InvisibleCities

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by InvisibleCities 4y ago
>Some models suggest we might be fairly early, probably somewhere in the first 10-25% of space faring species. I’d like to see some sources for this, because this sounds like unscientific, unprovable drivel.
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by InvisibleCities 4y ago
This has nothing do with people’s civic engagement levels, and everything to do with money. The semiconductor industry gets a massive subsidy because they spend tens of millions of dollars on lobbying - impoverished schoolchildren get left
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by InvisibleCities 5y ago
Your average Roman circa 250 AD lived farther from their place of birth than your average American today.
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by InvisibleCities 5y ago
Ever think those might not be the same people?
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by InvisibleCities 5y ago
Your CEO brain calipers don’t need to be worth a shit in order for you to make money with them. If the market moves predictably every time you publicly announce your findings, that’s all you need.
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by InvisibleCities 5y ago
Your advice is to be selfish and not care what anyone thinks of you?
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by InvisibleCities 5y ago
Why are we so surprised that animals understand the concept of zero? Being hungry, searching for food, and finding nothing seems like as universal and visceral experience of zero as anything I can imagine. I don’t think it’s possible to ev
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by InvisibleCities 5y ago
Because programming languages are a public good, and public goods are fundamentally incompatible with a profit motive. A “programming language startup” would be like an “anti-poverty startup” or “social justice startup” - either an edifice
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by InvisibleCities 5y ago
[Sober, well-researched article about the dangers of pervasive social media that calls for strong government regulation] “This link has been associated with harmful extremist content. Are you sure you wish to proceed?”
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by InvisibleCities 5y ago
Well that’s good. How’s the F-35 coming along?
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by InvisibleCities 5y ago
America has a loneliness and overwork problem - the alcohol is just a coping mechanism.
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by InvisibleCities 6y ago
> Also reveals Tolstoy's own perspective on writing as a moral endeavor which he feels Shakespeare failed at, as if Shakespeare had a morality it was "people should be good, but not too good" I couldn't agree more, wh
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by InvisibleCities 6y ago
The point of Hyperloop is to provide a shiny new technology that municipalities can use as an excuse for not investing in public transportation, ensuring that America switches to electric cars instead trains/buses/trams/bikes
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by InvisibleCities 6y ago
>I actually believe in the benevolence of AWS; I spent nearly a decade there. Do you? I have no reason to doubt the benevolence of AWS at present, but how much faith do you have in the perpetuity of that benevolence? There is a tremendou
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by InvisibleCities 6y ago
The functionality may be similar, but the scale is completely different and shouldn’t be ignored. Building a machine that cooks 1 pancake every 5 minutes is a fun project for precocious college students; designing a system capable of cooki
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ~Frank Zappa
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
Why should Mike have to remember this? Why should all of your infrastructure depend on Mike not getting a text from his wife while walking to the fridge for a La Croix?
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
>At the end of the day, people would rather feel nice about themselves than make actual change. Almost, but not quite. At the end of the day, there are people making extraordinary amounts of money from the status quo, and those people wo
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
This is a very disingenuous comparison. For any given food, there are a large number of both perfect and imperfect substitutes, which is very much not the cases for patented medicines. It is also much easier for individuals to grow their ow
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
Cooler Master is tired of telling parents that their kids aren't Juuling (2023)
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
Bill Gates is the epitome of a no-talent ass-clown who owes 100% his financial success to his personal family connections (his mother was personal friends with John Akers and John Opel of IBM due to their work on the United Way board togeth
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
The idea that the value is only defined by usefulness to capital is the most pernicious idea in all of American society.
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
Let’s say you worked at a profitable restaurant called SaladSpin. SaladSpin, true to its name, sells salads, and they’re pretty good. However, SaladSpin also sells pizzas, and these pizzas are absolutely incredible. People travel from miles
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
I am (was) an avid reader of Deadspin, and the non-sports content was a large part of why I read that site for 10+ odd years. The reality is that, even for people who love sports, there often isn't very much to say about them. Rather t
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
When conservatives say that they think the US is too "diverse" for such policies to work, take them at their word. They think that social democracy is fine as long as the benefits don't go to black or brown people. In fact, t
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
>“Untitled Goose Game is a safe, socially acceptable way to relieve stress,” the Washington Post declared shortly after the game’s release. “It’s the new punching a wall. It’s the new crying at your desk.” Likening crying at your desk to
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
Fuck seed rounds. How many homeless people could be given shelter with that money? How many starving people could have been fed? How many people who died needlessly because they were unable to afford medical treatment could have lived if th
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
The questions and issues you pose are real, but they apply equally regardless of whether the decisions about research funding are made by for-profit pharmaceutical corporations or a panel of government experts. I posit that the latter is pr
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
>The big issue I see here is the proper allocation of this earmarked funding. The overwhleming majority of exploratory, pre-clinical, and early-phase clinical research is already funded by government grants, particularly from the CDC and
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by InvisibleCities 7y ago
I truly do not understand the purpose of a free market for pharmaceuticals. The demand for these drugs is almost completely inelastic, as it is driven by the statistical incidence of the underlying medical conditions. This makes central pla

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