cbau

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by cbau 4mo ago
Not sure of the quote you have in mind, but the idea of equality causing status anxiety goes back to Tocqueville.
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by cbau 6mo ago
To quote from the book: > “First: Survival is the primary need of civilization. Second: Civilization continuously grows and expands, but the total matter in the universe remains constant. One more thing: To derive a basic picture of cosm
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by cbau 2y ago
You can turn to actual experts, e.g. YouTube or books. But yes, I have recently had the misfortune of working with a personal trainer who was using ChatGPT to come up with training programs, and it felt confusing and like I was wasting time
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by cbau 2y ago
Right, makes sense. I guess going into fitness I expected meat would be important for getting protein and might be worth a premium, but it's both expensive and requires time to cook where most vegetarian products can be eaten without a
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by cbau 2y ago
For anyone who hasn't been to the grocery store recently, a rotisserie chicken can be had for about $8. That was wild to me when I stopped to think about it for a second: a chicken born and raised to adulthood, slaughtered, and brought
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by cbau 2y ago
As someone arguing against vegetarians in the past, I get the point, but I actually made the switch recently, not because of ethics, but simply because of cost and laziness. It's a silly story: I recently wrote a program to create my d
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by cbau 2y ago
That's fun to think about. We can actually do the sci-fi visions of running millions of simulated dates / war games and score outcomes.
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by cbau 2y ago
PE = Placebo Effect
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by cbau 2y ago
I don't see guns here or anywhere else on this site. Very interesting data though.
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by cbau 2y ago
How did you buy it? Can't find any shops online. Not on eBay either.
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by cbau 2y ago
It's not just a reaction to the fashion of the older generation. They occupy different mental spaces. Facebook is broadcast, to everyone you know, permanently. Snapchat is 1:1, and transient. Sending the same text message on different
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by cbau 2y ago
Alibaba
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by cbau 2y ago
It's art!
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by cbau 3y ago
> Actually doing something effective about a problem sometimes means not doing anything that sounds like solving that specific problem is your real goal. And that's kind of a tough place to go mentally and emotionally for most peopl
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by cbau 3y ago
Yes! Chaos Theory was my introduction to Tobin as well. As a teenager, I had no interest in music before then, being exposed only to my mom's soft rock CD collections and whatever pop music used to play on the radio. I was surprised to
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by cbau 3y ago
There's usually a team that is directly responsible for the part of the product that generates revenue, and management loves them. Every other team is basically just support and may be necessary but they don't get as much attentio
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by cbau 3y ago
Not an expert, but if you read any of Keynes, he's basically critiquing classical economics and pointing out some of the ways it fails to explain economic cycles, hence the invention of macroeconomics. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by cbau 3y ago
> This rings true. I went to a reasonably well known engineering school, so...some selection for ADHD folks. Can you expand on this. Do you think think engineering schools select for ADHD? Just curious, haven't heard this before.
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by cbau 3y ago
A lot of companies directly go against their users to enrich the owners, see Reddit right now. Just the rational move by companies that have established monopolies/oligopolies. Also companies that exploit negative externalities.
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by cbau 4y ago
- There is a search cost of finding someone to trade with. Market makers streamline the process by always having a deal available. They might not offer you the best price you could get if you waited, but if you want to buy/sell a commo
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by cbau 4y ago
Wow, the more insane story to me here is that they flash your face, name, and ID number on a public screen if you're caught jaywalking. How dystopian.
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by cbau 4y ago
> combining cocaine and alcohol (dramatically/needlessly increases toxicity) Because of cocaethylene? Can't find anything online that makes it clear what the danger is.
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by cbau 4y ago
No, I agree. It's a slow movie, the acting and writing are kind of bad, and it failed to drive home the themes explored in the book its based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The book asked what it meant to be human, and pointe
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by cbau 4y ago
> What does one do with an intellectual life other than swimming through intellectual content? I've found myself in a similar point in life (currently 29). When I was young, everyone encouraged me to learn, and I think I get intrins
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by cbau 5y ago
I shared, and in many ways, still share your sentiment. But, having recently done my first international trip (to Mexico) for about three weeks, I would say my perspective has changed. I think it helped that I stayed in hostels. Basically,
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by cbau 5y ago
Looks really polished! - The move toward storing data in the cloud to storing in on my local computer, especially for a note-taking style app is really important. - Love the mini command line at the top that is autocompleted when I press a
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by cbau 6y ago
Sell us on it!
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by cbau 6y ago
Sold on the premise that when AI gets here it will change everything. What I don't have a good grasp on is how fast it will come. Recent feats of AI are very impressive, but it's hard for me to put it on a trendline that would lin
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by cbau 6y ago
Link to WWF 2019 study: http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/plastic_ingestion_press... Link to press release for study: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/featured/plastic-inges... > T
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by cbau 6y ago
It could be argued CSV and the like are taking advantage of uninformed people or charging more for people who need medicine now, perhaps because they didn't build a good medicine cabinet. The same medicines can be bought on Amazon or a

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