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by scarab92 2y ago
We didn’t know about the link between Paraquat and Parkinson’s until recently, and even now it’s still being debated. If it turns out to be proven, then it will be banned. What alternative do you propose? Banning every chemical in society,
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by scarab92 2y ago
It’s a public company. If it ever actually turns out to be a problem, we’ll just make a law that requires them to delete the data / model.
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by scarab92 2y ago
One thing that annoys me about western society is this default assumption that everything should be illegal. How about we wait until someone can demonstrate real harm in the real world. Then we can discuss what mitigations are available, wh
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by scarab92 2y ago
I find I get somewhat anxious being at home and not doing anything, whereas it’s just psychologically easier in the middle of the ocean. I’m happy to pay the cost to be in an environment that I can actually relax in.
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by scarab92 2y ago
For reasons I don’t fully understand, many electricity retailers in Australia still charge like we’re in a pre-renewables world. For example, in Western Australia we consistently have excess renewable generation during the day due to the pr
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by scarab92 2y ago
There’s times I want to explore, and there’s times I just want to do nothing. Cruises are good for when I want to do nothing for a while.
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by scarab92 2y ago
The Guardian exclusively publishes negative stories about X. When there is a problem, it’s rarely exclusive to X. When there isn’t, the journalists go trawling for random low engagement tweets and pretend those anecdotes are evidence of a s
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by scarab92 2y ago
Is this judge freezing SpaceX’s finances because Twitter won’t censor speech? Those are two completely different companies.
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by scarab92 2y ago
The Brazilian court’s order isn’t comparable to the court orders from Turkey and India. The Brazilian court ordered global removal, rather than just to have the content hidden within its jurisdiction.
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by scarab92 2y ago
Twitter/X is easily has the lightest touch of the major social media networks. I don’t know why you thought it was sensible to mention two opposite ends of the abuse of power spectrum as comparable.
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The Tyranny of the Bottom Quartile(twitter.com)
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by scarab92 2y ago
Your argument reeks of partisan bias. Left wing protests also turn violent, and there’s no pressure from the right to punish whatever communication platforms left wing protestors use. A good faith argument would acknowledge that all platfor
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by scarab92 2y ago
Given it’s Starbucks, it’s almost certain that they will be using biofuels or have a carbon offset in place. Given that, is there a problem with using a jet in this way?
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by scarab92 2y ago
Private jets should be required to burn biofuels or purchase carbon offsets. If you can afford a private jet, you can easily afford to make it carbon neutral.
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by scarab92 2y ago
“Equivalent to” Assuming prices for this type of device rise at the same rate as CPI. In practice, the inflation rate for most sectors is very different to the CPI average, so these “adjusted for inflation” numbers are pretty meaningless.
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by scarab92 2y ago
In the long run yes, but Australia's problem is that migration has suddenly increased from about 250k pa to 600k pa, and our building industry simply can't keep up. Prices are spiking, but there isn't much supply response bec
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by scarab92 2y ago
That perspective makes sense in America where there is a strong supply response to increasing prices. In America, enough housing physically exists such that, it's typically just a matter of price. In Australia, the population increased
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by scarab92 2y ago
This isn't about prices, it's about homelessness. When population is growing faster than housing times occupancy rate, then necessarily people are sleeping rough.
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by scarab92 2y ago
Australia has heavily imbalanced supply-demand in housing. It accepts a very high number of migrants each year, compared to its population, and the design of it's migration system means that these are almost all white collar workers wh
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by scarab92 2y ago
NASA understands sunk cost fallacy. NYT doesn’t.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump starts a second space race, to put the first human on Mars, and funnels billions into SpaceX to achieve it.
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by scarab92 2y ago
There’s a strange hostility in your comment that doesn’t seem to make sense. Nice guys can become resentful when their kindness isn’t reciprocated in environments where reciprocity is a reasonable expectation, but that I don’t see how that
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by scarab92 2y ago
See also, the misuse of the relatively rare psychological effect known as burnout to refer to simply being tired or fatigued.
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by scarab92 3y ago
The national interest is really just the collective interests of the citizens of a country, and America has a lot of Jewish citizens. As a more practical matter, there is significant amount of technology transfer between Israel and the US,
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by scarab92 3y ago
Unfortunately the more news-worthy stories also suffer from a severe lack of viewpoint diversity. Audiences are already very familiar with the ideological narratives emanating from the NYT newsroom. It’s fine as flavour, but the NYT are so
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by scarab92 3y ago
Like most problems, it’s an externality problem. The true cost of destroying or misplacing a parcel is often higher than the nominal value of the item inside. Sometimes it’s a sentimental good, sometimes it’s time sensitive and not having i
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by scarab92 3y ago
I’ve literally never heard of someone defining a free market as a market with government subsidies. It’s usually defined as a market free from (excessive) government control. I think you might be trying to shoehorn domestic policy concerns
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by scarab92 3y ago
Same. Isn’t this behaviour exactly what got Microsoft in anti-trust hot water?
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by scarab92 3y ago
I find shorts quite helpful if you’re intentionally looking for a quick explainer. There are unfortunately lot of how to videos on YouTube that are 10 seconds of content in 13 minutes of filler. The trick is just to never scroll through sho
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by scarab92 3y ago
I’ve always been a bit unsure of what to make of nebula. A lot of content is low effort edu-taintainment that seems to be little more than Wikipedia in video form. More original and higher integrity creators like Veritasium, CGP Grey, Engin

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