mahogany

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by mahogany 5y ago
> Aside from the likelihood that aging treatments are likely to be free or subsidized by governments to avoid having increasingly old populations, what do you define as my normal lifespan? Pessimistic/dystopian take: what about in a
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Does that chart separate out the transportation that's involved in agriculture, though? It has transportation at nearly 30%. If the answer to my question is "yes", then the question is how much of the transportation slice is
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I see, that's fair. Labeling and generalizing others in that way is not productive.
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> Yes. It completely misrepresents the actual complexity of the problem. Instead of discussing effective solutions like political activity the climate change debate gets dumbed down to reusable cotton bags and paper straws. I've enc
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But were they well-compensated in the beginning and middle days, too? It seems unlikely that sports and games are only popular during the end days. (Unless you're just saying that their compensation should decrease.)
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> The former is suffering from a labor shortage which is why FAANGs and similar companies are willing to pay $300k-600k for engineers with 5-10 years of experience. I thought it was because they generate >$1 million per employee.
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by mahogany 5y ago
> If you really care, talk to your local representatives or write to Trader Joes and Whole Foods. Anything else is posturing. Or you can do both. > Your refusal to not consume it isn't going to change them buying the plastic, bec
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by mahogany 5y ago
> As far as I can tell, the only reason to treat Covid differently basically boils down to partisan politics... A difference is that COVID is much deadlier, no?
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Honestly, your opener "Where do people think the energy is going to come from for these electric vehicles?" could be interpreted as being just as snarky. That statement also has an implied "these people are idiots".
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Is that really true from a statistical standpoint? It seems to me that running ten 20-person studies is different and less valuable than running a single 200 person study, because each of the 20-person studies has a much larger error range
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Can you define "platform" in this context? Is this a legal term? It's interesting to see this dichotomy between platforms and publishers in these types of threads. I assume it stems from a reading of Section 230 somehow, but
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What I'm curious about is: when or how often has this sort of divide happened before? I'm wondering if this is a periodic phenomenon in the US. And if/when this has happened before -- what fixed this level of hostility?
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Sure, the phrase "optimal dose" can be dependent on context. Maybe the optimal dose with respect to a decrease in hospitalization turns out to be 79.19 ug, and of course that's not going to be found when you only try 25, 50,
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by mahogany 5y ago
Are you saying that my use of "clear feedback" isn't accurate? I mean this with respect to what was in scope for phase II, although I could see an argument against using that subjective language. Also, even more dosages were
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by mahogany 5y ago
Finding the optimal dose is done in phase II, where various dose levels are tested on different groups of people. Phase III happens after the dose level is confirmed, and then you roll that out to tens of thousands of people. I think the ma
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I can imagine there being a small (absolute) productivity boost due to psychology for some people. Given fewer hours to do the same amount of work, I can see a lot of people feeling slightly more pressure, and because of this, entering into
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by mahogany 5y ago
Sure, I absolutely agree that private enterprise can be a problem and can become intertwined with government. But the topic of this thread is Twitter, and more broadly, Big Tech, and I am not convinced that they are a serious problem in the
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I think most people view freedom of speech as a right in a broad sense, particularly with respect to the government, but are also okay with a violation of it in certain contexts, like in a private domain. It seems to me that a bar owner kic
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by mahogany 5y ago
> When companies get large enough to wield power as de facto government, then it makes sense to demand that they too respect our natural rights. How do you encode "large enough" in the law? And are you suggesting Twitter is wie
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> He wasn't black, he wasn't woman, why violate the history? Because it's acting. Maybe women are just trying to have some fun playing men, given that historically in the West, women were always played by men (or boys). Cr
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by mahogany 5y ago
The sources used in that article that mention his Soviet life are this very Youtube video(!), his own writings (sometimes under a pseudonym), a single newspaper obituary with no sources except quotes from people that knew him, or the CIA. I
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by mahogany 5y ago
Why do you believe this man is who he says he is? Why do you take what he says to be true at face value? I find it amusing how people bring up Soviet propaganda in schools and always link this same video to this one person (who criticizes
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by mahogany 5y ago
How did the M1 supply increase $12+ trillion? That's surprising to me, especially when it doesn't include bank reserves, and anyway it's much more than even the total amount of quantitative easing from what I can tell.
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by mahogany 5y ago
1+1=2 is not really an axiom. There's a set of axioms that lead to that. They are even more primordial statements like "1 is a number" and "x=x" and "all numbers n have a successor number S(n) such that m=n if
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> How is this a scalable approach to everyone in the society? Does everything have to be scalable to society at large?
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> Obviously, physical infrastructure is a bit harder to switch, but I have three major wireline ISPs here, four major wireless ones, and I believe two satellite services are an option too. Okay, but tens of millions of other Americans ha
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> The CDC has a page describing past vaccine safety issues, the most recent being 2013[0]. That most recent one says there was a voluntary recall and no health problems were reported. Doesn't sound too concerning to me to be honest.
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by mahogany 5y ago
> No it doesn't. The entire history of Western Liberalism—since the Magna Carta onwards—teaches us that censorship is quite literally never the answer. What do you mean by "works"? Deplatforming seems to work if it's
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> we don’t have many long term measurements, so we make (educated-ish) guesses Out of curiosity, what are some examples of these measurements/guesses you are referring to?
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I agree with you that individual change shouldn't be the only or the end goal -- anyone selling this idea is wrong or potentially malicious (e.g. corporations selling the idea of plastic recycling), and if that is your central issue, t

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