dontbeevil1992

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by dontbeevil1992 4y ago
that's awesome. I think CBT is really reductive. Quite pessimistic, as well - CBT seems to hold little hope of actually healing many issues, but only aims for symptom management. I think that's because it's not a very good th
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by dontbeevil1992 4y ago
IFS is amazing.
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by dontbeevil1992 4y ago
in gestalt therapy this is called being at an impasse - you are in touch with yourself enough to know that you're not happy, but not yet sure how to change your life to be happy. long term I do believe it is better to be in touch with
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by dontbeevil1992 4y ago
very cool! some similar themes to LotR. Did you intentionally make the crows names use mainly phonemes from the word "crow"? That's a cool technique
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by dontbeevil1992 5y ago
I'll say it again: I'm not saying that we can use past lack of nuclear war to predict future lack of nuclear war. All I'm saying is that each year's probability is not independent, meaning the model of a probability of n
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by dontbeevil1992 5y ago
I might not have said this clearly enough - I'm not saying that conditioning on "did we have a nuclear war" will change the probability to be less. I'm saying that the event "did we have a nuclear war in year n&quot
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by dontbeevil1992 5y ago
Another issue with this logic is that the probabilities are not independent. Saying that you have probability x of nuclear war every year and so probability (1-x)^n of no nuclear war in n years assumes independence. In fact, if you don&#x27
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by dontbeevil1992 5y ago
surely there's some middle ground between infinity and a paltry $3500. in our legal system there are concepts like damages, emotional damages, pain and suffering. it's not just about how much wages you missed out on. or does all t
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by dontbeevil1992 5y ago
seems like a good place to put this quote: "Justice is what love looks like in public." If this conservative economist wants to spread love, he can start by supporting economic policies that prevent the 1% from exploiting everyone
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
Agreed, life is not always zero-sum, and higher taxes don't always translate to better services. Let's look at an example of where life is zero-sum, which also happens to be an important battleground that leads to more macro eff
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
People should stop complaining that they don't have healthcare because they have iPhones and vaccines and don't literally live in the mud? Maybe that would hold water if there were literally no other option, and if the distributio
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
this is a really cool idea, and well-executed! only thing Id say is the glyphs end up very bulky, it would be cumbersome to write and readd
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
I don't see this as a counterargument for two reasons. First, how do the actions of other countries have bearing on what is true about the history of our country? Second, I don't know the details, but seems to me that powerful peo
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
Of course it's a powerful (alleged) quote, but it's far from the only evidence that the War on Drugs is not based, even in principle, on social good, but rather to serve powerful interests such as private prisons and police. As fa
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by ge
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
I highly recommend to everyone who is curious about this to read Nickel and Dimed. I read it for a college course and it opened my eyes a lot to the reality of life for people who our society does not allocate enough resources to, and who w
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
> just a lot of people see those options as beneath them or as just too hard of work. This might be true for some people, but don't forget that many of the available jobs are also very low-paying. People may not want to settle for t
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
Hmmm idk... anyway, time to get back to grinding leetcode so I can go work at Facebook and make 200k instead of a paltry 150k somewhere else!!
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
this website is such an incredible compendium of wisdom and facts. how has this been accomplished?
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
> To say they are "taking advantage of the commons" implies they're leaving the commons worse off I don't agree. All it means is that they're benefiting privately from something that belongs to everyone. This is
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
you and me are not a multinational billion dollar for-profit corporation. we have different capabilities, incentives, and externalities to our behavior. nestle is taking advantage of the commons for massive profit, they should contribute ba
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
> much of what’s involved in doing it just feels tedious and I know I’m going to be stuck screwing around with the most trivial boilerplate crap I started to feel this way during my first internship in my sophomore year of college, after
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
this is always the right-wing rhetorical contradiction: "less government!"... when it comes to limiting the power of capital, and redistributing its profits to society "more government!!" when it comes to squashing disse
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
when you say '"because capitalism" is always a terrible argument', you're doing more than observing that it's used nebulously sometimes, you're saying that by definition it cannot be used unnebulously, whi
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
My point is not that googling it will reveal everything about it, but nice bad faith. My point is it has a dictionary definition and there are plenty of people who understand what it is. It is not a nebulous concept just because you aren&#x
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
It has a specific definition that you can find by googling: "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state." Don't assume t
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
...so far. Other countries have some mechanisms - legal and cultural - in place that have resisted the creep of capitalist power concentration better than the U.S. has. But I'm pessimistic - I think globally we'll continue to see
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
does that mean that protein-folding is sort of in NP?
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
I was the one who first used the phrase market failure (wrongly, I gather). But the GP only used the idea that a market failed at something: "a failure of the marketplace", which is what my point still stands on. If they only mean
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by dontbeevil1992 6y ago
> In answer, maybe no harm is actually done. But even so, people will perceive that they have been harmed. Maybe cows can fly. Maybe a lot of things. But it does cause harm. So your idea about people's perceptions seems condescendin

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