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901.
by ouid 6y ago
I disagree wholeheartedly with this idea that adversaries create instability. Stability is the result of all forces acting on an object summing to zero, to abuse metaphor. You can't have that if all of the forces are pointing in the sa
902.
by ouid 6y ago
I assume you're asking this question in good faith. Negotiating power is derived exclusively from the ability to walk away. When walking away from your employment means being evicted, starving, and being unable to afford medical care
903.
by ouid 6y ago
I think there is a growing part of america that is coming around to the idea that the path to more negotiating power for laborers is not unions. It is through basic income and social safety nets.
904.
by ouid 6y ago
I would say that Florida is essentially a Chernobyl style exclusion zone, except that Chernobyl is actually a pretty nice place now.
905.
by ouid 6y ago
No matter how much I relate to the content, a New Yorker article about how unsuccessful the author is bound to come off a little... tone deaf?
906.
by ouid 6y ago
"10% chance by 2045, 50% chance by 2050" I'm really pessimistic about the next 30 years, but really optimistic about the next 5 after that.
907.
by ouid 6y ago
you have completely missed the point. You cannot compare the number of current deaths with the number of current infections without taking into consideration the rate at which the virus is spreading. At the beginning, the rate at which the
908.
by ouid 6y ago
It's not that hard to work backward from the observed fatality rate and the death curve to the infection curve two weeks ago. That's basically all they're doing in this paper. It does not suggest that everyone in new york cau
909.
by ouid 6y ago
most of what people need cars for is shopping, a problem that is more efficiently addressed with delivery.
910.
by ouid 6y ago
most of these problems can be solved by just giving everyone the right to say no to labor with a guaranteed poverty income. It's not enough money to live on comfortably, but it gives the labor negotiator a chance to walk away from a mo
911.
by ouid 6y ago
Yes.
912.
by ouid 6y ago
I have thought pretty hard about the need to include a fuzzy word like equivalence in my definition of monopoly, what would it take for me to persuade you to adopt my definition?
913.
by ouid 6y ago
obviously TOS written by companies wielding monopoly power are bullshit. We've just defined monopoly too narrowly in the law. Is it possible for me to obtain an equivalent product from a competing company? If the answer is no, then you
914.
by ouid 6y ago
so you're saying that it's a different game.
915.
by ouid 6y ago
>We're not meant to live that way I'm not sure what you think this means. Are you arguing that we're "meant to live" by commuting to work and gathering in cafes and restaurants? Humans are extraordinarily adaptiv
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by ouid 6y ago
Sweden is effectively as locked down as anywhere else. The prevalence of the virus is diminishing there because people are not going out and getting sick, rendering R_t<1. I don't participate in social distancing because my governme
917.
by ouid 6y ago
furthermore, it seems that it should be easier to obtain credit if you have no debt than if you have more debt than collateral, and obviously no ability to pay it.
918.
by ouid 6y ago
Monarchy is the same thing as theocracy. Authority is granted by divine right.
919.
by ouid 6y ago
Well, sure, the notion of a total order on political ideologies is ridiculous, but if we are engaging in that silliness already, then the religious fanatics who insist upon their divine right to own women is pretty on the nose for compariso
920.
by ouid 6y ago
I'm not sure if you read the paper, because the analogy is not tenuous. It is a period of training where they require the model to be completely deprived of standard input, and fed noise instead, so that they can essentially flip the s
921.
by ouid 6y ago
I don't know what you think regularization means, but there is no such thing as "just regularization". Not all regularization is equal, and different types of regularization combine in unpredictable ways. The regularization o
922.
by ouid 6y ago
It seems to me that the problem lies not in the fact that our information is unreliable, but that the social contract has broken down. If you want to foster an environment where honestly is viable, you have to start from the very foundation
923.
by ouid 6y ago
DNA is not a neural network, (and neither is a brain, for that matter). The comment is still decidedly nonsensical.
924.
by ouid 6y ago
A lot of people have replied to this, but in what way is a brain a neural network trained on old data? That does not make any sense at all.
925.
by ouid 6y ago
I dont think the problem with the Kochs is their tunnel vision.
926.
by ouid 6y ago
the game itself has changed quite a bit, and the number of people playing it, and the dominance that they achieve has also gone up quite a bit.
927.
by ouid 6y ago
Simplicity of keyboard seems like a bigger deal.
928.
by ouid 6y ago
You can also use state money to settle debts established by the courts. Money is not an illusion.
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by ouid 6y ago
Are airpods really universally agreed upon to be a "perfect product"? Are we forgetting the price tag, the limited use time, the fact that they add 3 disconnected parts to your phone/headphones setup, or the fact that they we
930.
by ouid 6y ago
You are referring to the article written about the paper, whcih is engaging, at best, in wishful thinking, and at worst, propaganda. A doubling in the number of deaths associated with "diabetes" is absolutely not consistent with n

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