newbamboo

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by newbamboo 4y ago
I feel like the public, even in may 2022, just can’t grasp the basic concept of inflation. A better way than dropping cash out of helicopters, or mailing checks, is to give people tax money back in the form of a standard deduction. It’s alm
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by newbamboo 4y ago
“class of people so eager to take wealth/future prosperity from their children” Agreed. Very Ugolino.
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Not really no.
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Why would it be a bit much? Banks can’t give out fake loans. They try to all the time and are rightfully regulated/fined/charged when they do. Banks giving out bad loans caused the 2008 collapse. Student loans will one day cause a
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Exactly the same incentives problem with EDD. The more fraud, the larger their budget gets and so there is only one metric they care about; increasing the total number of recipients. Similar issue with fake user counts in the tech world. Us
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by newbamboo 4y ago
“The financial aid administrators at Pierce College say it’s not their job” Make them legally accountable. Banks can’t assist fraudsters and then say “not my job.” The administrators should be jailed or lending to colleges with this problem
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by newbamboo 4y ago
I’m normal.
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by newbamboo 4y ago
You should read about inflation. Efforts to fatten up the middle class with free giveaways to certain voting blocks has and will continue to spur inflation and make those same voters ever less wealthy. But voters are myopic, so they’ll vote
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Another manifestation of problems in higher education. It’s not just software. If you read up on the sociology of professional specialization you’ll learn that most technical complexity in a field is there for competitive purposes. Jargon e
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by newbamboo 4y ago
“the question is whether you have large amounts of the kind of parasites that make you sick and more specifically, the kinds of parasites that can be treated with ivermectin.” It would be a useful study, to the extent Covid remains a concer
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Will you read his new book?[0] If anyone were in a position to know whether it’s possible, and how to do it, he’d be on the list. I think, regardless of his history regarding open source, water under the bridge long ago, he is worth taking
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by newbamboo 4y ago
On the other hand, we could have a zero Covid planet. A place without pandemics. Bill Gates is the hero we need.
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Never been pro-ivermectin as a primary tool for Covid, but can you actually back up, “indeed, the argument for ivermectin in 1st world countries has been more or less demolished.” I read Scott’s piece the day it was published and was over a
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by newbamboo 4y ago
“folks from California and the Southwest wanting more water” People don’t complain about Floridians or iowaians. It’s always the brown bodies from California “driving up prices” and “drinking all the water.” California is a dog whistle for
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Why not talk about nuclear war? It’s one of several elephants in the room. The full collapse of a nuclear super power is unprecedented. Who gets the weapons?
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by newbamboo 4y ago
I want to generalize and say things that are round. Circles, whether the wheel or the phonograph, or a pulley, or lipid nano particles— circles are true magic.
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Reuters is not a credible source, even if they’re right in this case. Leave peer review to peers, in journals where it belongs. Reuters is just another USA Today at this point. They should not be the arbiters of what constitutes valid scien
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Maybe when the late great JPB passed on? Hurts my ears to listen, burns my eyes to see.
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by newbamboo 4y ago
It’s LA so you can just step on a dirty needle. They’re scattered liberally.
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Don’t question Dan. He gets results. Everybody loves his moderation, and if you don’t love the moderation then you should just leave. There’s always Reddit!
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by newbamboo 4y ago
“We should just get rid or corporations. And we should get rid of prices too. And profit of any sort should not be tolerated by the Government. We should all have exactly the same possessions and live in identical houses that the Government
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by newbamboo 4y ago
The government, at federal, state and local levels, all rely on Twitter to conduct official taxpayer funded work. Taxpayer funded work should not happen on proprietary systems that operate with zero oversight or public transparency. Elon po
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by newbamboo 4y ago
They should have stuck to the dvd by mail model. There were so many good movies to watch back then. Lots of content doesn’t matter if it’s crappy content. I bought an antenna last year and been amazed at how much better the content is, even
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Biden revokes Trump executive order that targeted Section 230(theverge.com)
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Et Tu EFF? Sigh. I remember when they supported open source. Won’t give them my support going forward. At least rms is still alive and kicking.
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by newbamboo 4y ago
“Moving forward, McFarland is analyzing the racial disparities of childhood lead exposure, hoping to highlight the health inequities suffered by Black children, who were exposed more often to lead and in greater quantities than white childr
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Sure. Children of divorced parents are more likely to opt for divorce themselves, based on my sample. That is consistent with everything we know and expect about humans. Whether and how these apparently heritable differences are due to natu
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by newbamboo 4y ago
Women control the social capital and function as norm setters in our society. Fixing men won’t help if women and the prevailing culture remain broken. All the divorces I’ve witnessed, nearly every married childhood friend of mine has been t
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by newbamboo 4y ago
These are people you and everyone else should be familiar with. Their beliefs are well documented. No need for “perhaps.” They’ve written eloquently about their beliefs and an intellectually curious, or merely open minded person, can benefi
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by newbamboo 4y ago
But you should be empirical. Does this change meaningfully impact public literacy? If it helps even a few kids, that’s great. Let us see if this moves the needle. There are opportunity costs with public policy, and so we should try and try

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