splithalf

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by splithalf 5y ago
I like this idea. It could also make the nba and nfl more racially diverse.
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by splithalf 5y ago
The problem is the assumption of linearity. Things are good now but it seems to me things are getting better at a decelerating rate, and some trends have even started to reverse in the most westernized countries. Most of what’s getting bett
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by splithalf 5y ago
“ or wild economic gyrations stemming from desperate attempts to stave off said deflation.” Seems certain as it’s already begun and once it has begun there’s nothing stopping it.
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by splithalf 5y ago
I have a similar reaction to a lot of YouTube psychology. So much confirmation bias and other nonsense passing for facts. It takes a lot of caution and care to discuss behavior without inadvertently misinforming people. Pinker is really exc
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by splithalf 5y ago
But the virus is “all natural”! You can trust Mother Nature more than a bunch of creepy pharma-scientists. Didn’t you see Godzilla?
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by splithalf 5y ago
The soft bigotry of different standards is talked about but rarely is the premise carefully examined. Can there be a single standard? Maybe the problem is expecting a good essay, composed in earnest, by a kid that can “barely string a sent
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by splithalf 5y ago
Security is impossible. As long as there are incentives, nothing will be secure. It’s just a matter of incentive/difficulty. With enough incentive stuxnet or solar winds or omb are possible. Bitcoin values are causing this equilibrium
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by splithalf 5y ago
It’s odd to hear so much focus on America and American politics. We have more liberal drug laws than other non-western countries but the discussion always has a lot of American exceptionalism in reverse.
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by splithalf 5y ago
We should ask Duck Cheney’s daughter about the diversity of her party, she seems like a poster child for that.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Half America hands it’s brain to one party, the other half to the other party. Many problems stem from this.
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by splithalf 5y ago
“Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Indeed. It is a scale problem. We have too many producers of research, too few destroyers of research, like Gelman. Show me the incentive and I can tell you the outcome. Encourage the whole world to b
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by splithalf 5y ago
I thought I had covid before news of covid even came out. Was googling “novel pneumonia type illnesses” and reading about sequelae. I had had close contact with wuhan travelers in late dec. 2020. Mostly fatigue and headache for a week, then
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by splithalf 5y ago
Psychology. You can’t know anything and not know something about knowing.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Unless they are Comcast. Then it’s ok to work on a sliding scale.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Because we think we’re better. Thinking to oneself, “I don’t believe in any conspiracy theories, but those other people sure do!” is to be unaware of the human condition. Ideology exists and it’s good to get frequent reminders about that,
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by splithalf 5y ago
How could one listen to enough Alex Jones to know this? I like the idea of Alex Jones, paranoid style American politics is a tradition and has its uses, but it’s to me a bit like pro wrestling. It’s not content that’s pitched toward the upp
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by splithalf 5y ago
Is Hillary Clinton and CNN a credible source? https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/assange-embassy-excl...
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by splithalf 5y ago
“Is this work so valuable for public health that it outshines the risk to public health in doing it?” The people doing this know nothing about security and that’s the real problem. They can’t hope to assess risks they do not understand, que
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by splithalf 5y ago
Rent control is the norm in our most expensive rental markets.
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by splithalf 5y ago
This differs by gender. A married woman taking time off for domestic/child rearing/continuing education is very common. An adult male, it’s very uncommon unless you’re rich, which most posters here obviously are.
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by splithalf 5y ago
This is the direct result of giving out too many phds. There’s no signal, only noise. Trust in our academics, rightfully, in rapid decline. Habermas come to pass.
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by splithalf 5y ago
“he tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 before he died.” Buried lede?
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by splithalf 5y ago
I think this is wrong. It’s Bitcoin alone that is the problem. Ransom demands will exist as long as it’s viable money making enterprise. Asking humans to not to be human isn’t usually an effective strategy for anything. The only solution to
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by splithalf 5y ago
Indeed they change more than their zealous detractors, whose rigid mindsets cannot update priors despite abundant evidence contradicting their sacred beliefs, namely that the pious and meek are to be looked down upon, either pitied or scorn
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by splithalf 5y ago
Rich parents are very different. Imagine sending your children off to boarding school! But that’s seen as perfectly normal in rich people culture, and has been for centuries.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Targeted ads are unethical and should be eliminated, the abuses are too obvious to enumerate. Prostitution and drugs have also enabled the existence of many small companies.
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by splithalf 5y ago
It’s a small fraction but Amazon creates content too, maybe even more now with mgm, and content creation looks less like displacement, though there’s some of that too (not enough IMO)
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by splithalf 5y ago
I’ve come to the conclusion that suicide is the only solution for some, perhaps many of us. There should be better medical procedures for that, for those who want to end their suffering. Untreatable chronic insomnia is a terrible way to liv
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by splithalf 5y ago
Some is the opposite: people know they are safe with or without it, and because there an infinitesimally small risk and very little direct personal benefit for young healthy people and then make the “rational” but myopic choice to not get
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by splithalf 5y ago
He doesn’t need to because as he notes, the virus is waning because better people are getting the mRNA version, not just full blown covid which the non-vaccinated will be getting on random occasions many months or even years from now.

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