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by revelio 4y ago
Not necessarily. It depends on whether this increase is just natural long term variance. The charts Haidt shows are very truncated. Data about suicides exists for far longer than the lines he shows.
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by revelio 4y ago
Only if you define any driver as "malware". SecuROM didn't actually come with malware in the way normal people define it, it was just described that way by salty pirates.
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by revelio 4y ago
They aren't the same. Climate change activism states that you - yes you - are a bad person for not radically changing your lifestyle. Those changes may not even be achievable, but that doesn't change your moral culpability. Th
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by revelio 4y ago
Even in just the last few months there have been stories posted here about specific people who killed themselves stating it was because of worry about climate change.
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by revelio 4y ago
Of course I remember these things, I was an adult at the time. You're maybe willfully misinterpreting my point. It doesn't matter why Brown spent so much money. What matters is that after he did so nobody in the Labour hierarchy
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by revelio 4y ago
Why should we expect the EU to correctly describe its own laws on its own website? How unreasonable! The laws themselves are not any more precise. I spent way too long puzzling over the wording in the GDPR.
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by revelio 4y ago
I do in fact froth at the mouth when people say universal healthcare is free! You know me so well already :) Fundamentally, standards as vague as "legitimate" or "necessary" shouldn't be a part of law because they a
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by revelio 4y ago
Super, so we can get rid of all banners then. Because ad tracking cookies absolutely improve the user experience. It's unarguably better for users to see a small number of high quality targeted ads than to see a large number of low qua
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by revelio 4y ago
Print publications give their advertisers detailed demographic data collected via surveys and other techniques. The idea they don't collect data about their readers is wrong.
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by revelio 4y ago
They aren't preventing you from using the service. You can consent to the cookies, or also choose to pay. Which of course requires an account, which requires a cookie, which is then tied to your payment details, and therefore far less
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by revelio 4y ago
"Disable cookies" was an option in the very first web browsers, so no, there doesn't need to be any addition to the law. You can disable cookies any time you want. Just don't cry when it turns out that you actually love
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by revelio 4y ago
As one of HN's resident climate doomerism skeptics, here is what's what: 1. Climate change is genuinely real. Some of it is probably human caused. That isn't likely to be a problem though as the climate has always changed, in
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by revelio 4y ago
I think it's because this is described with the word "debate". Running 100m really fast is still clearly running, it's just very fast. Anyone can run, not everyone can run that fast. That video doesn't resemble anyt
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by revelio 4y ago
Your own graph shows that during Brown's time debt went from 35% of GDP to 70% of GDP, and yet Labour had nothing to say on the topic of reducing government spending to slow down that skyrocketing rise. It was only after 2010 that the
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by revelio 4y ago
Is that clear? How did you arrive at that number? Just because people exist and have some skills doesn't mean a company can find them and hire them. There are lots of reasons why that might not be the case. Even when I first joined the
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by revelio 4y ago
I've had friends who never left the US that I made via random channels - chatrooms and the like - and they also were more ambitious and entrepreneurial than me. Yes, people with programming skills so that biases it a lot, but, I also k
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by revelio 4y ago
The issue for (1) was that the government had already been borrowing and spending a great deal. Blair was fairly restrained but after Brown came in, he opened the taps and government spending and borrowing skyrocketed. Then the financial cr
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by revelio 4y ago
>> Their brand of reasoning is just basically reasoning with brands. Excellent post, especially this part. Sums up the problem perfectly.
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by revelio 4y ago
Page is much quieter and more private than Musk. Beyond that they're pretty similar in a lot of ways.
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by revelio 4y ago
>> since it is possible to keep recruiting to a very high standard even during exponential growth via spending exponentially more resources Since when? You're assuming the pool of employees available to recruit is infinite whic
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by revelio 4y ago
>> I never understood why Miliband didn't win the 2015 election. Huh that is very easy to understand. There were two main reasons: 1. Labour had left the government essentially bankrupt, literally leaving the coalition a note t
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by revelio 4y ago
I don't know when it was larger. However in the 1960s it was of equal size. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gross-domestic-product?ta... Starting in the 1980s US GDP inflected and EU did not. The gap appeared t
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by revelio 4y ago
Norway isn't in the EU, nor is Switzerland, nor is Iceland. It says quite a lot actually that the richest/highest life expectancy countries in Europe are not in the EU.
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by revelio 4y ago
Not sure studies would be particularly helpful for that, anecdotes and feelings are the best you'll get. But FWIW it's been my experience that Americans are more ambitious than people from other countries, including myself.
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by revelio 4y ago
Bankers might not be a good example. US investment banks work their staff notoriously hard to the point of people actually dying on the job from overwork. But, I've repeatedly heard from people who have lived through it, that the work
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by revelio 4y ago
Sure. I'm not saying their approach is bad or wrong, I'm supportive of it. I'm just observing that it results in far fewer people getting degrees. Agreed that this may be for the best.
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by revelio 4y ago
The latter. DeepMind people have always been highly impressive but their focus was things like winning at video games, protein folding, etc.
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by revelio 4y ago
I was there early on (not in the first 1000 though), and some people did try to point it out, but it was very hard because there's no way to say "maybe we can't hire more people without becoming less elite" in a way that
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by revelio 4y ago
https://www.iea.org/news/the-world-s-coal-consumption-is-set... Global coal use is set to rise by 1.2% in 2022, surpassing 8 billion tonnes in a single year for the first time and eclipsing the previous record set in
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by revelio 4y ago
Not at all! The IPCC models have come under very heavy criticism even from the more moderate climatologists, partly because the scenario that gets regularly referred to as "business as usual" (RCP8.5) in fact makes many extreme as

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