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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
The catch is that we have no evidence it's effective and little evidence it's safe. It might work or it might kill you. Please don't go snorting it until we know which.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
There's no such thing as being too dismissive of LessWrong. It is among the more useless parts of the Internet. I fell for it hook, line, and sinker when I was younger and don't want to see anyone make the same mistakes I did. Sta
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I'll give biochemists all the time they need. I'll laugh in the face of anyone with a high school education in biology who injects themselves full of things they found online.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>as a topic group is no less impactful than "computer hacking." It's way less impactful. An amateur playing with computers might not achieve what a pro can, but it obviously has some effect. Computer programs are rarely a
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
This person DIY's 500 doses of nasal-spray something-or-other. There is no evidence it's effective and little evidence it's safe. Want a good laugh? Here's the research team: https://radvac.org/researcher
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Does "crypto" refer to the branch of mathematics or to the scam? It has substantial theoretical implications in cryptography, but any practical applications are decades off. Cryptocurrency couldn't get any more broken, so it
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
And all those hordes of "AI" "engineers" are less useful than a few hundred statisticians. If the buzzwords get innumerate business types to invest in building models, that is great. I just wish they would let people use
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I think FB's policy is to _____(verb)_____ regardless of ethical concerns. They certainly aren't complying with U.S. antitrust laws. They comply if it makes them money and don't comply if it doesn't make them money.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Slinging dope isn't exactly rocket science.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
It's something I wish I could do. It's not a system I would know how to implement. I certainly agree that the existing system of tipping doesn't work very well.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I'm kind of intrigued by the opposite idea: extend the system of tips to everything . I'd gladly add a tip to many things I buy if I knew that it would go entirely to the workers and not one penny would go to the owners, managers
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>This still seems to be theft of interest. Forget "theft of interest", it's just plain theft. A thief doesn't get to apologize, give back what they stole, and then walk away. If you or I committed theft on this scale
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
This is grand larceny thousands of times over. An appropriate minimum penalty is fifteen years in prison for Bezos and anyone else in on the conspiracy.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
> that was once only available to large blue chip companies with access to 1000s of high skilled engineers Back in the old days, THE CLOUD came from IBM or CompuServe. Now it comes from Amazon and Microsoft. Big deal. It's still w
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Bitcoin is in the same league as all datacenters in the world combined . Datacenters use about 205 TWh/year. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3531316/data-center-pow... Bitcoin uses about 75 TWh/yea
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
So that's a no.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Does anyone know how the ranking algorithm on this site works? If not, I'm going to block it from my network. I don't care for another opaque algorithm controlling my information. It's not like I'd miss out on much intel
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Big deal. So does the three-year-old Walmart laptop I keep in my garage. I find the reaction to the M1 pretty funny. People are impressed by the silliest things.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Then they stand to recover about twenty cents from a lawsuit. Good for them?
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Better late than never? I can understand complaining about getting thrown out of a casino for winning too much. I can't understand complaining about getting thrown out for losing too much. The people "investing" in these co
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
It requires $2000 in the case of Robinhood. Reeeeeaaaaallllyyyy onerous.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
No and no. They have no case. What Robinhood did is pretty normal. Ignore the ambulance chasers.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Of course you can. Happens all the time. >with their money With your money. Most people are trading on margin, because they're gambling addicts. EDIT: I'm not sure if it's most that are trading on margin. Certainly it&
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Why would they think the self-described "dumb money" isn't well informed?
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Are you suggesting that raising the minimum wage will increase inflation? That seems theoretically plausible to me, I suppose, but I haven't seen any evidence for it happening in practice. We have had plenty of natural experiments wher
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Musk has no engineering training whatsoever.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
The "autonomous driving hardware" they have is about the same as anyone else. It's just that those other companies advertise it truthfully as a safety feature rather than pretending you have R2D2 as a chauffeur.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
The way we bet on companies is the stock market. I am neither smart enough nor stupid enough to sell short.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
If Musk is an innovator, then I guess Ian M. Banks was literally John Galt.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
He didn't create that image on his own. He had a lot of help. He had a cameo in Iron Man 2 where Iron Man treated him as a peer! (That scene, by the way, is a perfect example of why I hate superhero movies.)

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