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by roenxi 10mo ago
Have infectious diseases stopped spreading? And all this is happening in the shadows of COVID where the vaccines famously had no significant impact on the rate of the spread. The people claiming they would turned out to be part of the misin
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It isn't particularly hard to understand - people should be allowed to make their own determination about what is good for their health, what isn't and what risk tolerance they are personally comfortable with. If that principle is
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I'm not sure where to look for current figures (Wikipedia [0] is a decade out of date) - is Minnesota a net contributor or a net drain on the US federal budget? It remains an odd strategy where money needs to be skimmed before it can b
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You're looking for the practical answer, but philosophically it isn't possible to translate an informal statement into a formal one 'correctly'. It is informal, ie, vaguely specified. The only certain questions are if th
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In principle I'm certainly on board with the idea, but the problem is - at least in the Anglosphere, probably further - that the financial system is part of the military and policing systems. They are a powerful and persistent lobby th
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Russia wasn't the group that stopped selling oil to the Europeans, the Europeans refused to take it and have a military policy of arming people to blow up the means of transporting that oil to Europe. They're very proud of not usi
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> It's not unreasonable to charge for the things they produce. When it is funded publicly it certainly is. A key feature of the university research system is that it is where people are supported without the expectation that their w
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Progress in India is due to policy in India. The idea that India can handwave it's successes and failures on external forces might have been well justified in 1955, but in this century they get to choose. Best hope for the anti-Modi-p
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Arguing over whether a different situation qualifies as a different sort of invasion doesn't move the conversation forward as much as you might intuit.
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Legal problem, absolutely. But it is hard to spin bundling a web browser as an ethical concern - especially from MS's perspective. Everything they put in the OS is a component bundled with the OS. Some components being legally special
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Big companies also fail to keep their own markets with some regularity, the tech companies are built over the ruins of industries that solved the same problem in the days of yesteryear with different tools. The view of the article seems to
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How do you expect this comment to be interpreted? I'm ruling out RAM as a social construct, I'm pretty sure it exists in the physical world.
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He answered them without fuss. I got the impression it was a standard part of the show and he was used to it. I remember the feeling more than the questions themselves but they were probably of the "what if someone wants to use the sof
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When has straightforwardness ever been a defence against misunderstanding? It is common for people to just not get something the first time they encounter it, understanding is usually a process that involves time and a bit of repetition. I
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The polling indicates that the US is desperate for an alternative for something other than the two incumbent parties. They're wildly unpopular and there actually seems to be a political consensus that the US is sliding into ruin which
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I imagine the calculus goes something like "unjustified war didn't matter any of the other times, so it won't matter this time either". Although this time the US would be bringing death and destruction to its own contine
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V-Dem seem to be redefining the word democracy somewhere here to mean something other than the demos being in charge of things. I agree that all this stuff is bad news but they're using the wrong word. The term is "illiberal"
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> If your chatbot decide to tell your customer to kill themselves, it's your problem. I don't think the argument is that the AI made it OK as much as if someone commits suicide because a chatbot told them to they were so delica
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Probably to make sure it stays that way. Logistics by ship generally has a big advantage over logistics by land. There is a rough pattern over the last century or so of the big navel empires (UK, US, Japan) having a big military advantage.
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> Some officials from Scandinavia, the Baltic states and the European Union have pointed the finger at Russia. They say the incidents appear to be part of what experts say is the Kremlin’s hybrid war on the West. The only blame placed in
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Yes I read the article. Have you read the comment you're replaying to? It clarified exactly that point. The scale of spending in the federal budget is so large that it a state billionaire tax is meaningless. They could confiscate the e
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https://pse-info.de/en/scale/price - gold doesn't stand out, there are a few similar ones (Rhodium/Palladium/Iridium/Platinum). I haven't checked, but we'd probably find the gold pric
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The Eyal & Sirer paper is pretty interesting - they basically point out that there is actually some game theory involved in when miners should reveal that they mined a block to compete most effectively with their fellows. If a pool ca
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AIs are an obvious threat to their ability to make money off their skills.
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Yes and no, there is a bit more to it. When dealing with democracies hypocrisy tends to actually harm the people practising it to some extent. If a polity insists on living in a fantasy rather than reality the political process will start o
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Unless California has seceded from the US when I wasn't watching it has quite a lot to do with the US federal government. Ignoring the federal budget would be like a family going broke claiming they have budget for a holiday because th
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The US federal deficit is, order of magnitude, $1.5 trillion dollars annually. A billionaire has assets, order of magnitude, of a few billion. Even if they just confiscate their entire wealth of all the billionaires then it will do approxim
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There are a lot of people who more discipline would help, but in many cases it seems to me that they just don't know what to do. For example, if someone lying there dying has a regret like "I wish I hadn't worked so hard&quot
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> Usually I use the format "Analyze the following ...". It doesn't surprise me that you're getting nonsense, that is an ill-formed request. The AI can't fulfil it because it isn't asking it to do anything. I
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It isn't cetiris paribus, the Fed rate tells us nothing about demand because they purposefully devalue the dollar. The entire world could be refusing to accept US debt except Broke Boris and they could technically negotiate a 4% rate w

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