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by vladms 2y ago
> Though admittedly today, the larger beneficiaries are increasingly monpolies, and so on. But this isnt a side effect of the finance industry, but of the state. For markets to exist, monopolies must be avoided. As you can't expect
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by vladms 2y ago
The initial statement was about power generation, not sure if it is of value to mention in this context all the other sources of carbon (of which imported products is one, but not the only one).
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by vladms 2y ago
By influence people behavior I mean for example "make them thinking about spending more than they were spending before receiving the 2k, 6 months after they stopped receiving the aid". And I mean by this impulsive spending, not pl
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by vladms 2y ago
I read the original reply as "how can extra 2k change your habits or expectations", your interpretation seems to be "how can extra 2k make a difference". Only the author can detail on what he really means, but do you thi
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by vladms 2y ago
This is not everybody's (all over the world I mean) experience over last 50 years. In some places, poor people become much richer than before. Now, everybody should be worried if this can't happen anymore, but I think that, for no
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by vladms 2y ago
Maybe perfectionist is the wrong word for it, but me, as a European I do feel there is some kind of (obsessive?) attention for details and (at least desire) for order in Japan cities that you don't see/feel in other places. This i
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by vladms 2y ago
What references you have for "even more of"? Global inequality is dropping : https://ourworldindata.org/the-history-of-global-economic-in... Yes, probably the richest do now crazier stuff than before (ex: planning
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by vladms 2y ago
In the case of summarizing it is not time spent with patient is time recording what was discussed. I recently heard a talk from doctolib (French company that among other offers now the summarization service to doctors) and they mentioned th
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by vladms 2y ago
There are some situations where you try to reduce type II errors (false negative) even if you increase type I errors (false positive). The hypothesis is "the captain was to blame". If this is true but you reject it (type I error)
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by vladms 2y ago
It's not about you. It's about another "type" of human. One that wants more. Maybe you don't (good for you, probably you are happier!). But the problem is you will need to "fight" against the other "t
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by vladms 2y ago
Human nature in most big culture seems to be trained to demand more (even if not always money). If there was any group of people that were "content with what they had", they were outpaced in development by the ones that "want
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by vladms 2y ago
So the part where if you don't make an offer to the (priest) of some god it will strike you with thunder was correct, and I am not understanding the hidden meaning? Maybe I was too optimistic with the 2000 years. I never claimed religi
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by vladms 2y ago
People were indeed afraid of stuff they did not understand and they imagined them to be quite different than what they really were. Like Greeks inventing Zeus as a coping mechanism for the malevolent, all powerful and vengeful nature. Hope
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by vladms 2y ago
The article does not mention a specific location for this "culture" war, and not being specific can lead to inexact ideas (is this restricted to the anglophone sphere?...). Similar to when I see studies like "doing X results
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by vladms 2y ago
I find ironic that we are talking about ML where we have vectors of thousands of quantities and then we go to measure social/economic stuff with one (or a couple of numbers). The general discourse (news, politicians, forums, etc.) over
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by vladms 2y ago
How do you define "can do" ? Would answering correctly 9 out of 10 questions correctly for a type of question (like give directions knowing a map) mean it "can do" or that it "can't do" ? Considering it wo
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by vladms 2y ago
Not a native English speaker, but when I hear "thankfulness" I kind of hear "to someone/something" (not that much for "gratitude"). Now "humble" I resonate much more with, but I don't see it
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by vladms 2y ago
Just looking at capitals of many countries, lots of monuments (statues, etc.) are dedicated to conquerors that were basically celebrated for successfully killing, subjugating and stealling from the others. There are still people that have s
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by vladms 2y ago
Do you have a reference for cleaning systems being harsh? Having moved countries I noticed many difference in: water hardness (will make your cloths stiffer), materials used (when you buy stuff), usage (car versus biking vs public transport
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by vladms 2y ago
I think the problem is more the banning does not address the root cause and will not increase societal buy-in, hence will waste a lot of energy without a result. Alcohol consumption is currently dropping in many (not all places) in Europe (
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by vladms 2y ago
What is for you the purpose (or result) of (undirected) thankfulness? I find religious people passionate about following the rituals of their religion (for many more than the intention), in a similar way as atheists are passionate about oth
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by vladms 2y ago
> So the government gets to re-tax most of that money when you use it to hire someone to build a new business with you. You should consider it also from the point of view of the employee. The government taxes your employee to offer him s
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by vladms 2y ago
Illegal immigrants will go to "the better" at probably any difference between two countries. Is that all that "the west" aspires now to? And the level of hypocrisy in many countries is astonishing. A lot of companies in
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by vladms 2y ago
Some people think that the west (and others) are doing similar things, for example: focusing on some migrants rather than tackling climate change. This too will have a catastrophic human toll in my opinion, I think people are warned, and st
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by vladms 2y ago
Without open source it would be worse. Imagine windows on all phones.
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I can't feel that this stance will could soon evolve into "it is completely insane how any random individual ... can access the source code". Open source was built on the spirit of openness. Rather than closing it, I think so
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by vladms 2y ago
I lived through a change from "authoritarianism" to "some kind of democracy". Many of the people in the country that took advantage of the population before (by being authoritarian) were the ones that sold the enterprise
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by vladms 2y ago
> democracy has been the undoing of my home country ... given us nothing but misery From what I see around the world for democracy to work it needs a certain degree of social cohesion, which some countries lack. The prevalence of some c
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by vladms 2y ago
Regarding the human genome project specifically it was research and no matter what was claimed (give us all of these medical breakthroughs) we (as the public) should understand there is no guarantee. Similarly to how most tech startups prop
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by vladms 2y ago
> is artificially created You imply that thousands of year ago everybody was thinking critically? Thinking critically is hard, stressful and might take some joy from your life.

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