Is your life really improved by having access to <tilted heart face>? Unicode is a massive clusterfuck. We’ve completely eliminated most of the advantages it might have held in the first place, like unambiguous…
It’s also a way for large tech companies to unilaterally exercise neurotic political projects, like replacing the emoji for “pistol” with a squirt gun. Apple or Google can do whatever they want to Emoji in violation of…
> Do you have a single source to back up these claims? I have many. You should start with these: https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense...…
I’m not spending time reading a salon article, but I’m willing to bet money that their definition of “repeat misinformer” is total bullshit.
Poverty is actually a quite weak predictor of crime rates once you condition on demographic factors such as percent single-parent households.
> putting that time toward actually cleaning up neighborhoods or tutoring underprivileged youth The US has tried again and again these naively optimistic programs targeting “neighborhoods” and “the youth”, to no avail…
You’re describing monetization, not a pyramid scheme.
The biggest gaslighting of this whole affair has been the political adherence to clearly insane propositions like forcing everyone to wear masks (questionable in any case) but allowing cloth masks (which do, at best,…
> Jane Street isn't that successful. Their historical record is very good.
Yes. I’m not even using their wifi box.
Affinity’s iPad UI is quite nice and relatively full-featured as well.
Why would they have dumped billions into developing these vaccines in the first place if they expected to just lose the IP rights right away anyway? You might be able to save a small number of extra people this time by…
Last time I looked into this, Apple actually used quite a bit of clever crypto engineering to protect user privacy. It's not just a big database of locations that Apple keeps.
Do you support the right of businesses to refuse business to homosexuals, for example, on religious grounds? If you come back with “homosexuals are legally a protected class”, that’s evading the question and…
The evidence is quite clear that going to college doesn’t actually improve life outcomes very much at all. We mistakenly thought it did for a while, but what was actually happening is the people who were going to…
What in the world do you mean? Lightning has excellent privacy; payments are onion-routed.
> Those things, in America, trend disproportionately White. It's funny how people never bring up how this effect is shockingly disproportionately mediated by Jews and not, like, Appalachian or midwestern whites.
If they weren't using this as an opportunity to pump some shitcoin, this might make sense. Bitcoin Lightning integration would be much less suspect, for example, because A) it's already well established B) they're not…
Ideas don't need to be correct to be adaptive.
How dare you! We need state-run pre-school to get those kids sitting at desks even earlier!
I really doubt that any industrial-chemical process will have a net better environmental or economic impact than, say, re-foresting desert areas.
Sure, in a magical world where we suddenly switch to a perfect utopian medical system, the problems will go away. But none of the concrete proposals in this thread will make the problems go away.
My evidence is that I've lived in countries with market-based healthcare (Thailand, Mexico) and countries with socialized healthcare (Canada, UK), and the market-based healthcare is always infinitely better. My wife had…
The factors that cause America to spend a lot of money on healthcare don't go away when you switch to a single payer. If anything, they get worse. Reform needs to happen elsewhere; for example, we need to stop using…
This website is full of overconfident midwits - nothing new. I appreciate that you're still willing to put in the effort to show them the evidence. Unfortunately, I'm at the point where I don't think it's worth it; it's…
Is your life really improved by having access to <tilted heart face>? Unicode is a massive clusterfuck. We’ve completely eliminated most of the advantages it might have held in the first place, like unambiguous…
It’s also a way for large tech companies to unilaterally exercise neurotic political projects, like replacing the emoji for “pistol” with a squirt gun. Apple or Google can do whatever they want to Emoji in violation of…
> Do you have a single source to back up these claims? I have many. You should start with these: https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense...…
I’m not spending time reading a salon article, but I’m willing to bet money that their definition of “repeat misinformer” is total bullshit.
Poverty is actually a quite weak predictor of crime rates once you condition on demographic factors such as percent single-parent households.
> putting that time toward actually cleaning up neighborhoods or tutoring underprivileged youth The US has tried again and again these naively optimistic programs targeting “neighborhoods” and “the youth”, to no avail…
You’re describing monetization, not a pyramid scheme.
The biggest gaslighting of this whole affair has been the political adherence to clearly insane propositions like forcing everyone to wear masks (questionable in any case) but allowing cloth masks (which do, at best,…
> Jane Street isn't that successful. Their historical record is very good.
Yes. I’m not even using their wifi box.
Affinity’s iPad UI is quite nice and relatively full-featured as well.
Why would they have dumped billions into developing these vaccines in the first place if they expected to just lose the IP rights right away anyway? You might be able to save a small number of extra people this time by…
Last time I looked into this, Apple actually used quite a bit of clever crypto engineering to protect user privacy. It's not just a big database of locations that Apple keeps.
Do you support the right of businesses to refuse business to homosexuals, for example, on religious grounds? If you come back with “homosexuals are legally a protected class”, that’s evading the question and…
The evidence is quite clear that going to college doesn’t actually improve life outcomes very much at all. We mistakenly thought it did for a while, but what was actually happening is the people who were going to…
What in the world do you mean? Lightning has excellent privacy; payments are onion-routed.
> Those things, in America, trend disproportionately White. It's funny how people never bring up how this effect is shockingly disproportionately mediated by Jews and not, like, Appalachian or midwestern whites.
If they weren't using this as an opportunity to pump some shitcoin, this might make sense. Bitcoin Lightning integration would be much less suspect, for example, because A) it's already well established B) they're not…
Ideas don't need to be correct to be adaptive.
How dare you! We need state-run pre-school to get those kids sitting at desks even earlier!
I really doubt that any industrial-chemical process will have a net better environmental or economic impact than, say, re-foresting desert areas.
Sure, in a magical world where we suddenly switch to a perfect utopian medical system, the problems will go away. But none of the concrete proposals in this thread will make the problems go away.
My evidence is that I've lived in countries with market-based healthcare (Thailand, Mexico) and countries with socialized healthcare (Canada, UK), and the market-based healthcare is always infinitely better. My wife had…
The factors that cause America to spend a lot of money on healthcare don't go away when you switch to a single payer. If anything, they get worse. Reform needs to happen elsewhere; for example, we need to stop using…
This website is full of overconfident midwits - nothing new. I appreciate that you're still willing to put in the effort to show them the evidence. Unfortunately, I'm at the point where I don't think it's worth it; it's…