snikeris

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by snikeris 4y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue
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by snikeris 4y ago
The key is to return to it multiple times. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book
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by snikeris 4y ago
A much better grain + microbe combination: I've been fermenting oats for 1-2 days in a mixture of milk-kefir and water for the past few months. It tastes great with frozen berries and does good things for my gut.
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by snikeris 4y ago
Not necessarily. Some people buy 30 year treasuries specifically because they are more volatile than shorter duration bonds.
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by snikeris 4y ago
Curious when you formed your opinion on the JVM. It's been under active development for 28 years.
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by snikeris 4y ago
> That one can only logically assume there are beings to which we in turn are "tapeworm complexity" (also a thought: maybe we all live right now in such a higher being?) and hence will never be able to perceive them for what th
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by snikeris 4y ago
I'd go even further: our conscious minds are a lot less capable than we care to believe. The vast majority of our actions are unconscious. Think of all the unconscious things that we are doing moment to moment, heart beating, breathing
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by snikeris 4y ago
I also saw the original headline that said: > Who decides if the US is in a recession. Eight White economists you've never heard of.
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by snikeris 4y ago
I also find it pathetic. However the press is open to enterprising individuals. We don’t have to keep patronizing the same lousy news outlets. Who’s got the real scoop these days?
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by snikeris 4y ago
The government can stimulate employment by pumping money into its favored causes. So what you end up with is plenty of people employed but not producing things that people actually want. Unfortunately, we can't even imagine the wonders
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by snikeris 4y ago
It reads like racism to me.
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by snikeris 4y ago
> the fact that markets are just as often made unfree by the actions of its private actors. Example please.
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by snikeris 4y ago
I guess inflation isn’t a concern after all.
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by snikeris 4y ago
"The General Market's mechanisms are always operating - even when governments like to believe they've overruled it. For guns and bombs and red tape and regulations can only obstruct a consumer's quest for what he wants;
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by snikeris 4y ago
What passes as economic stability these days just makes things more fragile, e.g. propping up failing businesses w/ other people's money.
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by snikeris 4y ago
Money was initially private and decentralized. When it lost those attributes theft and economic instability became the norm.
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by snikeris 4y ago
Another cool game of hidden identity and deceit is Coup. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/131357/coup
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by snikeris 4y ago
Ultimately all species will perish due to the heat death of the sun unless we take them with us off this planet.
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by snikeris 4y ago
I think it’s irrelevant to the discussion, but it seems like it’s not settled: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4313438/
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by snikeris 4y ago
Let's just say that it is murder/abortion of 6 fertilized eggs. However, many people are fine with such murder, as they are with the murder of lettuce leaves. It seems the issue is always what is being murdered. The more human-lik
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by snikeris 4y ago
These wouldn't be voluntary abortions, right? We were discussing voluntary abortions.
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by snikeris 4y ago
> I know, and I'm sure you know, that's the real issue. Lots of people are uncomfortable with the concept of consequence-free sex. Hard disagree that the abortion issue is primarily about consequence-free sex. You stated the is
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by snikeris 4y ago
Yeah I think it’s scratching the innate human desire for progress. The rewarding feeling of progress without the friction of the real world.
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by snikeris 4y ago
It’s like a Turing test for suckers
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by snikeris 4y ago
The tech (money) has already been adopted by human society as a whole though. So it's not about pushing tech onto human society, but upgrading the existing tech. > It’s like giving up on solving the underlying issues that give human
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by snikeris 4y ago
The OP seemed to be saying that less intelligent animals have it made. It’s just us intelligent yet foolish humans who mess everything up. My point was that ultimately, only intelligence will save us all. The dinosaurs tried the ignorance i
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by snikeris 4y ago
Ultimately all less intelligent animals on this planet will perish due to heat death of the sun unless we bring them with us to other planets.
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by snikeris 4y ago
The trouble is that sometimes in-app purchases means the game is a demo, and you use the in app purchase to buy the full game. There are good games that follow this model that you’ll miss out on if you filter out in app purchases.
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by snikeris 4y ago
If you walk around a low income area in the US, you’ll find loot boxes littered on the ground. We call them scratch off tickets. Getting the okay from the government to prey on your fellow citizens has precedent here.
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by snikeris 4y ago
The Drake equation handles that case: fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space

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