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by moosey 7y ago
Enormous quantities of elderly people who will need to be hospitalized, and without will get added to the death toll.
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by moosey 7y ago
I feel like there are some particular cultural attributes in the United States that make this useless at this point. The United States has a very individualistic attitude. Sure, we can pause travel from Europe, but the current administrati
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by moosey 7y ago
I believe advertisements should be declared illegal psychological experimentation and manipulation: abusive tools of gaslighting designed to shape our identities and perception away from healthy norms.
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by moosey 7y ago
Inexpensive, downloadable, and DRM free games are what I always wanted. In addition, GOG keeps a store of all the games I own and I can download them multiple times. This is exactly the service that I would imagine other gamers would want,
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by moosey 7y ago
While David Brooks and I don't agree on much, his discussion of "relationism" vs. "individualism" and his "weave" program is the ultimate disruption to the way families and communities are built today. IMO
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by moosey 7y ago
The costs are already in the trillions! I absolutely see your point, though, this idea that we can give everyone in the United States access to health care is revolutionary! Exciting, compassionate, and revolutionary! We have the opportuni
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by moosey 7y ago
"Covering and reproducing in your own words" is a combination of recall and synthesis, both necessary for remembering. This was a different section, and it might have been the Mindshift class, where she mentioned in US schools, w
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by moosey 7y ago
My general practice with mathematics is and Anki is to: 1) Understand the material I'm learning. 2) Put explanations of any algebraic procedures (for instance, the dot product of two vectors) as a flip card. 3) Put a single example of
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by moosey 7y ago
Tech salaries are high for a number of reasons: programmers are highly productive, reducing the amount of work that others must do, the job is hard, and requires basically autodidacts to do it. The personality traits for being a good progr
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by moosey 7y ago
I'm in a similar job. We block people from scraping if they break a threshold, but we also refer them to the reporting system, which can get all of the information that they are collecting in a variety of formats. I wonder if somethin
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by moosey 7y ago
The book "Anti-Social" by Andrew Marantz introduced me to the concept of "High Arousal Emotions", which is exactly what clickbait, advertising and 'social networks' take advantage of to get clicks. Personally,
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by moosey 7y ago
Any industrial scale animal agriculture has as an input industrial scale plant production. For example, most of the plant matter produced for consumption in the US goes not to humans, but to animal agriculture instead. Any issues in plant
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by moosey 7y ago
All of your suggestions will also cause the prices of animal-based foods to rise. I hope those price increases are substantial.
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by moosey 7y ago
But it would have been one less major government working against the ecological systems that we still depend on. When all is said and done and we've defeated climate change, the future generations will look back and wonder how we could
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by moosey 7y ago
I personally think that as the are cohort that finished school with the dot com crash then followed up crushed under the weight of the housing crash, start to send kids to college, there will be a general reckoning. While my wife and I are
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by moosey 7y ago
Or the entity that makes the trash should pay for it. That would reduce the amount of packaging that is made by forcing the cost on the producer. If I'm going to be forced to live in a supply side economy, then the supply side should
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by moosey 7y ago
Pointing out that 95% (or more) climate scientists say that climate change is happening is not appeal to authority, but appeal to expertise. The former is a logical fallacy. The latter is not.
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by moosey 7y ago
> Is it possible that your mind has formed a highly detailed internal model of who I am and what I'm all about, based not entirely on factual observations, but rather based on subconscious heuristic judgements? This appears to be th
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by moosey 7y ago
> FWIW, I also happen to harbor this suspicion. How might one actually know whether there is an element of truth to it? I do not harbor this same suspicion, however, I'm determined to learn whatever is necessary to understand it. N
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by moosey 7y ago
It doesn't mean anything. It just is. My primary concern is human welfare, and I always try to argue, as logically as possible, in defense of human welfare, or at least the way it will best be achieved, which is an opinion. It means
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by moosey 7y ago
IMO, the failure in the US here is the fact that money can no longer flow towards innovation because far too much of it is trapped in the hands of a very small elite that are fearful of taking _real_ risk. Freeing up those cash flows, some
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by moosey 7y ago
In order to understand my position on "IQ", you should read the book "Hacking Darwin", which actually covers the question of what IQ is at length. I hope that it alters your position on IQ a little bit, what aspects of
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by moosey 7y ago
The next question is how do we build as many people with traits like this as possible, and I assume it to be high quality education with a low stress home life. This is something that the US economy is not currently achieving, based on hap
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by moosey 7y ago
I've done edx, Coursera, now mit ocw, khan academy, and plan on continued experimentation. The best tool overall I've found is Anki. I've also tried to keep my learning carried with lots of reading. The most academic book o
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by moosey 7y ago
I am 20 years out of college with a CS degree, working in your typical business rules development kind of job. Exactly the kind of job that doesn't need a CS degree, but I'm perfectly decent at programming business rules, so ther
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by moosey 7y ago
It wasn't, but I get it. Too many mistakes in it now that I read it again. I shouldn't use my phone for text entry.
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by moosey 7y ago
The meta coming out of scientific experimentation has been showing that intermittent fasting is an effective tool for a number of dirt related disorders, including obesity. To see experimentation in this space is really exciting, along wit
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by moosey 7y ago
I'm not against geoengineering, and it will be part of the actions that posterity will have to do in order to deal with climate change, but why leave the major changes in lifestyle that will be required to fight it for future generatio
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by moosey 7y ago
Michael Schennenberger runs the BTI, or the "Breakthrough Institute", which is against taxing carbon, against fossil fuel reduction, and pro-geoengineering. It is ultimately a think-tank, which is just another name for a professi
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by moosey 7y ago
I consider libertarianism to be contemporary monarchic support, due to exactly these issues. Corporations are run as monarchic or dictatorial structures, with some controls. Ultimately, we have a choice: work hard to build the government t

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