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by trappist 5y ago
I wonder who they've been learning from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ
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by trappist 5y ago
By what standard would it be just? The vast majority of the people who would be harmed by this will have been innocent.
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by trappist 5y ago
I downloaded a transcripts of a subset (a dozen or so) of deleted and grepped. None of the ones I searched contained the word.
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by trappist 5y ago
Most if not all legislation comes with unintended consequences, if it has any consequences at all. Usually they are entirely predictable. Then, when people adapt their behavior to stay out of trouble by doing objectionable but legal things,
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by trappist 5y ago
Completely agree but an expectation that the nearest colleague should know this is unrealistic.
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by trappist 5y ago
Headline seems to be clickbait. I haven't read the full 180 page report, but having searched it and read the summary, "emotion" appears twice and not in the context of the feelings of ranchers about monopolies. It seems to ma
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by trappist 5y ago
Don't believe what, exactly? 0 emissions in 7 years, or else what? Even if we get to 20 years and nothing has yet happened, this could still stand. There is no proposition or prediction.
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by trappist 5y ago
Trademark treats this as a crime against the original producer. Pretending to be that producer to fool the consumer into buying your product is a crime against the buyer known as fraud. IANAL and I don't know whether in a legal environ
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by trappist 5y ago
It doesn't say Jews have an appetite for war, it says Israel does.
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by trappist 5y ago
Maybe Linux would be better written in BASIC. We can't know until someone does it.
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by trappist 5y ago
I understood parent's point to be that we obviously can't trust them to do better than this. In any case it seems clear that this is exactly why high tax rates hurt the middle class more than the rich. And everyone know it, and ye
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by trappist 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25407583
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by trappist 6y ago
1) Know which problem(s) you want to help solve. A very bad city will have many of them. Many or most may share a common cause, but enumerate and analyze them in isolation before acting on that assumption. 2) For each problem in the scope o
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by trappist 6y ago
It only succeeds at manipulation, for the most part, because of assumptions created by the prohibition that the apparent liquidity is genuine liquidity. I trade crypto on unregulated exchanges where spoofing is such a familiar phenomenon th
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by trappist 6y ago
This article suffers from a misconception of efficiency. A car that gets more miles per gallon than another is more fuel-efficient, not more efficient. A system of local optimums is an inefficient system. The author asks us to make life mo
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by trappist 6y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1281534833320222721.html
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by trappist 6y ago
She is British and this redditor doesn't write or spell like a Brit, not that this qualifies as analysis.
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by trappist 6y ago
From ... "Washington" Post?
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by trappist 6y ago
I think this often too. But my second thought is I have to accept the possibility that Bezos could know something I don't.
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by trappist 7y ago
I'll take a stab. First, society is a semantic shortcut, not something that actually exists as something that can experience gain or harm. Only individuals can, and many have, and do. I had an unbanked contractor, a refugee from Russia
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by trappist 7y ago
Is this subject to survivorship bias? Will future generations wonder at the inexplicable durability of a few modern structures still available to wonder at, for accidental reasons?
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by trappist 7y ago
The testing capacity exists, if you count devices that have (still) not been approved for use. That is the primary nature of of the failure here.
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by trappist 7y ago
Imagine you succeed in persuading a large number of nonvoters to vote. Do you have some reason to suspect they would make better decisions, i.e. choose better candidates, than people who currently vote? I could never understand why voting
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by trappist 7y ago
Voting is the easy part. If I'm to vote conscientiously, obviously I want to be informed on the issues, the candidates, the likelihood of the candidates to even pursue the fulfillment of their campaign promises and so on. This takes ti
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by trappist 7y ago
Advertising doesn't have a sole purpose. One purpose is to make you aware of the existence of a good or service. Another is to persuade you that you would be better off with that good or service than without it. One way of doing that,
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by trappist 7y ago
That's medicine, where the use of much better techniques are feasible and appropriate than in nutrition. What I'm saying isn't true of all fields. I'd put nutrition and economics near the top of the list, and medicine mu
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by trappist 7y ago
I see this as an epistemological failure in nutrition that plagues other fields as well. We have all this knowledge of human physiology and metabolism, and make very little use of it in nutrition, acting as though we can't draw logical
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by trappist 7y ago
> This is basically how SpaceX seems to operate: rather than optimizing a single part of the system (like trying to get the most efficient engine), they try to optimize from a systems level. A system of local optimums is an inefficient s
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by trappist 7y ago
Why? It seems to me private ownership has performed at least as well as public for the preservation of the trees.
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by trappist 7y ago
Economist Israel Kirzner insisted that monopoly analysis is only applicable when the possibility of competition is eliminated, either legally or by the producer's sole control of the total supply of a resource necessary for the produ

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