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by snikeris 7y ago
I find it interesting that smoking itself isn't a pre-existing condition that makes you more likely to be hospitalized if you get Covid-19.
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by snikeris 7y ago
Yeah, good questions. I'd say if you already have a car, probably reasonably safe to make your way to it and drive somewhere. But renting, hmm not so sure. Also, staying with family has its risks. Maybe someone is infected but asymptom
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by snikeris 7y ago
This doctor says to get out if you can safely: https://youtu.be/F2EK-XRBsSo?t=468
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by snikeris 7y ago
Case in point: The Nazis used census records to identify Jews. Who knows what pieces of personal information the next madman will consider relevant. They'll certainly have much more of it to choose from.
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by snikeris 7y ago
Where do you draw the line? Broccoli is alive, should I stop eating broccoli?
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by snikeris 7y ago
Be the first of your ancestors to be an evolutionary dead-end! Tough sell...
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by snikeris 7y ago
Caffeine seems like a stretch, but I wouldn't be surprised. We're becoming more aware of the health implications of insufficient sleep, and the socialization of medicine has governments taking on the financial burden of people bei
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https://www.sens.org/ They're working on solutions to problems we all face.
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by snikeris 7y ago
> One problem is that you aren't allowed to make mistakes in social situations anymore without facing extreme consequences Wasn't this more the case for our ancestors? You make a mistake, and you're banished from the tribe
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by snikeris 7y ago
I'm also familiar with the disincentives people face as they pull themselves out of our welfare system. I know two such people who face similar dilemmas.
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by snikeris 7y ago
> Most people (in this context) make the mistake of spending it on drugs, worthless trinkets, junk food, etc. Most aren't encouraged to pursue skills that can pay the bills. Or they're actively discouraged. "Crabs in a buc
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by snikeris 7y ago
Sure, on an absolute basis, someone who started with more than me will end up with more. But why does that matter to me? I only have my current resources to consider. We all have some resources at our disposal. Understanding that slowly gro
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by snikeris 7y ago
These folks seem to get it: http://www.ecomodernism.org/
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Vietnam?
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by snikeris 7y ago
No, I meant to reply to you. I felt like you didn't have a good understanding of what wealth is, so I gave some concrete examples you might have nearby.
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> The strenuous purposeful money-makers may carry all of us along with them into the lap of economic abundance. What Keynes means by economic abundance is not the state where everyone has equally large bank accounts. Economic abundance i
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by snikeris 7y ago
I disagree. A well-rested mind is almost categorically different than a 5-hour-a-night mind. It doesn't matter how hard you work if you're unable to have the insight that the thing you're working on doesn't matter or you
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by snikeris 7y ago
I wonder if the brain fog is caused by sleeping more, or if something else is causing you to both sleep longer and wake up w/ brain fog on those days.
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by snikeris 7y ago
> Most times my body will just wake up by itself after about 5 hours anyway, before any alarms ring but sometime it doesn't. I was there about a year ago. I'm still working on it, but things are improved. The last hours of slee
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by snikeris 7y ago
When you don't sleep enough, your sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) gets activated. Your heart beats faster, cortisol is increased. If you spend most of your time in this state it seems normal to you. A return to good sleep
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by snikeris 7y ago
You didn't address the problem of Nigeria that the OP brought up. How will a carbon tax in the U.S. address the issue of the Nigerian people rightly desiring a better standard of living?
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by snikeris 7y ago
Not quite what you asked for, but I'm finding it enlightening: https://daedtech.com/developer-hegemony-the-crazy-idea-that-...
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by snikeris 7y ago
> The only rational path is a virtuous cycle of better politicians enacting better policies and promoting better public understanding of climate change. But as of today, there is no sign the world is moving in that direction. Suppose my
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Douglas Harding’s Experiments in Seeing(headless.org)
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by snikeris 7y ago
What is this anxiety? Does it come from the fear of non-existence? I will be dead some day, and I surely don't want to spend my limited existence staring into the void. Gotta keep moving!
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by snikeris 7y ago
> Before the internet, they’d mostly be unable to find each other. With the internet, they can build self-reinforcing “communities” on the basis of hate, intolerance, or really anything. If they just stayed in that bubble it’d be fine, b
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by snikeris 7y ago
> Stand on the street corner all you like, at least your terrible ideas will be limited by the physical world. The Internet, though, with its inherent ability to broadcast and congregate globally, is a fundamentally more dangerous medium
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by snikeris 7y ago
Telomere length is one such measurement.
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by snikeris 7y ago
> You made a silly ad hominem about me potentially being able to afford to ignore increased prices. So let's go ahead and assume the externalities are priced so high that it's an effective ban for all but 0.1% or whatever. Pric
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by snikeris 7y ago
I'm with you on pricing in externalities. However that's a tricky business and is not anywhere on the level of mandating that people wear seatbelts. > If plastic bottles were banned worldwide tomorrow What happened to pricing i

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