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by wisty 7y ago
> That might not sound like a lot, but given that it is for the entire world you can fit basically any niche within those numbers. A common fallacy in business. > Go full time crushing things with an hydraulic press? Yes! Go full time
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by wisty 7y ago
Docker is one option. Don't worry about sorting out that mess, just clone the whole operating system. sigh
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by wisty 7y ago
The article does seem to get there eventually: > The result is an institution increasingly unable to carry out its own mission, as tuition rises to pay for more administrators, and ideological drama makes it harder and harder to actually
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by wisty 7y ago
An occasional plot point in fiction is to have some kind of investigator buy a single share in a company to uncover what they're really up to. If they told investors that climate change was a major threat (as they may have been legally
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by wisty 7y ago
A lot of people seem to be hung up on the fact that there must be something special about doctors. They're too skilled, they operate in a unique environment, or that they're awful egotists with god complexes. Pick almost any profe
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by wisty 7y ago
Popper didn't exactly write a massive book on this. It was just a footnote in which he coined a memorable name for it. > Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. I
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by wisty 7y ago
I think that's going a bit far, the MSM can be kinda horrible to everyone. OTOH you'd have to be pretty fringe and controversial to explicitly stick up for young men.
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by wisty 7y ago
We could talk about how this is largely a mental health problem. A lot of depressed young men do stupid risky stuff with no concern for their own well-being. I know a few guys who have wrapped their cars around trees. I bet most shooters we
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by wisty 7y ago
Medieval Europe is several hundred years, a load of different societies at any given time, social strata within these societies. And even then, are sources reliable? If a lot of writers in a time period write that people don't bath eno
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by wisty 7y ago
The structure is a messed up mix of the red tape and regulation of a government bureaucracy, monopolistic behaviour (try getting 3 quotes for a procedure like you would for a bathroom renovation), subsidies, freeloaders, and weird incentive
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by wisty 7y ago
More worrying, imagine if a city has some major economic downturn. A factory closes, an industry moves offshore, whatever. House prices in that city go down, not everyone pays their rates, and everyone is looking to the local government to
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by wisty 7y ago
Ego depletion is questionable - http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story... I think this meta-myth (that some people just can't make good decisions) is becoming a hysterical epidemic - ht
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by wisty 7y ago
Even many phones can capture insane amounts of detail in ideal conditions. The selling point of bigger sensors now is that they don't need ideal conditions.
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by wisty 7y ago
Nicotine has a very non-linear impact on health. While ecigs are about 10x better in terms of the amount of 2nd hand nicotine, I wouldn't call them safe. IIRC it takes extremely low nicotine levels to cause (temporary) circulatory prob
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by wisty 7y ago
It also says she tuned it into a full time job, and talks about how it's really hard work. I suspect she's mistaken about how many hours she puts into it. Maybe not. Maybe she just worked hard perfecting her skills and can make 10
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by wisty 7y ago
> Well, a good teacher could (and can) indeed see, what methods he use are effective or not. Any evidence? Doctors could figure out that not washing hands was killing patients, but didn't. > As he gets new data with new "fre
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by wisty 7y ago
Phonics will always be unpopular with teachers for at least 3 reasons. 1. Teachers are typically from good middle-class backgrounds, and will naturally assume children will just learn to read because their parents basically tutored them for
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by wisty 7y ago
> part of the reason that people get punished for uttering it is because those of us doing the punishing (myself included) are worried that people might start believing it I think this is the irrational part people are detecting. Yes a f
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by wisty 7y ago
IIRC too many caregivers can result in them having issues. If you sleep in 4 different beds you'll never feel at home.
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by wisty 7y ago
It's not so much learning speed, but it being a level playing field. Old gamers who have been fpsing since Doom / Quake / TF2 / whatever might be capable of learning Fortnite, but they won't dominate it without sp
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by wisty 7y ago
Just look at the cost of gaming GPUs (including the costs of watercooling?). Not to mention the fact that CPU can have a slower upgrade cycle than GPU (since a CPU upgrade will usually mean upgrading the motherboard, possibly the RAM, who k
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by wisty 7y ago
While there can be misunderstandings on your side, or deeper issues at play, if you don't acknowledge the other side's arguments then they'll assume you didn't understand them (they will think they have really compelling
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by wisty 7y ago
Also, here's a list of reasons why investment in Google's cloud might be hard for third parties - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_s...
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by wisty 7y ago
VCR was big in the 90s (VHS was released in the US in 77, with Betamax a year before, hitting close to saturation in about 1990).
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by wisty 7y ago
VCR was out in the late 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocassette_recorder I doubt it was just porn though. I believe that simply getting teenagers / young adults inside for long periods of time (and not ju
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by wisty 7y ago
People haven't heard of the Unjust World Fallacy - that not everyone with a bad life doesn't deserve it.
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by wisty 7y ago
Scanning it, it seems PICS specifies an rdf format that ratings agencies can use to define their own rating system, with self reporting (of various PICS implementations?) being an option for sites. I can imagine some site owners would find
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by wisty 7y ago
I think the underlying problem is that parents want the entire internet to babysit their kids for them. edit: Maybe what we need is a kids.txt to go along with robots.txt. Some file on websites with some kind list of what interactions a sit
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by wisty 7y ago
I got all but that one correct to. I think the real tell is that Real Rogan has a lot of variance, Faux Rogan sounds too much like the average Rogan.
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by wisty 7y ago
We act like we can control the internet, like a drunk thinks they control the booze.

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