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If you think facts persuade people then you do not understand how people work. That delusion is what is frustrating you. Facts require three things: - observation (the temperature …

These results are not ergodic. ensemble average != time-series average. In order to make this claim you need to follow the same people and survey them throughout their lives, as op…

Bitcoin is a public ledger. I dont understand how a zero-privacy blockchain would be the biggest enabler of ransomware? Isnt TCP/IP a bigger enabler? SHA-256 came out of the NSA. D…

Hustlers gotta hustle.

I just mean that generally when supply is limited and demand goes up (which I think is the case in the UK as well), prices rise.

I heard there are more realtors in the US than listings. That'll do it.

Ah that's new to me thanks! I recently saw numbers showing something different (wish I could find that link), and I was remembering this interview from 2019 - https://www.tvo.org/v…

Not in July :P It can get very hot (>40C) & sticky in the valley. Can be very cold in Jan/Feb, but often too cold to snow so it can be more sunny than say Toronto, and there's a to…

US has one of the best demographics in the Western world. Millennials are larger than Boomers. Plus the US can use immigration to decide what population they want. Countries not bu…

It's not meant to be bigoted (that's you mind reading) - it's meant to give context to non Canadians. But I probably should have said "Quebec Families".

Good luck. With a shrunken generation of family to help due to 30+ years of one-child policy, and almost no social support (China does not really have socialized healthcare in prac…

In a lot of ways Ottawa is hard to beat. But dont tell anyone, the "boring" reputation is a feature not a bug. Watching the value of my house double recently suggests the word is g…

Belarus controls 20% of the world's potash, so nope. Geopolitics is much more a game of Go than Call of Duty.

Ah so it's worse for poor people than rich people. Unintended consequences I guess.

Does this not just drive people to organize their finances to have less income and more capital gains? Sweden has a Gini coefficient of 0.867. Only Russia and The Netherlands are h…

As a web developer, I might have billed 3x more hours thanks to IE 6. :P I hated it but it made me a lot of money for many years, mostly thanks to governments requiring IE 6 suppor…

How is it not an agreed-upon way to settle IOUs? It's not only this, but it is this as well.

You're mind reading.

Kind of like when you create money:credit out of thin air when you run a tab at a bar. But with code.

Your self-admitted lack of understanding is not evidence there's no value in Bitcoin.

That's just obtuse. It’s clearly not selling user data at all. When I buy FB ads I cannot not get any user data. I can pick they type of user I want to see my advert, but I cannot …

Right, Facebook’s ability to make money comes from how well it keeps user data secret, so it can sell abstracted access to advertisers.

I might gave this wrong, but only the users saw their own data in the ads they were served. Signal can choose lots of parameters for who should see their ads, but they dont get to …