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You might be interested in https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/giving-people-money-helped-... which talks about the studies showing low effects for just giving money to Americans. It …

> what's the point to change the platform Money. From https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/i10p4m/surv... , Substack gave him a "very very generous offer in terms of ho…

Not the OP, but when an investor acquires more than 5% of a stock, they have a limited time to disclose it. Elon disclosed his Twitter stock acquisition too late (20 days after ins…

Even if it became illegal, qualified immunity would protect the offical who made the threats, so officials will likely never be personally impacted by breaking the law and so it'll…

Western society says that some decisions are only able to be made by people who are old enough. If you think about other decisions like gambling at a casino, joining the army or pu…

Per https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/long-covid-much-more-t... , it sounds like long term physical and mental impacts can stay with people who get hospitalized by the flu. Why…

The best I can find is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(poker_bot) , but it sounds like it was limited to a few demonstrations.

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, since I'm not that well educated about this. Why can't they sue the police department or some similar body instead of the individuals? My und…

According to posters on the subreddit for the blog, he emailed people who had been to in-person meetups for the blog. https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hbk52q/psa_..…

From their page when you click apply: > NB! Please be aware that e-Residency does not confer citizenship, tax residency, residence or right of entry to Estonia or to the European U…

I've heard that some minor internet celebrities will call their police department when moving to a new area to warn about potential swatting calls. You could try to do the same, bu…

IQ might be a better predictor, but the linked paper says it's not a far better one: "The results demonstrate that intelligence is a powerful predictor of success but, on the whole…

Hmm, do you think there are some things you can say that would classify as an action you could be arrested for rather than an idea? For example, yelling "Fire!" in a crowded buildi…

http://www.businessinsider.com/americans-are-drinking-less-s... says 41 gallons per capita in 2014. Converted, it's 0.4252 liters per day, so a liter per day is more than double th…

I feel a bit dumb asking this, but your explanation doesn't make it clear to me why you can't think of a bind on Maybe as a flatMap on a List with 0 (Nothing) or 1 (Just) elements.…

Is this a case of a more specialized tool (with fewer but more focused features)? For example, you can view email in vim, and I'm sure you'd get better performance than Gmail for l…

This seems strange. If you view page source on this comments page while logged in to Hacker News, does the source show you as not logged in? When I do that, my source contains the …

Where do you draw the line for how much you can cut costs and sacrifice a little bit of productivity or retraining? For example, I often see programmers talk about having proper to…

For what it's worth, I have a counter anecdote. I go to a university where for some computer science courses, your labs are on computers with a Linux desktop environment. Other stu…

You can add these shortcuts into your browser. On firefox, you can right click on a search box and specify some character(s). I'm sure there's a similar process on chrome too.

You can add these shortcuts into your browser. On firefox, you can right click on a search box and specify some character(s). I'm sure there's a similar process on chrome too.

At this point, I've set up search keywords in firefox to do this. Now, for example, I type "gi rabbit" for pictures of rabbits. It's nice because they also can be used as shortened…

Pascal's Wager ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager ) is also about a small but likely downside with a potentially large but unlikely upside. Do you think it's analogous …

I thought Klathmon was pointing out say that they an attacker could say that they just mashed on the keyboard and that would be good enough for the fallible human on the other end …