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by rjf72 7y ago
I grew up in extreme poverty and for myself (and others in a similar situation) moving was, perhaps contrary to intuition, a pretty common thing. Whenever a better paying job or cheaper housing popped up, we moved. There are a number of fac
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How the News Took over Reality(theguardian.com)
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Migration laws started to be enforced shortly following the Civil War as part of an increasing push for human rights. Perhaps in one way yet another embodiment of the never ending trend of unforeseen consequences. For instance one frequent
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I find it useful to answer questions such as this by turning to reductio ad absurdum. What would happen if absolutely all drugs were legalized? We'd probably see an uptick in addiction as well as an increase in premature deaths. I im
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An acquaintance was involved in diagnosis of autism in US schools. There are autistics that clearly have something severely wrong with them. They flap their hand, frequently have extremely low IQs, and are not going to be able to effectivel
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This, moreso, seems to emphasize how much partisanship has gripped everybody. For instance homelessness is substantially down across the US. [1] But of course certain areas, especially in California and New York, do not follow this trend. A
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We've breached countless barriers that, at one point, seemed impossible or insurmountably challenging. Crossing the ocean by boat - later by plane, breaking the sound barrier in human flight, living in 'unlivable' locations o
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Then of course you know what I said does not strictly require a normal distribution. That the distribution is not normal is perfectly well indicated by the fact that their variance is imbalanced. They have some sort of high skew distributio
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Not at all. It's not about the big picture goal but about the individual missions. There's effectively 0 risk that the big picture goal of getting people to, and ultimately colonizing, Mars will fail. It's a question of when,
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I think there are two sides to risk. Risk tolerance for a given mission is one. Mission tolerance for a given risk is the other. What I mean there is I doubt that SpaceX will be a less safe option than NASA, Roscosmos by proxy, for getting
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A quick search for 'Noel Brown unep director' will resolve any doubts, and incidentally also provides lots more information on him and other commentary he's provided over the decades.
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This is a misunderstanding of ranges. Imagine you flip a coin 100 times and you only get 41 heads. Is this coin fair? 41 heads falls just within the 95% confidence interval for a fair coin over 100 flips, so you can answer yes in that regar
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Noel Brown was the director of the UN Environmental Program in North America. He's going to be sourcing whatever internal figures they're working with. And yeah, given that he is the directory of the program in North America, I ex
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No, nobody is making accurate predictions right now and that's the fundamental problem. We want to enact change on future predictions, but the models we're using to predict things have a history that's shown them to be unreli
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There's one big issue inhibiting any sort of productive change on this issue. "A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is
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In my view it's mostly about justification. What's your age, sex, and race? These are questions that, in and of themselves, are not private. Any stranger on the street who sees you could immediately answer them. And if you've
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Studies like this should immediately make one remember something about psychology. The replication crisis has devastated any credibility in psychology. And social psychology, as this study is part of, is the worst hit. The replication rate
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Of course I agree with you. I was initially quite surprised to discover how many deaths it caused. It's a world we can't even imagine when good chunks of your crew dying was just a regular part of a job. But of course intuition sh
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This is a misinterpretation of the 14th amendment. It's precise wording is: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they
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I'd assume he meant the "internet" in this regard. It's hard to see things such as Facebook, Twitter, and the increasingly dystopic efforts to get people to click on ads driven by companies such as Google, as being anyth
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To take things from a different perspective, I find people judging what others ought consider acceptable to be inexplicable. I find people buying $200 sneakers that offer no significant performance improvement over much cheaper alternatives
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You seem to be implying that something near complete safety is practical with enough work. I'm not sure this is the case. A big problem with all endeavors, and not just space, is that things that work (or don't work) in theory som
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Stereotypes in general exist because a 'sufficiently large' percent of a population abide them. What sufficiently large means is not easy to define, but it's not like they're completely arbitrary. Look at one important t
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I'm curious why you'd say something so completely wrong so authoritatively. Please do share your motivations and thoughts if you would. The countless deaths by scurvy are some of the most well documented there are. Especially duri
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This could be telling in a way though, don't you think? Scurvy is a fun example of what I mean. Most people now know that scurvy is just a disease caused by a lack of vitamin c. But for centuries it was not really understood what cause
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By creating competition. And that can be done easily. The reason it's impossible to compete against Facebook is because of the network effect. Kill the network effect. If you have a site with more than let's say 100 million active
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I think the examples you offer are a pretty good example of the point. For instance you're presumably alluding to welfare, and people being upset seeing things such as somebody paying for food with food stamps while browsing on their $
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This has always been Brave's monetization strategy. And it's also completely opt-in. By default the software simply blocks ads, runs incredibly performant, and has a large number of built in privacy respecting features which can b
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This is all 100% up to the user. Brave simply blocks all ads by default. If the user chooses they can disable ad blocking, including on a per site basis. The user can also, if they choose to do so, display 'cleaned' ads. So you ha
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It's much faster is one big reason. For instance I tend to have quite a lot of tabs/windows open at any given time and generally do not shut down my computer or close my windows. And Firefox starts to crawl in this scenario both i

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