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by progne 3y ago
Imagine a democracy in which you vote your IQ from an official test. If your IQ was measured at 114 your vote counts 114 times, etc. This seems obviously unfair. But would it improve the results? My intuition fails me here, I can't pre
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by progne 3y ago
> Heckler's veto Often motivated by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome .
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by progne 3y ago
I was once on a mountain top composed almost entirely of rocks like these. I'd like to give a sand castle artist this excavator and ask them to turn it into a fairy tale.
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by progne 3y ago
See for example the Seattle "tips to recycle right" * Empty, Clean, and Dry * When in Doubt, Find Out * Keep Bags Out The page goes into detail on each. This isn't unusual in my experience. https://www.s
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by progne 3y ago
I've heard that the biggest barrier to reuse is the expense of purifying the inputs of the various recycling processes. A few stray baked beans can gum up the works. If so the economics would be greatly changed by a robot running AI so
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by progne 3y ago
I once thought I saw a kid abusing a small cat. He picked it up and threw it across his front lawn, quite far. I started running over to stop him ... and then saw the cat run back to the kid, who did it again. They did it a few more times b
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by progne 3y ago
So if the cubesat moves it's a huge engineering and economic advance and a possible physics revolution. If not, collective yawn. All played out in public right above almost everybody. If it moves Mike McCulloch becomes famous. What a g
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by progne 3y ago
And the fulcrum, as with Trump in 2016 and Johnson in 2019, was immigration. It's the biggest populist wedge on the planet.
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by progne 3y ago
Disagree, constraints on respec are consequences for in game choices, which raise the stakes for each move and can greatly increase immersion. Like putting money down on a horse race. That doesn't mean that all RPGs should be perma-dea
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by progne 3y ago
This is a product where the SaaS doesn't seem to add much that couldn't be done as easily locally, other than monetizing the process.
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by progne 3y ago
> Government-funded cooperative breeding is one solution. So the author sees the shrinking of the next generation as a problem to be solved, with less individualism. But is the shrinking of human population and environmental impact a bug
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by progne 3y ago
I'm going out on a limb and opine that the demand to research catgirls should not be agreed to. Not only would it attract more blackmail but it is a highly unethical treatment of the test human / feline genetic chimeras, which are
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by progne 3y ago
See Stuart Kauffman, At Home in the Universe, for a discussion in depth. It's a property of all life. I think of it as a zone between inanimate and immolated. We need energy flow to live, but too much kills.
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by progne 3y ago
What if someone tries this IRL and the moon actually jumps closer and makes the shooter pass out so it stays there and the tidal forces rip apart the crust and we all die. Don't encourage them.
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by progne 3y ago
You're listing sources of systemic collapse, but perhaps the greater danger is the reverse: Ilya Sutskever's fear that it has "the potential to create infinitely stable dictatorships." We flourish in a middle ground betw
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by progne 3y ago
The fourth amendment is a de jure ban, and shouldn't a de jure ban be a de facto ban for law enforcement? The lawful way to make it de facto is to make it de jure first by repealing that pesky amendment.
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by progne 3y ago
This could be self-funding if they allow the crew to vote each other out of the airlock, and edit it for Netflix.
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by progne 3y ago
Is glutamate : neurons :: lactic acid : muscle?
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by progne 3y ago
In say Iran? Search the requester for cannabis. In the U.S. there are stories of law enforcement following people home from hydroponics shops and searching their trash, same idea.
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by progne 3y ago
There would seem to be risk of your site being repurposed as a honeypot by authorities, and investigating sources of requests made to it from their jurisdiction.
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by progne 3y ago
True, but all of those strokes of luck put together don't make for success without virtues like wisdom, grit and hard work. And with those virtues many people have succeeded without those kinds of luck. So the virtues are more central
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by progne 3y ago
Not really, you can expand it to "Luck favors those who are prepared to take advantage of it." They are more fertile ground for random favorable outcomes that fall everywhere.
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by progne 3y ago
I've had a die off of the pinyon pine trees on my small lot, from bark beetles, and have lost about half of them. It's been a big job to clear them out. During that I've noticed that they are more likely to survive when close
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by progne 3y ago
I wonder if liquid metal catalysts can be mixed with ferrofluids and manipulated magnetically.
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by progne 3y ago
I have a similar script in my head: Notice when I'm angry. Not, get angry more, but notice it, because it's pointing right at whatever I need to fix or learn from. For instance I've found that it usually arises from some fail
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by progne 3y ago
Reading the books first will improve the movies. Watching the movies first will detract from the books.
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by progne 3y ago
Tom Cruise had a great success with Top Gun: Maverick by just pressing the Fan Service Button very hard, over and over and over. If instead he made a movie about the tough young woman fighter jock who rescues sad old Maverick from his compl
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by progne 3y ago
For me this is functionally equal to blocking twitter links.
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by progne 3y ago
> Switching to low-tech weapons sounds unrealistic because it would require global cooperation Imagine a version of game theory in which a defector gets a huge, overwhelming advantage, but everyone declines to defect because they just
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by progne 3y ago
And incomes are lower in red states and EVs are still very much a premium product. There are fewer Lamborghinis per capita in red states too.

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