pasquinelli

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by pasquinelli 5d ago
my reflex was to think that sounds like a lie israel would tell to get trump to go to war with iran, but i realize my reflexes aren't always right, so i looked it up and it turns out, yes, it's obviously an israeli lie and the onl
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by pasquinelli 5d ago
no, it is just trump. netanyahu's been pushing for this for decades, but prior presidents just didn't let themselves be pushed. as for iran, they've been the picture of restraint since trump's first term.
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by pasquinelli 5d ago
> the passive aggressiveness is coming from you. could you explain this? the comment you're replying to, how is it passive-aggressive? seems more regular-aggressive to me.
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by pasquinelli 7d ago
you're being extremely generous.
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by pasquinelli 7d ago
> You're arguing against something that's been known for decades oh, no i'm not. *you're* telling me what i'm saying because you don't have the attention span to read, but have unlimited patience for hearing
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by pasquinelli 7d ago
kids also grow taller which doesn't happen when you take t, so i guess your thought experiment is pretty stupid, actually.
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by pasquinelli 7d ago
> Lower staffing levels per unit of care performed makes medical care cheaper for patients. yeah yeah, sure sure
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by pasquinelli 7d ago
> As a pretty avid Star Trek watcher from childhood, I found most of the things there technologically plausible other than the conversational nature of the ship's computer. so the faster-than-light travel seemed plausible?
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by pasquinelli 11d ago
what if your baseline was not so much training? i assume it works by improving recovery, if not someone will need to explain what it's supposed to do to make you stronger. so, given that, your anrcdote indicates you were overtraining b
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by pasquinelli 12d ago
> Short of rewriting the constitution, that just isn't going to happen then a new constitution it is!
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by pasquinelli 13d ago
apple season is fall, if you're wondering. him eating apples when in season seemed to me at first like an anachronism, but actually, i do that. years ago i got fed up with apples that were whatever, so i decided to only have apples whe
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by pasquinelli 13d ago
i've pickled by accident before. first time it happens by accident and you're brave enough to try it and you're fine, it becomes something you'll try with anything.
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by pasquinelli 16d ago
> Rational means you take the choice that provides the most value for yourself. provides the most value over what period of time? making every choice such that each choice, considered in isolation and unto itself, nets you the most value
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by pasquinelli 16d ago
> It's rational at the individual level, irrational at the group level. no, it's irrational at the individual level too, because it will cause more harm than good to the individual firms . it's in the short-term that the
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by pasquinelli 16d ago
> In order for this statement to be true, you must also have perfect knowledge: something that is unachievable in most circumstances. if the optimal situation requires perfect knowledge that can't be had then it's not the optim
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by pasquinelli 16d ago
then it isn't possible in that situation to limit ai deployment, so limiting ai deployment can't be optimal because it's impossible.
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by pasquinelli 16d ago
i'm sure it's meant in some kind of technical sense that is precisely defined in the field of economics, but this use of the word "rational" is irritating: > This demand externality traps rational firms in an automati
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by pasquinelli 18d ago
i've lived in rural texas close to the border, and nothing was happening there except an immigration detention facility.
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by pasquinelli 20d ago
if you're interested it's called panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is a fundemental trait of the universe. it's an idea a little like solipsism, in that people have a reflex against it, but it's pretty hard to mak
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by pasquinelli 20d ago
maybe a teddy bear does have consciousness too, in the same way you do.
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by pasquinelli 24d ago
in the case of iran, it's hard to imagine it wouldn't be in retaliation for the infrastructure in iran that america has destroyed, so a cold war on one side, a hot war on the other.
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by pasquinelli 1mo ago
it's like being in a traffic jam and complaining about the aircraft carrier on the road ahead of you.
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by pasquinelli 1mo ago
https://www.ucs.org/resources/us-military-and-oil that article links to the dod's own reporting.
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by pasquinelli 1mo ago
individual people don't matter, they're peanuts. otoh the single biggest consumer of fossil fuels is the US DOD. and why is that, really?
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by pasquinelli 1mo ago
> The Rotchschilds, the Rockefellers, and the Du Ponts would have done very well in life just as well had they went to public schools sure, because of their names.
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by pasquinelli 1mo ago
> Now do Netflix and YouTube! How about golf courses, almond farming, and Disneyworld? these are bad examples, because it would be good if they were all gone, except almond farming in areas naturally hospitable to almonds.
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by pasquinelli 1mo ago
that seems a bit naive. you can think of it like that, but then you'll find actual practicing capitalists (not capitalism, the generalized concept) will always cozy up to centers of coercive power, until they're the ones weilding
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by pasquinelli 1mo ago
so capitalism gets the credit for technological advancement but not the blame for environmental degradation?
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by pasquinelli 1mo ago
the article is about a study claiming that prokaryotes and eukaryotes emerged independently of each other. they're both still around, so "out competed" is a strange description.
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by pasquinelli 1mo ago
i don't think you're thinking through the incentives-- with higher labor costs the employer has an incentive to take steps to make the job less hazardous.

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