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If you think facts persuade people then you do not understand how people work. That delusion is what is frustrating you.

Facts require three things:

- observation (the temperature is 15°C),

- omission (the temp outside my home, omitting the rest of the universe), and

- trust (my thermometer is probably working).

Almost all disagreement about Facts is really about what we’re omitting & what we trust, not the observation.

These results are not ergodic.

ensemble average != time-series average.

In order to make this claim you need to follow the same people and survey them throughout their lives, as opposed to a group snapshot in time.

Bitcoin is a public ledger. I dont understand how a zero-privacy blockchain would be the biggest enabler of ransomware? Isnt TCP/IP a bigger enabler?

SHA-256 came out of the NSA. Didnt the FBI retrieve the Bitcoin from the pipeline ransomware attack? They have lots of tradecraft at their disposal that we cannot know of.

Hustlers gotta hustle.

I just mean that generally when supply is limited and demand goes up (which I think is the case in the UK as well), prices rise.

I heard there are more realtors in the US than listings.

That'll do it.

Ah that's new to me thanks! I recently saw numbers showing something different (wish I could find that link), and I was remembering this interview from 2019 - https://www.tvo.org/video/the-worlds-shrinking-problem

I found it interesting that the authors looking at the history of efforts to financially simulate birthrate found that it has never worked to reverse the decline. @21:15

Not in July :P It can get very hot (>40C) & sticky in the valley.

Can be very cold in Jan/Feb, but often too cold to snow so it can be more sunny than say Toronto, and there's a ton of outdoor activities nearby to enjoy like ski hills & trails, snowshoeing, and skating.

US has one of the best demographics in the Western world. Millennials are larger than Boomers. Plus the US can use immigration to decide what population they want. Countries not built on immigration cannot really do this in practice. see Japan.

It's not meant to be bigoted (that's you mind reading) - it's meant to give context to non Canadians. But I probably should have said "Quebec Families".

Good luck.

With a shrunken generation of family to help due to 30+ years of one-child policy, and almost no social support (China does not really have socialized healthcare in practice) there's no one to help take care of larger families. But there is a HUGE number of rapidly aging parents and grandparents to take care of.

Add a culture that puts accumulating wealth as the #1 virtue, and it becomes nearly impossible to reverse a low birth rate.

In Canada Quebec has been paying French families to have more kids for a very long time. Today Quebec has the lowest provincial birthrate in Canada.

In a lot of ways Ottawa is hard to beat.

But dont tell anyone, the "boring" reputation is a feature not a bug.

Watching the value of my house double recently suggests the word is getting out - although I get it that it's also that there's more realtors than listings, and of course money printer go Brrrr.

Belarus controls 20% of the world's potash, so nope.

Geopolitics is much more a game of Go than Call of Duty.

Ah so it's worse for poor people than rich people. Unintended consequences I guess.

Does this not just drive people to organize their finances to have less income and more capital gains?

Sweden has a Gini coefficient of 0.867. Only Russia and The Netherlands are higher - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_in...

As a web developer, I might have billed 3x more hours thanks to IE 6. :P

I hated it but it made me a lot of money for many years, mostly thanks to governments requiring IE 6 support. LOL

How is it not an agreed-upon way to settle IOUs? It's not only this, but it is this as well.

You're mind reading.

Kind of like when you create money:credit out of thin air when you run a tab at a bar. But with code.

Your self-admitted lack of understanding is not evidence there's no value in Bitcoin.

That's just obtuse. It’s clearly not selling user data at all. When I buy FB ads I cannot not get any user data. I can pick they type of user I want to see my advert, but I cannot know who they are.

If you have a FB account you can try this and see for yourself right now for a few bucks.

But maybe I'm wrong. Can tell me how they do sell user data?

Right, Facebook’s ability to make money comes from how well it keeps user data secret, so it can sell abstracted access to advertisers.

I might gave this wrong, but only the users saw their own data in the ads they were served. Signal can choose lots of parameters for who should see their ads, but they dont get to see who those people are.

How does Facebook "sell user data"?

When I buy ads on Facebook I cannot access any user's data.

Do they have another product offering where I can buy user data? I dont see anything like that.

"one of the biggest causes of stress in the workplace is a lack of decision-making power among workers."

You know what's also more stressful? Having to make more decisions in domains outside my circle of competence.

Give me total autonomy in my area, while also not burdening me with having to contribute to EVERY decision.

"Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists." Kevin Kelly

There are lots of very good techniques to do toon shading in Blender. Here's a few:

BEER NPR (MALT renderer) - https://blendernpr.org/beer/

Lightning Boy shader 2.0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fHZcnTFYEI

Procedural hatching and manga shaders - https://gumroad.com/l/tcKOI

Not ergodic. Just because "women still earn 18% less than their male counterparts" does NOT mean any one woman will earn 18% less.

Paying someone less because of their sex is illegal.

Imagine how loud even just a few of your skateboards would be. Much louder than jet skis.

That's a bigger problem than the propulsion.

Also forces adversaries to divert money into counter-F35 activates (or copying the f-35), and this is also a type of geopolitical weapon.