astrocat

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by astrocat 5mo ago
gpm's point is that it's a collective action issue. And even if one individual can't fix is, we can with a movement. And we SHOULD care about things like this. We're fairly familiar with these: big problem, only solved i
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by astrocat 5mo ago
The arguments made about wanting to protect the children/babies and those with cognitive impairments are well meaning, but I think misguided. The bottom line is that the world has been put in a shit situation and you can't fix it.
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by astrocat 5mo ago
holy units batman > Bursting from their enormous lungs at over 300mph (483km/h), a humpback whale's blow can rise up to 7m (23ft) into the air. Pick a lane BBC. But this is great news. Also the fact that whales "transport
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by astrocat 5mo ago
> I’d love some app with the polish of Bear Notes but that just edited raw Markdown files. Typora? ( https://typora.io/ )
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by astrocat 6mo ago
woah. This is a regex use I've never heard of. I'd absolutely love to see a writeup on this approach - how its done and when it's useful.
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by astrocat 10mo ago
this is essentially the gist of https://how.complexsystems.fail which has been circulating more with discussions of the recent AWS/Azure/Cloudflare outages.
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by astrocat 10mo ago
The heart-warming gem: > I sent a note about these Easter eggs to Scott Corley [the game's developer]. He said that he had recently pulled out the game to show the marriage proposal to his son. But he’d forgotten the code and couldn
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by astrocat 1y ago
we already do have plants that produce (sort of) high-energy-density liquids for us. So if you want gas to be as expensive as maple syrup then... sure. :)
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by astrocat 2y ago
Interesting. I don't think I follow your examples, but here's my attempt to read it: It sounds like you may be using the term "real" to be mean specifically something like "tangible." Like, Santa isn't tan
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by astrocat 2y ago
Your argument is essentially that emergent properties don't exist. It's like saying "there are no such things as waves in water, just individual water molecules." Individuals are the water molecules, and "society&q
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by astrocat 5y ago
Your approach sounds like the mindset of chasing growth instead of sustainability. Short term gains over long term value.
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by astrocat 6y ago
what I found fascinating is that the effect is maintained even when you're not focused (like lens focus, not attention focus) on the circles. If you let your eyes relax their focus to a point beyond the screen, the blurry circles main
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by astrocat 6y ago
This is absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing :)
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by astrocat 6y ago
Stumbled across this today and was blown away at the level of organization, information, and detail presented. They provide specific examples of common uses for components, as well as material information like what alloy is used, what&#x27
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McMaster-Carr: Beautifully organized and informational industrial product store(mcmaster.com)
40 points by astrocat 6y ago|27 comments
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by astrocat 6y ago
This right here is what I've been waiting for all these years...
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by astrocat 6y ago
The Trauma of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller is probably a good read to throw in here if this is the direction you're looking to explore - especially if you can get an early edition that hasn't been watered down. Some of her p
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by astrocat 6y ago
"Love & Sex" is the title of issue 88, the current issue of the print/online magazine in which this article appears.
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by astrocat 7y ago
omg... somebody else who knows the secret of garlic confit and Costco. Seriously, it's probably my favorite kitchen secret.
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by astrocat 7y ago
Amazon explicitly recommends naming buckets like "example.com" and "www.example.com" : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-host... Now, it seems, this is a big problem.
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by astrocat 8y ago
>Why not give people a means to participate? Sounds great. How? Show how you can provide everyone the means to participate and doesn't just raise the bottom line on the cost to participate, returning to the normal equilibrium that y
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by astrocat 8y ago
I think your example here of “rational choice” is a great example for the problem of treating the school ecosystem like a market. Only those with means to participate will benefit. If there is someone with no means to pay for better, what i
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What the 'meat paradox' reveals about moral decision making(bbc.com)
41 points by astrocat 8y ago|105 comments
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by astrocat 8y ago
Yeah this helped me create a mental picture that kind of makes sense. It would clarify why negative mass is also concentrated in areas of high mass, and could also provide the mechanism for constant universe expansion, as the space between
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by astrocat 8y ago
It's also easy to look down on others from a position of moral superiority. Yeah, it's the same story, but why is the behavior so wildly rampant now when it wasn't previously? I seriously push back on the position that &quot
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by astrocat 8y ago
It seems like "you can always find meaning in anything you do" turns the sentiment back into being about YOU, which is what OP seemed to be lamenting in the first place. As you expressed, you see the task as "find meaning in
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by astrocat 8y ago
Honolulu used to have two daily papers: The Star Bulletin, and the Honolulu Advertiser. A while back, they merged and created the "Star-Advertiser."
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by astrocat 8y ago
Totally agree, and I think this is where so much discussion gets off track - few problems are ones that haven't been seen before in human history. But when something comes along that suddenly facilitates or exacerbates a problem in a
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by astrocat 8y ago
> Yet I think a reasonable view to hold from the perspective of a user. What someone thinks they're getting out of something, and what they're actually getting out of it can be very different, and when the differences are h
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by astrocat 8y ago
> Social media exists as a way to facilitate communication online over a long-distance, i.e. old friends who now live in different places. I... I dunno. I think that's what we'd all LIKE to think, and it's certainly what

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