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by tjs8rj 4y ago
What exactly is the issue with comparing oneself to others? I came from a less fortunate background in some ways, and LinkedIn has been a godsend for me to compare myself to others and get to where I want to be: I just look people up who I’
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The benefit of this political philosophy is its fractally-flexbile. If we've solved every problem and the most efficient of everything is found, then "fully-automated space communism" is the most "efficient" because
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It’s already so hard to build a large company, you just don’t have the resources to chase super rare, low pain outcomes. This is the first time this has happened and the total cost of it is at most a few hours revenue. They’ll likely add sa
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
People pearl clutching over user generated content is just an observational reality. The “ad-pocalypse” on YouTube and it’s subsequent iterations saw tons of youtubers demonetized and “problematic content” throttled all because discussions
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Every atrocity the US has committed has been committed by any comparable (like China), but Chinese vs US tyranny looks very different (especially today). If that’s how you feel, then don’t spread it, but when the stakes are as high as the f
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Sure many did - that doesn’t make it right. Furthermore, this take is the “neutral global citizen” way of looking at things. It’s one perspective, and certainly important to be aware of, but China vs US (or the west more generally) isn’t a
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
I was primarily responding to your suggestion that strict social rules around sex were an intrinsically Christian take (or religious in nature). Beyond that though, Chimps have social hierarchies around sex. It’s hard to imagine why somethi
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Is there any culture in the world without significant taboos or social rules around sex? I can totally see why that’d be the default, simply because sex is such a charged act in any culture. Purely biologically: it’s a very vulnerable act a
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
This just isn’t true. Alabama’s budget has a net surplus. What you’re referring to is that fact that states like California push for major federal projects that are inevitably unaffordable by lower gdp states like Alabama - many of those pr
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
The economic system as the root doesn’t make sense. Why is the decay so sudden despite capitalism dominating western markets for nearly half a thousand years? Why are there so many capitalist economies like Japan or Norway without these iss
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Regardless of the practicality: why do they think it’s their role to be the morality police? If there’s anything we’ve learned from history, it’s that we’ve always been morally wrong in some way, very often in our most strongly held beliefs
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Like who? Most of the oligarchs aren’t so much risk takers as they were friends with the right people at the right time and so got to buy state industry for pennies on the dollar
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The problem is that this way of thinking concludes with “everyone is evil in the long run”.
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This answer is circular though: “they didn’t have the technology because they just didn’t have the technology yet”. Time alone isn’t even really an answer. It only takes time because of the pace of innovation, and the pace of innovation dep
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Hypothetically music should be priced like medicine or drugs. What you "get" out of it is a mood, like a stimulant or depressant (but with more complexity and side effects). "For $20, I can sell you this audio file that makes
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Film productions don’t do a good job of engendering good will. Too frequently have they popped up on my street out of no where and tried to prevent me from walking to my home because they are filming in front of it. Unless they are compensa
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Gorilla tag is a great game, has over a million players. Movement is entirely by moving your arms and is really intuitive + immersive. Lots of games and many concurrent users
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Macro is always a great scapegoat. All the missed earnings a few weeks ago was blamed on inflation/gas costs/Ukraine Sometimes is accurate, but a lot of the time is just convenient to buy time and prevent panic selling
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Save themselves? Isn’t their strategy doing alright business-wise? Your users are passionate and retained when your partisan enough (but not so partisan they can’t trust you). Republicans view NYT as very biased, but democrats almost entire
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Surprised on the answer to the “worst enemy” one. I wouldn’t really call anyone I know personally my worst enemy, so I figured it’d be someone like Mao or Hitler, and of course I’d just have it run them over. Do other people have a worst en
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Disclosure: I’m one of the founders, but this is exactly the kind of thing we’re working on with Quantbase (getquantbase.com) We’re a roboadvisor that acts like a quantitative hedge fund, and so we share all that cool data with you from dat
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Not to be all conspiratorial but I noticed my gut reaction to this statement was “I wonder how much of that from WHO/CDC is stretching the truth to prevent stigma”. The CDC really did a real number on its own credibility by showing its
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You said: 1. Outlawing abortion isn’t helpful at all 2. Actually helpful would be contraceptives I (and the vast majority of people) agree that contraception is important and should be widely available. You’re argument against abortion rest
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I “fixate” on that question because that’s the argument everyone is making: that any interference in abortion is unjust. The reality is (as you seem to agree) is that in some instances there’s little difference from baby murder - hence why
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Fetus literally means unborn baby. The only difference between a fetus and a baby 10 minutes before birth is position in space (one’s in a womb). Would you support abortion 10 minutes before birth? A day? A week? At what point are you just
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“If you really want to reduce murders, you can’t outlaw it, that just lets rich people murder. Instead, you make guns and other self protection widely available” To anyone who is convinced abortion is baby murder, this is what you just said
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Do you think abortion 10 minutes before birth is fine? Half way out the birth canal? 1 second after birth? Is there ever a time between conception and birth where you’d call it baby murder?
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If you’re pro choice then you must support pure freedom including citizens owning nukes, children taking heroin, and legalizing stealing from others right? Of course not. Pro choice is doesn’t literally mean “pro choice in all situations”,
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You’re laying out the definition of a slippery slope argument. 75% of Americans want restrictions on abortion (beyond just Roe v wade’s shaky constitutional basis). The vast vast majority of Americans are ok with contraceptives, same sex ma
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The pro life position is really simple: 1. Baby murder is wrong 2. Abortion is murdering a baby 3. Therefore abortion is wrong That’s it. There is no requirement to meet some perceived bar of empathy beyond that for this to be a good faith

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