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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Part of what's going on in Mexico is that the cartels have spread romanticized images of themselves to the point where many Mexican youngsters actually aspire to cartel life. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narc
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
I'm reminded of this recent viral Youtube which depicts what is apparently a routine occurrence in South Africa: A professional gang, armed with heavy caliber weapons, executes a sophisticated highway ambush in an attempt to capture a
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Yes, I'm very skeptical of Buckman's claim that more fraud will help. Seems similar to a claim around 2015-2016 that voting for Donald Trump will inspire America to clean up its act politically. Institutions aren't biologic
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Sounds like Light Table http://lighttable.com/ Unfortunately it looks like it's no longer under development.
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We know that different animals have different numbers of chromosomes. For example, humans have 46 and chimps have 48 even though our common ancestor is relatively recent. So at some point there must have been successful reproduction betwe
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
How about rebuilding the bone the tooth grows out of? My dentist says that my teeth look great, but the x-ray of my alveolar bones that support those teeth look like that of someone 10 years older than me.
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Dude is getting stuff named after him while he's still alive!
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
reddit can be incredibly angry as well. Downvoting has advantages, but a disadvantage is creation of echo chambers where people feed off each other to get more and more angry, only hearing the worst from those who disagree. https:/&#
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
HN has an interesting business model relative to other social sites. Instead of serving targeted ads, the site itself is essentially one giant ad for Y Combinator. That creates better incentives to promote high quality discussion because
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The point is it invalidates the Zinn quote
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The strength of your claims is vastly out of proportion to the strength of your evidence. Remember all the furor over the Gates divorce because people were worried that it would impact their global health work and so on? I guess that was a
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Global warming is an emergency. Ultimately what matters is minimizing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. You could do that by pumping oil into a landfill in a way that it can't be burned (note that it could be burned in its origina
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
The entire field of economics is based on the idea that if you increase the price of something, people will buy less of it. If we increase the demand for plastic, that increases demand for fossil fuels (since fossil fuels are needed to mak
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
>It's not nothing, but it's not a good excuse to waste more single-use plastic (as you're implying here saying "Single-use plastic waste is 'good'") Suppose I get upset about all the fossil fuel which i
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
>the claim pertains to non-biodegradeable bioplastics only. That's most plastic though. Your average soda bottle is not biodegradable on any meaningful timescale. As the article puts it: "If we're going to extract carbon
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
>As the linked article admits, it only sequesters carbon if it is plant-based At the very top: "It’s usually made from petroleum, which is better in a landfill than in a tank of gasoline" "It" being plastic. The comm
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Single-use plastic waste is good. It sequesters carbon. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wait-plastic-can-...
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
"Excuse me, but did you just compare the number 1 to the number 1000 by pointing out that they are both positive integers?" The point I am making is simple. There are approaching 3,000 billionaires worldwide. Suppose 90% are ups
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
"Targeted advertising", in other words.
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
I rarely buy a product without reading the reviews. In the long run, selling bad products is usually not a good way to make money. (Unless the government is subsidizing your industry, e.g. for-profit colleges.) And competence of advertisi
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Is there such a thing as an ethical thousandaire? Millionaire? If you think there is, why can't there be ethical billionaires? An ethical billionaire is just an ethical millionaire who kept working to make the source of their income
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Elsewhere in this thread, people are complaining about ads for useless and inferior products. This problem would only get worse if we handed out ad space via lottery, since most products are useless/inferior. Selecting for deep pocke
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
It looks like a billionairephobic dog whistle to me. Why is it necessary to emphasize that they aren't humans if what he means to refer to are corporations? But here are some interesting stats for you. raspyberr thinks that "thi
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
If what you say is true, billionaires who inherit their money should also be among the most ethical. Is that what you believe?
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Why do you believe that? And if you believe that, how are you so sure that it hasn't already happened? If you're a software developer making $100K annually, you are already in the global 1%. Should people like you exist? Have y
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
If I gave you a billion dollars, do you believe that you would suddenly transform into an amoral non-human monster?
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Sometimes marketing tells me about a product that I didn't know existed, or tells me about a superior product to the one I'm currently buying.
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
>I don't believe this, likely he just made that up to make marketing look better. Can you find 3 examples written prior to today of people demonizing the marketing of products they love?
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
>things with large amounts of money aren't humans and don't have morals "Dehumanize when it's trendy." This is billionairephobia, friend.
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Sure, but the sad thing to me here is that no one even seems to care much about this. Note these articles are both from over 5 years ago. We aren't even capable of having that level of discussion nowadays. Our federal government is p

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