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by q1w2 5y ago
I find surveys like this to be useful, although I don't think the number 99% is very meaningful. You are correct that there are biases in climate research and in scientist's selection of fields, experiments, and data. ...but even
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by q1w2 5y ago
> What we want is to make the kids who do worse do better Not exactly. The optimal strategy is to make every kid do their best. That means giving some resources to every kid in proportion to how much better it'll make them. We don
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by q1w2 5y ago
The general technology here is a big part of the company's asset value. If the WHO/UN/EU/etc wants to make it public, they should buy it from Moderna, not twist their arm to hand it over. We need to reward tech creators
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by q1w2 5y ago
...and that isn't restricted to this vaccine, and is a major chunk of their IP. If the WHO/UN/whomever wants to make that general technology public, they should buy it from them. In the interim, Moderna has said it would help
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by q1w2 5y ago
I wonder if this has anything to do with the correlative studies that showed that higher IQ individuals have less children on average. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence
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This is simply not accurate. There might be certain areas that are more impacted than others, like the Maldives, but there is no reasonable interpretation of "uninhabitable" any scientist would attribute to Africa, let alone Eart
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by q1w2 5y ago
As a child in the Reagan years, this was not a source of stress for myself or any kid I knew.
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by q1w2 5y ago
What's spot on about this comment is that it correctly characterizes the comedy PC critics on Twitter, Reddit, and other social media, as children. ...which they probably are in the literal sense as well. I think people forget how ma
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by q1w2 5y ago
I agree. Almost all historians acknowledge the persistent existence of nomadic and hunter gatherer societies living at the same time as agricultural based societies. The problem with Graeber is that, as a self-described anarchist, he speci
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by q1w2 5y ago
What you are describing is still a bartering system - just with delayed payments.
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by q1w2 5y ago
I think the biggest set of fallacious claims made are made on the "Clovis Point" finds. The author makes broad sweeping statements based on these small finds that are not really supported by the evidence, nor do any of the expert
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by q1w2 5y ago
It's a political book. Graeber, an self-described anarchist, looks through the archeological record for evidence that non-hierarchical societies existed successfully. Everyone in that political area calls him a "genius" beca
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by q1w2 5y ago
I think his biggest fault was that his passionate political views directed his research. He wanted to demonstrate that the earliest societies could exist without hierarchy in "popular councils and citizen assemblies... and were stab
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by q1w2 5y ago
I'm sure all of this is true, but I feel as though if a gang of thieves ran through your neighborhood and robbed everyone who didn't have a home alarm system, and/or leaving doors/windows unlocked. Would we all be talkin
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by q1w2 5y ago
Invading Afghanistan to destroy Al-Qaeda after 9/11 was probably the correct decision. Staying there for 20 years, on the other hand, including after killing Osama Bin Laden on the other hand... That probably had more to do with havi
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by q1w2 5y ago
... and that assumes an exit. The vast majority of startups simply die.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Sort of. The pay packages may be high in "value" but since they are all in multi-year vesting stock options, the founder still needs to make the company successful in order to cash any of that money out. It's not like they&#
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by q1w2 5y ago
Selling it when the hype hits peak, of course! ...and I'm being honest because I don't think any court in the world has ever acknowledged an NFT as proof of ownership in any dispute.
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by q1w2 5y ago
It's not only KYC. They would need to start putting in anti-money laundering detection reports, OFAC reporting... the list of financial reports/audit/regulations is ENORMOUS. No way a gaming company wants to do this... in ev
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by q1w2 5y ago
P2P is not the same as "crypto and NFTs". The reason they are doing this is so they do not become a money laundering platform.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Having spent time in city council budget meetings, I can tell you that animosity over seemingly tiny expenditures can be unreal, and not at all worth the fight.
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by q1w2 5y ago
The underlying issue here is that there is no national legal standard for responsible disclosure. ...and with all the news of foreign ransomeware gang causing havoc, prosecutors and politicians are HUNGRY to prosecute "hackers".
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by q1w2 5y ago
I am not arguing Facebook's goodness or evilness. > It's the height of irony that a company that profits from selling information about you would ever try to defend itself with a right to privacy. Everyone deserves a robust def
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by q1w2 5y ago
Guilt should not be inferred by a person or company protecting its own privacy. It is naive to think that a bad actor cannot craft a falsehood from a subset of truths they select that you've chosen to make public.
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by q1w2 5y ago
So they should make all their code open source? Have no intellectual property rights? You are suggesting they just go bankrupt.
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by q1w2 5y ago
This is folly because it only takes ONE person to leak documents, and there are always disgruntled employees somewhere in a company at the scale we are talking about. You cannot assume good behavior of literally tens of thousands of employe
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by q1w2 5y ago
The point is that protecting your own privacy should never been used as an indication of guilt. "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" is the lie of the authoritarian. It is naive to think that a bad actor
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by q1w2 5y ago
Acting as a mule for money laundering is a crime. They are criminals. They might be young, but the majority of them know they are doing something wrong.
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Sometimes transparency encourages bad actors.
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by q1w2 5y ago
If leaking internal news/information, it should seem like a trivial exercise to disseminate an email with subtle unique identifiers in it and fire leakers.

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