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by resters 6y ago
One time I watched dugsong hacking away at something on his laptop... he had drawn a crowd. I wonder what happened to all the monkey.org people... I imagine most are in the security world at this point.
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by resters 6y ago
Adobe Acrobat just won't die, and for some reason Dropbox gave it a very annoying lifeline, or vice versa. It would be nice if Dropbox invested heavily in its own PDF viewer and allowed the user to easily opt out (or opt out by default
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by resters 6y ago
My advice on printers: - only buy a laser printer, no ink-jet, etc. - avoid all-in-one units that have scanners, fax, etc. - choose one that supports internet printing and wifi, but also has an ethernet connection
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by resters 6y ago
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/vitamin-d-deficiency-may-rai...
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by resters 6y ago
There is no national security justification for banning TikTok. Where's the relevant source code? It would be easy to make the claim totally obvious, yet this isn't done. Conclusion: It's false.
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by resters 6y ago
Along with the bipartisan trend toward authoritarianism is a bipartisan trend away from economic freedom. Some want to hinder our ability to trade with Chinese firms or hire foreign workers, others want to hinder our ability to take gig eco
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by resters 6y ago
The administration opposes economic freedom, and is attempting to replicate the sort of heavy-handed approach to meddling with private businesses that is traditionally associated with authoritarian regimes. There is absolutely no reason to
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by resters 6y ago
I think you are taking those links as an overly important part of Hanson's argument. His point is that if we consider where life originated without any a priori assumptions, Mars could be viewed (based on some existing theories) as a
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by resters 6y ago
In some sense all governments are the same. Any government trying to create a great firewall will use the same kind of propagandistic, utopian-seeming verbiage and metaphors.
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by resters 6y ago
The headline should be “US launches great firewall”
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by resters 6y ago
I'm not all that familiar with Yarvin. Could you contextualize how he fits into the broader rationalist movement? I want to understand how someone with such strongly authoritarian beliefs finds common ground with rationalists.
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by resters 6y ago
Yes, and I hope that is the correct explanation. But I think we should be wary of the tremendous pressure that publications face to lean away from nuance and anything that requires careful reading and to rely on broad and pat generalization
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by resters 6y ago
Perhaps, but can we honestly believe that if Lewis-Kraus had omitted the extra verbose reassurances that Scott isn't a Trump supporter and within hours of the article's publication there were calls for the New Yorker to fire him,
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by resters 6y ago
If we took this to the logical conclusion, nobody in the US would be able to afford faster CPUs because of the high price of domestically manufactured textiles and vegetables harvested with domestic labor.
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by resters 6y ago
> guilty by association True. It's peculiar how a nuanced presentation of Scott's blog and the values of rationalist culture are not sufficient, and a crude description of Scott's purity test results is offered to readers
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by resters 6y ago
In my view the sales tax is at least as big a problem as the delivery fees. Delivery fees cover things like healthcare for gig workers, etc. Sales tax pays for the police who kill people.
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by resters 6y ago
It would be nice to get all of the HDL used by the HPSDR project fabbed this way.
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by resters 6y ago
Fairly does not entail equally. Chances are there will be a political calculation done by whoever is in power at the time, and loans will be disproportionately forgiven in a way that offers the most political benefit. The approach taken wil
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by resters 6y ago
Yet American prisons don’t meet the UN standard? Abu Garson, etc. All this hubbub about China’s human rights record is paving the way for Trump to stir up a fake conflict just before the election.
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by resters 6y ago
Most of the stuff Trump has done in the name of "America first" has restricted economic freedom for Americans. Tariffs make it more costly for American importers to do business, and restrictions on immigrations deprive American fi
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by resters 7y ago
I think Apple's autocorrect will be seen by historians as a very strange blind spot. I have a high end iPhone and autocorrect routinely slips in some corrections after I've already scanned the text visually and decided to press se
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by resters 7y ago
The only possible explanation is that Barr is trying to hide wrongdoing or negligence on the part of the US government. Any information relevant to national security (such as names, etc.) could easily be redacted.
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by resters 7y ago
One use of financial engineering is to distill risk into very narrow products that allow innovative instruments to be created. The problem is that systemic risk is then distilled out of the priced instruments that are created, yet those ins
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by resters 7y ago
I'll admit that I think national security justifications used by politicians are often quite lacking in substance. From an economic perspective, we need to think about what our economy is "good at". Generally speaking, when
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by resters 7y ago
It's not going to work much longer. We've already seen the Fed make moves that are significantly beyond what it did in 2008, and since 2008 firms have been aware this would happen and have been less risk-averse as a result. Creat
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by resters 7y ago
Issuing loans is risky, and the price of borrowing should reflect actual risk. The US economy is moving to a more and more highly leveraged scenario where all firms avoid worrying about systemic risk because it's profitable to do so si
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by resters 7y ago
Lack of liquidity is just firms stubbornly trying to force this kind of move to happen. Yes, marking down prices based on actual demand would result in a financial loss for some firms (and likely insolvency due to lax underwriting requirem
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by resters 7y ago
This is actually the goal, to prevent price discovery and to make it less likely that the political system would require firms to use adequately cautious levels of underwriting capital. The perverse incentive for firms is that the more accu
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by resters 7y ago
A story like this being at the top of HN is how we know covid-19 is serious.
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by resters 7y ago
If you think about your reply, you'll realize it is nothing more than name calling and does not refute the data points that I mentioned.

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