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by tdehnel 4y ago
The reason printing money causes inflation is because people spend the extra money. It increases demand for things, and suppliers raise prices in response to that. Giving everyone money, regardless of whether it’s a tax refund or printed ou
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Utter nonsense. Mandated treatment for drug addiction and severe mental illness would tackle half the problem. Then provide contingent housing based on staying sober, sticking to your treatment plan, and getting a job. You can graduate when
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by tdehnel 4y ago
Someone with a drug addiction or mental health issues needs treatment _now_. Access to email is a lower priority.
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Wait, even with a 0% chance of unintended consequences, you’d still insist on exhausting literally every other option? These climate doomsayers are really committed to the bit.
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Oh knock it off
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Close. Not just sugar, but calories of any kind + sedentary.
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This has got to be the most idiotic, speculative comment section of the year. Literally not a single coherent explanation of how plastics might actually cause obesity, and a bunch of people going on about sugar and hormones.
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Utter nonsense. Even if growth hormone made it into finished meat, and then if enough was bioavailable to have an effect on humans, growth hormone causes the development of muscle (meat) as well as fat. So you'd expect to see people be
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by tdehnel 4y ago
Good reasoning. But take it one step further…who pays when shipping costs go up?
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That is because it is literally the same car as the Impreza, only lifted and with some body cladding.
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by tdehnel 4y ago
The most likely scenario is one you’re not considering because you’re a pessimist: It’s very bad and the effects won’t be that bad because people will come up with solutions you can’t predict. Like when we were supposed to run out of Europi
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by tdehnel 4y ago
interesting that patriotism (love of your country) is now being cast as a bad thing
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You’re actually proving my point. Those so-called successful business decisions never turn out to be true enough to work long term. Like all knowledge, they are eventually shown to be false.
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Duh, science is the interplay between observations and explanations. But that doesn’t change that what makes an explanation good or bad is whether it’s hard to vary. I’ll use a David Deutsch example: let’s say a theory that eating 1kg of gr
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by tdehnel 4y ago
Good arguments (explanations) are hard to vary. More here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jcTsbaQ8hNc7qxwaQ/explanatio...
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by tdehnel 4y ago
A simple answer to this is that good explanations are hard to vary. More here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jcTsbaQ8hNc7qxwaQ/explanatio...
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by tdehnel 4y ago
> Any good-argument-driven based argument you attempt to make is almost always based on political motivating factors If this is true in the case of a specific theory, then that is not a good theory.
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I think the point is the theory doesn’t come from the data (it can’t). It comes from the process of creative conjecture in a person’s mind.
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Oh stop it. Every time we make progress there will be some unequal effect. Some people will benefit and others will lose out. We should do our best to balance the trade offs, but to say someone shouldn’t be ambitious if there is some unequa
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by tdehnel 4y ago
“Your opinions are no longer valid and will not be acknowledged. Please stop talking.”
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There are probably a half million people who do what I do. I go on reputation and sales ability. Anyone can learn to improve both for themselves.
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I have all of that. I buy it with the money I make.
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It would help their reputation. They are now one of the most expensive options. Business don’t spend money like frugal people.
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by tdehnel 4y ago
It used to be $225/hr. But I don’t have an hourly rate anymore and I basically never will. You need to understand that as a contractor clients value more than just your time and the work you do. They value flexibility in staffing, gett
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by tdehnel 4y ago
But this doesn’t have to be so unless we want it to be. Modern humans are unlike all others in the sense that we have the capacity to extend our species to the end of the universe.
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The word “impact” doesn’t have any impact at all(tomdehnel.com)
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Anyone else annoyed by the growing use of the word "impact" to speak increasingly passively? People are so afraid to make a claim nowadays, even if it's obviously true. They speak of "impacts" or that something will
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> not a single scrap of hard evidence The point of the piece was to point out the issue with this way of thinking. Science exists to find flaws in a hypothesis, not find evidence to support it.
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Can you describe exactly why you believe progress has a limit? I don’t see how there could be a limit (other than the laws of physics which actually prevent none of what has been described in this conversation).
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Imagine being so wrapped up in the game that you seriously think it’s as simple as there being a “hate path” and you just happen to have chosen to be one of the good guys. The fact is normal people are starting to resent being told who or w

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