walkhour

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by walkhour 4y ago
> ridiculing politicians in China is taboo You mean the Chinese politicians that are in power right? Chinese propaganda ridicules constantly politicians from other countries. Obviously this is just a well calculated move. It's accep
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by walkhour 4y ago
Sure, that's quite a leap though, that higher car insurances for poor people are a cause of poverty. Surely they contribute something, but how much? Is it 0.001%? Is it whatever they contribute to big enough to not get lost in noise? Y
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by walkhour 4y ago
Market madness is one the best if not the best example of self fulfilling prophecy there is. But there are many use cases of data that don't result in anything like that, e.g. the example at the end of the article: car insurances.
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by walkhour 4y ago
Twitter must already know engagement is higher with the check mark, and thus worth the money for many orgs. I'm surprised the NYTimes is not paying and it's not clear to me whether it's because they think it's not worth
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by walkhour 4y ago
> I knew so many people who attempted suicide Successful suicides are up, not actually only suicide attempts. Changes in attitudes toward mental health don't result in changes in how bodies are counted.
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by walkhour 4y ago
Yes [0][1]. [0] https://www.fox4news.com/news/teacher-arrested-sexual-abuse-... [1] https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/summit-middle-school-p...
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by walkhour 4y ago
And nevertheless the percentage of priests abusing children is lower than the percentage of school teachers doing the same. Make sure to bring that up every time you talk about the public school system.
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by walkhour 4y ago
I've never seen anyone being so disagreeable on this podcast instead of just acting like if the love spreading shenanigans from Lex is something that no one should raise an eyebrow to.
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by walkhour 4y ago
Looks like a position with a lot of influence and status. Most of the salary is payed in gravitas and not pounds. I'm sure many people will be happy to take the deal.
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by walkhour 4y ago
Breaking: the runners lagging behind in the AI race demand openAI to stop right on its tracks; this is very unsafe; it will be much safer once we catch up and openAI is on the rear view mirror.
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by walkhour 4y ago
> There are no contemporary examples of humans hunting that way. There are some examples [0], although admittedly they are isolated cases. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
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by walkhour 4y ago
Maybe, but Zuckerberg smirks, also the guy behind him, and also the blond lady next to him. It seems more likely to me that the Senator was out of his depth.
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by walkhour 4y ago
Reminds me of the senator that asked Zuckerberg how do they make money [0], and Zuckerberg simply said they run ads. What a way to use your questioning time, with something that was a google search away. [0] https://youtu.be&#x2F
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by walkhour 4y ago
Supporting these kind of policies many times is not a result of thinking about any kind of consequences, even first order consequences. They just want to get back at something they don't like. Unfortunately this is the basis of too man
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by walkhour 4y ago
Outright banning something very specific is much simpler than creating regulation that's going to affect a whole industry. The argument for creating regulation is not that it would be simple but that it would be comprenhensive.
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by walkhour 4y ago
> banning superior foreign products and services mean that people have to use inferior local substitutes. TikTok is only superior in poisoning the minds of people using it here in US. That's why the Chinese version is different. I t
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by walkhour 4y ago
> put up proper user protecting rules That is a solution, but there's nothing simple about it. Obviously there's an even much simpler solution than coming up with what would be a very very complex set of regulations and laws, t
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by walkhour 4y ago
Whether it will be true or not, good propaganda attempt, Sam.
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by walkhour 4y ago
Your understanding of the judicial system is off. All prediction markets estimate he'll be away decades. If you're confident in your assessment, you can make a lot of money.
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by walkhour 4y ago
To the people concerned about kids depressing the wages of adults, are you also concerned about low wage immigration? Is immigration also capitalism showing its evil hand and do you oppose it because it negatively affects workers? (btw thi
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by walkhour 4y ago
If the value of their production exceeds the living wage, nothing. If it doesn't, there's nothing the company can do but pay less than the living wage or fire the employee.
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by walkhour 4y ago
Naming something by its origin it's not racist. The tone you're talking about is a completely subjective statement, and it has no place in a serious discussion. Using that name should've never been controversial and making it
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by walkhour 4y ago
> Ending inequality requires asymmetrical behavior. Sure there's a small delta between what you say and what others claim you say. Unless they verbatim repeat what you say there will always be a delta. Don't pretend to don&#x27
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by walkhour 4y ago
> Quite simply, wealthy people have used their wealth to purchase democracy, to warp democracy in their own interests. They’ve done that through a global template that involves lowering taxes, privatising formerly public attempts to deal
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by walkhour 4y ago
Incidentally what Afghanistan has done, with the claim that it will raise the birth rate. Women are banned from universities.
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by walkhour 4y ago
> Putin would never throw an atomic bomb to the US because the US always knows where Putin is and we would just bomb him back and terminate him. What if he just goes underground? Russia doesn't have a single nuclear bunker? What if
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by walkhour 4y ago
A book is probably a much better format than a podcast. It looks like he just makes assertions without justifying anything. One of the most important (or the only) metric in his field should be how well you can predict things, and he has a
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by walkhour 4y ago
I'm a few minutes into the podcast and Zeihan has already said stuff like: * Putin would never throw an atomic bomb to the US because the US always knows where Putin is and we would just bomb him back and terminate him. * Even if &qu
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by walkhour 4y ago
Thanks for the updates, can you add another update with the author's response? Whether you agree with the argument or not it's relevant they have shown face and have justified their actions.
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by walkhour 4y ago
[0]: > Modulo a few technical assumptions - any system of population ethics has to embrace either the Repugnant Conclusion, the Anti-Egalitarian Conclusion or the Sadistic conclusion. Something to keep in mind when thinking about populat

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