ItsDeathball

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by ItsDeathball 6y ago
These aren't the same rationalists. This is about LessWrong-style Bayesian rationalism from ~2009 or so. The name is pretty unfortunate, though.
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by ItsDeathball 6y ago
While I don't know the specifics here, my understanding from being there a few years ago was that most lower-income workers in Singapore commute in from Malaysia.
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by ItsDeathball 6y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy to spread conspiracy theories is extremely meta and wonderfully ironic.
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by ItsDeathball 6y ago
If that's the use case, then it would probably be cheaper and easier to put solar panels on your boathouse, and still keep it plugged in. Then you wouldn't lose range to the weight of the panels, either.
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by ItsDeathball 6y ago
I think the phrasing is hiding the logic. All-time high doesn't mean the peak. Quite often, all-time highs are followed by more all-time highs. Things can run quite a bit before a correction.
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by ItsDeathball 6y ago
It's still a supersonic jet, just not the one you want. What is essentially a privately-built supersonic fighter jet is still impressive, but how much more investment will they need for the full size passenger version?
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by ItsDeathball 6y ago
Generally, flashing that sign below the waist is a juvenile game where if one's friend sees the sign, one is entitled to punch them in the genitals (or something to that effect). That would be my first assumption before any kind of rac
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by ItsDeathball 6y ago
While I'm not comfortable with the implications of killpolice.com, I'm also surprised it's not already a thing.
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by ItsDeathball 6y ago
That's most Saturday nights in VRChat, even before COVID-19.
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by ItsDeathball 7y ago
If they don't make enough in tips to reach minimum wage, the employer still needs to close that gap. It's not as exploitative as we're led to believe, or at least no more so than working a minimum wage job is normally.
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by ItsDeathball 7y ago
I've thought something similar for a while, and it's been long enough that I think the problem is the failure mode. It might be that getting a car to recognize when it's encountered an edge case and needs to kick it to a huma
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by ItsDeathball 7y ago
I wonder if you could get the same result by throwing it in a woodchipper and bagging the mattress-mulch.
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by ItsDeathball 7y ago
I'm skeptical of that claim without some good supporting evidence. Submarines tend to maintain CO2 concentrations 10x higher than atmospheric, and they have a better reactor safety record than civilian power plants.
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by ItsDeathball 7y ago
I don't think that's a problem in their scenario, since the situation is leveraging life extension to work past retirement age. Working until age 80 and living out retirement until 120 would mean a vastly expanded labor pool, unle
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by ItsDeathball 7y ago
Even if the subject weren't publicly owned land, the implication would be the opposite, that landowners should control their own land and not everything around it that doesn't belong to them.
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by ItsDeathball 7y ago
You can, but more residents consume more services, which is a net cost in the long run if property taxes are locked in. As a result, cities in California prefer commercial development that generates sales and income taxes without the need t
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by ItsDeathball 7y ago
We have a model for transit-oriented suburbs in America. Pre-WW2 streetcar suburbs are still spacious and have nice private backyards, but also have transit within easy walking distance. Transit-supporting density was generally achieved thr
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by ItsDeathball 7y ago
This is what's been tried from about 1960 to now. It turns out to not be anything near sustainable financially, because the low density development doesn't provide enough tax revenue to pay for maintenance on the infrastructure. O
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by ItsDeathball 7y ago
Tokyo manages this problem before it ever becomes a problem: you can't register your car to a Tokyo address unless you can prove you have a parking spot. It could be a spot in your front yard (in this case probably the entire yard) or
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by ItsDeathball 7y ago
Wealthy on a global level definitely, but as far as Americans go there are lots of relatively normal middle-income hobbyists in GA. You can buy and operate a plane for less than a used car if you're frugal about flying.
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by ItsDeathball 8y ago
I read this as "which France is real" and was slightly disappointed when I wasn't able to test my incomplete knowledge of European geography against a neural net.
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by ItsDeathball 8y ago
Part of the argument in the article, I think, is that cities are only relaxing zoning restrictions in a limited area, in their dense urban cores. If the entire city is under a high level of demand, but the ability to meet that demand is con
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by ItsDeathball 8y ago
I find cheddar and pepper jack work as well or better on a homemade burger, but Kraft "cheese" slices are still irreplaceable on one thing, which is the grilled cheese sandwich. The ideal grilled cheese is made with American chees
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by ItsDeathball 8y ago
Most people, in my experience, sign up to pay for college or because their parents kicked them out at 18 and they couldn't find a job. That's about all it takes; ideology doesn't really enter into it.
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
The article actually mentions that the video surveillance center monitoring these cameras will, itself, be under video surveillance. Though it doesn't say from where, or by whom.
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
iPhones and Facebook, for all their issues, were adopted by the masses by competing in an open market. Mass motorization and suburbanization were driven by government policy and still are. For every consumer dollar spent on driving, the gov
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
I think there is always a demand to instantly transmit value across any distance or borders, which cryptocurrencies do very well as long as they have any value at all.
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
As much as I like the idea of space-based industry, it's likely that the level of self-contained precision required in a vacuum would also render Earth-based industry entirely non-polluting, though probably unprofitable as well. The ar
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
It's no longer in production, but the Mazda RX-8 has them and it's still pretty common on the road.
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by ItsDeathball 9y ago
"Normal people" have absolutely not stopped using imageboards. Perhaps they feel outnumbered on the boards specifically devoted to politics because every other venue for political discussion bans certain viewpoints, concentrating

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