fatcat500

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by fatcat500 2y ago
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert th’ Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes of God to men.
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by fatcat500 3y ago
Interesting how our leaders see their role not as representing our interests, but in shaping our interests. There exists an entire subject in political science dealing with how to increase compliance with the schemes of regulators (see Nudg
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by fatcat500 4y ago
Macroscopic politics is a phenomenon in its own right. Something that should be studied like one would study chemistry or physics. No one person or party controls the course of events. I don't believe there is a grand conspiracy with s
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by fatcat500 4y ago
A population of ignorant and illiterate peasants is great for maximizing political capital. They are receptive to propaganda. They are an energetic bloc of voters. They know something is wrong, but are too ineffective to correctly identify
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by fatcat500 4y ago
All that brilliance and knowledge, used to get vulnerable, suggestible teenagers addicted to mind-numbing, anxiety-inducing media. The shame of software engineers is that we have been used to create 1000s of these inhuman products.
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by fatcat500 4y ago
No offense but the logo looks disgusting.
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by fatcat500 4y ago
Looks like we have some old timers in here
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by fatcat500 4y ago
> If there is not enough of a flow of cooling water, the rods can overheat, and the entire facility is at risk for a nuclear meltdown. This is not true. Water is the moderator in a light-water reactor. Without water the reaction will sto
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by fatcat500 4y ago
The GDP of Singapore is around $340 billion. Goldman Sachs manages $2.5 trillion dollars worth of assets.
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by fatcat500 4y ago
Of course I want the gay people in Singapore to flourish. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that it is illegitimate for private companies to use their vast wealth to influence the affairs of a comparatively poore
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by fatcat500 4y ago
What you're saying is effectively: "But we're right and they're wrong, so I don't care." Everyone thinks they're right about what they believe in, especially moral beliefs. The purpose of political systems
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by fatcat500 4y ago
> Goldman Sachs partners had something to say about this law Don't you think it's absurd that an investment bank has influence over a country's social policy? For all the cheerleading we do about democracy, we also don&#x2
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by fatcat500 4y ago
Safetyism in regards to nuclear power is nothing more than the environmental lobby attempting to derail the only viable solution to climate change. They will lose an excellent source of political capital if climate change is solved, so they
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by fatcat500 4y ago
Love the idea, will definitely try it out. One bit of feedback I want to give is: when I'm answering questions on the iPhone app, there's a dialog that shoots up from the bottom... this is too much motion and I don't like it.
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by fatcat500 4y ago
This is the kind of subject where your typical engineer, who took 10s of high level math and science courses, who proudly carries the torch of empiricism and scientific skepticism, who literally uses logic in his day-to-day (&& &amp
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by fatcat500 4y ago
They burnt through all the cultural capital they had by spending it on short-term political victories. Now people see the media not as a source of information, but as an instrument of the establishment to influence and control. The same wil
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by fatcat500 4y ago
At this rate, Europe will become 2nd world by the end of the century. Instead of focusing on innovation and competition in the global market, Europeans are busy legislating their freedoms away.
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by fatcat500 4y ago
> Environmental review has become a tool of environmental extremist militants to derail and progress in energy. Hmm... I wonder why they are so bent on blocking the only viable solution to climate change? Almost as if they are being used
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by fatcat500 4y ago
No a/b testing?
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by fatcat500 5y ago
right, because people who live in small towns are known for their knowledge of electromagnetism
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by fatcat500 5y ago
Because the elites are a bunch of right-wingers, right?
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by fatcat500 5y ago
Yes. Nuclear Is a threat to socialists/environmentalists because it would deprive them of an excellent source of political capital. Namely, the justifications required to artificially increase the price of energy, to pass regulation wh
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by fatcat500 5y ago
For years, fraudulent “academics” have pushed phony concepts like “white empiricism”, and no one aside from far-right types, hungry for ammunition to use against their ideological enemies, bothered to seriously criticize this gibberish… No
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by fatcat500 5y ago
makes you wonder what’s so threatening about religion that they want to ban it… maybe because in totalitarian systems, the state is the source of moral truth?
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by fatcat500 5y ago
Vitamin C and Ivermectin aren't experimental. I'm not against the vaccine, but to say that an emergency approved drug is as circumspect as older drugs (e.g. Ivermectin was approved as early as the 1980s) is misleading. That being
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by fatcat500 5y ago
If there was a button on Github that donated small amounts of money to the maintainer(s) of a project, I would press it frequently for many libraries I depend on. For example, donating 25 or 50 cents every time I visit gofiber/fiber wo
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by fatcat500 5y ago
The people who support defunding the police have never felt genuine fear from being victimized by crime. It's only after the crime, when you're thinking about how someone else had the hubris to threaten your life, thinking about h
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by fatcat500 5y ago
I would probably buy a ~$200 HP Stream and use that... Unfair having to spend such money, but textbooks aren't that much more expensive, and you can use it for more than one course too
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by fatcat500 5y ago
The people who are currently successfully utilizing science to legitimize knowledge are doing so off of the moral, social, and cultural capital accrued by previous generations of scientists. The assumption that the general public will alway