> The key phrase is: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > we mean intellectual interest, not all kinds of interest > For example, there is social interest (the sort of thing that leads to celebrity…
> It seems that the political left (which usually drives these movements) would rather put the onus on the companies to change while taking millions in lobbying money, than hold them accountable for their actions.…
Empirically, places that focus on "collective actions" and "society-level solutions" tend to be worse than places that allow that power to be bestowed in response to capital flows. I'm hoping for a really good answer…
> suppress voting by low income and minority voters Are you implying that having an ID, such as a drivers license, is out of reach of either low income or minority citizens? That seems classist and/or racist. Are there…
To concur: It's not merely predicated on a utilitarian ethical viewpoint, it assumes that we've accurately accounted for costs of the options (eg, second and third order effects) when deciding rather than merely…
Why would they? They're not going to have to re-issue shares at a lower price; they're going to get bailed out by the taxpayers. The conditions for government money should be: 1. All current debt is converted into…
My back of the napkin math indicates that roughly 2x as many people will die in the US this year. Normal deaths are 2.8M/year. There's 330M people in the US. At 70% infection, that's 230M people. At 1% mortality, that's…
> Arguing against the considered advice of medical experts is counterproductive and absolutely dangerous. How often have those experts been wrong?
> Well, I didn't mean to. In fact, I'm advocating for the community at large. This thinking led to all sorts of atrocities in the past 100 years, from fascism to communism -- and the murders to starvation that…
The RNA-world hypothesis conjectures that life started via a chemical soup developing things similar to viroids. These early RNA-based replicators would go on to become more complicated, first developing a protective…
> In particular, Eastern Europe of all places is relatively egalitarian in men-vs-women in programming. Why doesn't that suggest the reverse -- that women only have equal rates of programming in societies where they…
I had similar problems, and resorted to just declining meetings that interrupted that work block. I didn't even mark it on the calendar, I just declined any meeting before 11a. I actually was more aggressive than you…
It absolutely is. We've seen from CNN and Google that their views don't match society at large, and they're happy to use their positions of influence to "correct" society. That's what caused CNN's ratings to collapse,…
That's.... true? Math isn't a science, and some quantum physics is regularly chided for being more philosophy than science, because it doesn't make testable predictions. The distinction seems useful.
> "Quantum Supremacy" is a technical term, not a colloquial one. It refers to showing that there exists a problem that a real, physical quantum computer can solve quickly that a classical computer cannot. So my bath tub…
Environment activists have been bombing things for decades. If anything, they've calmed down.
Setting aside the morality -- which is its own reason to treat people well -- it's damnably effective. Something I got from a book on negotiating: It doesn't matter how good of a negotiator you are, if you develop a…
Why aren't TQFTs evidence for string theory? If we know you can build quasiparticles and non-local effects out of braiding/knotting dynamics -- wouldn't the minimal assumption be that other things that can be explained…
Canada only accounts for 0.5% of the world population and about 1% of internet users (total Canadian population / total internet users) -- and I think it's telling that you didn't mention a bigger country, like the US…
Know where the skeletons are buried. Punch back, especially upwards. Know an analyst at the investment bank with the largest holding in your company.
Only 4% of the world even plays soccer. Being in the top 10% of them puts you into global fractional percentages. If it's not soccer, having done it likely puts you in fraction-of-fraction land.
That's a rather emotive argument. Do you have any evidence to back it up, that reducing the air travel and other extravagances wouldn't be sufficient, but that we need to give up daily pleasures? To me, it sounds like…
So, you don't actually know how either. It's trite and cheap to demand change you don't know how to do.
> so Epstein was found guilty and convicted, did his time and payed off his due to the society accordingly to the judge verdict and the law of the land - so where is that american spirit of paying off your dues, being…
Docker has had a surprisingly quick turn from "new community software that's worth supporting" to "clearly sabotaged for 'enterprise' sales".
> The key phrase is: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > we mean intellectual interest, not all kinds of interest > For example, there is social interest (the sort of thing that leads to celebrity…
> It seems that the political left (which usually drives these movements) would rather put the onus on the companies to change while taking millions in lobbying money, than hold them accountable for their actions.…
Empirically, places that focus on "collective actions" and "society-level solutions" tend to be worse than places that allow that power to be bestowed in response to capital flows. I'm hoping for a really good answer…
> suppress voting by low income and minority voters Are you implying that having an ID, such as a drivers license, is out of reach of either low income or minority citizens? That seems classist and/or racist. Are there…
To concur: It's not merely predicated on a utilitarian ethical viewpoint, it assumes that we've accurately accounted for costs of the options (eg, second and third order effects) when deciding rather than merely…
Why would they? They're not going to have to re-issue shares at a lower price; they're going to get bailed out by the taxpayers. The conditions for government money should be: 1. All current debt is converted into…
My back of the napkin math indicates that roughly 2x as many people will die in the US this year. Normal deaths are 2.8M/year. There's 330M people in the US. At 70% infection, that's 230M people. At 1% mortality, that's…
> Arguing against the considered advice of medical experts is counterproductive and absolutely dangerous. How often have those experts been wrong?
> Well, I didn't mean to. In fact, I'm advocating for the community at large. This thinking led to all sorts of atrocities in the past 100 years, from fascism to communism -- and the murders to starvation that…
The RNA-world hypothesis conjectures that life started via a chemical soup developing things similar to viroids. These early RNA-based replicators would go on to become more complicated, first developing a protective…
> In particular, Eastern Europe of all places is relatively egalitarian in men-vs-women in programming. Why doesn't that suggest the reverse -- that women only have equal rates of programming in societies where they…
I had similar problems, and resorted to just declining meetings that interrupted that work block. I didn't even mark it on the calendar, I just declined any meeting before 11a. I actually was more aggressive than you…
It absolutely is. We've seen from CNN and Google that their views don't match society at large, and they're happy to use their positions of influence to "correct" society. That's what caused CNN's ratings to collapse,…
That's.... true? Math isn't a science, and some quantum physics is regularly chided for being more philosophy than science, because it doesn't make testable predictions. The distinction seems useful.
> "Quantum Supremacy" is a technical term, not a colloquial one. It refers to showing that there exists a problem that a real, physical quantum computer can solve quickly that a classical computer cannot. So my bath tub…
Environment activists have been bombing things for decades. If anything, they've calmed down.
Setting aside the morality -- which is its own reason to treat people well -- it's damnably effective. Something I got from a book on negotiating: It doesn't matter how good of a negotiator you are, if you develop a…
Why aren't TQFTs evidence for string theory? If we know you can build quasiparticles and non-local effects out of braiding/knotting dynamics -- wouldn't the minimal assumption be that other things that can be explained…
Canada only accounts for 0.5% of the world population and about 1% of internet users (total Canadian population / total internet users) -- and I think it's telling that you didn't mention a bigger country, like the US…
Know where the skeletons are buried. Punch back, especially upwards. Know an analyst at the investment bank with the largest holding in your company.
Only 4% of the world even plays soccer. Being in the top 10% of them puts you into global fractional percentages. If it's not soccer, having done it likely puts you in fraction-of-fraction land.
That's a rather emotive argument. Do you have any evidence to back it up, that reducing the air travel and other extravagances wouldn't be sufficient, but that we need to give up daily pleasures? To me, it sounds like…
So, you don't actually know how either. It's trite and cheap to demand change you don't know how to do.
> so Epstein was found guilty and convicted, did his time and payed off his due to the society accordingly to the judge verdict and the law of the land - so where is that american spirit of paying off your dues, being…
Docker has had a surprisingly quick turn from "new community software that's worth supporting" to "clearly sabotaged for 'enterprise' sales".