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by closedloop129 4y ago
How do you prevent companies from avoiding the import costs by building their data centers in Canada?
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Do we have to understand the biological level? We don't talk about silicon when we talk about software. Art shows us the structure of the mind without the need of understanding its physical representation. Another way is spirituality w
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>Everyone needs to know how happy Matt was. Not always, but recently. People need to know what demons he held at bay. Real ones. We live in strange times when we can look into space with incredible resolution, but even artists don't
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part I: The Problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32239566 That earlier submission has the data.
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by closedloop129 4y ago
This requires working markets. The problem is that the value of products and services is distorted and the highest margins that can buy the most marketing are not the products that offer the most value. What good is all the value if the kno
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>The city government on Friday announced it’d buy nearly 15,000 apartments from two large corporate landlords for 2.46 billion euros ($2.9 billion) to expand supply. How do you expand supply if you buy existing apartments? If they had ta
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by closedloop129 4y ago
It's "percentage change", not the "house price to income ratio". Without knowing the baseline, the numbers are not really comparable. It's also strange that South Korea is at -40% when the article states: >I
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>What's to be Done with a Fleeting Note? Is there a good way to share fleeting notes in a social network? It would be nice if good thoughts could live on their own and spread across the boundaries of minds and recombine themselves w
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Is there a cheap way to create fertilizers without hydrocarbons? Otherwise there will be demand for them as long as they are available. In other words, it's very likely that we will use all available fossil fuels.
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by closedloop129 4y ago
I already wrote about who has to pay the fee. Everything else can be implemented one way or the other. The important part is the idea that moderation can become a market.
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Technically, the central repository can be an almost static wiki. The costs will be very low and can be paid for as a fraction of the moderation fee. Users choose their fact checkers. Some have to be chosen, because that's what is requ
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by closedloop129 4y ago
That's an investment in disinformation that has to be made. As you write: >During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media companies censored many posts as "misinformation" which later turned out to be accurate The fact checker
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by closedloop129 4y ago
To me, this matches with the submission about the logic of envy [1] [2]. Accumulating knowledge doesn't help making decisions. An I is needed to make a choice. To me, this is thus an important text about procrastination. >He charact
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by closedloop129 4y ago
There are various options. Since facts should rely on proofs, it should be straight forward to establish the baseline. For the grey area, I would allow people to choose their fact provider. The providers have to document the reasoning for t
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Most do. Most often, the problem is not that people are bad but that people choose to fight for a good that isn't compatible with others. From their point of view, they are fighting for an utopian society.
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by closedloop129 4y ago
It may be naive but I think all you need are accounts linked to human identities and a central repository of facts and sources. When something is reported, OP can check his facts and alter his content or insist on his view. The reporter the
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Like the Romans ignored the early steam engines? Have you seen the social network behind the css gear submission [1]? >nobody has gotten it quite right yet >we think existing platforms have some good ideas, but no one’s managed to cre
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by closedloop129 4y ago
The previous article [1] has these paragraphs: >I have always been a bad procrastinator. I think my procrastination habits are rooted in anxiety. >As you might guess, comprehensive exams are very anxiety-provoking. So, when I first be
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>The next step, is to take only those ideas that are relevant to what you're working on (after all, the ZK is primarily a tool for helping writers develop their ideas) and make individual zettels for each one based on your interpret
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>What's happened in the USA is that the neoliberals vacuumed all the wealth out of the middle class, so now it's basically posh and prole with a big gap between them. What is preventing the former middle class proles from reorg
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by closedloop129 4y ago
You think of class as layers of wealth. But that's only part of it. The most important part is culture. >Do they understand how little of their world I’m familiar with? Do they understand how much implicit knowledge they take for gr
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by closedloop129 4y ago
If this is more a question than a statement, I would look at these key problems: >Still, their awareness of their gap between their ambitions and their inability to act causes intense self-criticism. Figure out why you are not allowed to
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by closedloop129 4y ago
The article mentions a new LPG terminal by the end of the year. This are the gas future prices from tomputer's comment [1],[2]: Q4 22 166.570 Q4 23 114.925 Q4 24 74.050 The industry doesn't seem to expect continuously high prices.
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by closedloop129 4y ago
If the drugs are produced in China and thus are available there, why doesn't China (nor Mexico) have the same level of problems? And the other way round: For sure, Opium was imported to England. Why didn't it become a problem?
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by closedloop129 4y ago
>SearchHut indexes from a curated set of domains. Are there already plans to expand it as a service? E.g. subreddits could maintain their preferred lists of domains.
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Can you be happy while there are still people starving to death? As long as you have time to slow down and reflect on the state of the world, you either remember their pain, or you suppress the memory and thus distort your happiness. The tr
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Could it be that books are the technology that made being alone possible? Apart from monks, have people been alone before the invention of books? Without books, would people learn to stay by themselves and make it a habit?
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Like @daoudc writes, Wikipedia shows that the nonprofit can maintain the resources because they attract volunteers. If you create a search engine where users can report spam and get some form of karma for valid reports that is shown in the
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by closedloop129 4y ago
Then OP has to do things that don't scale: Review some pages and identify a subset that can be trusted. Then OP can compare their downloads to new accounts and mark the bots.

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