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by wyager 4y ago
> I work in fintech and if a bank accidentally deposits money into your account and you spend it, you can go to jail So do I, and it depends. There was a whole case recently where chase (iirc) accidentally sent tens/hundreds of mill
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by wyager 4y ago
> It's processed food! This doesn't mean anything. It's a floating signifier.
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by wyager 4y ago
You seem to be mistaking me for an anti-abortion person. I don't think you are engaging in this conversation at the right (non-object) level, and are engaging in a completely unrelated argument entirely, so I'm respectfully going
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by wyager 4y ago
If it wasn't true, there would have to be a Simpson's paradox of epic proportions to account for the improved mental health outcomes of anti-abortion-aligned demographics. Pro-abortion republicans would have to be the happiest peo
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by wyager 4y ago
Do you think anti-abortion activists would be OK with state-sanctioned intentional murder of babies who have been born? That would be the prediction of your model if it was applied consistently. Being against (what you believe to be) murder
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by wyager 4y ago
Then I don't care much about their analytical process except insofar as I can steer it.
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by wyager 4y ago
> for the record, mental health is known to be much worse in the far-right and far-right libertarians Every paper I've seen on the subject has pretty much monotonic improvement in reported mental health outcomes almost all the way t
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by wyager 4y ago
> Worrying too much about the future and the state of the world in general can definitely lead to depression. Ignorance is bliss. What is your procedure for distinguishing between neuroticism and awareness? Accurately calibrated concern
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by wyager 4y ago
This model falls flat for at least one important reason: Anti-abortion people believe that there is presently widespread systematic mass murder of babies. Regardless of whether or not you agree with them, you must concede that this is a ver
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by wyager 4y ago
> There's actually some evidence that having left-wing political beliefs is associated with mental health consequences This is certainly true, at least based on polling, cf https://news.gallup.com/poll/102943&#x
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by wyager 4y ago
What they literally mean is "the model of nutrition we are using does not predict the association". This is evidence that whatever model they're using isn't complete. Nutrition science is still under rapid development, a
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by wyager 4y ago
The idea that the best solution to computer complexity is more bureaucracy and a professional cartel is absurd. We know how to solve the problem of software reliability. We have a rich body of formal methods that allow us to build perfectly
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by wyager 4y ago
This is an incredibly lame and uncreative vision for the future. Imagine wishing for additional bureaucratic overhead when we have technologies like formal verification which can achieve greater things at lower cost. Industries should play
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by wyager 4y ago
Anyone know the actual going rate for a decent kidney?
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by wyager 4y ago
Then correctly price in those fairly insignificant externalities. Don't try to force everyone into poverty.
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by wyager 4y ago
It's also less likely to subject your body to endocrine disruptors.
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by wyager 4y ago
> I think it's because Americans are conditioned to just stay in their house/car/public building HVAC bubble, with AC and heat always set to about 70 Fahrenheit[1], and never having to think about the real world This can a
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by wyager 4y ago
> Heat Your Clothes, Not Your House In the name of environmentalism, you will live like an impoverished, preindustrial Inuit, but without any of the upside.
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by wyager 4y ago
You seem to be missing the existence of transaction fees.
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by wyager 4y ago
The preponderance of evidence suggests that schooling has essentially zero impact on adult outcomes until around middle/high school. Most public schools are clearly more abusive than simply not subjecting your children to the standard
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by wyager 4y ago
I use it for github, cloudflare, login.gov, etc.
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by wyager 4y ago
> won't get caught by HN moderation who despite me being an eccentric hothead that can't always resist some snark manages to no accuse me of bad faith, and rarely if ever seems to censor interesting debates. Have you considered
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by wyager 4y ago
> Russia gave a number of pretexts for the invasion Why would you pay attention to these, except as an exercise in PR strategy analysis?
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by wyager 4y ago
> so what is your take on the issues GP identified I refuse to discuss it here, because much of the site's userbase seems incapable of having an even slightly nuanced political discussion, and I will possibly get a nasty comment fr
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by wyager 4y ago
> one side is the obvious aggressor completely in the wrong If your model of any political situation resembles a moralizing children's cartoon, 99% chance you are a mark, incapable of identifying propaganda. > it's rotting p
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by wyager 4y ago
You haven't actually mentioned the reason that American politicians are so personally pro-ukraine, which is that it's a money laundering engines for political failsons to receive political bribes on behalf of their parents. The H
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by wyager 4y ago
Looks like because dang felt the title was editorialized. Let's see if he's OK with this one.
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by wyager 4y ago
> Does start-up time matter? Who cares? Yes, me > being so grumbly about other people having fun & doing cool things The downstream effect of people "doing cool things" (making insanely bloated crap) is that we often hav
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by wyager 4y ago
Yet another unreliable, overcomplicated piece of machinery managed by incompetent carriers, with terrible security and privacy properties. Our goal should be to turn cell carriers into dumb data pipes. They have demonstrated repeatedly tha
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by wyager 4y ago
This is one reason among many we should eliminate employer-based tax enforcement. Your taxes should be between you and the government; the government should not force your employer to act as a tax nanny (e.g. with mandatory withholding).

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