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unfortunately, not that straightforward in valve's case. they created a nasty gambling system with their loot boxes that exists outside controlled casino environments and which imp…

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> there's a fair point to be made that Polymarket and similar sites are not fundamentally different from e.g. sports betting. not fundamentally different as in "live or die" you me…

by now [1], yes. but in my experience not a very popular view on HN. expect downvotes. [1] i find peter thiel's speech at libertopia in 2010 a great early reflection of that shift:…

> I keep thinking about the version of me from a few years ago. He was worse at almost everything. Worse writer, worse thinker, worse at making things. Nobody really knew him and n…

there is a bypass to the Danish Straits: the Kiel Canal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel_Canal

a surprising amount of people disagree with that!

> Yudkowsky and Soares maintain that if anyone builds AGI, everyone dies. One could equally maintain that if nobody builds it, everyone dies. In fact, most people are already dead.…

i believe the self-balancing properties are a core aspect of any (boat) lift, whether rotating or not.

i love zulip for so many things, and in particular the topic-first paradigm. and as long as it doesn't offer voice messages i keep going back to signal (or similar). for small grou…

i'm supporting a small org with their decision making and feedback systems. reading this post, i see that the founder (already in his 60s) is in many ways that "Wolf" as described …

intrigued by this. i've spent a lot of timer over the last years with very committed nonviolence folks, and i keep wondering about the conditions for this to work. can you recommen…

I've spent a lot of time with people who seem themselves operating within ML Kings lineage and have their lives committed to this kind of nonviolence work, and they defintely opera…

> I have read very many people claim this and exactly zero reasons provided by them why I should believe it is true. could you share some sources where people have discussed this? …

I think the specific condition here is "change that someone else is willing to prevent using violence". I guess that is not present too often during everyday life.

desktop only: https://fraidyc.at/

I don't think they were thinking of "no government", rather something like "government working in support of capital" (see 2008 financial crisis bank bail-outs; enforcing private o…

I think (haven't actually watched it, but on my watchlist) this is exactly what the movie "The Corporation" (2003) [1] lays out. [1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0379225

Same for me

Are there any studies out there that managed to replicate their results? Anyone aware of any they could share?

Interesting, I went a little down the rabbit hole. And it's not what I'm actually looking for. I'm looking for controlled studies with a falsifiable hypothesis and a detailed secti…

Am I understanding you correctly in that for you this isn't controversial, because it's clear from today's/some future's standpoint that RV does work? Do you have any other sources…

Do you have any sources for this?

Totally. A conflict engagement rather than conflict avoidance culture is definitely helpful, so that resentment doesn't build up, and information can flow more easily. And yes, apa…

I'm living with my partner and her brother and family and another family who are friends of ours in a house (which has three apartments). We moved there to live together (and conti…