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by metiscus 6y ago
That's an interesting point. I looked at the comment history after you mentioned it, and saw that too. Thanks for replying!
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by metiscus 6y ago
This comment was dead and I couldn't understand why it was flagged as it didn't seem to violate any rules. Moreover in my experience I tend to agree that most NP problems do seem to have this property. Can someone who downvoted&#x
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by metiscus 6y ago
but styrofoam lasts forever /s For sufficiently short values of forever.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Typically the American government uses legalistic methods to deal with leakers and "traitors". The Russians are well known for being far more likely to use less easily defeated methods like radioactive substances etc. The hazards
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by metiscus 6y ago
Which thing are you saying is good, the Uk stopping a federal europe or the creation of the same?
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by metiscus 6y ago
https://youtu.be/KLdDmeyMJls That's my main reference.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Look at the talk given by Yuri Bezmenov, this type of thing has been ongoing for a very long time.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Transliteration is not necessarily a sign of persecution.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Similar assertions were made during previous administrations. I suspect that such claims will not become less familiar as the partisan gap widens. I don't believe that outright fraud is happening in either case, but is our duty (and th
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by metiscus 6y ago
It is inarguable that increasing productivity and technology cause aggregate standard of living increases on a long enough time scale. We can quibble about localized effects, and it is true that technological change (for example) does somet
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by metiscus 6y ago
Power laws are powerful things.
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by metiscus 6y ago
That could be due to several possible legitimate reasons in addition to the obvious. The key fee may have been set 20 years ago when 10 dollars was reasonable and not updated to cover labor and the deterrent effect for losing keys. When upd
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by metiscus 6y ago
Here is a reference for when this last came up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24382203
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by metiscus 6y ago
The correct procedure is to email the mods if someone is suspected of being a shill.
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by metiscus 6y ago
I'm not sure how to interpret what you have written but assuming good faith - there are things and states worse than death, particularly when analyzed from the point of view of the individual. It is widely considered humane to terminat
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by metiscus 6y ago
Having a mental structure either exogenously adopted or of one's own construction to apply rationality to temporarily irrational losses seemingly is a very good thing for ones mental well-being. I've found great comfort in Epictet
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by metiscus 6y ago
I have found that in my own times of trouble and profound sadness that two books have helped me cope. The first one, which is admittedly hard to read when you are very close to a loss (better to inculcate yourself with it ahead of time if p
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by metiscus 6y ago
I agree with you. I believe that having fun is subjective. I've actually done both things mentioned for fun. I also had the bonus fun of learning a new thing to boot.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Both can happen. A producer can increase prices unilaterally (that is without an increase in the costs of production). In this case the producer can be undercut by those accepting a greater volume of sales for lower margins. When an increas
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by metiscus 6y ago
I believe it means Digital Service Tax but I could be mistaken.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Assuming a perfectly spherical cow, if the tax is based on a percent of profit, the company can and will raise prices (if the market will bear it) to ensure that their gross profit numbers remain constant or continue to grow.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Russia has a long and storied history of working against economic gradients - it usually ends poorly.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Apparently insulin has Anabolic properties although it is not a steroid and does have some rather serious side-effects.
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by metiscus 6y ago
In the modern zeitgeist anything authoritarian or that can be interpreted from the center-left to be slightly right of center is being called fascism as shorthand for "bad policy I disagree with". The conflation of authoritarianis
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by metiscus 6y ago
I think your math is a bit off. More than 2 percent of the US population voted in the previous election. Unless you are claiming that 330 million over the entire world population is 2 percent and thus only the people located in America (or
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by metiscus 6y ago
It is a crowning achievement of a life spent developing many other important drugs still in use. She almost certainly didn't do it as the only woman in her lab but she was at the front of getting women recognized in the field of bioche
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by metiscus 6y ago
I think it is a side effect of what keeps google from turning into IBM. Ossification is a perennial problem for large corporations especially traditional growth companies. They make their few big things then iterate on them. The "ADHD&
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by metiscus 6y ago
It's also still too early in the google ADHD cycle to kill it. Probably just reaching mid life at this point.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Safety critical hard-realtime systems come to mind as an example.
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by metiscus 6y ago
Knowing Europe, they will eventually come up with some bundle of regulations and a super VAT for electricity when put into a car to make up the deficit.

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