions will be ludicrously expensive. "Affordable housing
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by losteric 8y ago
Exactly. Domestic production is regulated and certified by the US government, transported through short supply chains subject to auditing. Tampering with food supplies is very difficult to execute and harshly punished when inevitably detect
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by losteric 8y ago
Determinism is an interesting question... we exist at a fascinating scale, in between lower orders significantly influenced by non-deterministic forces and higher orders where determinism seems to prevails. The chemical reactions driving ce
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by losteric 8y ago
Not true. I think you're conflating content with the traditional (for-profit) distribution mediums. For-profit channels distribute profitable ideas. Profitsble ideas have mass appeal. Unsurprising. However, there are no social pressure
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by losteric 8y ago
The degree and ends do matter. Chinese autocratic actions are not equivalent to the shaping of American discourse by for-profit institutions. I will trust the one that has codified free speech - however flawed.
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by losteric 8y ago
I share a similar philosophy... that free will is choosing between the options we recognize given by our immutable past. Who we are is mostly an accumulation of chance events and responses running on autopilot. Most moments don't matte
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by losteric 8y ago
Seconding this request; the idea of domesticated cats behaving like this is kinda mind blowing, I've never seen that kind of ordered social behavior.
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by losteric 8y ago
They also have more money for health care
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by losteric 8y ago
I think they're describing the "look-elsewhere effect": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect (aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem )
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by losteric 8y ago
> If it's always been about oil, then the US is currently the largest oil producer. Why are we still relying on these countries for anything? "Oil" means "lots of money". Why do capitalist nations work with extre
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by losteric 8y ago
That was my question to you - you are regulating your behavior out of concern for how others see you. I don't.
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by losteric 8y ago
> I am perfectly happy not finding common interests at work or the PTA I think that's a key distinction - I am not happy in that situation. If you are comfortable, no problem and more power to you! > Switching jobs is an enormo
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by losteric 8y ago
In SF, I feel people have moved to the city with their own clique that they try to stay within - people will show up to meet their group as part of their evening plans, not to meet new people. They're open to it, but never proactive. H
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by losteric 8y ago
> I've come to believe over the years that friendship can essentially be distilled down to proximity + a common interest + time. Unfortunately, we spend most of our time working, and these three things are very difficult to find out
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by losteric 8y ago
Software is unlike any prior field because it's so... clean. Energy, agriculture, transportation - all built on the unintuitive building blocks of physics, and our approximate understanding of the universe. The clean abstraction layers
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by losteric 8y ago
I think this is just the cycle of deep "disruption" - naive optimism/hype spurring development without regard for how the general public behaves, followed by speculative investments that lead to mass adoption, diluting ethics

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