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by scandox 4y ago
I didn't think Madoff actually invested in anything. I thought he just used new funds to pay withdrawals.
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by scandox 4y ago
Surely the very point he is making is that it is the Effective Altruists who are ignoring the real complexity? I don't really understand your critique of what he's saying - it seems to me you're agreeing.
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by scandox 4y ago
Because it actually attempts a serious estimate of the man and artist, rather than simply saying how wonderful he was and we live in an age where that is considered very bad manners. https://www.theguardian.com/books/20
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by scandox 4y ago
> And a traditional investor who made billions on successful gambles, or arbitrage, or creating liquidity, then gave virtually all of it away to effective charities, would seem, on net, way ahead of most of us morally. This is madness. M
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by scandox 4y ago
Anyone I've met who lives approximately this kind of life has struck me as a world class bore. It's the life of someone who just can't commit. I get the fantasy but I think the reality is hollow.
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by scandox 4y ago
There is an excellent chapter in Ghost in The Throat[1] that answers this question in a somewhat more poetical fashion. [1] https://tramppress.com/product/a-ghost-in-the-throat-by-doir...
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by scandox 4y ago
Entrust 8 million people with solving the problem locally for their 1,000. Expect fraud.
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by scandox 4y ago
Slightly OT: I've been wondering recently if the word teenager and it's use has been a bad thing for people between 12 and 20. If we didn't have this word I'm guessing we wouldn't view them as such a distinct lump a
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by scandox 4y ago
As a developer I have an adversarial relationship with the Cloud even though I use it all the time. The reason for that is money / billing. As soon as a credit card is in the relationship exploration and experimentation is over for me.
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by scandox 4y ago
I enjoy being a parent but my advice to people who ask if they should have kids is that you really have to want to have kids because all the benefits are intangible and all the drawbacks are tangible. People who say they don't want kid
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by scandox 4y ago
Wikipedia isn't a human in desperate plight. That's kind of the point I'm making.
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by scandox 4y ago
Their communications about donations are just awful. As long as I get these sappy, puppy-dog-eyes appeals I will never donate to them again.
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by scandox 4y ago
It is handy when your heart is in something financially remunerative though. My heart tends toward the gutter. Not complaining though.
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by scandox 4y ago
For me the most important point in this is nothing to do with sex. It's the fact that a generation of readers and editors are coming up who find the description of moral weakness without a counterbalancing punishment or redemption prob
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by scandox 4y ago
Well he explains both what he meant by "marriage blackout nights" and he also says he knew it was an awkward translation that needed editing. So I submit that you may not have read this carefully enough.
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by scandox 4y ago
Can people now just meet each other without an App? Is it generally possible to just kick off conversations with people you haven't been introduced to? I mean if these two were sitting under the same apple tree, they'd be on their
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by scandox 4y ago
Yes and video calls that are "good enough".
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by scandox 4y ago
Slight OT: When I was in Monaco recently the Monaco Telecom network prevented me making or receiving WhatsApp calls. I could message, but no calling. Presumably therefore it is something that the network provider can interfere with effectiv
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by scandox 4y ago
It's a sad state of affairs when people are so anxious that a simple inquiry can cause them distress. I don't know if it's character, upbringing or just the modern work environment but it really ought not to cause anyone any
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by scandox 4y ago
Maybe helpful: https://github.com/mlco2/codecarbon Also: https://github.com/hubblo-org/scaphandre
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by scandox 4y ago
I don't think this is removed from reality. I think people who are in perma-crunch believing that just over the next hump they'll find level ground are the ones who are removed from reality.
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by scandox 4y ago
Well countries like people need opportunities even when things are not going well. If we take your logic once a country is on the down slope we would just abandon them? Personally I'm glad to hear of positive news coming out of Italy.
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by scandox 4y ago
Also Kevin Woodcock in Private Eye in the 90s had a cartoon working on this concept. https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/private-eye-a-cartoon-h... https://media.itsnicethat.com/images/527cddc45c3
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by scandox 4y ago
> dearth I think you mean wealth right?
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by scandox 4y ago
I think possibly cooperation and violence. Or even cooperation for the purpose of enhanced violence.
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by scandox 4y ago
As an outsider and taking a view over my adult lifetime (25 years), it seems to me the US is relatively tough on white collar crime. That's just my impression obviously. At least in the US there are heavy sentences and cases that are p
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by scandox 4y ago
I bought one recently. First time in years I spent anything over 200 on a laptop (usually refurbish). It's great in many ways but I just am very disappointed in the keyboard. It's really a lot less nice than the Thinkpad keyboards
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by scandox 4y ago
Nuclear Energy is fantastic. Humans are awful. Who guarantees the long term stability safe Nuclear installations require? We've seen that military forces can be very casual about them. We've seen that corruption in procurement is
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Toxic gas leak at Jordan's Aqaba port kills 10, injures hundreds(bbc.com)
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by scandox 4y ago
> I have a wonderful System76 Lemur Pro I bought one of these recently but the keyboard is making me very sad. Especially the arrow keys are almost too small for my fingers.

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