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> growth is not a function of resources This is a bold claim: I do not believe that if all remaining fossil fuels had vanished overnight that growth would remain identical.

This is, not to put too fine a point on it, crank science. Opening up the linked document, the DOI fails to resolve, the paper investigates pH variations in urine during tide cycle…

An intervention on the household someone is raised in is not the same as an intervention on race. This is part of what it means when people say racism is a structural problem: peop…

This looks interesting as an approach to relating schema to data types. One aspect that feels very counter-intuitive/unidiomatic is that, if I understand correctly, in your example…

This is not an argument, and you have provided no evidence for your claims. There are numerous studies, and indeed meta-analyses of these[1][2] indicating that cash transfers can h…

It is a fine form of forward secrecy: past messages aren't compromised by later keys being compromised. The sender/receiver ratchets essentially provide a notion of what a session …

This is similar to arguing in favour of the existence of dictatorships, as not having them restricts the choices of what kind of society people can choose to move to. The point is …

The employees can democratically decide how they want to run things. They can choose to issue stock, they can choose other people to make decisions about the business e.g. appoint …

> If the story is "all companies must be fully employee-owned workers' cooperatives", then first, note that you are calling for a restriction on workers' rights: they have to be gi…

This is not a place for your transphobia, and at the very least violates the "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity." I'd have f…

> Expanding on that, from 1800 to 1914 the US had zero net inflation. Zero. This is simply false [1]. [1]: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...

That is the argument you are making, and I struggle to see in what world being published in Nature is "being suppressed". They make the claim "vaccines that pose 50% higher excess …

Your first study does not show what you claim it does, or at least it is a gross simplification. These statistics are at the 10 per million scale i.e 0.001%, which is smaller than …

I'm not sure we have the same understanding of emergence, here (and I'm not going to insist on being precise). I would think being emergent has something to do with a structure bei…

There are arguments that the Amazon is pushing down warehouse worker salaries [0,1] (i.e. $15/hr is certainly not the highest warehouse worker wage). I read this campaign mainly as…

In the general case, you can compress a sequence of N biased coin flips with arithmetic coding. For a coin with known bias, this compression is (essentially) optimal and will there…

I think these two sentences are different: it's analogous to treating a symptom vs treating an underlying condition.