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by zepto 5y ago
The dopamine inducing element is addictive apps like Facebook, not the color levels of the display. You can simply delete the apps that have that effect.
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That’s like saying you can’t blame C for buffer overrun vulnerabilities because those are just bugs. If the system makes it easy to write buggy programs and there are common problems that take a lot of effort for developers to overcome it
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I think the answer lies with the ‘aesthetic usability effect’, which is a well studied phenomenon. Basically people find visually appealing UI more usable even if it is objectively worse. https://www.nngroup.com/articles&#
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Right - so you are trying to use language to separate the actions of the protesters from the actions of the looting. I don’t think it’s that simple. The riots only happened because of the protests. The protests interfered with the police
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by zepto 5y ago
> projecting your internal image of a hypocritical political enemy onto them by extrapolating to things they didn't say, is one of the most common forms of conversation poison. Can you explain how they did this?
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> I witnessed the 2020 protests firsthand and saw no looting or riotous behavior; If that isn’t meant to imply there wasn’t any looting, then why did you add it? The rest of what you said is just about definitions and is irrelevant to th
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by zepto 5y ago
> I witnessed the 2020 protests firsthand and saw no looting or riotous behavior; No, you witnessed a tiny portion of the protests. I personally know of business owners whose businesses were looted, literally just local store owners.
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Your argument seems to be that Bitcoin’s price has gone up a lot over the last decade, therefore it must be a hedge. What you are not seeing is that over that time, every one of the promises made about Bitcoin’s utility has been systematica
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by zepto 5y ago
Price and supply are independent. Bitcoin isn’t a currency. It’s a speculative asset. It doesn’t matter whether it is inflationary within its own realm, so these factors tell us nothing at all. What matters is whether the speculative ass
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by zepto 5y ago
You’ll need evidence for that, and a way to disambiguate Bitcoin’s performance as an inflation hedge from the speculative bubble. > it did a 5,000,000x plus return in that time Then it is self evidently not an inflation hedge.
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They already used the name iSight for a webcam.
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It certainly fails the inflation test without any doubt today. You seem to be saying that it might pass it in the future.
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You haven’t actually described any problems it solves.
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> That's beside the point, though. No - it is the point. > I'm just noting that the possibility of have distributed deeds does make it possible to have some of the benefits of a centralized government: No, it doesn’t make
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> then measures can be taken to enforce that without necessarily evoking a central government. What measures?
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It is, but there are some easy heuristics before you get to the hard stuff. One is that telling people how they should feel about things is usually irritating.
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Smaller as in essentially zero, and with a link back to this one. An amusing detour.
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Apple advertises MacOS as an OS for engineers and developers.
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The goal is not to improve them for players. It is to make money for the publishers.
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If you had just left off the last paragraph it might have been better.
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This isn’t about telling people to behave. It’s about not misleading them. > If you rely on an incentive model of being caught in order to behave, something darknet doesnt offer, that says more about you than anyone else I’d like people
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by zepto 5y ago
Incorrect. In places where there is a policing mechanism they moderate their behavior, and so do less harmful things . Where there is not, they do not have to. > into a benign technology It’s not benign. It’s unpoliced, so sociopaths
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by zepto 5y ago
> Which has nothing to do with you or any specific persons use of onion services A false statement. Anyone choosing to use such services should be mindful of the fact that the services are appealing to sociopaths and have no policing m
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by zepto 5y ago
> If you rely on an incentive model of being caught in order to behave, something darknet doesnt offer, that says more about you than anyone else. People who rely on an incentive model only are typically psychopaths or sociopaths. What
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by zepto 5y ago
> If you don't know that, you basically just proved why I chose not to get into this argument with you You keep saying things like this, but frankly in so doing you make yourself appear yourself to be intellectually dishonest. You h
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Also - at 44:50, they have a brief argument about what constitutes ‘search’ in a multidimensional space, and Jim ends up conceding to Lex.
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Yes - that piece came earlier in the episode than 30 mins, so I had already heard it. What is it that you think Fridman doesn’t understand?
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> I doubt you would ever agree with my take even if I offered you all the proof in the world You’ll never know if you don’t try. > I say he remains silent and switches topics because he is dumb Earlier you said this was obvious. Now
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by zepto 5y ago
I don’t think it’s obvious. An alternative explanation is that he does understand and doesn’t feel the need to ask a follow up because he think the next question is more valuable to ask. My sense of him is that he is deliberately trying
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As far as I can tell, the complaint is that you don’t like the questions he asks. Do you have an example of one of his dumb questions or statements?

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