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by new2628 6y ago
It is easy to pick one clear-cut case that supports one's viewpoint. The question is how to handle the more murky cases.
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by new2628 6y ago
You are not arguing in good faith. You are making a caricature of the opposing argument, presenting in the worst light possible.
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by new2628 6y ago
This is an excellent summary, and I fully agree with it. As a modest addition: - In many important cases, there is no fact, just differing viewpoints and opinions. One man's terrorist is another one's freedom fighter. Violent ins
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by new2628 6y ago
No worries, I am not hurt by directness, in fact I appreciate not sugarcoating an argument. I was not trolling. For most of the stuff you list it is not clear at all that they have any effect in general, and if they do, it is not clear whet
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by new2628 6y ago
Have you tried just sleeping, waking up, running, without the magnesium/vitD/melatonin/iris/flux/etc. People have managed these basic tasks fine without all these props for a very long time.
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by new2628 6y ago
I'm on many hiring committees and I try to evaluate quality of research as well. While you cannot spend too much time reading all these papers in full, just looking into them for a few minutes usually gives a sense of where the results
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by new2628 6y ago
How do you know it is a good thing? Maybe vit-D is just a marker for sunlight-exposure, and you are gaming the marker with the supplements.
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by new2628 6y ago
"Never offend anyone" seems a dubious goal to me.
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by new2628 6y ago
Adequate comment for the user name :)
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by new2628 6y ago
This sounds reasonable and it is also surprisingly similar to the past of education, e.g. apprenticeships in guilds.
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by new2628 6y ago
Vote away, hurt bitcoiners. EDIT: sorry for the silly remark, ironically, the original comment stands at +10 at the moment after starting deep in the negative.
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by new2628 6y ago
No need for quotes, it is an absolute waste of energy and effort on a planetary scale with no benefit whatsoever.
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by new2628 6y ago
And on top of that, even without disruption it tends to provide more varied, better quality meat.
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by new2628 6y ago
The result is plausible, I would also feel happier if I was on BI while the rest of society is not.
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by new2628 6y ago
Very interesting comment, do mention the book title. Since you seem knowledgeable on the topic, I'm curious what is the current view of the San people in the Kalahari. I read several books on them by members of the Marshall family, and
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by new2628 6y ago
It fits perfectly if by privilege you mean not pursuing a career with high intensity and instead living a frugal, simple life that is less affected by a slowdown of the global economy.
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by new2628 6y ago
What's wrong with that?
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by new2628 6y ago
I realize this, yet, the fact that I can afford this leisure is largely due to my personal choices of forgoing some of the luxuries these people afford. I sympathize with those who are affected negatively by the situation, but I wish, for e
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by new2628 6y ago
Please don't go there to turn it into another "digital nomad" place.
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by new2628 6y ago
TBH, even if it was an overreaction, the effects were by and large positive, regardless of the pandemic. Work from home, less traffic, more family time, slowdown of economy, pausing of a lot of wasteful, useless activity. I really enjoyed w
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by new2628 6y ago
I'm very skeptical of projecting back 21th century feminism to tens of thousands of years ago. If you look at bears/wolves/elephants or any other mammals in the wild, you don't see females taken advantage of or in second
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by new2628 6y ago
Yes, assuming you mean "way out" in the same sense the parent post meant "getting off at the station".
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by new2628 6y ago
I think this is far less evident than usually assumed. The life of the last hunter gatherer tribes is probably the best approximation we have on how our ancestors may have lived. And while death is a more common (and swifter, less problemat
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by new2628 6y ago
I actually agree with your sentiment, and this flavor of optimism is something I enjoy in Soviet art on space exploration -- the problem is we could have had all that you list without the excesses that ruin it all.
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by new2628 6y ago
I certainly believe Bill Gates could provide 12 billion people with Windows licenses.
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by new2628 6y ago
This attitude is similar to a smoker saying after decades of smoking "I don't regret anything, I enjoyed it".
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by new2628 6y ago
If it happens gradually, we may never wake up to it. For all I know, our biosphere is an already collapsed version of yesterday's, yet we usually see it more as a better version of tomorrow's.
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by new2628 6y ago
You can also become the best accidentally, by some right things happening that you don't even correctly recognize and attribute. Then you can ruin that with experimenting.
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by new2628 6y ago
Yes, to anyone paying attention, a product labeled as "smart" has been a non-starter.
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by new2628 6y ago
I don't think "average advice" is a good metric here -- if you play russian roulette you will "win" on average or even in most cases. What matters is protection from downside which is where the WHO failed when they

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