Empact

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by Empact 1mo ago
While this list certainly includes a mix of ideas, the fact that some of them are not in vogue in the current orthodoxy does not make them wrong. https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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by Empact 3mo ago
There's abundant evidence against this belief: * Lottery winners do not commit less crime than those who do not win the lottery: https://www.nber.org/papers/w31962 * Studies of identical twins adopted and rais
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by Empact 3mo ago
Leftists ask “why don’t Americans hate capitalism,” while Americans live in one of the most prosperous and advanced societies in the world.
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by Empact 6mo ago
Affordability is a combination of individual productivity and the economy’s productivity. A substantial increase in the economy’s productivity through AI and robotics should result in greater overall production, which should tend to result
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by Empact 7mo ago
This website is about what is banned in California, ostensibly for environmental reasons. So pigouvian taxes would enable them to unban those practices while mitigating their harms. If you’re worried about people evading the tax, you can ma
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by Empact 7mo ago
You can also use pigouvian taxation to make polluting expensive. Cost savings is generally the motivation for allowing negative externalities like pollution, so a natural way to reverse it in many cases while allowing flexibility when there
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by Empact 7mo ago
I can attest that the Quaker Meeting on 9th street is an earnest reverent bunch. I attended regularly for some time around 2020.
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by Empact 7mo ago
The Old English representation, inclusive of the long S, is consistent with the 1847 source material, as you can see here: https://archive.org/details/firstsixbooksofe00byrn/page/n21/... The first printe
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by Empact 7mo ago
Many people speak Russian, including many who do not live in Russia, e.g. about 30% of Ukranians. Beyond that, I don't see how we stand to durably reduce military action by making languages mutually unintelligible. https://s
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by Empact 8mo ago
This is an inaccurate description of what they are doing. For example Renee Good was actively blockading a street, by placing her car perpendicularly across it. Some may be engaged in observation, but that is not broadly the case, and organ
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by Empact 8mo ago
Is any law enforcement guaranteed to be exactly correct? No, because every person is fallible, and every system is made up of fallible people. This is why we separate arrest (police) from trial (judge) and judgment (jury), to mitigate those
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by Empact 8mo ago
So you claim that all 12,000 arrests in the UK and all 3,500 arrests in Germany for online speech are justifiable? https://x.com/croucher_miles/status/2010716875190161614?s=46
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by Empact 8mo ago
Their stated purpose and their actual function can be different, and speech that would otherwise be free can be illegal if involved in incitement, bribery, collusion, etc. If I’m having a conversation with my friend, it’s free speech. If we
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by Empact 9mo ago
Opportunity is everywhere.
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by Empact 9mo ago
I read it was in the phone book. If you’re too young to have experienced this, it may surprise you that phone numbers were typically publicly listed in books that were mailed out annually, in those times. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by Empact 9mo ago
His phone call could have been placed by anyone. The question is, was his success mythological, or was it because he was the sort of a man who was willing and motivated to place such phone calls?
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by Empact 9mo ago
If you want to believe those things are unattainable, you can, but just remember that Steve Jobs got an internship at HP at the age of 12 by calling the founder on the telephone. Literally anyone could have done that. These opportunities co
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by Empact 9mo ago
I would argue the prospect of people waiting to stop them is a good deterrent, a beneficial complement to any effective justice system. When seconds count, the police are at best minutes away. For example, concealed carry is demonstrably ef
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by Empact 9mo ago
In my world, a civilized person is one who upholds peaceable society, and a barbarian is one who uses force to upend that society. They're not hordes, but they are barbarians.
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by Empact 9mo ago
You act like guns some weird anachronism, but from my perch, it seems that the need for civilized people to maintain firearms is increasing, not decreasing. Consider that we have a documented justice system in many places that is repeatedly
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by Empact 9mo ago
This is about trans identification, so not to do with attraction to a particular sex.
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by Empact 11mo ago
In many states there’s a carve out for mopeds, for example which have less than 50 ccs of displacement. In Texas you can ride them with just a regular drivers license, but ccs have no meaning in the electric world. Should be straightforward
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by Empact 11mo ago
This, or a miniaturized version thereof could change the game for light electric vehicles - imagine an electric motorcycle that weighs substantially more like an electric bicycle. Right now it takes about 10-15lbs of motor to produce a 3KW
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by Empact 11mo ago
Personally I chose a new over a used Model Y this year because the Juniper release includes a new front bumper camera which could prove crucial in certain unlikely scenarios, and improve overall self-driving. It’s important enough that ther
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by Empact 1y ago
It's literally not, which casts the rest of the author's conclusions into doubt.
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by Empact 1y ago
My mantra: trust no inbound communications. If something is in fact urgent, it can be confirmed by reaching out, rather than accepting an inbound call, to a number publicly listed and well known as representative of the company. These scams
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by Empact 1y ago
I mean something more of the sort of a survey of sea floor and subsurface which would have been coastline at the glacial maxima, boats trawling multispectral scanners to identify candidate locations. There are a few different recent systems
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by Empact 1y ago
Given human propensity to settle near bodies of water (exhibited even to this day), and the change in sea levels after the last ice age, the bulk of intra-ice age settlement artifacts are probably submerged within a relatively short distanc
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by Empact 1y ago
If I said I am a horse, would I be a trans-horse?
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by Empact 1y ago
As this page notes: https://www.coventry.gov.uk/coventry-light-rail/coventry-lig... They're using "Standard rail components, innovative construction" - standard gauge rail, but laid over a foundation of

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