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by slackson 5y ago
RSS/Atom feeds and video files you can play with whatever video player you want seems like it'd cover most of those concerns? The relatively closed nature of YouTube isn't necessarily something you'd want to replicate. T
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by slackson 6y ago
I was going to say that I think people kind of build up an immunity or aversion to those sorts of requests as they become more common, but after some consideration there's a difference between individual vs mass communication in that r
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by slackson 9y ago
I've never understood why people assume that sort of investment is going to be going to the housing market in particular, especially when it goes along with complaints of absentee foreign landlords and unoccupied housing. Surely even i
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by slackson 10y ago
>It has a section about land value taxes that offers a total non-solution to the supply-and-demand problem of land. Can you expand on this? I'm not exactly sure what you consider the problem to be.
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by slackson 11y ago
They compare it to polymer in the docs - much smaller, for one.
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by slackson 11y ago
This seems pretty cool, and being able to display charts easily is a valuable thing to have. There doesn't seem to be any fallback for people to view charts if they don't have the extension installed, however. Even just a link to
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by slackson 11y ago
So what if the PETA case offers a deal that is accepted under the circumstances those families are actually in? All offers and trades are contingent on the circumstances someone's in - you wouldn't take a job with a $20/hour
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by slackson 11y ago
Is the US system better in that regard?
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by slackson 11y ago
Nominal GDP growth and real GDP growth are very different things, and it's the latter people are referring to. If it was only nominal that mattered, we could have a arbitrary economic growth through inflation.
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by slackson 11y ago
Why are they too easy to get?
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by slackson 11y ago
There is at the start of the article?
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by slackson 11y ago
I don't think you're disagreeing here. Kalium is saying that an apprenticeship model is the wrong way to teach these skills.
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by slackson 11y ago
Are you arguing that there isn't a causal effect between people living together and domestic violence?
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by slackson 11y ago
Putting aside single-payer, what's the rationale for doing health insurance through employers, rather than individuals paying for it out of their income?
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by slackson 12y ago
This is the sort of place real change is going to come from. Transparent public information, that at the very least will shame politicians into voting in the interests of the people. I understand it's probably not a top priority, but i
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by slackson 12y ago
It would be useful for both purposes, wouldn't it?
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by slackson 12y ago
I'm not so sure about your conclusion there. The galaxy is around 100k light years across. Seems like a lot, but the Orion project looked like it could potentially reach speeds of 10% the speed of light. Even assuming that's optim
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by slackson 12y ago
Language changes all the time. Everyone knew what was intended to be communicated. I don't really see what the problem is, it's not like there's some platonic ideal of the English language to be violated.
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by slackson 12y ago
There's one recommending boredom now too.
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by slackson 12y ago
I think it's just meant to be assonant with "carnivore".
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by slackson 12y ago
What are the costs of trigger warnings, compared to the benefits? It seems like a blatantly worthwhile tradeoff to me.
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by slackson 12y ago
I think SJS has only resulted from modafinil use fewer than ten times in total. It's a rare enough response that it's difficult to figure out the actual risks, and I can't find info on the actual rates of modafinil usage. But
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by slackson 12y ago
I remember looking at this a few years ago. My main reason for not using it was the time it would have taken to tag all my files. Basically, if you have so many files that it's worth tagging them, you need to spend a lot of time taggin
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by slackson 12y ago
Iteration is a pretty good way to deal with this, IME. Get it to be serviceable but mediocre ASAP, then continue improving until better marginal benefits can be found elsewhere.
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by slackson 12y ago
You know what my worst nightmare was? Depression.
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by slackson 12y ago
"The more any quantitative social indicator (or even some qualitative indicator) is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social proc
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by slackson 13y ago
If you want to know enough to donate with confidence, GiveWell has good charity recommendations. In any case, don't let indecision paralyse you into inaction. Put some proportion of money aside for charity, start doing research, etc.
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by slackson 13y ago
Betting on profits of the agent conditional on various code changes. "Agent profits will increase X% by date Y, given code change Z." If code change Z isn't chosen, money is refunded to the people who bet in the market. If it
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by slackson 13y ago
Bitcoin autonomous corporations could use prediction markets to choose code changes.
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by slackson 13y ago
Do you know what relation this has to bitcoin or autonomous corporations?

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