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by pharke 7y ago
I agree, I've been thinking more and more that we need to spend some serious time on defining what is and isn't best handled by markets and drawing clear bounds around those areas. I'm positive that there are enough real wor
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by pharke 7y ago
Prohibition doesn't change the sum total of misery in the world, it just evenly distributes it. The only way to reduce the total amount of misery is to increase the standard of living of more people. Everyone should be able to eat de
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by pharke 7y ago
The higher dimensional space has "full resolution" since it is the summation of all of the data in the lower dimensional space. Any given part of the lower dimensional space has less "resolution" or information because i
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by pharke 7y ago
The basic idea is that all of the information required to recreate a higher dimensional space is encoded in a lower dimensional space. The information is "spread across" the lower dimension in that each point encodes a lower fidel
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by pharke 7y ago
There seem to be a bunch of self-centered pessimists replying to you so I'll try to give a real response. If you don't already work in an industry that is doing research towards or creating a product that makes a difference, chang
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by pharke 7y ago
I'm not sure you'd need to bring your own water, the sulfuric acid is produced in the upper atmosphere when sunlight splits carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen which then react with water vapour and sulphur dioxide. We
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by pharke 7y ago
To gaze in timeless wonderment at the ineffable beauty of creation.
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by pharke 7y ago
That depends entirely on the quality of the writing.
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by pharke 7y ago
As others have said, take notes. The same thing happens to me and I find I can't get rid of the "itch" of a new idea without writing it down. Once you write it down you can easily continue reading. Revisit your notes later
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by pharke 7y ago
Maybe we should put some of these perennial favourites on a schedule, we could use spaced repetition so they come up for discussion just when we need them.
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by pharke 7y ago
That doesn't seem to be a pure invalidation. Food that is not vegetarian is not the only food served to non-vegetarians since most people prefer a variety of meat and non-meat options when dining. Add to that the way food is prepared
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by pharke 7y ago
I think his first point about carbon capture probably deserves more attention. It's likely the most sellable strategy and it also doesn't depend on the location where it is carried out. It has the benefits of possibly producing
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by pharke 7y ago
That's actually solvable by using another product of high-heat processes, basaltic rebar. The main problem with concrete infrastructure is that water eventually infiltrates down to the rebar and wire mesh used to add tensile strength
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by pharke 7y ago
Judging from history, we are perfectly willing to let masses of people suffer and die in the streets rather than give up the luxuries the few can afford. We're already seeing this with increasing inequality, which should really be cal
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by pharke 7y ago
The name shouldn't matter. What I mean is, we should only care about the output produced by a given input. The keys could simply be unique hashes but we also associate a full description of the interface, tests, and text describing how
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by pharke 7y ago
The ditch itself is also filled with caltrops and ankle breaking traps. The fortifications behind the ditch usually involved a wooden palisade or stone walls. Even so, these defenses were generally for defending against small groups of loos
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by pharke 7y ago
By that definition of governance you could argue an individual must engage in politics when dealing with only his own choices. Surely there is a line between direct negotiation and political governance. I'd argue that line is drawn whe
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by pharke 7y ago
Those topics are also the most likely to devolve into hostile confrontations because they are emotionally loaded and highly complex. No one person is going to be able to devise a solution to the major problems in those domains, let alone b
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by pharke 7y ago
I think others have pointed out that this belief that he'd have to hire someone is a fallacy. There are some pretty basic techniques that he could learn from literally watching a few YouTube videos that could be applied to his existin
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by pharke 7y ago
That is a surprisingly good result. It literally changed my perception of those screenshots from "that is some gross and sloppy artwork, I'm keeping my money" to "hey not bad, I might buy that"
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by pharke 7y ago
The truth is probably somewhere between the two of you. We shouldn't be entirely dependant on centralized systems, nor should we attempt to be 100% self-sufficient. I'm sure there's a best of both worlds approach.
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by pharke 7y ago
I don't agree that all pro-nuclear people are right wing. It's historically false for one. It's also financially unfeasible for private industry with current power plant design. The best model for current technology would be
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by pharke 7y ago
Perhaps a larger electric grid would solve the issue? Power consumption varies greatly by time of day and even greater by local climate. Or perhaps we should put the excess to good use, desalination and pumping of water is very power intens
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by pharke 7y ago
I'm not talking about language here. The discussion is about _recursion_ which has vast implications for both language and thought.
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by pharke 7y ago
They may have had other reasons for being highly regarded, or feared. Non recursive language does not allow you to give commands more complicated than "you do this", for instance saying "tell X to do this thing at this time i
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by pharke 7y ago
I don't think most people feel negatively about these missions but I do think that a lot of people that are pro space exploration feel that we should be doing these missions as well as human space exploration and that we've really
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by pharke 7y ago
There are grey and black market equivalents of those that someone on this end of the scale is more likely to use. No one's walking into a bank to ask for a loan to start a click farm.
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by pharke 7y ago
Gentrification seems to be a form of domestic tourism. It at least grows from the same vine as the travelers lust for authentic experience of a culture. A few tourists here and there do little harm but mobs of them can completely skew the l
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by pharke 7y ago
Why only those two options for getting trees onto private land? Why not an incentive system for landowners to plant and maintain trees? Let the government plant trees on your lawn and get a reduction in your land tax.
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by pharke 7y ago
Insular was probably the wrong term to use, culturally rigid or conservative might be better. The point is they maintain a high fidelity to the cultural and behavioural patterns of their group. One of which is to eschew birth control and pu

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