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by noqc 3y ago
This is not the same effect. You'd still rather have money prior to the industrial revolution than the same amount of money after. The money itself is worth more earlier. The phenomenon I described is mathematical fact.
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by noqc 3y ago
I like this comment, and I'll pitch in my two cents on it. Suppose Joe Salesman sells your friend Al a used car and it turns out they got a bad deal, the car was a lemon. What lesson should be learned from this? a) This was an honest m
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by noqc 3y ago
food became cheaper because it became cheaper to produce. Inflation is a very natural consequence of the fact that If I have money now, I can also very easily have that same money later, but the same cannot be said of having money later. St
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by noqc 3y ago
That doesn't explain a discontinuity, and moreover, the effect of the pace runners has yet to be controlled for, so there is no more explanation required.
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by noqc 3y ago
Haha, guilty. I put my rapid rating above 2k and haven't played in months since then.
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by noqc 3y ago
I've noticed a lot of college aged kids in particular becoming much more anti-piracy. About textbooks even. I've heard reports of people being kicked off of private discord servers for sharing a link to the course textbook. Some
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by noqc 3y ago
The author of the marathon paper explains the phenomenon he is observing, and then goes on to "reject that explanation" without attempting to do anything to control for it. >For example, the 2013 Chicago Marathon provided pace
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by noqc 3y ago
This is an absolutely unbelievable Baader-Meinhoff coincidence. I was, less than 5 minutes ago, searching the script for this line so that I could send it to my father. As proof, this is the only line returned when you search the text for t
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by noqc 3y ago
Deligne probably invoked the language of set theory without thinking that it restrained him too much. Mathematicians seem to be terrible philosophers.
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by noqc 3y ago
I bet you could sign up to be a drug mule with not that much effort.
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by noqc 3y ago
You could be right, insulation is a lot more effective at keeping houses warm than cold though (greenhouse effect) and heat pumps can dump their waste heat inside.
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by noqc 3y ago
he's saying that you need to get the temperature to 20 from -10.
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by noqc 3y ago
Peak solar is peak A/C usage in the summer, which is typically more expensive than heating. In colder times more energy is used at night, but I think less energy is still used at night in the winter than in the day in summer.
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by noqc 3y ago
100 MWh is 8 tons of "oil", according to a google search. Oil is probably about the density of water, so 1 cubic meter is about 1 ton of oil, and this structure is about 2000 cubic meters, so oil has 200 times the fuel density of
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by noqc 3y ago
I know that the situation at Los Alamos was, at one point, 5 administrators to 1 scientist. That doesn't jibe with the 7% figure op there, but I imagine I don't know what a management fee corresponds to. The administrative overhea
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by noqc 3y ago
Those are indeed other words. I said that it's incorrect to describe the bad things the government does as being driven by "voters acting tactically". It's not even rational to vote. Changing what I said so that you ca
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by noqc 3y ago
I agree, that's why I called it ignorant.
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by noqc 3y ago
If coal is equally distributed among all people, then the utility to each person for burning their coal is more than offset by the (negative) utility of everyone burning their coal. Voting is what allows us to overcome this sort of prison
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by noqc 3y ago
>Academia simply does not have the funding to pay wages driven up. This isn't true at all. I know people in academia who have to be convinced by their unions to not teach for free during disputes. Past about the 150k mark, The onl
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by noqc 3y ago
What are the incentive structures driven by?
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by noqc 3y ago
You say only saving grace like its some sort of loophole. Most of the people who support banning tiktok have always maintained that the legal justification for banning it rests on the fact that it is controlled by a foreign adversary. Tha
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by noqc 3y ago
That "essay" written in 1844 was 233 pages long. This doesn't really fit with his thesis.
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by noqc 3y ago
Honestly, nothing makes me want to write essays like reading Paul Graham. Someone needs to argue with him, since it's clear he's not going to do it.
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by noqc 3y ago
This sounds like how I would write when I was on adderall. I mean, what the hell is this statement? "I love questions that seem naughty in some way — for example, by seeming counterintuitive or overambitious or heterodox. Ideally all t
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by noqc 3y ago
Somehow a 233 page manuscript is not what I think of when I think of "essay".
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by noqc 3y ago
Where do you draw the line between damages and externalities?
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by noqc 3y ago
my point was merely that in most cases where "universal object" is used, it could be replaced with "dumbest object such that".
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by noqc 3y ago
One of the things that it takes the longest to learn in mathematics is that most things are defined in the dumbest way possible. In particular, if (over a vector space V) you want to define a bilinear product m:V x V -> V, this is exactl
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by noqc 3y ago
To be clear, I'm not arguing the validity of the position of "trust experts", I' arguing the inanity of encouraging people to trust experts who have taken the position of lying, out of their professional expertise.
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by noqc 3y ago
I wonder why it is that people don't "trust experts"?

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