chargingmarmot

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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
Well, yeah, but isn't the EU also responsible for all the trash cookie-consent notifications I get from every website now? Overall, I'm happy they're actively involved. The hands-off attitude in the US is terrible.
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
The issue with the Sherman Act is that it is broad and sweeping and leaves discretion up to the government. So the answer to your question is: monopolization is illegal according to the the Sherman Act, and the power to regulate markets is
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It’s Time to Talk About Electoral Reform(americanprogress.org)
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
I shouldn't have said "eliminate". I'll defer to: https://electionscience.org/library/the-spoiler-effect/ or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_system..
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
If you look at the policies these parties are actually backing, they're all about democratic reform: * campaign finance reform * voting reform * legislative transparency "Civility" would be a consequence of structural reforms
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
I don't disagree with you about the problems related to wealth distribution. (I just watched the documentary "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" about 2 days ago and so I'm feeling primed there.) I do think you're
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
Electoral reform is actually one of the biggest issues that the party seems to back. (For exactly the reason you mention.)
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
Today I learned: Electoral reforms are one of the goals for the Forward Party and the Common Sense party. If you're a voter in California, you can help them with this by changing the party affiliation on your voter registration to the
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
I would really like to see some form of electoral reform passed that would reduce spoiler effects, make third party movements more viable, and change the incentives for politicians in elections (e.g. instant runoff voting as endorsed by ht
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
I think you're oversimplifying animal behavior. Some thoughts: There's a famous study involving capuchin monkeys that shows they have a sense of fairness. I think many animal species are more sensitive to the suffering of other
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
An August 2022 Gallup poll showed that US approval of labor unions was at its highest point since 1965 (71%, up from 48% in ~2010; comparable to levels of 70-75% in the 1940s-60s). [1] [1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/3
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
Cool. Did you buy the $10,000 feature that will let you summon your Tesla from across the country sometime in 2018? https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/autonomous-driving/time...
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
I agree with the sentiment about media sensationalism but I don't think "space junk" is an issue we should be so quick to dismiss. Just because the problem hasn't gotten too bad yet doesn't mean it isn't real (
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
The bill is opposed by the Hindu American Foundation. They give their rationale for opposing the bill in: https://www.hinduamerican.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/HAF... They state: "We share the ad
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
My impression was that Anduril wanted to own the software for multi-(thing) coordination. i.e. consume information from multiple sources (satellites, ground stations, planes, drones) and use it to coordinate the action of other drones/
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
I was going to say, "hey, maybe nuclear winter can help too!" but it sounds like maybe that whole thing was overstated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
This one is called a circumstantial ad hominem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Circumstantial
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
I'm not sure what you're arguing, but I don't think its true that the claim "we want to secede because of injustices against us" was retroactive. see: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
The bill is opposed by the Hindu American Foundation. They give their rationale for opposing the bill in: https://www.hinduamerican.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/HAF... They claim: "We share the a
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
"So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and exc
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
This reminds me of how historians trying to find out about the historical Jesus have come up with some (objective?) criteria about what to accept as true. Examples: * Multiple attestation. Do we have multiple independent sources telling us
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
Tyler Cowen gave a great TED talk on a related topic: "Be suspicious of simple stories" (2009) https://www.ted.com/talks/tyler_cowen_be_suspicious_of_simpl... (Because it's such a great story I still rem
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
1. The first part here doesn't argue against my claim that "blockchain is only good for evading regulation", it argues that evading regulation is sometimes a good thing. That's fine, let's set that aside. 2. The se
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
What I like about SICP is how it shows how several different moderately-advanced (for an undergraduate) programming concepts are all related by a basic model of computing that's defined in the book. It builds from first principles (amo
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
This just reinforces my point. The germs that killed the native Americans grew up in an environment where humans were living in close proximity to a variety of animals (cows, chickens, rats) for thousands of years. (cf. https://e
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
Please. We live on a planet that has been bombarded by space rocks for billions of years and that's home to all sorts of viruses and bacteria that have been evolving to kill us for as long as we've been around. If Mars were covere
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
My belief is that blockchain-based solutions are typically inferior to centralized ones except when the goal is to evade regulation. (Crypto is good for dealing in contraband, dodging currency controls, and collecting ransomware; but it&#x
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
Sincere question: what paid search do you have in mind? How conceptually could a paid search engine solve the problem of SEO and spam? (Curation seems economically infeasible?) Is what you're actually proposing ad-free search results?
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
There's a book I like called "Design Rules: The Power of Modularity"; it was written by some business professors in 2000 and is loosely about the industrial organization and the history of IBM's System/360 (the firs
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
This makes sense to me based on the economics related to interest rates. If interest rates go up, it becomes harder to borrow money to purchase a home. When it becomes harder to borrow money to purchase a home, demand for homes goes down an

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