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by robonerd 4y ago
He merely needs to apply Bayesian search theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory 1. Formulate as many reasonable hypotheses as possible about what may have happened to the object. 2. For each hypot
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Solution: ban color from all advertising and product labeling. If you can't convince people to buy your product with black letters on white, then your product must be shit nobody really wants or needs anyway.
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Audience capture is a term for it I guess, but I prefer self-flanderization. It's usually not as sinister as the examples in this article. One particular sort of self-flanderization I've noticed noticed is British entertainers
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by robonerd 4y ago
The system of checks and balances that impede the efficiency of the American government.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Try "Does your mother know you're a thief?" American scammers usually laugh at that, but it instantly enrages Indian scammers. I think their mothers don't know, and would be ashamed if they did.
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The value of those states was not in question when they threatened succession; they were important enough to fight a war over. Nor would many of the states have joined the union in the first place if not for this system, so America wouldn&
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by robonerd 4y ago
> CO2 is not pollution. People and animals breathe it out. Suppose I piss in your drink. Have I polluted it, or will you drink it? 'It's not pollution if it comes out of animals' doesn't make much sense.
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by robonerd 4y ago
This country has stumbled through boneheaded nonsense after boneheaded nonsense ever since it was founded. What is going on now is not even remotely the worst it has ever been, and I don't think you can rationally plot any trajectory
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> For many people, work is their addiction. Maybe for a rare few, but generally, no. You might be highly work motivated, but rising to the level of addiction? That's hyperbole, or you don't really have a good understandi
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by robonerd 4y ago
I can see how corporate influence might play a role in this EPA decision, but most of the ire being thrown at SCOTUS recently is about abortion and I don't see any clear corporate pro-life consensus. On the contrary, I expect most cor
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by robonerd 4y ago
On one hand you have democratically elected representatives (less democratic than a direct democracy, but still reasonably democratic) delegating power to the executive branch (who's lead is elected by the electoral college, which is s
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> Didn't explain how they managed to relay the philosophy in 60 seconds or how it was structured. The philosophy content on tiktok is as shallow and self-important as this article.
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> To learn you’ve got to become excited by knowledge, obsessed with it, sometimes dangerously so, sometimes in ways that might border on compulsion, or even addiction. You're taking the author at their word and criticizing this ch
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> This authority was intentionally granted by a democratic legislature. That is the matter of contention, isn't it?
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> The US's genocidal oppression has been ongoing far, far longer than the oppression of the Uyghur people. And knowing that, you'd take the guard rails off? Crazy.
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That sounds like technocracy, not democracy.
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If recent SCOTUS decisions are a dead generation reaching out of the grave to get their way in the end against the united consensus of the living, then the living should have no trouble sorting Congress out and getting the right laws and am
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by robonerd 4y ago
> it's clear democracy is dying. If democracy died every time somebody got mad at the outcomes and made claims like that, it would have been dead before it even started, and subsequently re-died every year since. What exactly wa
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> but calling them a conspiracy, when they specifically engage and practice debate professionally, is sort of pathetic honestly. Debating professionally precludes conspiracy? What if a high-school debate club decides to rob a bank?
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Dear Europeans; Please stop threatening that and start actually doing it. Please. Americans taking these American companies down a peg seems completely intractable. Please Europeans, you are the best hope we have. Ban American te
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> Which Americans are crying foul? On this website, many of those with FAANG in their financial portfolio or on their CV. More generally? Virtually nobody.
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Trading partners is not the same as "literally allies". Germany was trading partners with the rest of Europe before both world wars, that doesn't mean Germany was allied with France and the UK. There is no mutual defense pa
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> then you are entitled Nobody is obliged to tailor their beliefs to your whims. It doesn't matter how logical you think you are. It doesn't matter if you think other people are being hypocritical or illogical. The simple
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by robonerd 4y ago
Absolutely. Any country that doesn't ban foreign social media is behaving foolishly. This is true whether it's American social media in Europe, Chinese social media in America, or American social media in China (actually, they&#
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People get annoyed when gun laws are less likely to be enforced against somebody who committed numerous other crimes, than against somebody who didn't commit any other crimes.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Exactly this. China doesn't allow TikTok as it exists in America to also exist in China, because they believe American TikTok is harmful to America and would be harmful to China as well.
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Suppose he's talking about real safes, security safes. Not fire safes. And suppose this conversation is about real guns. Not nerf guns.
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> You think someone is gonna risk their cushy government job to dox a bunch of gun owners I doubt anybody will lose their jobs for this as long as there is even a modicum of plausible deniability (every unruly child knows the "it
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by robonerd 4y ago
> It really puzzles me why existing gun laws that everyone agrees on aren't enforced. Ask people if they want gun laws enforced, and they say yes. Ask people if they like it when prosecutors charge a guy with 30 crimes for commit
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by robonerd 4y ago
Satellites like this can be observed from Earth, so those details aren't really as secret as the government may wish. But yes, about 90 minutes; it's generally around 300-400 km up.

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