Bishizel

6 ms·

1.
by Bishizel 5y ago
I think it’s obviously a mix, however, an algorithm that maximizes purely for attention or time on site causes a lot of issues. Sometimes people are seeking something that is beneficial, and maximizing that is fine. Lots more times, people
2.
by Bishizel 5y ago
I think the main problem of all these “alternative” sites is that there really are just a fuckton of shitty people waiting to go in at the very beginning. So even if people have legitimate concerns and the desire to build fresh, they are qu
3.
by Bishizel 5y ago
The problem is we incorrectly assume that if we build something other cultures will just use it. Really we would need to build a good waste system in a really fucked area, then use that system to clean the area up over 2-5 years. Let the
4.
by Bishizel 5y ago
At most stores each individual piece of produce has a scannable sticker on it.
5.
by Bishizel 5y ago
Re-using glass containers is actually an extremely low chance of contamination. We have had easy glass sterilization techniques for a long time (most dishwashers have a sanitization cycle). Further, your shelf life won’t be significantly
6.
by Bishizel 5y ago
It isn’t exactly victim blaming when the HOA wouldn’t authorize the repairs (several articles looked into this). You can’t just go do the repairs without approval in these buildings.
7.
by Bishizel 5y ago
They also do it via loans, so instead of paying aide every year, they just hold loans over their heads to get those countries to fall in line.
8.
by Bishizel 5y ago
I think a lot of people are doing this same thing (I know several personally). Getting 2 hrs back a day is amazing, and after having it for a year it is really hard to give up. > I don't mind meeting up with other employees on the
9.
by Bishizel 5y ago
The problem is that the req to live within 100mi doesn’t allow workers to fully engage in location arbitrage in the way the workers would like. I think most people want a better work/life balance, which is what all this ultimately repr
10.
by Bishizel 5y ago
I think it’s tough to assign value like this. People argued that the internet had no real value for basically all of the late 90s.
11.
by Bishizel 5y ago
It came to fruition because it’s creating vast new wealth in a fashion that is directly competitive to old wealth. It’s also easy because climate change is a real, pressing existential crisis. Take this with the caveat that most people wo
12.
by Bishizel 5y ago
But should we focus our efforts banning things that won’t change the way people have to live? That seems like an easy way to fail. Further, Bitcoin is not the main issue. BTC being clean or dirty is based on the underlying issue of dirty p
13.
by Bishizel 5y ago
The main argument against crypto is actually an argument against the way we generate power. If our power generation wasn’t so dirty, this argument against crypto goes away. Banning crypto isn’t going to fix the root cause.
14.
by Bishizel 5y ago
I mean, this type of thinking was applied to the early internet as well. “No one will ever buy anything over the internet, people want stores!” The same lack of imagination is leading to most of these takes.
15.
by Bishizel 5y ago
I fully agree. Philosophy is full of irregular thinkers whose only common trait seems to be the willingness to go into absurd depth about an idea. What is always interesting to me is how you can spend a large amount of study in the subject
16.
by Bishizel 5y ago
Pain (among other experiences) exists as a gradient compared against both your average experience and any outlier experiences (good or bad). A result of living in a more comfortable, advanced society is that things that seem smaller to som
17.
by Bishizel 5y ago
Two things; Adding more energy to a system doesn’t tend to produce (calm, sunny, scattered showers). I believe mild weather is a low energy outcome. Also, humans like predictable weather. Weather becoming less so, good or bad, will make t
18.
by Bishizel 5y ago
The 1.4 to 2.0C range is where we are going to start seeing large scale crop failures. Also massive fish die offs in the ocean. Unless we drastically change trajectories, this will occur during the lifetime of your children. You hope you
19.
by Bishizel 5y ago
Effectively this is going to require massive and coordinated action. We are going to have to rapidly develop and share the tech, and scale it quickly. It is also insane how long humanity has ignored this issue. At least we have seemingly
20.
by Bishizel 5y ago
While the co2 levels and temps have been higher in the past, rate of change is the most important factor here. You incorrectly assess the risk by ignoring the fact that it took tens of thousands of years to move those numbers. The problem
21.
by Bishizel 13y ago
I would think it's because, while physical pain readily heals, psychological pain doesn't seem to heal nearly as effectively.
22.
by Bishizel 13y ago
While solitary confinement isn't considered torture today, there are psychologists who, after studying the effects of such confinement, have started trying to get it labeled as a form of torture.
23.
by Bishizel 13y ago
That would be expecting someone who is 19 in the late 2000s to actually read a newspaper.
24.
by Bishizel 13y ago
Just because some people younger than Manning have a better grasp of where they stand on the war and its morality doesn't mean that Manning actually had, or should have had, that same understanding at the time he signed up and joined t
25.
by Bishizel 13y ago
I don't think it's necessary that he "know or should have known" what he was getting into. We have shitloads of people with top secret clearance in this country. In order to view certain documents for various jobs, it&
26.
by Bishizel 13y ago
I would highly recommend the first three books he wrote in the Culture Series. Consider Phlebas, A Player of Games, and Use of Weapons. I enjoyed all of the series, but these three really made me realize how amazing the author and the conc
27.
by Bishizel 13y ago
This guy deserves it. The Culture series is a fantastic work, I wish he could have finished it (he stated last year that he figured around 3 or 4 more books would cap the series). And, while I loved the Culture series, his other sci-fi wa
28.
by Bishizel 13y ago
While that is speculation on the lawyer's part, it's also speculation on your part to assume he did something especially wrong. That's the problem with this type of monitoring(and revoking), it turns each case, as well as pu
29.
by Bishizel 16y ago
Asking for "Best Philosophical Books" is pretty much like asking for an opinion, everyone will have a very different view. That being said, here's my view! John Stuart Mill - "Utilitarianism" (Kant be damned.) Thomas Nagel - "Moral Luck" D