splithalf

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by splithalf 5y ago
I’ve thought about this. No.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Practice by being wrong often. Opinions shouldn’t be fixed, if you’re intellectually flexible and always taking in new data, your opinions will always be changing. Static thinking is the knob goblin of tiny minds.
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by splithalf 5y ago
“ study does not directly address whether an acute treatment with vitamin D could be helpful for infected individuals, Patchen said, nor does it imply that one shouldn’t take vitamin D supplements” Nutrition research is junk science so I ex
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by splithalf 5y ago
Consider fake meat. A veggie burger used to cost a buck or so. Compare that to today’s beyond beef which is almost beyond beef in price. Hedonic adjustments in everything.
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by splithalf 5y ago
I am trying to say that Bitcoin has caused a change in the types of crimes that are being committed. It’s easily quantifiable. When I say it is blood money I mean that it is a way to pay for assassinations. Assassination markets are not new
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by splithalf 5y ago
Incentives matter. Bitcoin incentivizes certain types of criminal activity. As Bitcoin grows the negative externalities will become more pronounced. I truly don’t get the ethics of it. It is killing people, literally blood money as a great
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by splithalf 5y ago
“ Don’t think you need Amazon Sidewalk? No worries. You can update this anytime from the Ring or Alexa mobile apps.” Rotflmao
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by splithalf 5y ago
It’s as though a year of high pitched media alarms going off about the impending wave of death and devastation, 24-7 news flooding the zone created with the intention to incite fear, gloom and doom in the American people, astonishingly enou
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by splithalf 5y ago
I agree. Sadly I think some fraction of these people, maybe many tens of thousands, will end up homeless or opting for “van life” as a result of their reorientation to risk.
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by splithalf 5y ago
I’m reminded of that “bag o glass” SNL routine.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Excellent point. It’s a problem with operational definitions which plagues a lot of research. But “scale” in this context implies economic efficiency. You can’t give every kid a full time counselor. You can write a script to send sms messag
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by splithalf 5y ago
Brought to you by Bitcoin.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Tsla buys Bitcoin, tsla makes it into the s&p. That’s what’s wrong with it. It’s not stupid greedy easy come easy go money, it’s honest folks retirement account money that is in effect stolen from them.
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by splithalf 5y ago
The climate doesn’t care about per capita though. If more than half of all coal plants are in China, then China needs to change if we have any hope of moving the needle. All the other countries can change but it won’t matter.
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by splithalf 5y ago
The math here is simple. Economy = vaccination rate. People aren’t getting vaccinated so we can’t return to business as usual. People who claim it’s about incentives like wages or unemployment pay are imposing their agenda on the facts. It’
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by splithalf 5y ago
In other words, “we were promised flying cars but ...” You might as well celebrate stock buybacks.
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by splithalf 5y ago
There’s a cost to building back better.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Except budgets by definition are limited. We cannot do all the things all the time. Sorry to be a buzzkill but we need adult minds on this problem, not simpletons who can’t understand how limited our options are at this point.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Speaking of rocket pieces falling from the sky... https://time.com/6046051/china-long-march-rocket/
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by splithalf 5y ago
“Good enough for government work” is one of the right’s greatest memes.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Incentives shape culture more than the inverse.
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I don’t think any human mind can know the whole truth in the typical sense of knowing. My view is one that allows for mystery and features an unknowable or imperfectly knowable Truth. I’m inclined towards a more humble assessment of human p
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by splithalf 5y ago
I want to be excited by this but 500 million dollars to create 10 jobs doesn’t sound efficient. Maybe there’s more to this than just job creation?
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by splithalf 5y ago
Costs and returns matter to money people.
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by splithalf 5y ago
“ doesn't seem to be any practical implications of whether there are or not.” On one hand everything is material and deterministic (whether you confess to it or not — eg Dan dennet), on the other hand you have the possibility of free w
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by splithalf 5y ago
“ human brains are wired in such a way that we tend to hallucinate similar things?” Yes, somewhere between jung and Oliver sacks — a biological basis for the collective unconscious. Religion IMO offers the most parsimonious explanation, to
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by splithalf 5y ago
Not doing those things and achieving the same outcome at no cost.
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by splithalf 5y ago
I would argue that the distinction between periodic rebalancing and timing the market is subjective. Even if you aren’t trying to rebalance based on market conditions, ie selling at a high, the downsides of market timing are still there jus
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by splithalf 5y ago
It’s such a fundamental contradiction you see it everywhere. The quote “buy low, sell high” says we should time the market. Even the classic “percentage of bonds to stocks should be your age” requires us to time the market. And if you just
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by splithalf 5y ago
I like offices too, but they are bad in many ways that ought to be acknowledged. To ask those who spend all day writing code to bookend that with an hour long commute each day, because other people enjoy “having a chat” is absurd.

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