marcusverus

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by marcusverus 6d ago
I for one am disappointed that it took 500 years for people to acknowledge that the most important consideration when choosing a map is its emotional impact on the people of Africa.
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by marcusverus 6d ago
> As the resolution itself states: "Correcting cartographic distortions of continental sizes constitutes an act of cognitive justice and memorial reparation." Beyond parody.
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by marcusverus 8d ago
Let's reformulate it as a railroad problem. In the proposed hypothetical, if you effectively ban self driving cars until they're literally flawless, 50 people per day will be killed by human drivers every day. If you pull the leve
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by marcusverus 9d ago
You can't compare autonomous systems that drive hundreds of thousands of vehicles to a single person. You have to compare it to hundreds of thousands of people. American drivers kill ~100 people every day behind the wheel of a car. If
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by marcusverus 12d ago
If the base universe is postulated to have always existed, why not do away with this theory altogether and simply postulate that our universe has always existed? Sure, our universes physics are conveniently balanced, which Occam's Razo
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by marcusverus 15d ago
https://archive.is/7kTXF
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Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange(nytimes.com)
7 points by marcusverus 15d ago|2 comments
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by marcusverus 19d ago
Occam's razor suggests that a coincidence is just a teensy bit more likely than a story surviving unchanged for a thousand generations.
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by marcusverus 22d ago
"The tragedy of the commons" isn't a claim that "the commons universally leads to worse outcomes", but rather "the commons universally leads to worse incentives". The existence of a separate set of contrad
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by marcusverus 26d ago
The constitution says it is written to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity", actually.
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by marcusverus 28d ago
Brought to you by the guys who said Obamacare would lower premiums.
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by marcusverus 1mo ago
This is nonsensical. Debt-to-GDP over the course of an entire term is what matters. Debt was 77% of GDP when Obama took office and >102% when he left. The "change in deficit" is a useless measure. https://fred.stloui
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by marcusverus 1mo ago
Wow, are AI companies using mark to market accounting to claim decades worth of future earnings as though they were already realized? Are they recalculating past deals to meet quarterly earnings targets? Are they using SPEs to hide off bala
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by marcusverus 1mo ago
Sounds like it, yeah.
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by marcusverus 1mo ago
Save the aggressive ignorance schtick for Reddit.
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by marcusverus 1mo ago
> the average person is economically much worse off than all the European countries you just mentioned. Where on earth did you get this idea? US Households have much higher disposable income (~50% higher than the Western European average
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by marcusverus 1mo ago
Please flag. The only reason this attack vector isn't more common is the ignorance of would-be terrorists. The stochastic harm caused by sharing such articles is significant, IMO, and the public interest is low (nobody is going to stop
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
Is there anything more disingenuous that advocating for the involuntary destruction of all equity wealth by decrying occasional losses by consenting adults? I'm sure this kills on Reddit, though.
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
It's hard to imagine a political solution to this problem. Both parties are playing chicken, each daring the other to fall on their sword for the good of the country, with neither willing to commit political suicide. Republicans don&#x
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
> Well apparently they don't really have a choice The notion that poor circumstances somehow justify poor choices is extremely counterproductive, as the context of this thread should make abundantly clear.
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
> We could provide food for the poor and disabled who lack or are not using family support with a tiny fraction of our industrial output. I absolutely agree. We spend $30K/year per person (not per household, per person!) under the p
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
Me: I like your solution, but could you unpack all those dense one-liners to make the code easier to follow? Cursor: Do you wanna mess me up? Do you wanna screw up the works? You wanna blow my token sales in Europe?
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
Everyone has their own priorities, I guess. I'm not willing to drive down Americans' wages to save a buck on strawberries.
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
We both know you haven't lifted a finger to help these people. You're not interested in actually saving lives, just that sweet righteous indignation (after all, it's free!)
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
There's no such thing as "jobs natives don't want", only "wages natives don't want". > Maybe, or maybe they just employ less people and less things get built. The foreign born population residing in the
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
Motte: We all share the land! Bailey: The state owns all land!
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
Do yourself a favor and DCA in from here. SpaceX was "only" valued at 210 Billion back in June 2024, around 11% of its current valuation. A return to that valuation would take it down to ~$16/share! SpaceX is a phenomenal com
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
If these figure represent actual deaths (big if), those people will have died because literally nobody on earth was willing to pay to keep them alive--yourself included.
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by marcusverus 2mo ago
L̶a̶u̶n̶c̶h̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶v̶a̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶f̶u̶n̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶F̶i̶r̶s̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶m̶p̶o̶s̶s̶i̶b̶l̶e̶.̶ ̶ ̶F̶i̶r̶s̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶n̶’̶t̶ ̶e̶c̶o̶n̶o̶m̶i̶c̶a̶l̶.̶ ̶ ̶M̶e̶g̶a̶c̶o̶n̶s̶t̶a̶l̶
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by marcusverus 3mo ago
If you remove the word abject, the argument is: > half of the US is living in poverty This statement is also false. > I encourage you to try to live on anywhere from $7 to $15 an hour That's the bottom quintile, not the bottom ha

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