mbar84

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by mbar84 5y ago
Fascinating. I wonder where he finds his volunteers. :-)
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by mbar84 5y ago
The only thing to which I will object here is the use of the word "only" from "not different in kind, only in degree". There is a substantial difference in degree when dealing with atoms, molecules, homogenous materials
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by mbar84 5y ago
UBI cannot be implemented unless somebody pays for it. It's necessarily redistributive. All existing experiments only look at one half of the equation. I think it's a fair question to ask what the effect will be on people who on n
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by mbar84 5y ago
> Are you going to start by examining distributive effects? Really? Fair point. I guess you could run an experiment where money is simply taken away from people, destroyed and then look at the effect of that in isolation.
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by mbar84 5y ago
I understand the argument and I accept the idea of natural experiments in principle. The most difficult thing with all of these is the ceteris paribus (holding all else constant), or as a second best, correcting for known confounding factor
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by mbar84 5y ago
Because people aren't lab mice. My favourite example are claims wrt. experiments for the Universal basic income. These experiments always pertain to people who receive more money than previously, but somehow never include a proportiona
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by mbar84 5y ago
Economics is not a science like physics. We can't do controlled experiments, we can't falsify hypothesis. This leads to very muddy waters and what you are left with are two kinds of economists: Those who tell people what they want
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by mbar84 5y ago
I would argue, that a more narrow font gives you more bang for the buck in terms of information per area of foveal vision. Even if something looks aesthetically more pleasing, if it serves is purpose better, you'll get used to everythi
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by mbar84 5y ago
I think it has to do with rendering. Have a spin with iosevka-term-ss05.
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by mbar84 5y ago
> lack of willingness on the side of companies to actually develop talent. Do you have any ideas about how to match the kind of compensation so that it is aligned with that investment. If I employ somebody and build up their skills, what
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by mbar84 5y ago
Exactly correct. If you want to get anywhere, the correct thing to advocate for is complete abolition of copyright.
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by mbar84 5y ago
https://questioncopyright.org/ http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
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by mbar84 5y ago
The vaccine is intended to be an intramuscular injection. The risk of myocarditis is possibly linked to an accidental intravenous injection. With aspiration, the person performing the injection has a chance to detect that they hit a blood v
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by mbar84 5y ago
The term "trickle-down" was a pejorative from the start, so if you ever have the intent to convince somebody, then you're going to have to start by not using pejoratives as if that's what the opposing side is advocating
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by mbar84 5y ago
It's important to remember that the direction of the causal link is from the value of each satoshi to the cost of electricity use by miners, not the other way around. People value sats, for whatever their reasons. Because they value sa
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by mbar84 5y ago
> So, architects, be bold. Go crazy. Gothic futurism. Do it. All other things being equal, yes please. My bias is to think that all other things are not equal. In particular: 1. The price of creating beautiful unique pieces is probably h
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by mbar84 5y ago
I have been using cuelang.org now for half a year and have nothing but praise to give.
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by mbar84 5y ago
No Iosevka?
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by mbar84 5y ago
I hope Apple will make a 25th anniversary edition of the iPod, with modern connectors and internals but a physically clicky wheel like the original.
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by mbar84 5y ago
More and smaller companies. More labour mobility. If companies are in competition and people can move, then wages will be bid up close to their level of productivity.
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by mbar84 5y ago
No shit. Bitcoin is both a technological, economic and a political project. Nobody who understands this would mistake Schneier for a likely candidate to be the creator of Bitcoin.
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by mbar84 5y ago
Who knows about correlation or causation, but programming and humility go together. Training people to always ask the questions: - How do I know that this is true? - What would otherwise have to be true for this conclusion to follow?
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by mbar84 5y ago
Why is "even" in the title? People can't give them money fast enough and it is somehow mysterious that they're earning a profit?
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by mbar84 5y ago
https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
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by mbar84 5y ago
The balance of cost and benefits is not as clear as you may think. https://questioncopyright.org/ http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
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by mbar84 5y ago
I wrote a criminally underused library that does much the same kind of transformations: https://github.com/mbarkhau/lib3to6/tree/master/src/lib3to6
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by mbar84 5y ago
The main issue with such a test is that it doesn't test the effect on those who would be footing the higher tax bill.
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by mbar84 5y ago
https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
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by mbar84 5y ago
Since scale and locality is such an issue here, I wonder if there are any concepts for integrating such a system in new mid-rise buildings. Similar to an elevator shaft, but with a weight of depleted uranium instead of the passenger car. Yo
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by mbar84 6y ago
Cmd+K menus are amazing. I would love to see adoption in Gimp or Inkskape instead of having 90s style dropdown menus.

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