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by slashdev 3y ago
I think the most important thing is it proves it can be done. At one point it was thought impossible to run a 4 minute mile. There were all kinds of scientific sounding explanations why it just couldn’t be done. Then someone did it. Shortly
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by slashdev 3y ago
How is 25 years a single point of data?
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yeah, probably.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Losses to resistance inside your home don’t matter much. In your computer they do, but it’s not clear this helps with that. This would enable really long distance electrical transmission, which solves the whole intermittency issue with sola
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by slashdev 3y ago
Even if you were right, it behooves us to act as if our actions mattered. Otherwise, what’s the point. I don’t think you’re right, for the record.
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by slashdev 3y ago
From the comments here, I think most people just read the headline. The article looked at 50/200 day simple moving average crossovers on the S&P 500 index (using SPY etf). Which are really just indicators of momentum. Buy when goin
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by slashdev 3y ago
I’d say electronic computers were the biggest invention of the last 100 years. But it wasn’t one discovery, that built upon many, many discoveries and breakthroughs. As a singular discovery goes, it’s hard to think of something that tops th
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by slashdev 3y ago
This is an unreviewed preprint coming out of South Korea. If it’s reproducible it would be the biggest scientific discovery of the last hundred years. It will literally reshape the world. However, the most likely thing is they made a mistak
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by slashdev 3y ago
Shipping is just surprisingly cheap.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I don’t see what you did wrong, it must have been the algorithm change. My parents had a business that was killed by a Facebook algorithm change. My brother took a significant hit from an Amazon algorithm change. Building a business around
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by slashdev 3y ago
After fucking over Canada on the Keystone XL pipeline, I hope the Biden administration sticks to their “principles” and shuts that down too. It will be interesting to see.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Coal is dying fast in the US. It’s international coal use (India and China) that is the problem. The coal lobby has nothing to do with that.
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by slashdev 3y ago
In technology, economy, health, longevity, and general well being. Yes, way behind.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I’m being called biased by a user with the name snot rocket. What’s wrong with my terminology?
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I think it would be extremely impractical and impossible to apply fairly. Maybe that’s not an argument by itself for doing nothing.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Those countries were created by Europeans, they didn’t exist before that. The tribes that were there before were not much of a civilization. They weren’t behind the rest of the world because of colonialism, they were colonized because they
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by slashdev 3y ago
I don’t like student loan forgiveness as a policy because it is unequally distributed and benefits those most who were least responsible. I think one could come up with a more fair proposal than that.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I do know what my answer would be. I don't make excuses or play the victim card or blame my current condition on external circumstances. I accept what has passed, what my current situation is, and try to play the hand I was dealt the b
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by slashdev 3y ago
One could argue that despite being free, African Americans still had to work against racism, unfair laws, and a system rigged against them in many ways. Those are things a white immigrant wouldn't have had to deal with, but black immig
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by slashdev 3y ago
This is also in rather poor taste. To point you in the right direction: "to keep repeating it doesn't make it any more true and is really revealing a lot" of undesirable things about you as a person. The latter words added by
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by slashdev 3y ago
That was a different person, although your point is valid for the other person.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I agree, work on creating a more equal society, with better opportunities for all, instead of playing the game of who's the bigger victim. Because we can all play the victim card, including me and you, and it's just not productive
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by slashdev 3y ago
By that logic, African-Americans also benefit from that economy, and ironically the gains made from slavery.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yes, that is true (I don't know about the exact numbers, but there's no question there's a difference.) Asian Americans are even better off, but why should they have to pay for reparations? Their ancestors weren't involv
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by slashdev 3y ago
You can't make a fact more true. It simply is. You can drop the personal attacks and insinuations. That's not necessary.
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by slashdev 3y ago
That's true. There are still people alive who were hurt by those laws.
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by slashdev 3y ago
This argument makes a lot of sense to me.
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by slashdev 3y ago
No. You can't argue with what I said, it's a fact. Facts just are. You can argue about what it means if you want, or how it makes you feel.
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> the legacy of slavery has left significant and enduring socio-economic disparities between descendants of enslaved people and those who are not. Inequalities in wealth, education, health, and opportunities persist, often along racial l
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by slashdev 3y ago
Burn it all down and start over? I think that's rarely the best approach. We're going to have to figure this sustainability thing out though, we can't just ignore the problems. Either way, it's going to be a big challeng

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