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by new2628 7y ago
Would the world be better or worse off without the population boom that resulted from the invention?
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by new2628 7y ago
And arguably, soaps available in shops are getting worse with every iteration. Enter a big store in most of the developed world, and you can hardly find a regular soap bar anymore (only liquids, "hydrating bars", etc.). Craft mark
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by new2628 7y ago
Would the state of the Earth be better or worse if not for this development?
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by new2628 7y ago
Curious about the downvotes -- this is common practice e.g. in Germany, and one that I consider largely beneficial to society.
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by new2628 7y ago
Sorry, it was too much, I agree. To be fair, the anger came from my dislike of Facebook and similar services. Isn't strong language warranted if you talked about something you see as destroying the fabric of society? I thought that tal
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by new2628 7y ago
> Imagine getting a vial of homeopathic diluted water and a sugar pill when you complain about a cough. This happens regularly in western europe, especially by pediatricians. The charitable interpretation is that the doctor knows the chi
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by new2628 7y ago
An occasional diarrhea.
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by new2628 7y ago
You correctly observe that there is a fake-issue that distracts people, but then you suggest a number of other issues to focus on that could be just as distracting and seem just as fake as the first.
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by new2628 7y ago
Another data point of one: all my allergies correlate with the amount of detergent/soap/shampoo/deodorant I am using and to whether I've been the past few weeks in the big city or in the rural countryside.
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by new2628 7y ago
Why are the bad financial decisions of young people and their parents the mailman's fault? I lost my money in the casino, I demand you retire so I can occupy your job.
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by new2628 7y ago
It is one of my favorite movies, so I'm curious about others' take on it. In what sense do you find it true/accurate?
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by new2628 7y ago
In many parts of Eastern Europe, one or two generations ago, most households had a horse-drawn cart for the summer, and a horse-drawn sleigh for the winter. People would not have kept both, unless there was plenty of opportunity to use them
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by new2628 7y ago
Full stop, full stop.
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by new2628 7y ago
Except for the toxic toner-dust laser printers emit.
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by new2628 7y ago
What's wrong with using strong words?
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by new2628 7y ago
Marcus Aurelius and Seneca would like to have a word with you.
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by new2628 7y ago
Many of us already saw it differently back then and often had to face ridicule when pointing out concerns with these services.
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by new2628 7y ago
I was deeply embedded in the Google ecosystem ... I would upload all of my family photos to Google Photos and all of my personal documents to Google Drive ... I used Google Hangouts ... My home is covered with Google Homes ...
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by new2628 7y ago
There was an old post by Bruce Schneier where he suggested people write down passwords on a piece of paper and keep them securely. This is something people have been already doing for centuries with wallets, keys, etc.
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by new2628 7y ago
That's funny and I agree that _some_ people are bad at using passwords, but I have a feeling whatever replaces them will be worse for everyone. It's like some people cut their fingers with knives so let's all use plastic kniv
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by new2628 7y ago
I'll bite: what's wrong with username and password?
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by new2628 7y ago
I know you meant it the other way, but arguably the "Swedish viewpoint" is pushed far more in mainstream media than the "Russian viewpoint".
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by new2628 7y ago
I think you got the math wrong. Say your company value was $100. After it increases by 7%, it is $107. But now you own 93% of it, which is about $99.5. So you need to increase it in value by about 8% to be worth it.
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by new2628 7y ago
The SU had a program of requiring world-class mathematicians (Kolmogorov, Arnold, Gelfand), physicists, etc. to teach one year in high school, and to think about the curriculum, and possibly write textbooks. Some of these were available in
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by new2628 7y ago
Historically, the correlation you mention seems quite weak. Two of the most oppressive regimes of the 20th century achieved some of the most spectacular technological results.
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by new2628 7y ago
Why subtract women? I'm quite sure that women participation in engineering studies is higher than in most (all) western nations.
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by new2628 7y ago
Mostly they did not and cooked at home instead. At least most people most of the time.
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by new2628 7y ago
This is a fine and defensible (although not mainstream) viewpoint with several adherents among mathematicians and various levels of success in making it formal and precise. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitis
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by new2628 7y ago
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-... Or a more gentle summary: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Taleb:_IQ_is_a_pseudoscientific_...
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by new2628 7y ago
IQ is largely pseudoscience. It is tied to chess in the same sense it is tied to most other things, as a baseline filter: IQ below 80 means one can hardly do anything at a high level, beyond that it has almost no meaning.

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