mechE321

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   by mechE321 4y ago

   Is legally enforced train dependence better? City centers are already viable places to live without a car. Unless the US had a waaay higher population density, we would have a hard time arriving at another system.
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   by mechE321 4y ago

   There is a finite but variable amount of money in the pot. It is not a zero sum game.
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   by mechE321 4y ago

   The stock market has been doing terribly lately, so I wonder what dynamic is going on right now- even with higher profits something is fishy (high interest rates mean a higher yield on bond investments as an alternative, so lower valuations
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   by mechE321 5y ago

   The Bayesian gambler in me wants to think this: The studies on ivermectin seem to be split between "good effect" and "no effect," and there don't seem to be any (by my extremely informal review! going off of memory
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   by mechE321 5y ago

   I would characterize any revolution as a bet. You and your fellow revolutionaries take your chances at finding out whether you are actually more competent at running a society than your predecessors. The table stakes are anywhere between a
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   by mechE321 5y ago

   The lower down a bit of suffering is on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the easier it is to measure on a societal scale. Everyone's starving to death? Easy to measure. Everyone's living in an economically precarious situation? A