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by yters 7y ago
Very interesting. Hard data on all this would be much more valuable than anecdotes and presumption that those with power are always the evil ones. Corporations are at least some kind of good. Otherwise, we would need to all form our own l
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by yters 7y ago
Hanging the petty thieves satisfies the crowds that are unhappy because the great thieves are robbing them blind.
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by yters 7y ago
Exactly, and the high paid thieves are those who can wreck the lives of millions vs the low paid thieves take an infinitesimal bit away from the bottom line of a multi billion dollar company.
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by yters 7y ago
In the grand scheme of evil, I'm not sure Amazon's firings ranks very highly.
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by yters 7y ago
How can you expect to make a dent if you spend all your time in a task for which you are unsuited?
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by yters 7y ago
Those aren't the only possible options. Another is that if a person is paid more for the same productivity, they are incentivized to be less productive.
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by yters 7y ago
It could be that all our historical records are modern forgeries to prop up the current zeitgeist. It all comes down to how much we can trust anything beyond our immediate sense perception and reasoning. But then if you go down that rabbi
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by yters 7y ago
Being paid more for productivity would imply the opposite about wealthy people, in my mind.
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by yters 7y ago
Also I notice that coders from wealthy backgrounds focus on high level languages, abstractions, etc. I don't see a lot of people digging down to the fundamental technical implementation, and actually tend to look down on such inclinat
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by yters 7y ago
I think if we avoid heavy handed government intervention to "save the economy" things will return to normal fairly quickly. OTOH, I expect gov to jump in as always to create a self fulfilling prophecy.
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by yters 7y ago
Why wouldn't deaths be attributed to covid-19 if patient tests positive and has the symptoms?
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by yters 7y ago
This. All the weirdness and horrors of "normal" diseases are now in the spotlight due to media attention on covid-19.
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by yters 7y ago
Yes, I do think we could have a more reasonable approach that will result in less aggregate deaths than our current approach.
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by yters 7y ago
I disagree the situation is clear. To take the logical extreme, if we were to avoid all possible immediate threat to life, no one should leave the house, let alone drive to work. Obviously, our society would immediately collapse, and many
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by yters 7y ago
Economic downturn can kill people, too. It is not as simple as dead people on one side and no dead people on the other.
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by yters 7y ago
It's not clear how bad things would actually be without the lockdown. There is a continuum, and I'm sure there is a much happier medium than what we currently have.
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by yters 7y ago
Most countries in the tropics and southern henisphere are seeing low death rates regardless of how they handle the outbreak. Most likely heat stops covid-19, just like the cold. You can verify this by graphing death rates against latitude.
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by yters 7y ago
Just graphing death rate data that Google provides shows weird trends. https://mindmatters.ai/2020/04/why-does-covid-19-target-the-...
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by yters 7y ago
What is the line between scientific and non-scientific idea?
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by yters 7y ago
The Iliad is an example of a classic with a bunch of meaningless suffering. But, the story is much deeper than 'bad stuff happens, the end' or 'bad stuff happens, that's just life'. I can write that kind of story
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by yters 7y ago
Meaningless violence is too easy, so is ham fisted moralizing. True classics find some kind of meaning, even in the meaninless tragedy of life, like the Iliad.
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by yters 7y ago
The author knows old kids tales are violent, but there is a meaning to thr tragedy. Tolstoy's stories are just meaninglessly violent and tragic.
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by yters 7y ago
I am being serious. I just purchased Dawkin's book "Blind Watchmaker". My point is no explanation should amount to "magic X did it" whether X is god, evolution, the earth spirit, aliens, etc. All the above are ba
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by yters 7y ago
"Ring around the rosy" is about the plague. "12 days of Christmas" and other tales and sings have hidden Christian symbolism due to persecution.
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by yters 7y ago
There is the idea that warriors could get infected by bloodlust. Also, the berserkers who would be placed in an altered state of consciousness and obliterate anyone near them, friend or foe. Also, in a culture where public toture and execu
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Why does Covid-19 target the northern hemisphere?(mindmatters.ai)
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by yters 7y ago
I will have to check them out, but I remember being unimpressed with the table of contents. Looks like it will be more handwaving.
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by yters 7y ago
The more I learn about the genetic code, how proteins get translated from DNA, the nature of DNA itself, bioinformatics, biochemistry, etc., the less like a random jumble it seems. I also wonder why we cannot reproduce evolution's effe
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by yters 7y ago
That's essentially the same kind of explanation as 'god did it'.
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by yters 7y ago
A non handwavy explanation of how does evolution result in such complicated and carefully orchestrated mechanisms, way beyond our engineering capability. The computer analogy of genetic algorithms certainly doesn't explain much, they

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