jmcmichael

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by jmcmichael 6mo ago
yeah, that’s called chromostereopsis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis
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by jmcmichael 8mo ago
Yes, he discusses the Platonic aspects of his theory in a paper, “Ingressing Minds: Causal Patterns Beyond Genetics and Environment in Natural, Synthetic, and Hybrid Embodiments”: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/
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by jmcmichael 8mo ago
Yes! Until I saw the box cover illustration, I had totally forgotten that a high-school friend of mine and I worked months to build a Gauntlet clone on our 64K Apple ][+ machines due to the money it was costing us to play it at local game s
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by jmcmichael 8mo ago
You can, my first prompt in Zork 3 was “pick up the latern, light it, and walk down the dark path”, and it did all that.
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by jmcmichael 11mo ago
Regarding Newsom, US states are far more constrained in their spending bc they cannot create money, and must account for their expenditures more like a household or corporation. Social benefit programs, entitlements, etc. must therefore by
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by jmcmichael 11mo ago
Taxes provide the fundamental value of money: taxes must be paid in the state’s currency, making that currency inherently valuable to avoid punishment. They also provide a way to prevent the existence of individuals powerful enough to corru
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by jmcmichael 11mo ago
Federal spending is not funded by taxes, the US Treasury will never 'dry up', and the US will never default on its debts or entitlements. It may fail to pay, however that is not a default, it is a refusal or repudiation of an obli
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by jmcmichael 1y ago
“Enshittification” updates for the modern era the concept of enclosure, where a common resource that was formerly open and free to contributors is progressively controlled, restricted, or diminished to increase private profits.
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by jmcmichael 2y ago
Homelessness serves as excellent motivation for us to sacrifice our bodies and minds on the behalf of our employers’ profit. Poverty isn’t an unfortunate side effect of resource mis-allocation at the margins of society, but a necessary feat
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by jmcmichael 2y ago
Corporations can fund research in ways that allow them to suppress results that threaten their profits. If science is conducted in these ways, corporations can fund science (for which they receive tax benefits) and if the results are positi
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by jmcmichael 5y ago
If you read the critiques that Graeber discusses, you’ll see they’re exactly as he describes: instead of addressing Graeber’s arguments, they instead insinuate that his ideas are not worth addressing (after using the silly Apple error to
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by jmcmichael 5y ago
HN readers would be aware of the long running debate because he mentions the debate, summarizes several elements of it, points readers to where it can be found, IN THE VERY HN POST FROM WHICH I QUOTED!! Perhaps Graeber believed that HN read
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by jmcmichael 5y ago
> To name just one of Graeber's essential lies: he makes the claim that Federal Reserve issuing American debt is privately controlled and weaves an extensive chapter based in fundamental ways on this misapprehension. No, he does not
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by jmcmichael 5y ago
I’m going to assume that you’re basing your opinion of Graeber on Brad DeLong’s unhinged attacks on his work and character. There are no factual mistakes in “Debt” that impact the solidity of Graeber’s conclusions or historical narratives,
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by jmcmichael 5y ago
Government, at least in nation-states that are sovereign currency producers, does indeed have first dibs on what people earn. Income taxes are usually withdrawn from salaries before employees are paid, and in the case of independent contrac
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by jmcmichael 6y ago
It's qualitative energy, not quantitative energy. The same energy one feels when one experiences love, feels lifted up by a favorite song, or feels exuberance when one's team wins the superbowl.
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by jmcmichael 7y ago
From the article: Barter requires a coincidence of interests. Alice grows some pecans and wants some apples; Bob grows apples and want some pecans. They just happen to have their orchards near each other, and Alice just happens to trust Bo
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by jmcmichael 7y ago
Barter is a spot transfer. 'time offset barter' or 'delayed barter' isn't barter, and I've only seen this weird term used in libertarian/ancap/Austrian economists attempting to come to grips with the
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by jmcmichael 7y ago
This article makes the same mistakes that the OP's article does - assumes the truth of the myth of barter. It even uses the odd term 'time-offset barter', which I have never seen outside of libertarian/ancap analyses. B
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by jmcmichael 7y ago
The 'double coincidence of wants' problem of barter exists. What is a myth is the assumption that any culture used barter as a primary means of exchange. Barter was used on the edges of tribes, clans, etc. between groups of people
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
Yeah, state-sponsored news has its own problems. The state should probably be the main focus of news organizations. Having the State, target of journalists' investigations, hold the purse strings is perhaps an even bigger problem than
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
This implies that only people who have the means and desire to pay for accurate news will get it. Given that accurate information about the world, our society, and its politics is required for making accurate decisions about how to vote and
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
Both. It's currently being used mainly by academic researchers, and biotech companies are evaluating it as well.
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
I've been working with a team* on an open-source analysis pipeline tool to assist researchers and oncologists in identifying specific neoantigens used in cancer immunotherapy. Given a patient's sequenced tumor/normal genome,
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
As noted elsewhere, the study accounted for those variables: "Participants in the French study also provided information about their general health status, their occupation, education, income and other details, like whether they smoked
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
The field of biostatistics is dedicated to answering those kinds of questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biostatistics
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
Thank you!
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
Sorry, you're right. I'd delete but it looks like HN won't allow me to do so now.
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2016/03/23/nixons-d... CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich... The Independent: ht
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by jmcmichael 8y ago
A move to capitalist and away from socialist modes of scientific research production in the nutritional field due to neoliberal decimation of research budgets and encroaching business interests both in the funding and dissemination of resea

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