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by pradn 6y ago
It also implies a nefariousness that might not be appropriate.
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by pradn 6y ago
I think many oppose nuclear power because for the same cost, you can build a lot of wind, solar, and hydro instead. I don't know if efficiencies have caught up and all. There's less of a catastrophic risk with these compared to nu
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by pradn 6y ago
I'm explicitly trying to draw a parallel between other colonial states and China. This isn't absolving other colonial states in any way. The colony-empire relationship is a just a node along the gradient of territory and dominatio
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by pradn 6y ago
It's important to realize that Xinjiang is a colony of China. China took over Xinjiang in the past few hundred years; historically, kingdoms there were independent. Sometimes they had tributary relationships, other times they were alli
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by pradn 6y ago
Apple got $12 billion from Google to keep Google the default search engine in Safari in 2019. (See [1].) All that money comes from ads. If Apple was really principled about privacy, they'd develop their own privacy-preserving search en
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by pradn 6y ago
Do doctors get paid more for prescribing one brand of medication vs another?
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by pradn 6y ago
Thanks for this! It's right up my alley as a history-lover.
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by pradn 6y ago
The biggest problem is how Robinhood promotes trading individual stocks and cryptos, often with leverage. I'd laud them as a democratizing force if they guided people into safe long-term investments. But that's not what gets the b
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by pradn 6y ago
The existence of a well-run government agency goes against free-marketeer beliefs that the government can never do anything right. The USPS flies in the face of that. Unionized government employees also typically lean Democratic, too.
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by pradn 6y ago
Civil disobedience does get results. That's why it can be a good tactic.
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by pradn 6y ago
Google is matching donations as usual, but they sent an extra email out specifically to ask for donations for helping Beirut.
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by pradn 6y ago
The Google internal wiki system solves this by showing you when the last update was and when the last review for staleness was. A user is assigned as the owner for a document. They get pinged when the article hasn't been updated in X m
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by pradn 6y ago
This is much harder than it needs to be. But I also don't think agricultural land should be rezoned willy-nilly. Much of India's population (~60%) rely on agriculture. It should be with great thought that private parties should be
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by pradn 6y ago
Colonialism didn't seriously arrive in India until 1750, and it took until 1800-15 for the British East India Company to consolidate it's control over the subcontinent. Before 1750, the Company was a straightforward trading compan
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by pradn 6y ago
What would you suggest the citizens of Weimar Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s do to prevent the rise of Nazism while also being tolerant? Fascism and Stalinism are two endpoints of Enlightenment thinking. Is it merely utopian to aspire
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by pradn 6y ago
Nice and simple!
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by pradn 6y ago
The UK doesn't have a federal form of government. The fair comparison would be to add in the cost of municipal and state-level courts.
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by pradn 6y ago
A related idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance 'The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the
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by pradn 6y ago
People in other countries are sometimes less burdened by interference from non-governmental organizations. Countries with strong unions offer workers freedom from the worst of workplace strictures - think the right to assemble or to speak o
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by pradn 6y ago
Americans only seem to value freedom from government interference in their lives. There's far more control from schools, universities, workplaces, and HOAs. Many rights like freedom of speech are curtailed in schools and workspaces, fo
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by pradn 6y ago
Competition for a limited resource (ad space, land, wireless spectrum) selects for companies with higher margin. In one understanding, higher profits mean the business is providing higher value. In another, it means the business is sucking
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by pradn 6y ago
It sorta does add shelf space. The number of ads show per keyword varies. A large proportion of searches get no ads, and some get a whole pageful.
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by pradn 6y ago
There's also "Marriage, Italian Style" with Marcello Mastrioanni and Sofia Loren, a story of a troubled marriage. Not at all a romcom, but it has some comitragic elements.
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by pradn 6y ago
I absolutely do. I try to wear a mask as much as possible, though it can't be 100% when dining. Some 30% of NYC renters haven't paid rent since March and may face eviction. If I can help restaurant staff do that, that's a hel
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by pradn 6y ago
I don't think it's "reckless and inconsiderate" for people to frequent outdoor restaurants/bars now. NYC has had outdoor dining open for 6 weeks, with low and stable COVID infection rates throughout. A scientific co
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by pradn 6y ago
Apple might be skyrocketing b/c 1. it's post-covid revenues weren't significantly impacted 2. it's a blue chip stock in an era where safe securities like bonds yield nothing (there's no where else to put money) 3. f
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by pradn 6y ago
I wonder if being able to update albums has been a good thing. It may encourage people to release "MVP"s because they can always improve them later. It doesn't quite fit because reviewers will review the first version. For me
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by pradn 6y ago
The problem here is that something that's useful for users (saving time with knowledge panels, question/answer lists, and suggested searches) also takes away clicks from other websites. Something can be both good for the user in t
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by pradn 6y ago
Cuckoo filters get far less explanation articles on Hacker News than Bloom filters, which pop up on the front page every month!
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by pradn 6y ago
Perhaps if the choices were not stark, perhaps if you werene't staring down the barrel of calamity, perhaps if America didn't have the capability to inflict immense suffering around the world or make a huge positive contribution,

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