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> Episode 0012

> Street Scenes — Mr. Hooper hands Js out to the kids

Early Sesame Street seems a lot more exciting

This is just patently false. How are you extrapolating a high ranking for healthcare quality from the survival rate of a single disease? The US spends exponentially money per capita yet has lower life expectancy, infant mortality, childbirth safety, etc. than countries like China, Estonia, and Poland.

I don’t know where you could possibly be getting your information from but here is some reading for you.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/u-s-pays-more...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

What is your definition of “ranks quite highly?” The US ranks near or dead last among developed countries on access to care, outcomes, efficiency, equity, etc.

In addition, the 50s were a period of high wealth equality even though there were less social programs. After the Great Compression ended crime began to increase.

Spending != Quality/effectiveness of care

What the article does not consider is US police expenditure. In many major cities policing is ~30% of general fund expenditure. If US police expenditure was a country’s military budget, it would astonishingly rank 3rd worldwide.

Hiring more police is not the simple solution, there needs to be a fundamental cultural shift among American police away from militarization.

You cannot liken internet comment sections to individually selected letters to the editor. We have seen judicial precedent that social media functions more as a public forum than editorialized publications. It is an impossible burden for websites to individually review every single comment - it would be unimaginably damaging to freedom of speech and the dissemination of information worldwide.

That is not what free speech means. Why should the publisher be liable for the posts of their commenters? If that were the case worldwide, we would essentially see the end of communication on the internet.

Calling 3AC responsible for the larger market decline in crypto is incredibly sensationalist. Total market cap had already declined 50% by the time 3AC became insolvent.

Why are you complaining about morons on Reddit who have no effect on real world politics when moderate Dems have had political control for most of recent history? Its funny that you’re not blaming “everyone from a more centrist/moderate viewpoint” for their own failure of doing nothing to codify Roe for the last 50 years.

If you spend enough time in the hacking/privacy sphere you’ll hear about gag orders that have been (allegedly) been placed on major tech companies that prevent them from disclosing major backdoors or taps that 3 letter agencies have put in place.

Plus all of the fiber backbones are tapped anyways.

> one that works to support the millionaire and billionaire class

So both main parties?

And all of this contributes to extremely low intellectual diversity at Ivy Leagues. I have the pleasure of frequently interacting with Harvard students and it is consistently true that they are always unremarkable individuals. These schools simply breed a managerial class that is capable of grinding hard and following orders.

You can use a decentralized exchange like Bisq but liquidity is horrible. Hopefully more people make the switch.

Unionisation as a default state of affairs is what prevents exploitation. Join a union.

As a freshman in college, strategic use of alcohol was probably the best social decision I ever made. Safe, moderate drinking before socializing got rid of my anxiety and made me tons of diverse friends that I still keep to this day.

I don't think you can categorically place Musk into any political ideology. To be honest I see him like I saw myself as a teenager, whiffling in between different beliefs constantly.

Agreed. Modern cars with adaptive cruise control and lane keep assist are a breeze to drive if you maintain awareness of your surroundings and practice confident defensive driving.

Chaos and open air drug markets? Violent crime has decreased the last 2 years. Is the writer living in the same San Francisco as me?

We aren’t special. As a hedonistic utilitarian, I look forward to an AI someday replacing us and experiencing the universe in a greater capability than humans ever could.

AFAIK no, unless you know somebody at Meta. Their support is non-existent (literally). When my Instagram account was disabled, I was forced to contact an acquaintance of mine who was a former C-level at Facebook to get it back.

It is not reassuring whatsoever that one article 2 years ago says that we have just managed to avoid near human extinction. Sure there will still be people alive after 3.9 degrees of warming, but I for one wouldn’t like that very much.

This is just completely wrong. Just from personal experience I can say that Tokyo, Amsterdam, Paris, and Florence are perfectly livable without a car.

The best class I ever took in uni had 3 examinations taken by all students simultaneously, with variations between each exam making cheating nearly impossible. There was no attendance taken, all course materials were posted online, and the only grading for the entire class was the exams. I showed up to 2 classes the entire semester yet still learned all of the material and obtained an A.

At least for certain STEM classes, I think this should be the norm.

Its definitely a cultural thing. The task would be extremely easy in any Indian city, but they probably don’t realize it would be near impossible in the West. Same with task 3, it would bankrupt Americans to pay for somebody else’s medical bills.

I can’t wait to hear what he thinks of the 90% of people who will be affected by climate change not living in developed first world countries.

Probably still “Who cares?”

No. Crypto consumes less than 1% of global energy production.

I think you’ve gotten things a little confused. A governmental “high tech panopticon” already exists, and it’s used to target activists.

It genuinely feels as if we are now beginning to watch the end of the world as we know it. In the coming years massive swaths of the world population will live in areas consistently above wet-bulb temperature. I predict in the next 10 years we will see heat waves resulting in deaths not in the hundreds but in the tens of thousands.

Just look at what happened when Gaddafi tried to create a gold backed dinar.