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Russia was hardly ever saturated and is now aging and depopulating. However false or not false it may be it clearly doesn't apply here.

> contrary, there’s strong evidence of no reduction in average sleeping time and perhaps even an increase in sleeping time over this approximate time period

Followed by a source snippet looking at not average sleep time but prevalence of very short and very long sleep durations - outliers. Ie doesn't necessarily, or even likely, have anything to say on the subject.

For such a meticulous takedown repeating exactly the kind of mistake you're criticizing seems really sloppy. And the alarm bells over "harm" seem overkill and somewhat shrill.

That said, the book definitely has issues and it's good someone tries to point them out. I just feel this overshoots.

That doesn't at all square with the actual data we have though. Why look at a "controlled experiment" instead of a wealth of real-life data?

And why exactly would someone go to all this trouble instead of just throttling that region of space? Surely you don't mean to say it would all run on a single chip?

And if this was a simulation there'd presumably be a purpose to it and once heavy computation emerges the entity running the sim would throw more resources at this interesting phenomenon, not try to get rid of it.

It'd be like "each time the neural net achieved AGI, the humans tore it down to refocus on the real goal, bombproof traffic sign recognition".

But their very point was that the simulation wouldn't have to compute every single individual particle, only the "interesting" ones. The rest would be approximated to whatever level required.

I basically agree with you but I can't see how your argument applies here.

> According to observation capable at the time, it seemed to make sense, with a few little oddities.

As bluGill says, according to observation right now it _still_ makes sense. With a few little oddities.

Your view appears to be one of relativity refuting, rather than further confirming (as far as the scales studied at that time) classical physics.

You cannot compare it to something allowing FTL. There's a major difference between "we don't know everything" and "everything we know is wrong".

No, that's called caffeinate.

Only with a not-yet in effect law, which has been months in the making, will measures even approaching a full lockdown be legal in Sweden. An actual full lockdown would require constitutional level changes which has to go through multiple administrations before coming into effect.

There literally hasn't been many possible measures to take beyond those taken.

The country is also more devolved into regional administration than the neighbors. So yes, there are major differences in legislation.

This is weirdly missing from the rah-rah coming from both sides - it's not even really a tactic, but the outcome of our laws.

As bizarre as this may sound to your generation there are, in fact, such things as standalone jokes.

Uh why would it be on there? It doesn't have ads, and no user generated content. Boundlessly maximizing individual engagement is hardly in their interest, whereas with the ones on the list it's literally the entire business plan.

It's just that I remember a nice brisk 9k walk in hills which took 90mins. In 35c heat, with malaria. Main point here is I wouldn't describe myself as anywhere near fit. And "most people" is not a healthy benchmark, sadly.

For what it's worth I generally don't work laying down, am also around 6ft, weigh a lot less and would categorize your 10k pace as a brisk walk. Set some goals and you'll be below 100kg and 60min in no time.

> e.g. the police can't use it to identify peaceful protesters with those characteristics

It can be used to (mis) identify them if the higher error rates are accepted. The problem isn't really the tech, but its application.

> what’s the issue with “globalist”??

In a certain context it just means jews. And they didn't write racist soap dispenser, they wrote "racist soap dispenser".

Do look inwards.

You can use a credit card as a loan card, sure, by taking cash out an ATM or not paying your entire balance at the end of the month. And yes, loads of people obviously do that, and that's a trick.

But can you really say it's a sleight of hand that soda isn't called 'liquid obesity, period.' by its manufacturers even though that's the result if used to the extent they'd want you to?

Not opposite term, opposite usage.

  char* inflation = austrian? monetary: price

Yup. As greek to me as the paper is at least it makes very clear what it sets out to achieve and why (and when) it differs. I suppose it's implicit but I feel article really ought to explain that in the demonstrated case of heavy bias, few attempts and fixed, coarse steps there is of course no advantage - apart from the stick in ground one could also best its resolution off 0b1000000 and ++/--.

It's a nice explainer on polarization but tries to be more than that and doesn't achieve it - but with further work (not in form of added caveats but rather a new approach to tying the two concepts together) I'm sure it could.

"In theoretical investigation there is only one meaning that can rationally be attached to the expression Inflation: an increase in the quantity of money (in the broader sense of the term, so as to include fiduciary media as well), that is not offset by a corresponding increase in the need for money (again in the broader sense of the term), so that a fall in the objective exchange-value of money must occur." - Also your guy

Even Mises acknowledges there are two parts to the system and that it's, in the end, about relative pace. If that is so, the phenomenon must still be able to occur regardless of how frozen your supply, just off the second variable.

"Our fringe school likes to use two common terms opposite from how everyone else does, hence you are wrong" isn't an actual argument, by the way.

It is not. https://hoaxeye.com/2018/01/19/nazi-cola/

No. Credit, as in implied future payment, literally does mean loan, and another meaning of the word (opposite of debit) is also what happens when you use a credit card - an intermediate credits the merchant account so you don't need a separate line of credit for each one.

You're making the same not-even-faulty assumption as the article author, that a word with several related meanings is somehow wrong or a trick or at all tough for the average person to comprehend.

Then again how does this differ from the mostly incremental updates 2 through 9? They had a naming strategy, changed it, and now seemingly reverted to the old one. I don't understand your reasoning.

1, partly 5) Who are you to be the arbiter of what is 'supposed' to make people popular? It doesn't work that way. Can you read the mind of Kristen Bell and know she acts out of fear?

2, 3) No guidance other than the whims of CEOs... oh and congress. How does that add up?

4) On a slippery slope from yellow journalism to...

I'm sorry for the low-effort post, but something like this is quite tricky to respond to. Much like your view of the thing you're railing against, any legit points you may have drown in a sea of outrage completely lacking perspective and full of non sequiturs.

> Corporations don't care about anything other than keeping the money coming in. So they will support any cause as long as it seems trendy.

Fair enough. But next time either read your own links or get better at obfuscating. Neither of them says what you imply.

Your points are all well and good, but given HK has never been a proper democracy it's hardly an appropriate example. This mixup, willful or not, makes your post come off really weird in my eyes.

> It's true, for humans, that it is simply not possible to be told how to ride a bike and then be good at riding a bike. No matter how carefully and completely you explain to a human what they will have to do, when you put them on a bike for the first time they will struggle.

I'm not sure that's automatically true. The way we learn riding bikes, as young children, yes of course. But someone who was already an expert skateboarder, inliner, equestrian, fighter pilot etc, somehow without ever having ridden a bike, likely wouldn't struggle. Balance, lack of fear and general trust in your instruments definitely transfers.

> to Colombia to Sweden

You appear to be somehow even more uninformed than they are. In no sense of the word has socialism been "tried" in these countries. FARC were Marxist guerillas and never came close to seizing power, and social democrats aren't democratic socialists aren't DDR-style socialists.

> The absence of firearms in the clash dates back to a 1996 agreement between the two sides that guns and explosives be prohibited along the disputed stretch of the border, to deter escalation.

The word mostly retains its historical (descriptive), not modern (pejorative) connotations when used in the context of history.

> Who is "we"?

Us, those not yet in your choir, I presume.

The market can set aside things (un)perfectly well if they turn out not to be adequately useful or worth it, in whatever sense of those words. Driving opinion by means of internet comments can be a perfectly valid, if rather useless, part of such consensus forming.

Whatever your ideology surely you can agree on the basic fact that most active use of BTC is still of a rather transient nature. In and out. This means participants generally (outside of passive saving-speculating) have little inherent need for high prices and the astronomical energy use that goes along.

Coiners of course want practically useful solutions, just not quite as much as they want to get richer.

And the link I referred to is in that article.