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Thanks, I'll look into that product. Less costly, but still far from the $2 scenario. If hardware keys got to a super low price point, or even handed out for free or bundled with n…

A bit of a tangent but do you have a view on prices for hardware security keys like YubiKey? For private use they're a pricey option, especially if you get a few backup keys. Could…

Good read! I wish we had a shorter name for "breaking down tasks". Perhaps taskspec, short for "task specifying". Or taskdev?

Both the Economist's text and the Fraunhofer press release focus mostly on the benefit of not using certain refrigerants. But for in home AC use noise reduction might be a much str…

> If you mean, "if punishing people for crimes increases the number of crimes, would you still support it?" then my answer is yes As a thought experiment how many more murders per …

But you or someone you care about could become a murder victim in both packages. Indeed the likelihood for that unwanted outcome is higher in the second package. I prefer the polic…

"justice ... Empiricism fails us here, we're arguing over values." Values can depend on descriptive background assumptions and in such cases value arguments can improve by making p…

> if there was "evidence" that not punishing murderers was the "best thing for society" (in terms of rehabilitation, crime rate, etc) would you support that policy? Yes, if the "be…

They advocate a whole-foods plant-based diet. Meats/cheeses made out of plants aren't whole foods though. Generally we have to think critically and scrutinize sources cited and if …

Oh I see. The linked paper uses vegetarianism in a wider sense that covers that too.

Abuse is only one among several other arguments presented for ethical vegetarianism. For example see https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol19/iss1/1/

> fake meak was proven to be non-healhtly Here [0] is a series of nine short videos (with text transcripts and links to all scientific sources) on plant-based meat substitutes' hea…

From the linked Calibre FAQ: > Why doesn’t calibre let me store books in my own folder structure? > ... a search/tagging based interface is superior to folders ... > ... much more …

Hence my sentences 2, 3 and 4.

Your sequestration suggestion should be compared to the most effective non-meat alternative, which is land area effective plant based protein production combined with reforestation…

We can eat soy - I had a tasty tofu bowl for lunch. The land used for growing soy animal feed can be also used to grow other plants we can eat directly or after preparation. That r…

> Bitcoin is a way for regular citizens to (mostly) keep the government’s hands off their wealth. What is the evidence for the "regular citizens" claim? Is there data on which soci…

I wasn't aware Wayback Machine had a comparison tool, thank you. I like how its comparison picker view indicates degrees of change relative to a selected snapshot, e.g. https://web…

SEP is the leading encyclopedia in professional philosophy. I wish the site had a basic diff view e.g. a toggle to highlight all new/modified words in a text since last revision.

> That's not at all how a steel man argument works With steelmanning I mean "the act of taking a view, or opinion, or argument and constructing the strongest possible version of it…

> Put simply, if redistribution worked, we’d see poverty rates decrease rather than stagnate or increase. That is what we see, in other countries with more robust (and more redistr…

I have in the past read a few short pieces by Sowell. Impression: weak normative reasoning, shaky empirical claims. I'd be happy if you steelman Sowell for me. Point to at most 10 …

It does. This text picks it apart concisely. https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2021/03/01/the-success-...

Short clip of a customer entering a competing swedish cashless store via BankID app https://youtu.be/Rbm_puP4PgA?t=13 Swedes also use the BankID app for online interactions with he…

I wonder if that behaviour is misconduct under the rules of the researcher's university. It seems at least highly questionable for a university employed researcher to, in effect, f…