SquirrelOnFire

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by SquirrelOnFire 4mo ago
KEXP is a local (and beloved) station for me. WIll have to give some of these others a listen if they're doing similar things.
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by SquirrelOnFire 4mo ago
You've got to find the rare radio stations with public support and human djs. kexp.org is a great one based out of Seattle with a wild variety of shows and decades of history. Are all the shows to my taste? No. Have I ever heard someth
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by SquirrelOnFire 6mo ago
"Hey, the whole team is getting together for an all hands next week and I'd like you to join..."
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by SquirrelOnFire 9mo ago
Giant miscanthus can grow on land that's not viable for farming food (other than grazing grasses), has a lot of properties that ready it for becoming charcoal (high tonnage per acre, self drying, minimal inputs needed). Without a price
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by SquirrelOnFire 1y ago
Why's that, given that files are encrypted?
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by SquirrelOnFire 1y ago
Speed of development of something important isn't necessarily good. Humans are bad at absorbing a lot of change at once and it takes time to recognize and mitigate second-order effects. There's plenty of benefit to the systems tha
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by SquirrelOnFire 1y ago
30 million people in the US are affected by "rare" genetic conditions.
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by SquirrelOnFire 2y ago
"Locked doors only stop honest people" -Abe Lincoln
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by SquirrelOnFire 3y ago
Up to 1/2 inch thickness... Great. Just need to 4x that to replace 2x4s, the construction material that the entire US home building process is built around. But looks like it's ready to go for some applications (plywood). Hopefull
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by SquirrelOnFire 3y ago
That seems unlikely, given that beekeepers have kept hives in similar thin-walled boxes for centuries and colony collapse is a recent phenomenon. Plus CC occurs in wild populations[1] as well, suggesting either a widespread environmental fa
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by SquirrelOnFire 3y ago
While it felt awkward at first, I've been intentionally trying to befriend my neighbors. I've managed it with one couple and am working on a second. Tech helps reduce the barriers between distant friends, but we're wired to v
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by SquirrelOnFire 3y ago
As a long time PM (of all sorts of P)... If you don't want to have to talk to customers, which only one developer who I've ever worked with has actually wanted to do, you need a way to equip someone else to do so. Same thing if yo
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by SquirrelOnFire 3y ago
Yeah, they kind of blow past light sheet microscopy, but I'm optimistic that this can still be quite useful. There are brain banks with already donated brains that we could use to learn about diseases, and I imagine many organ donors w
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by SquirrelOnFire 4y ago
Mozilla's biggest source of revenue? Google. By about a factor of 5.
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by SquirrelOnFire 4y ago
People usually overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in 10 years. Perception is reality. This is true of how you see the world and how people see you. Convenience is like sugar - it is sweet and addictiv
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by SquirrelOnFire 5y ago
They hadn't written the ending of Die Hard when they started filming - the Movies that Made us episode about it is pretty wild & illuminating.
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by SquirrelOnFire 5y ago
Like Signal?
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by SquirrelOnFire 6y ago
From Bacteria to Back and Back follows a similar path and was a worthwhile read for a layman like myself. It emphasizes the evolutionary fitness of ideas as well as biological evolution. https://www.nature.com/articles/
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Agreed, but on a transaction level having higher profit MARGINS is what enables the company to have money to plow back into the business.
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
More rich people in and of itself is not a bad thing, and as you say, having a baseline level of wealth in a nation leads to huge quality of life improvements. However, the increasing divergence between the rich and poor in wealthy nations
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
I'll have to keep an eye out, thanks!
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Sure. You want businesses you deal with to make profit, otherwise they won't be around to do business with in the future. In industrial supply chain, if you have two suppliers who are each charging the same price and you know that one
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
BS. in a comment about pricing "more" does not include complex concepts like autonomy - it clearly only referred to money.
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Humans have sapience. Cows don't. Cows should still be treated humanely and only have one bad day (when they're slaughtered) since they're clearly capable of suffering, but ignoring the difference is a little dishonest, intel
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
I think there's also value in recognizing that animals can suffer. It is (in my opinion) a moral question whether or not to support systems that create animal suffering. I'm mostly vegetarian - I'll eat meat when it is offere
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Uh, you know you can make multiple accounts and don't need to even associate an email, right? You can browse just as anonymously logged in as out.
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
That's not how it works. Educated, creative workers look for more than just salary. Increases in autonomy, purpose, and opportunity for mastery are often viewed as more valuable than money (once threshold levels of income have been cro
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Wow. So literal. So let's talk 2016 presidential election I'd imagine that a Trump Voter's ballot would look like the following if Sanders had run as an independent. 1) Trump 2) Sanders 3) Gary Johnson (Maybe with a flip on
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Right. And I'm saying that political positions don't have to fall on a single line either. How many axes can you chart a poltician's positions on? Authoritarian<>Libertarian Traditional Values <> Social Relational
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by SquirrelOnFire 8y ago
Dang. Thanks for pointing that out.

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