rland

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by rland 6y ago
When you interact online, you fundamentally are interacting with only yourself. It is a solipsistic endeavor. You fundamentally choose which comments to respond to; unlike the real world, where a conversation occurs between two people, you
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by rland 6y ago
This isn't necessarily related to the discussion at hand, but it reminded me: I got a huge crack ( https://ibb.co/1mPxC6C ) in my smartphone's screen right around New Year's. One of my goals was to use my phone
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by rland 6y ago
Well, I assume that since the comments typically seem to be related to the article, someone must be reading all these articles. Then again, how would I know that?
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I think he's making a more general point. Basically every time varying system, no matter how complex, can be thought of as a system of differential equations. Human systems of production -- any such system -- is a time varying system,
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I agree with this take so much. It's because with documentaries, the target audience is someone who is expecting to get some semblance of truth from the thing. But the issue is that given two documentaries, A and B, if A is more narrat
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by rland 6y ago
I believe it's panpsychism to believe so. I definitely do. If dogs have consciousness, then there is no line between dogs and humans. If mice have consciousness, then there is no line between mice and dogs. If bugs have consciousness,
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by rland 6y ago
Pinkerton entering the graphic design biz.
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The comfortably rich are getting richer because they are closer to the money spigot. They get to spend the money right now , before the inevitable asset inflation that occurs when 2T gets printed. By the time you -- YOU, the regular person
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by rland 6y ago
Raising minimum wage leads to efficiency gains, because companies automate their processes to remove labor from the equation. We can take care of those people who cannot sell their labor at above minimum wage. It's not a law of the u
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Not the great barrier reef, thanks to our lifestyles.
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by rland 6y ago
We don't need to imagine: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-storie... > So far, pharmaceutical corporations and other manufacturers of products needed to combat COVID-19 have not shown any w
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by rland 6y ago
Okay. People are doing worse than in the past. They have less secure jobs, less wealth, less opportunity, more debt, and worse health than they used to have. They are less upwardly mobile, their incomes increase less, and their incomes are
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by rland 6y ago
The last several decades have seen a huge decline in people's actual material well being, wealth, and personal security, full stop. If you have not noticed this, congratulations, you are lucky. It's not just "the media"
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These companies are disgusting. They peddle black box "models," that essentially ride the good reputation of DNA as infallible (which it is most certainly not) to get convictions on dubious or no evidence. The way it works is that
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by rland 6y ago
That's the myth, and it's been pretty effectively sold to redditors. The reality is that there are hedge funds who profit on both sides of the trade. There were a few shorts who did lose a lot of money, but that is part of the ris
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by rland 6y ago
So it's nihilism all the way down. I suppose then that shutting this trade down to protect the hedge fund is morally equivocal to letting them lose their shirts.
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by rland 6y ago
We're going to have to, at some point, stop relying on exponential growth, and move to a sustainable (i.e. 0% rate of return) environment. For the biosphere's sake that ought to happen sooner rather than later. If we continue grow
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by rland 6y ago
If what WSB did was irresponsible and dangerous, then all of Wall Street is irresponsible and dangerous. That's the point here. The only difference is that regular people made money this time.
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by rland 6y ago
How many more billionaires than those that you've named has it produced? What about Exxon, AT&T, Aetna, AIG, Goldman, DuPont Chemical, Lockheed, McKinsey? There's a pretty obvious bias there: the ones you name do good because
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by rland 6y ago
No, not even a massive war. Remember that in the 1960s this was the consensus between policymakers and the public -- that there was a very real chance that the entire world would be annihilated by global thermonuclear war. What did we do? D
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by rland 6y ago
There's a very easy precedent for this. Just widen anti-trust. Back when we actually imagined that government could stand up to powerful companies, we dealt with the Railroads with the tools of anti-trust. The situation was almost comi
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by rland 6y ago
Well, if I remember right, consolidation across the entire economy is at a record high. In every sector, there's more regulation, much fewer & larger players. If the rot at Boeing is a symptom of this, we're in for a bad time:
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by rland 6y ago
Well, "jailing" a company by suspending its operations is more like starving a living thing. That'd be more like a death penalty. I do believe if we had any social imagination at all we could think of many many ways to materi
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by rland 6y ago
At the beginning of this pandemic, I watched a 2-3 min video of a Turin hospital (back when Italy was the epicenter in the west) of people silently choking to death in their ventilators. It was absolutely fucking eerie and insane and every
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by rland 6y ago
I'm not sure. I know a lot of seemingly "talented" people. How do they pick up a new instrument in 2-3 months? Or be able to balance on a skateboard after just a little while? Or get kills better than me with only 200 CS GO h
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by rland 6y ago
The solution is easy, and it exists here and in other countries: attend a "college" -- not a university -- for the first two years. Here in the US they are community colleges. No reason to do your intro Sociology or Calculus for B
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There (should be) no audience. It's literally a giant PR piece for BB&B.
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Neat, this reminds me of https://www.math.uci.edu/~isik/posts/Eigentechno.html (hn post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24820824 )
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by rland 6y ago
I have diabetes. For me, pasta is in the "normal" range. "Fast" -- candy, soda, etc. Hits in 20 mins and is gone in 2.5 hrs. "Normal" -- pasta, a sandwich, rice, etc. Hits in 30-45 mins and is gone in 4/5
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by rland 6y ago
Well, no. A meltdown is when the stuff escapes containment and then continues undergoing fission, heating up and melting out of containment and into groundwater/the environment. The drain tanks are shaped specifically so if the (liquid

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