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I am terrified of a hurricane knocking out power throughout Florida followed by even a mild heatwave. Nursing homes could barely handle keeping their staff from going to the bars and getting Covid- are we to believe they are prepared to deal with hundreds of cheaply built old-person dorms turned into sous vides?

Having taken some of the classes, they summarize them exceedingly well.

Skype was sidelined because it had a worse user experience then Zoom, which literally "just works".

They are almost certainly a vicious cycle of TBI increasing the chance for TBI-related* behaviors in the future. (*either getting or receiving).

Why is Russia or China even trying to take out our satellites at this point? We have SpaceX, guys. We can put replacements up whenever we want to. How about the Russians start figuring out how to use a launch system that isn't worrying about whether or not its saved up enough for retirement?

This post is the true meaning of "grift". Anybody that talks about reserve currencies as some sort of military tool instead of because it's the best financial instrument is showing themselves to be deeply disconnected from reality.

Here are the things that make up a reserve currency:

1. Floated

2. No capital controls

3. Respect property rights

4. Have a bond market big enough

5. Have global trust

6. Be willing to have trade deficits

7. Stop export priority mercantilism

8. Have a currency market big enough

Only the US dollar satisfies all of these rules.

Why wouldn't the pay-off in money not be worth it? You can charge a "responsibility premium" to local hipster stores.

> the later is more neutral and part of basic journalist work, especially if the exposed is a public persona.

This is where the problem comes in-- best practice on the Internet is to let people who want to be anonymous stay anonymous. This is analog world culture butting into digital world culture, and in this case _digital world culture is right_, and also a case of the NYTimes being hypocritical.

The guy who wrote the NYTimes Resistance piece is allowed to stay anonymous, but a guy who writes about the efficacy of different depression medications isn't? [0]

It's ridiculous.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house...

Matthias's beginner page is on their Wiki![0]

[0]https://woodgears.ca/beginner/

This is where education becomes a poverty issue- if you're poor, you're often not well-incentivized to make sure you kid goes to school. He can do work, or she can be married off, or a dozen other opportunities. School is seen as an investment with heavily, heavily diminishing returns. Imagine trying to explain to a person that can't read, and who has gotten by fine, why his child needs to read. "So he can be rich?" "But ah, I have my farm and he will work on that farm etc etc etc"

There are a lot of good pop science books to read about the history of life on earth.

"The Ends of the World" is probably the best one. "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs" is also a good one, and it doesn't focus purely on the dinosaurs as the title suggests, but about how we know how they evolved and existed.

It literally isn't quality. It's a hate band wagoning post written by a thought influencer for the clout.

A recession is technically two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. If we're able to beat this thing by June, we might be able to beat a "technical" recession. Something like -10% GDPg/quarter followed by 1% GDPg/quarter. Not technically a recession!

1) We can expect unemployment in the teen %s. Some economists think we can get as high as 30%.

2) It will be worse

3) Consensus is a big V-shaped dip, assuming that the virus is contained, managed, tested and tracked.

4) Stimulus bills, debt relief-- things they've all, for the most part, already done.

Romulans = Space Haradrim?

Really it doesn't make sense to connect these different things directly, because they point towards higher archetypes that we have embedded in our collective consciousness.

Why do people who bring up the flu not seem to understand that if your company is big and your office is white collar that everybody there pretty much already has the flu shot if they're not a dumbass?

The protons as you call them are a fun quirk of the science fiction genre, "How do we explain the Great Stagnation"? Fine Structure by Sam Hughes is the first book I've ever seen do it.

Is that really Soviet style? Does that have a name or book or wikipedia article describing it?

Definitely not a "Trump" problem. Obama wouldn't have started it either. There is no stomach on either part of the parties to upset the banks.

Well obviously you wouldn't do Nietzche (though I think you probably could). Meditations is probably the book to read in those cases.

One solution might be a "federated reddit". Hacker News is essentially just a subreddit run by YC, so getting people/organizations/interest groups to run their own reddit forums is probably a good idea. It would let each community figure out its own income stream and not worry about advertisers running wild or the entire thing being bought out by the Chinese.

The economics of public transit essentially ask for government involvement: operational costs are almost never paid for by fare prices, but instead are essentially subsidized. If the bus/train lines are doing well, you often get huge clusters of malls/retail/commercial buildings surrounding them, and they of course reap the benefits without paying any extra costs.

However, there are things like the Dollar Vans in New York that do actually fulfill the niche. They're also sometimes illegal.

"YouListen"

Podcasts and podcast advertisers know we can skip them, they accept this. If they see a lot of users skip ALL of them, it isn't okay.

The game is good once you get the hang of it, but there are bursts of micromanaging followed by long droughts of waiting for shit to happen. At max speed, the game will do 1 day/3 minutes. Most of the Steam achievements take about 60-100 days to do, which means 3-5 hours per game with lots of time spent not interacting much. Of course, to get to a "full fledged" colony it can take as many as 10 hours of gameplay, which again is mostly waiting for your commands to happen.

Also, because its a Paradox game, the interface is ass.

If you like the genre of games, this is one to lose a couple of dozen hours to. If you just think "oh, Mars is cool" its probably good to skip or download a mod that lets you zoom time faster.

Shouldn't stock buy backs actually lower the valuation of the company (as cash leaves)?

South Korea achieved democracy when their GDP per capita was $4k. China's GDP per capita is approaching $9k. When will they be rich enough that they yearn for democracy?

Fresh water is a scarce resource, but only because it is required to feed the enormous number of plants needed to feed an enormous amount of livestock.

There isn't really such a thing as "unbiased" in climate unless you're an outright AGQ denier. There are a lot of different models, and the model you choose will give you different results. People have different foci- some people, like David Wallace Wells in the Uninhabitable Earth look at and warn about the most dangerous model. Others, like the IPCC, try to look at them broadly.

Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm is a great read. Very basic.

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken is a good follow up for understanding what is necessary and what can be done.

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen explains how historically Carbon has controlled the Earth's climate system.

That's my best list for "unbiased".

You'd guess that there is a trade off between "maintenance" and "insurance" and that a lot of people/corporations go with insurance.

I honestly thought the entire Metal Band B-Plot was just to get that pun into the name.