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RIP Medical Debt: Nonprofit buying and forgiving medical debt in the U.S.(ripmedicaldebt.org)
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Paywalled. What were the tweets?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
One angle to look at this from is that if Slack or GitHub goes down, there's a good chance your competitors are being held up too. It's like an armistice on (your corner of) capitalism. Whereas if it's just your system, you
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> this assumes that right-wing ideology is a pathogen that is uniformly harmful to the body politic (which it may not be) In the context of the discussion I was treating "bad-faith participants" as the pathogen, which I would a
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Ah that makes sense
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But steroids only decrease the inflammation, they don't combat the original problem. If the inflammation is there because of a real pathogen, steroids are dangerous. Antibiotics decrease inflammation by tackling the original problem
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I've used this analogy in my head between bodily inflammation and social unrest for a long time. It's been very useful. And it explains some contradicting viewpoints that different people have on, say, riots. If social unrest is i
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> we had a huge ordeal converting our 32-bit space weather model to 64-bit because the change in precision changed our results, so we couldn't publish (in good conscious) without making sure the results weren't within a good ma
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> "Cancel culture" [is an important tool] to defend against these bad faith exploitive uses of public communication I would say it's more like a social cytokine storm. If distrust in general is an immune-system, we're
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by _bxg1 6y ago
The key is to decouple your inner self from how you present to the world. Your inner mental model of the world can acknowledge all apparent truths, even if some of them might upset various factions (the legitimacy of which varies; the offen
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Pensions, social security, etc. The point is that the "active economy" will shrink beneath what was expected for those systems to function for the number of elderly they will end up having.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
There's a short-term problem of society becoming "top-heavy", where there might not be enough young to pay for the continued care of the old. But in the long run this seems like a win. I wonder what impact it might have on cl
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I haven't used Go but I'm curious, how do core data structures like hash maps work without generics? Does everyone just roll their own for their particular use-case?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
But that's just it- if you read the article, "all of the marbles" are "not the same color". Oversimplifying things into a broader conclusion is often not an improvement.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I feel so powerless against this terrifying trend. All I can do is try to insulate myself from misinformation and inflammatory content - which is hard enough - but I have close relatives who positively eat it up without even thinking twice
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by _bxg1 6y ago
As soon as you frame it that way, a certain portion of people stop listening. Even if it's the truth, it can be beneficial to downplay even the obvious conclusions and just stick to the facts.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
That isn't what I'm talking about here. It's most obvious on passthrough: there's simply almost no sound being picked up by the ambient mics.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It's a catchy and (now) descriptive way to name a scandal. I agree that you're being a little pedantic.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I've had the same issue. And another, more important one: the noise-cancelling/passthrough features have gradually ceased to work entirely. I replaced one bud when this started happening and was making things asymmetrical (super a
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Can we replace the editorialized title with the original? > How Rice Farming Shaped Culture in Southern China
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by _bxg1 6y ago
The OP gave a clear example of how awareness of this bias could help real people: > In a meta analysis of the role of attractiveness in criminal sentencing, it was found that unattractive people received 120–305 percent longer sentences
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I think "a lot of people" is an over-statement, I don't think an intrinsically broken moral judgement made by a minority of people should be allowed to delegitimize the real issue, and I don't think the OP was talking ab
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Something I don't see a lot of people talking about with Tesla is that over the last couple years, the writing has appeared on the wall about internal-combustion. Most developed nations have set a hard end-date for it at this point. Th
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I didn't take the article as seeking to "de-legitimize them". Having privilege isn't a sin (unless you acquired it through some ill means, but that's not even possible in most cases). Privilege is nothing more than
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by _bxg1 6y ago
But there are lots of superficial traits that people associate with those categories of people, that don't actually serve as a remotely valid indicator. And those kinds of associations, permeated throughout society, serve to make som
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by _bxg1 6y ago
This came to mind for me too. It's the only example I can think of in popular culture or otherwise where the issue has been tackled so directly.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I had the same experience. We went into great detail on how the events of WWI set the stage for Hitler to take power, etc, but then it was always just "and Japan jumped on board too". It's eerie reading about a populist/
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I support drastic police reform, but anyone who thinks pure anarchy will work clearly doesn't know much history. It's been tried time and again and again. The sad truth is that it always implodes.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It's hard not to think there's also a "we'll take our ball and go home" attitude going on here. People call to reign in the police, so instead of learning to de-escalate the situation they throw their hands up, stop
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It's a very efficient mechanism for a handful of very powerful companies to slurp a limitless amount of money up without doing any work. Once a work is created, people will pay for it over and over again forever. And where there's

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