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871.
by tomp 4y ago
Most people don’t have the freedom to choose not to work.
872.
by tomp 4y ago
It’s the ideological difference between “equality” (of opportunity) vs “equity” (of outcome). The former increases freedom, the latter increases coercion. I see freedom valuable and coercion damaging. Freedom to choose also requires you to
873.
by tomp 4y ago
No, I’m saying that (1) for most unequal splits, father working will be more profitable than mother working, because of biology (mother has to take time off), and (2) unequal splits are better than equal splits (e.g. both working 100%, or b
874.
by tomp 4y ago
You misunderstood my argument. If father specialises for work, he can devote 100%. If mother specialises for work, she can only devote 90% (or whatever, to account for birth & recovery in first year). Therefore all things being equal (i
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by tomp 4y ago
Because biology. Mothers have to take time off work (to give birth), fathers don’t. Freedom of choice is important, but so is specialisation (so the couple can be more efficient), so it makes more sense for mother to specialise for family
876.
by tomp 4y ago
Make sure you’re making a lot of money before moving to Switzerland (very high cost of living) and forget about buying property. Make sure you’re making very little money before moving to Slovenia (very high taxes although you can avoid mos
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by tomp 4y ago
Meat is literally recycled grass. Zero net carbon footprint. Sure cows release methane, but it’s part of a cycle and doesn’t contribute to long-term climate change. All other “C footprint” is a consequence of poor farming practices, not mea
878.
by tomp 4y ago
Sure, except him being probably the most productive human being ever, revolutionising 2 industries, and actually doing something useful with his wealth (looking at you, Bezos, Gates & Buffet)
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by tomp 4y ago
It’s not “hiring people like me”, it’s just a way to separate the wheat (people who are intrinsically interested in programming) from the chaff (people who picked programming instead of law/finance/medicine because it pays better
880.
by tomp 4y ago
Did you actually read the article you posted in the other comment? > With a more cooperatively designed system, this could be reduced to just 20 GW across the continent. So, no, you cannot sustain baseload power with wind, even with coo
881.
by tomp 4y ago
Yeah you can do the same with non-varying nuclear. Designing for overcapacity has nothing to do neither with renewables nor with being varying.
882.
by tomp 4y ago
It's interesting how indoctrinated we've become to think of "energy and water" as waste instead of as a feature of an advanced, high-technology high-energy civilisation. If we had good sources of energy (nuclear, or so
883.
by tomp 4y ago
> one solution is to just over-construct renewables How is that a solution? No amount of solar/wind farms will make sun shine in Europe at night, or shine sufficiently in winter (when energy needs are the greatest).
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by tomp 4y ago
You accuse "nuclear lobbying" of promoting "myths" but then this: > moreover because (most) renewables are varying, you actually also create capability to supply the varying demand (something you can't do with a
885.
by tomp 4y ago
There's 1.2 billion people in Africa. Good luck moving all of them. The only realistic solution is reforming institutions where the people are.
886.
by tomp 4y ago
> You left out the part about turning to fascism "Everyone I disagree with is a Nazi." [1] In the real world, Orban was just reelected with overwhelming majority (increasing his vote share). He didn't contribute to the cau
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by tomp 4y ago
No, your comment is short-sighted. Ideally, you'd have a system that would massively over -produce food (and feed everybody and store some) so that localised disruptions / crop failures wouldn't bring the whole system down.
888.
by tomp 4y ago
In the last wave, only one country (Hungary) handled the problem sensible (building a wall, encouraging locals having more kids). The rest of the governments mostly pretended the problem doesn't exist. I expect this to change with any
889.
by tomp 4y ago
> I don't think your vision of "most of us" is at all connected to reality. No, in fact, your idea of “reality” is completely disconnected from the actual real world. A billion people were lifted out of extreme poverty ove
890.
by tomp 4y ago
> Lots of people can bullshit their way out of this. They just repeat stuff they heard their teammates say. Indeed. The only way such questions are useful, is as a starting point, maybe they make the candidate more comfortable (less nerv
891.
by tomp 4y ago
How is sharing knowledge "violating academic integrity"? Unless given specific and explicit instructions not to reveal working solutions, then sharing your code is literally just "helping" others, it's up to them to
892.
by tomp 4y ago
> However, there are 50+ Senators, disproportionally representing low population, rural states, that are beholden to the NRA and its illegal funding and mis/dis-information campaigns. Well, there's the political interpretation
893.
by tomp 4y ago
Did you see the image in the linked article? Clearly the “unprofessional hair” are people with curly hair. Some are white! It’s not the algorithm’s fault that P(curly|black) > P(curly|white).
894.
by tomp 4y ago
You're confused by the double meaning of the word "bias". Here we mean mathematical biases. For example, a good mathematical model will correctly tell you that people in Japan (geographical term) are more likely to be Japan
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by tomp 4y ago
> a tendency for images portraying different professions to align with Western gender stereotypes There are two possible ways of interpreting interpreting "gender stereotypes in professions". biased or correct https:/
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by tomp 4y ago
If you’re interested in “hard to describe features that can be learned with enough expiration”, look up chick sexing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_sexing#Vent_sexing
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by tomp 4y ago
This “privacy” was clearly a made up argument. It doesn’t apply in any other case (e.g. “selling your kidney” is also privacy without interference of the state yet nevertheless illegal). You can easily overturn Roe while leaving all other
898.
by tomp 4y ago
Try fasting. I would get hungry 1-2 days in but then it subsides (don't overdo it... I think I did 3-4 days max). Or try eating more protein. 1kg of chicken breast (1600 kcal). I couldn't (but I'm "normally sized" a
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by tomp 4y ago
In large companies it's much easier. As an individual entrepreneur, you're the sole decision maker and responsible for everything. In a large company, you can always blame someone else, your boss, your employee, the HR guidelines,
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by tomp 4y ago
this comment makes no sense. You're at the same time arguing "meat producers had to adapt to external guidelines to be able to continue selling their products" and "government imposing external guidelines for producers t

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