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by roenxi 8mo ago
> Adam Smith famously wrote that slavery was economically detrimental way back in 1776. It still took nearly 100 years to abolish slavery... Slavery had basically been a thing for all of human history up to that point, and based on my di
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> There was a time when people wanted to dig tunnels with nukes The article seems to be about mining rather than tunnelling. And the issue with the idea being? We also dig using explosives, there isn't an in-principle problem. Readi
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> ...was a bit of a weird dude and not 100% rationalist... That covers everyone. Especially and including the rationalists. Part of being highly intelligent is being a bit weird because the habits and beliefs of ordinary people are those
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> ... the important thing isn't the exact language but the intent behind the question ... If we're not going to assume the input state is known then we definitely can't say what the intent behind the question is - for man
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> No my point is that the idea that the protests aren’t organic is deeply fucking ignorant and gross. Scott Bessent, at the WEF [0], explained that: > President Trump ordered treasury and our OFAC division, (Office of Foreign Asset Co
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by roenxi 8mo ago
No, it is censorship. IP protection would be punishing the pirates after they do something illegal. I think what you're sensing is that it is censorship in support of intellectual property rather than censorship aiming at political rep
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by roenxi 8mo ago
It's hardly evidence-free, this stuff [0, 1, 2] has been making international news headlines for months. And the last time the US was involved in toppling Iran they used paid-for protests [3] so it is barely speculative to say they&#x2
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> It's not sad. It's smart to ban hate speech, blatant lies and things like that. Blatant lies have to be legal. Firstly because it isn't philosophically possible to tell if someone is lying, it can only ever be strongly s
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> I can understand age. But wouldn't everyone want to signal good health and high status? Yeah, but generally not with fashion. Male fashion tends not to go to the same sort of lengths to showcase legs/torsos/arms/che
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> Respond how? By destandardising sizes. It isn't that hard to standardise if an industry thinks it'll help them; the article suggests there is already a relevant standards body. These companies are probably doing it for a reas
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> if some women absolutely can't find something in their size from a specific brand, that makes the brand even more exclusive, like it being "for fit people only" The elephants in the room from the raw data is it is very c
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by roenxi 8mo ago
It is also worth noting that US management is notoriously bad at the actual management. Toyota v. US car manufacturers did not look like a fair fight when Deming was in the ascendant, and it is hard to tell given the scales involved but it
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by roenxi 8mo ago
"You see we leased this back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account." ~ Monty Python, Meaning of Line (1983), on The Machine that Goes Ping.
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> My initial reaction was that this was a terrible precedent, but after thinking on it more I asked myself, "well what specific laws would I write to combat addictive design?". Everything I thought of would have some way or wor
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> If you find good matches but not great matches, you stick around. I dunno, I have difficulty seeing how the dating sites could singlehandedly pull that off in the average case without the site users really leaning in to help. It would
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> The bookkeeper is still there, still needed, but now they're doing the part that actually requires judgment. The argument might be fundamentally sound, but now we're automating the part that requires judgement. So if the acco
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by roenxi 9mo ago
But the RFC language clearly anticipates there are situations and good reasons leading to a message that does not include a message-id. Google therefore would be rejecting RFC-compliant emails, and they are the ones who have to justify them
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> Are you arguing that most good writers from history were poor? No. If I was arguing that I'd have said that. I'm observing that a lot of great writers had pretty miserable lives and I'm arguing that people should aim to
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by roenxi 9mo ago
A lot of those relevant writings became relevant because of the horrible experiences the author went through forged them into an interesting writer. If we're assuming that we only know retrospectively whether the writing is important t
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> I suspect most who go by YIMBY would also oppose this. Well I'm not sure what you're proposing but if it can be characterised as "mass public housing" it sounds like a terrible idea on the face of it, and most peopl
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by roenxi 9mo ago
You seem fairly keen on building public housing. Wouldn't that qualify you as a YIMBY? The YIMBYs are the lobby that tends to be pro-new-buildings. If you want to build public housing, only the NIMBYs would really oppose the idea.
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> Sure is convenient that we keep having more and more crisis and boogiemen that governments can leverage... The problem with this phrasing is it makes it sound hyperbolic, but it is important to remember the world is large and there are
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by roenxi 9mo ago
It is possible. But that seems out of character for the Europeans, they're pretty consistent about going the distance to make absolutely sure that the next new thing doesn't happen in Europe. It seems much more likely they had a s
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by roenxi 9mo ago
That seems a bit too simple. I saw one particular graph [0] once that really stuck with me illustrating just how decisively Europe was ejected from the semiconductor market. It takes more than just inaction to achieve results like that. In
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> Multi-decade time frame can only be thought of as catastrophic when it comes to change of this magnitude. If someone moves from Singapore to Poland is that a catastrophe? We'd be talking a smaller temperature delta than that and t
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by roenxi 9mo ago
How big a problem is that over a multi-decade time horizon? There is a pretty big variation in average temperatures by country [0]. Somehow People everywhere from Thailand to Greenland manage to find food. All else failing it is a possibili
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> Individuals don’t demand solutions to diffuse problems Markets solve diffuse problems really well, people signal how much their section of the problem is worth solving and the market judges whether the overall problem can be solved c
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by roenxi 9mo ago
It isn't actually all that scary; humans cope pretty well over a wide variety of temperatures. If the change caught everyone by surprise it'd be a huge problem but it seems to be fairly well understood and there is lots of time to
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by roenxi 9mo ago
Because they make it much easier to audit what decisions are being made and how reasonable they were. Corruption relies on not being too well known - once people can start pointing to specific decisions rather than a general "we know t
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by roenxi 9mo ago
The first 2 are very LLM amenable, the last 3 are very mathematical-solution amenable (optimising around issues like that is basically what Ops Research does). I don't see what your argument is here. The list of people claiming that ma

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