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by waqf 7y ago
In the glorious future when we can synthesize all the delicious cruelty-free artificial meat we desire, should we nevertheless, on ethical grounds , farm chickens so that we can strap them into VR sims of a life of chicken-luxury?
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by waqf 7y ago
So what you're saying is that a pattern of printed symbols that you looked at once in the past has permanently affected your response to stimuli?
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by waqf 7y ago
I think you mean that paywalls are rent-seeking on those who lack time (or some other resource) to go to a public library.
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by waqf 7y ago
Yeah, because the people who would have wanted to put healthy food before profit have either overcome that desire or gone out of business. Just as GP's model predicts. The corporations you get are the ones you regulate for. The tech in
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by waqf 7y ago
I believe what you're implying is correct. The original mental model of television was that it's live by definition (otherwise it's just an inferior and unduly complex substitute for ciné film, which was well established tech
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by waqf 7y ago
Context that's often forgotten here is that the BBC typically didn't even have the contractual right to rebroadcast these programmes (the actors' union would have stipulated a maximum number of broadcasts, for example two wit
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by waqf 7y ago
That's cheapest compared to median income , which is a valid thing to measure but probably not what GP meant. And also it's only comparing very large cities in ~8 selected countries (no Paris or Rhine–Ruhr, for example). (Source
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by waqf 7y ago
Yeah, same in Boston. We definitely have homeless people but they are usually polite-to-the-point-of-deferential to passers by — the complete opposite of SF.
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by waqf 7y ago
If only Google could invent a discussion site with rich text and threaded discussions … they could call it "Google Wave" …
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by waqf 8y ago
Having too many races on the same ballot already compromises ballot secrecy, to an extent. "We want you to vote for Jim Totes-Legitimate for President. But so that we can recognize your ballot paper and we can verify that you voted for
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by waqf 8y ago
You're here attacking something which in no way resembles what I was saying. After puzzling over your comment for a few minutes, my best guess is that you are unfamiliar with the expression "market failure" and badly misinter
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by waqf 8y ago
I agree you can't be insured against conditions you already know you have. But I think that means that at the moment you are diagnosed with the condition, your current insurer should be liable for future costs that arise from that
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by waqf 8y ago
Pre-existing conditions is another market failure. Not being in a position to shop around when you need emergency treatment is another. And the cartel activity whereby hospitals charge one price to insurers and a different, much higher, pri
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by waqf 8y ago
Yes — but all "intelligence" is an emergent property of systems. And because the system in this instance is not a human brain, it's non-human intelligence.
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by waqf 8y ago
Imagine the lawsuits when someone relies on what they saw on the panel and an accident ensues. This is why we can't have nice things.
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by waqf 8y ago
> How do people trust experts? That's a fundamental problem. Yes, this! I've often thought that a lot of hereditary socioeconomic underperformance may be in some sense attributable to a self-reinforcing information deficit wh
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by waqf 8y ago
Also, it's not envy-free. Say n=3: A might accept (in their opinion) 1/3 of the cake, but then watch as B and C divide the cake (in A's opinion) unevenly, so that (in A's opinion) either B or C has taken more than 1&#x2F
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by waqf 8y ago
> In contrast to this cake division algorithm, it leaves awkward leftovers. An important difference is that your rule only ensures that each person feels that they received at least 1/n of the total . This article is about the &q
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by waqf 8y ago
Thanks for this! I've been wondering for many years why "lamb" in the US is so tough. Wikipedia citation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_and_mutton#United_States Nevertheless, s0rce is correct o
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by waqf 8y ago
So under your system, big blockbuster productions would have the longest copyright term. I'd like to try exactly the opposite: when a work has been seen by a million people, it becomes public domain — whether that takes one year or 100
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by waqf 8y ago
Similarly, I have noticed that a difference between American subways and European subways is that when you stop at a station in Europe, the interlocks allow the automatic doors to open as soon as the train is slower than maybe 1–2 km/h
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by waqf 9y ago
The big one that nobody's mentioned is that the airline will cancel any remaining flight segments on that ticket, without recourse unless you are very good at begging favors from customer service. So don't book a round trip SFO-
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by waqf 9y ago
That's the conventional wisdom in America, certainly. And yet my undergraduate degree (maths at Cambridge) was 100% assessed by end-of-year exams and it worked fine.^ Did I stay up with the classes? Well, not always — some of them I ca
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by waqf 9y ago
Sure! But the method of learning doesn't have to be the method of assessment . In fact, as pointed out upthread, it shouldn't be. When students are doing homework you want them to form collaborative study groups or freely cons
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by waqf 9y ago
As you know, such students are paying for the piece of paper which certifies that they learned something. Who's to say it doesn't work?
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by waqf 9y ago
The article doesn't seem to even consider the possibility of assessing students in some other way than through standardized homeworks which are easily copied. For example, individual projects where everyone in the class is working on s
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by waqf 9y ago
Not only are car crashes less salient than train crashes, but also the converse effect: the inconvenience of car speed limits is more salient than the inconvenience of train speed limits, because you're the one driving.
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by waqf 9y ago
I live in Boston (42°N) having grown up at 52°N, which may sound extreme to East-Coasters but is hardly exceptional by West-Coast or European standards. I can assure you there's plenty of sunlight here at midwinter, it's just poor
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by waqf 9y ago
Not as big a problem as it sounds. "System time" used for scientific and engineering purposes should continue to use UTC and should ignore changes to civil time statutes. It becomes more complicated to translate between system tim
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by waqf 9y ago
Kaliningrad oblast is clearly labelled "Russia" on the map so it seems unlikely that anybody would make the mistake you're implying. Looking at the map it's clear that OP means Białystok.

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