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by robocat 7mo ago
There's no way that costs the FAA $3. It is a wealthy service for wealthy people, so they can afford to absorb some costs. Your knowledge and wording indicates you are likely part of the demographic that knows how to threaten with lawy
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by robocat 7mo ago
I believe the influence is hidden in countries where smaller amounts have a bigger impact. A few million can have an outsized influence in New Zealand. Which can mean other countries interfere (not just wealthy broligarches). There was a si
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by robocat 7mo ago
I should avoid the word rational. Unfortunately I really love the word due to the paradox of rationalisation (being irrational). Analytical or reasoned would be better opposites (of intuitive) for the split in meaning I was looking for. Ind
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by robocat 7mo ago
> skills to an ability to handle any kind of confrontation. > Avoidance is really prevalent in people nowadays I see both of those in plenty of middle aged people (my age). Conflict is a hard skill to learn, and avoidance often works.
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by robocat 7mo ago
This fits the genre too: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=txyKenOq5Pw
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by robocat 7mo ago
The influence of money is a weakness of any democracy. Maybe look at other democratic countries. Definitely seen it here in New Zealand.
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by robocat 7mo ago
> those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it This is a classic meta shutdown - the exact thoughtless criticism the article rails against. Make the future, deal with the relevant mistakes one discovers on one's p
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by robocat 7mo ago
I love the spin: Rebuilding our auditor network and removing firms that don’t meet our standards Not "finding new auditors to replace those that want nothing to do with us and our standards were shite"
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by robocat 7mo ago
> better word for learning through trial and evaluation than calibration How about training. Implies practicality. You can be trained or do your own training. Avoids the bad academic/factual associations of "teaching". Cal
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by robocat 7mo ago
> In other words, just like us I think you are implying a reverse causation. They used a metaphor from us.
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by robocat 7mo ago
You've picked a shorter timescale.
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by robocat 7mo ago
Niece comment tries to explain a little: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643220
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by robocat 7mo ago
Would you say the same about learning Christianity: maybe not directly useful for your job, however it is rather foundational to much of English society.
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by robocat 7mo ago
You're arguing against something I wasn't trying to imply. Choosing a good abstract dichotomy is hard (mine is also faulty, as you have noted). They chose "instruction" versus "calibration" which I feel is a te
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by robocat 7mo ago
> But a sufficiently skilled communicator can absolutely articulate many of the factors being evaluated when they judge a situation and how their descision-making process works That sounds right but I suspect it is wrong. Watching smart
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by robocat 7mo ago
I would call the difference intuitive knowledge versus rational knowledge. I've never seen the word calibration used this way: different modes of learning. The first is instruction: the transfer of explicit models, rules, and relat
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by robocat 7mo ago
Relatedly I just noticed potato fruit (potato berries) the other day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_fruit Part of the same Solanaceae/nightshade family also includes bell peppers and eggplants. To help conf
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by robocat 7mo ago
Wealthy people move between countries and change citizenship to avoid overtaxation. Moving between states isn't as big a move. Countries fight back with exit-taxes, controlling asset movement, and taxing (now) foreign owned assets. The
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by robocat 7mo ago
> shorter life expectancies It is a fallacy that US health systems cause that. Lifestyle preventatives are far more important than acute healthcare. Exercise, food, and accidental deaths matter. The main exception in other countries is t
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by robocat 7mo ago
Report on an Unidentified Space Station by J G Ballard https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm And I think I read a short story about a guy buying a house with endless levels below it - maybe the free short stories on
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by robocat 7mo ago
Using Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) technical terms is confusing. Sports allusions don't travel well between cultures, especially if they sound seedy.
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by robocat 7mo ago
Sister comment indicates it isn't as simple as you might think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617972
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by robocat 7mo ago
SPXXAI, which lets you invest in the S&P 500 benchmark index minus all things AI That isn't non-Musk. I also wonder where Google and Microsoft and Facebook fit in to the index (each isn't AI but have AI correlated expo
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by robocat 7mo ago
You desire a sharing community, but the takers/defectors are destroying that community. Copyleft attempts to create a pool of code that forces sharing. But it broadly fails because you simply can't force antisocial people to be go
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by robocat 7mo ago
You actually mean CNH as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577249 CNY is internal to China! See https://simplefx.com/education/usdcnh-differences-between-ch...
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by robocat 7mo ago
This is typically the user sliding their finger off one key and onto another e.g. the two images where they show the "p" being pressed but an "o" being typed. People just don't notice they slide e.g. touch started o
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by robocat 7mo ago
Why are you wasting time here? Even a letter to the editor would be more effective than an HN comment.
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Reallocation defines zero-sum capitalism. In order to see this, it is only necessary to ask if the weather is getting worse.
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by robocat 7mo ago
Silly aside, even New Zealand has exported an invasive species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_flatworm
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by robocat 7mo ago
Agents in the US would just be normal citizens asking for money/crypto. You'd need to find fools to deceive, but a lot of people fall for scams to get small gains. Many hard drug users in particular are often rather self centered

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