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by rland 6y ago
So we should just double down and never try to make things better?
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Not only that, but all of the cheap electronics/computers that we have now are because of the money spent on Apollo.
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The burger joint did absolutely fine before ads and the internet. That's kind of my point. Nobody is inventing a micropayment solution because doing ads pays. (Like, maybe we can put our efforts towards updating payments to the 21st
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by rland 6y ago
You know what else would monetize apps on our phone? Actual money. In the absence of ads, we'd have people paying money to honest app makers for the utility of the app. And along with that, the accountability, honesty, and incentive al
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by rland 6y ago
I don't think it's necessarily technology that created this culture (although, it helps!). After Vietnam, the US just didn't do "War" in a classical sense, with only a few and short-lived exceptions. Our all volunte
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by rland 6y ago
Most money that wealthy people have is not spent on consumer goods. It is plowed into more investment. Who spends more of their income? A paycheck-to-paycheck worker, or a wealthy person? The wealthy person puts most of their money into ret
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by rland 6y ago
Of course therapists don't define it that way... their definition is limited by what the treatment options are. Those options basically amount to prescribing drugs or becoming a friend for hire, not changing the structure of society. A
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by rland 6y ago
I completely agree. The structure of our society actively deprives people from human connection which is essential to happiness. Individuals do suffer from depression at different rates, but it pops up the same way popcorn pops when you tur
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by rland 6y ago
It's mind-blowing that we live like this. We forced every adult into being a single atomic worker by completely eliminating jobs and benefits that enable single earners to care for their entire family (through the "unpaid" do
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by rland 6y ago
God that is incredible. A youtube comment mentioned it, but I could see this happening under Jobs... it would be a huge stride forward.
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by rland 6y ago
In the US and I agree. Sanctions are disgusting and work contrary to their goals. Ostensibly they put pressure on the governments of sanctioned countries, but in reality they strengthen people's ties to their governments while complete
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by rland 6y ago
I should be clear, I think the US policy re: proliferation is more draconian than necessary, and will essentially prevent any new nuclear technology from being shared, worsening climate change and increasing the risk of mishaps. Climate cha
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by rland 6y ago
I think the big issue with nuclear (that doesn't come up) is not cost or waste, but proliferation. Even if we could build nuclear plants in the USA or Europe, we will be far less willing to lend out the technology to developing countri
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by rland 6y ago
> there is a strain of political thought in America, independent of political party (although traditionally associated with Democrats), that is inherently allergic to concentrated power — monopoly in the populist sense, if not the legal
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by rland 6y ago
Silicon Valley destroyed ['] politics. The reason everything is political is literally because of social media and the internet. I understand that these are hard issues; I don't think SV companies are sitting on the solution und
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by rland 6y ago
But this is only six people. I'm sure they have hundreds or thousands of people working on "the America project" at the GRU. We nailed 6 of them. So what? Foreign intelligence agencies weed out a CIA spy every now and then, b
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by rland 6y ago
I believe the consequences of professional, expert misinformation -- half a million civilian casualties -- pales in comparison to the amateur hour on Twitter. I'm referring to New York Times reporting in the lead up to the Iraq war,
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by rland 6y ago
Right, it's vastly preferred to have qualified people lying to everyone about WMD's in Iraq or the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Isn't that more an indictment of how we treat blue collar workers?
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What an interesting line of work that would be. I wonder how they calculate risk for such a policy.
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by rland 6y ago
Insulin lispro was under $50 a vial sticker price the day it came out. One price is set artificially and it ain't the one you're thinking of.
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by rland 6y ago
If a landlord who lives as you say puts their entire 'salary' into Tesla stock, rather than using it to pay down the equity on the property, we would say that it's fair that they would lose their investment if their Tesla bet
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by rland 6y ago
Just to play devil's advocate: I mean, yes, this hypothetical procedure does sound dystopian on its face (haha). But then again, imagine if you just judged people by how nice they actually were, not by what their face looked like? Imag
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by rland 6y ago
This discussion reminds me of a short story, Liking What You See: A Documentary by Ted Chiang (same guy who wrote the plot of the movie Arrival). There might be a pdf floating around on the internet, it's a 20 min read. Basically, it&#
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by rland 6y ago
A lot of media released now is poisoned by a much stronger symbiosis with its own deployment into "the market." Netflix and all others track every minute of the shows they release. They track where people drop off, what they spend
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by rland 6y ago
Because sugar is addictive. It's not really about taste, per se. Sugar is metabolized quickly, and then is followed by a huge insulin spike shortly after. The whole process is up in 4-5 hours. While you're eating, it feels like yo
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by rland 6y ago
OK, I'll pick up where your friend left off. Hedge funds generate liquidity in the market. They do this by placing bets on investments they judge to be sound, using capital they acquire from courting wealthy people and big funds. Some
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> Participants in the “desk” condition left mostof their belongings in the lobby but took their phones into the testing room “for use in a later study;” once in the testing room, they were instructed to place their phones facedown in a d
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by rland 6y ago
Bad for the US as well. A monoculture is bad. Any monoculture.
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I would be curious to know if you actually do get to the NYtimes by being a great local reporter. My gut feeling is that it would be that you'd sooner make it to the big leagues by leveraging an internship from an Ivy League credential

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