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by megameter 5y ago
What every well-meaning parent will say, when pressed, is that they want their child to "be successful". But that goal brings us right back to the gauntlet of testing and ranking; to be successful in the systems of industrial soci
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by megameter 5y ago
Don't look at individual politicians, look for the emerging trends in the political class. The NYT has a century-plus history of pushing the defacto national narratives used by politicians - while they might not be openly backed by any
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by megameter 5y ago
J Paul Morrison "Flow-based Programming", while not really about documenting historical methods, got my head thinking about programming in terms of the pre-CPU paradigms of data processing with unit record machines, since that is
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by megameter 5y ago
It's very hard to compare oneself to others. There's an arcade bar I frequent to play DDR. If I go later in the evening when it's busy I will always get someone who is a bit awestruck and says "I've never seen anyon
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by megameter 5y ago
I think the analogy of cryptocurrency's position to the 90's internet is the wrong one to pick, because it describes an environment with some maturity and acceptance in its base technologies, primed for waves of consumer commerce
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by megameter 5y ago
In many of the arts, a typical famous biography will involve study and development of a great amount of technical ability through their 20's, and then to branch off from that some time in the 30's into a more streamlined and conce
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by megameter 5y ago
It helps to give some context to 90's game coding by looking at the predecessors. On the earliest, most RAM-starved systems, you couldn't afford to have memory intensive algorithms, for the most part. Therefore the game state was
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by megameter 5y ago
The hypothesis of the "blockchain startup" rests on the idea that this tech can succumb to the standard platform monopolization plays and ultimately see a new "big tech" company emerge. A lot of the market action to date
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by megameter 5y ago
An older pick that came to mind is McLuhan: The Media is the Massage. It has that sense of "possibility" to it, even being a half-century old.
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by megameter 5y ago
The actual supply coming into the market remains the same while the mining difficulty shifts according to network hashrate(determined by the time between new blocks), hence assuming demand for Bitcoin is static, there is an equilibration me
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by megameter 5y ago
Take up martial arts. That's what I turned to after a windfall. I only stuck with it a year but it got me in the right frame of mind to continue feeling ambitious.
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by megameter 5y ago
Exchange value only matters when there's trade. My view of crypto is "wrong in the right direction" because it currently addresses macroeconomic coordination via mimicry of traditional finance. The technologies it uses to ach
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by megameter 5y ago
Nintendo has a different core business model, one which is hard to replicate in another public corporation because it goes against the norm of making the quarterly results look as good as possible: Instead of scoring a hit and immediately t
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by megameter 5y ago
The older I get, the more I'm attuned to the limitations of talent like Metheny. It's like how there are great mathematicians, and many of them can be strong problem-solvers and do great work, but can still fall short of "gen
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by megameter 5y ago
Increasingly I agree. It's the Byte Magazine 1981 cover where someone inserts an impossibly small floppy disk into an impossibly small wristwatch computer; Metaverse = VR world is not the literal message, it's placeholder marketin
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by megameter 5y ago
There's a longstanding interest in the acadame in finding "clean" closed-form analytical explanations for all sorts of real-world problems, which mostly speaks to the historical lack of computing power to do a complete simula
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by megameter 5y ago
It all depends on the governance and securing model. Unlike most securities, which have a direct tie to the state apparatus through their legalization, the proof-of-work coins, at least, are governed like their own little consensual nations
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by megameter 5y ago
I suspect that it's not really the case that Another World set out to emulate PoP given that the development of Another World started before PoP's Apple II release(which, if you have read Mechner's writings, was not a huge su
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by megameter 5y ago
As long as Intel is taking huge risks, they can also look for a blue ocean market. The common factor among all of these customers is that they are centralizing and privatizing their compute - therefore, rather than playing sycophant to the
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by megameter 5y ago
Wood itself is sustainable, but in making a choice of building materials, we're also looking for total embedded energy cost and impact of the final product. Traditional buildings from a century ago relied on the harvest of old-growth w
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by megameter 5y ago
In working with existing graphics tools to make drawings, something I've come to realize is that overlap is crucial to the workflow: it's easier to draw the line you want by overshooting and erasing than it is to get it precisely
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by megameter 5y ago
Nim is a little bit more straightforward for writing application code, by dint of simply having more features to throw around. Both languages can be pretty darn fast, enough that I would not rate it as a factor for most applications, includ
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by megameter 5y ago
Much of economic behavior and dysfunction comes from our poor ability to scale socially past the Dunbar limit. When we can keep up with everyone, we have a little accountant in our head saying who to assign credit or blame to, so our transa
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by megameter 5y ago
Aristotle's virtue ethics is a helpful lens to view the power dynamic within this story. Virtue is defined as a purpose or reason for being: Alexander is good where he fits his purpose, like how you would judge a tool to use. As a grea
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No advanced art process can avoid some amount of engineering, because the demand that is made is to measure and select with precision that which is to be edited. When we use a mark-making tool like a pen, all that's happening is that w
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by megameter 5y ago
I think the rat-race idea got baked deep into SV largely because of the setup of the post-1970 economy, and specifically California's rules: every startup had to be "fast" and "hit the ground running" not just becau
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by megameter 5y ago
I am in the process of learning Clip Studio Paint by doing some October themed dailies. CSP has gotten a strong rep among indie illustrators for its usability and mix of raster and vector functions. The vector tools I think are particularly
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by megameter 5y ago
It helps to consider the context of finance as glue that helps make the real economy move by reducing fraud. Deciding to use a crypto solution is like deciding to use double-entry accounting: it creates a quick and reliable record of transa
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by megameter 5y ago
I learned of Radio Caroline from the lyrics of Thomas Dolby - Radio Silence: Carve her legend on the bow, Caroline 452
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by megameter 5y ago
The most important part is to do some distillation under the principle "data is not information". When you collect a bunch of sources you have data. When you filter according to a benchmark of your choosing and bind the useful bit

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