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by monkeypizza 6y ago
You argue that allowing free markets for vital needs leads to exploitation. But look at food - capitalist economies have been much more successful at feeding their people than socialist/other highly regulated ones. (Not that they&#x27
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Yet you presume that the current price is magically the correct one - even though that price is different by region. What would you say the effect of the government offering half as much would be? 1/10th? At one point does economics
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
When the population base rate is low, and being genetically identical increases the rate to 40%, that is a strong argument that it's highly genetic. The effect only gets stronger to the extent the 40% is from environments where people
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Your argument may be too strong - you're suggesting that big companies or the professional class of responsible people always does things better. But HN is founded on many examples of that not being true. i.e. if your argument applies
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Really nice page design. Pictures load instantly with preloading, keyboard shortcuts (forward/back/esc). (Story is great too.)
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
I have this problem too occasionally; but if you spend 2 minutes hitting "do not recommend videos like this" + "do not recommend this channel", all the good content beneath will rise to the top.
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
This just changed about two weeks ago, right? The rate of suggested rewatches went up from like 5% to 20% for me. And surprisingly, it seems not to have tracked or not be displaying that I've seen it before (with the red progress bar o
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Every few days if you notice the algo giving too many fast-food style videos, it's worth it to aggressively use this to unfollow all these topics. Miraculously, the next time you refresh your feed, all those old interesting topics you
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Nicotine is not harmful. It's a stimulant, like caffeine. https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine I propose an alternative - a charity should just give nicotine gum or patches to smokers to help them quit. For many smokers th
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Ensenada. Beautiful out in the hills but very sleepy. Colorado beats it by a mile. Security wise it's been okay for a month but the undercurrent of fear about it online and among people I've met here is not great, as is having
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
I've been on the road 6 months now working remote. It's pretty great, especially going with a friend or two. The main concern was internet - here's what I found: 1 month Southern colorado - terrible internet Denver, SLC, Sea
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Details on this: This is a restyled version of wikipedia content that looks a lot better. They have a browser extension that redirects you to the wikiwand version of the same page, which is the same content with much nicer formatting. It
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
This is really awesome. They ran statistics on superhuman strength variant AIs like: * self-capture * variations in pawn movement (sideways, 1-step only) etc.
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
The way CCP influence works is through a legal requirement for firms to allow or establish internal CCP units inside their company, which are then officially recognized and connected to the CCP. Since this is an alternate method for the com
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Excellent page discussing the physics of colonizing mercury: https://einstein-schrodinger.com/mercury_colony.html "Colonization of Mercury appears to be a very real and practical possibility, whereas colonization of Ma
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
I have a similar list but with an attempt at writeups of their style and what is good about each individual author here: http://fuseki.net/home/ScienceFictionBookReviews.html
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
His stories "Equinoctal", "The Phantom of Kansas" [0] are big hits at scifi reading groups. And "The Persistence of Vision" is a well-known classic. [0] https://varley.net/excerpt/the-phan
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
A similar process is used in "Timelike Infinity" by Stephen Baxter. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Timelike_Infinity His work generally uses this kind of extreme physics as plot devices and he's one of the
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Video summary of the optimization process by the designer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vScM-nk5Avk
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Yes, and you can run a local server as part of the test functionality in Studio.
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Excellent blog about Japanese zoning: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Gwern's page on positive/negative effects of nicotine considered independently of smoking: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Stewart Brand has done lots of good stuff. My favorite is the 6 part BBC series on "How Buildings Learn". It really opened my eyes to the importance of buildings. Very relevant to the frequent discussions here about zoning, desig
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Some real kickers in here: * Beijing will establish a new security office in Hong Kong, with its own law enforcement personnel - neither of which would come under the local authority's jurisdiction * This office can send some cases to
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
So does nearly every other country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery Slavery was first abolished by the west. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery#Abolitionis... Global
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
I would pay for this! It's common for blogs to go through a life cycle, and usually when you discover them they're already relative inactive. You can go through archives but there isn't good software support for making sure
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Your claim is false. It is not highly variable even between identical twins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ "The mean correlation of IQ scores between monozygotic twins was 0.86, between sibli
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
There is a petition in support of him which also has some big names. That should be sufficient to warrant further investigation rather than immediately forcing him to resign. https://sites.google.com/view/petition-lett
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Because most weather sites get their temperature readings from the nearest airport, there is often a big gap between that and the temperatures actually experienced by most people there. Here's the map that has actual locally sampled t
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
I think GP may be reacting based on common techniques of obscuring faces - i.e. ninjas wearing black masks, special ops putting dark paint on their face to obscure details. I think the effectiveness of those techniques leads people to think

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