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I think it’s obviously a mix, however, an algorithm that maximizes purely for attention or time on site causes a lot of issues. Sometimes people are seeking something that is benef…

I think the main problem of all these “alternative” sites is that there really are just a fuckton of shitty people waiting to go in at the very beginning. So even if people have le…

The problem is we incorrectly assume that if we build something other cultures will just use it. Really we would need to build a good waste system in a really fucked area, then use…

At most stores each individual piece of produce has a scannable sticker on it.

Re-using glass containers is actually an extremely low chance of contamination. We have had easy glass sterilization techniques for a long time (most dishwashers have a sanitizatio…

It isn’t exactly victim blaming when the HOA wouldn’t authorize the repairs (several articles looked into this). You can’t just go do the repairs without approval in these building…

They also do it via loans, so instead of paying aide every year, they just hold loans over their heads to get those countries to fall in line.

I think a lot of people are doing this same thing (I know several personally). Getting 2 hrs back a day is amazing, and after having it for a year it is really hard to give up. > I…

The problem is that the req to live within 100mi doesn’t allow workers to fully engage in location arbitrage in the way the workers would like. I think most people want a better wo…

I think it’s tough to assign value like this. People argued that the internet had no real value for basically all of the late 90s.

It came to fruition because it’s creating vast new wealth in a fashion that is directly competitive to old wealth. It’s also easy because climate change is a real, pressing existen…

But should we focus our efforts banning things that won’t change the way people have to live? That seems like an easy way to fail. Further, Bitcoin is not the main issue. BTC being…

The main argument against crypto is actually an argument against the way we generate power. If our power generation wasn’t so dirty, this argument against crypto goes away. Banning…

I mean, this type of thinking was applied to the early internet as well. “No one will ever buy anything over the internet, people want stores!” The same lack of imagination is lead…

I fully agree. Philosophy is full of irregular thinkers whose only common trait seems to be the willingness to go into absurd depth about an idea. What is always interesting to me …

Pain (among other experiences) exists as a gradient compared against both your average experience and any outlier experiences (good or bad). A result of living in a more comfortabl…

Two things; Adding more energy to a system doesn’t tend to produce (calm, sunny, scattered showers). I believe mild weather is a low energy outcome. Also, humans like predictable w…

The 1.4 to 2.0C range is where we are going to start seeing large scale crop failures. Also massive fish die offs in the ocean. Unless we drastically change trajectories, this will…

Effectively this is going to require massive and coordinated action. We are going to have to rapidly develop and share the tech, and scale it quickly. It is also insane how long hu…

While the co2 levels and temps have been higher in the past, rate of change is the most important factor here. You incorrectly assess the risk by ignoring the fact that it took ten…

I would think it's because, while physical pain readily heals, psychological pain doesn't seem to heal nearly as effectively.

While solitary confinement isn't considered torture today, there are psychologists who, after studying the effects of such confinement, have started trying to get it labeled as a f…

That would be expecting someone who is 19 in the late 2000s to actually read a newspaper.

Just because some people younger than Manning have a better grasp of where they stand on the war and its morality doesn't mean that Manning actually had, or should have had, that s…

I don't think it's necessary that he "know or should have known" what he was getting into. We have shitloads of people with top secret clearance in this country. In order to view c…