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Isn't this just Chaos Theory, Calculus, and the problem of Jerks (third derivative of position in regards to time)? When you slice complex reality into smaller pieces, within the s…

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In sum humans do not always optimize towards one variable like success / fitness. Instead they optimize to many things like money, prestige, power, security, and so on. Much like y…

How so? The cost of soybeans is a lot cheaper to make an artificial burger (once they get the R&D down) than feeding the same soybeans to a cow and getting roughly 1:10 the calorie…

People will often make choices of accepting an inferior product for vastly cheaper price. So yeah it is possible it is about how many choices you have and what are the different co…

The illusion of control. It is the same reason people doomscroll on twitter hoping more information will somehow how change the result. Our brains, all human brains, are not ration…

Mental Illness as defined by the DSM as not thriving. You can have the symptoms of a disorder, but if you are thriving then you do not have the disorder. >It can seriously mess som…

There is a good video done by Philosophy Tube about this subject (it also talks about Jordan Peterson.) Some words are inherently subjective, like we can't define what "healthy" is…

Yes it is likely trade, for we know these time periods had some great surges of trade compared to times before.

Yept the "Middle Way" is both a rejection of pure asceticism and pure hedonoism, but a middle path between extremes. Material things can be used temporary but the goal is "to unfoc…

Sigh that "Koan" is not literally about killing the Buddha. It is recognizing the divinity is not in an idol or image, including other people. That strand of Buddhism says enlighte…

Forking the LibGen to save 20% of file sizes will be counterproductive. Yes you save some storage but the network effects is more important, for people willing to contribute to "th…

>the Supreme Court is not particularly fond of the 9th Sorry but this is FUD you see going around. The most overturned court circuits are as follow. 6th Circuit - 87 percent; 11th …

Agreed generally but as my own memory of reading these research papers and what wikipedia points out that lactase persistence is not caused by a single gene but there are several d…

Kroger is the second largest supermarket in the US (after Walmart) that has many subsidiaries grocery chains that they have acquired in its 100+ years of existence. Pretty much Kro…

How is this different from the Miller-Urey experiments from the 1950s ? I am asking this for someone who is more knowledgeable and technical than me. "To my understanding" ? Those …

This is big news when the Facebook employees we are referring to starting salary is 120k a year and the median employee is 240k a year. [Note many people who work for facebook are …

The bigger thing is a mismatch between the employees of facebook and the management. These weekly meetings happen all the time, what is different is now the employees are recording…

>The world of medicine will be in trouble without our system, because govetnments are really not that good at innovation. Medicine is not like building a factory, completely differ…

All of this is true, but it was the SoftBank capital flow that made this all possible until now. The reconinging and reform would have happened sooner with WeWork if SoftBank was n…

It is a public library and they are already putting it out a display open to the public (instead of keeping it in records in the back.) They are also making available other Milton …

Purdue knowed about the drug was highly addictive in 2003. The raw components in Oxycontin were known to be highly addictive before the drug hit the market. Oxycontin was supposed …

The point of this is misdirection sometimes known as cooking the books, where you may have financial documents that say money exist, but they documents are separate from another se…