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by scoofy 2mo ago
You could maybe compare the Boston metro. It should resemble a European city with satellite villages connected by trains. I would be curious as to the costs/benefits there.
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by scoofy 2mo ago
Did I mention the 100° summers or the fact that people usually live 20+ miles from where they work? I agree with you generally on the incentives, but it took us 70 years to paint ourselves into this corner, and we’re not going to get out of
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by scoofy 2mo ago
Right… my exact point is that it’s not a like-for-like comparison. Take Europeans, put them in Kansas. Fund their healthcare as though they were in Europe, and watch their health outcomes take a nosedive because the environment here is non-
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by scoofy 2mo ago
There is a ton of ideology baked into naive-level analysis of this stuff. I am constantly told how much less Europeans pay for better health outcomes and all I can think about was the obesity crisis I grew up around in Texas. Socializing he
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by scoofy 2mo ago
Why don't we tip bus drivers then? Why don't we tip dental hygienists? Why don't we tip the pilots on our flights or the janitors at our libraries? The choice of who we tip is entirely arbitrary. How much we are supposed to t
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by scoofy 2mo ago
Yes, this is all along the line of thinking laid out in Skin in the Game , which was a difficult read for me, because I found myself agreeing with him on many, many similar ideas that I did not want to agree with him on.
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by scoofy 2mo ago
I would say it is a non sequitur rather than an ad hominem. The article is about the rigor of a paper on the harms of relatively small amounts of alcohol consumption. The comment is about the obvious harms from large amounts of alcohol cons
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by scoofy 2mo ago
Nassim Taleb is not publishing AI garbage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=64BtMdsAAAAJ&hl=en
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Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny(nntaleb.substack.com)
47 points by scoofy 2mo ago|83 comments
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by scoofy 2mo ago
I suspect they want a backdoor that basically acts like a front door (current password regimes). That is, a kind of high level password that decrypts traffic given a specific, changing, password that only the government has access to. It&#x
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by scoofy 2mo ago
As a former analytic philosophy student, it's always a bit strange and encouraging for me to see stuff like this show up in CS/Tech forums. We need more philosophy now that we are dealing with the implication of "intelligent&
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by scoofy 2mo ago
We support an open model ecosystem (because we failed to produce a successful closed model).
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by scoofy 2mo ago
I'm building a program that should help golf courses and golf course architects design better courses. I've been writing about it on my blog. My goal is to start a golf architecture consulting company, and help design/redesig
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by scoofy 2mo ago
Yes! A fun anecdote from my defense was that this element of logic "did not exist before some time" or something. One of my citations was a book from like, the 1700's or something, and it absolutely blew away one of the commi
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by scoofy 2mo ago
I had to do an oral defense of my thesis in graduate school. When you've spent months and months writing something extremely obscure... well, I'd hope that it's not that difficult.
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by scoofy 2mo ago
"The labor is valuable" is basically the refrain of every single laborer in every industrial revolution. The point isn't that labor isn't "valuable" it's that "value" here is a moral position
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by scoofy 2mo ago
Western society is limping forward with a "yes, but me first" mentality. We absolutely need an abundance agenda if we want people to have children. Reject the zero-sum investment thesis of NIMBY protectionism. Invest in density, e
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by scoofy 2mo ago
That used discrete nodes. Choosing “how far to walk” before changing mode changes that paradigm I think.
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by scoofy 2mo ago
Reminder that the NIN Quake soundtrack rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv5Jvr2Fp48&list=PLs7s7YCW40...
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by scoofy 2mo ago
I think this likely has more to do with the NP Hard problem of generating directions more than it has to do with bad design.
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by scoofy 2mo ago
I'm convinced the vast majority of people use the terms "capitalism" and "socialism" to mean whatever is convenient in the argument they are having. Capitalism and socialism are about ownership of the means of produ
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by scoofy 2mo ago
I live in SF and the biggest issue I see regularly with this debate is that most Americans seem to be conflating "capitalism" with various things that aren't directly related. First, I see Americans regularly conflating &quot
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SF enters its building era, kicking and screaming: SF Standard Podcast(youtube.com)
2 points by scoofy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by scoofy 2mo ago
Yea, it not that most uber/lyft drivers are bad (most are good), it’s just that all Waymos provide a good experience. It’s the same reason many people will prefer a chain restaurant to an unknown mom & pop. By knowing what you’re
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by scoofy 2mo ago
> The costs of medicare, medicaid and CHIP to tax payers are about what most Europeans pay in tax for universal health care, but then they also need to pay for health insurance for themselves. People always say this, but I suspect Americ
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by scoofy 2mo ago
M2 and MB are also relevant.
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by scoofy 2mo ago
2023 was a pretty miserable year in SF, in large part, because organized crime was using modern reselling platforms to create wildly productive fencing operations, driving extreme increases in car break-ins and burglaries. This lead to a ma
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by scoofy 2mo ago
>Normally I’d drink 4, sometimes 5 large cups of coffee throughout the day (I say cups but it’s literal tea mugs), and it wasn’t until the third I really could get going. Didn’t feel jittery or anything like that, mostly different shades
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by scoofy 2mo ago
I think a discussion we're not having is how policing should exist moving forward given this technology exists for criminals as well. We literally have people driving around with electromagnets on their license plates to cheat any nu
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by scoofy 2mo ago
QE is effective when inflation is low or negative. It creates a larger money supply. Inflation is already high.

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