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How to Feed Humans(galle.com)
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Freeman Dyson on the Tribalism of Scientists(galle.com)
1 points by nationcrafting 6y ago|0 comments
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by nationcrafting 6y ago
>I wish more of the internet was like this. I love that they're hosted on their own websits, too. Like the hamsterdance and other stupid things from the 90s. So much fun stuff nowadays is just memes on Reddit, fb or other social net
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by nationcrafting 8y ago
>You can see this in how ArianneSpace and ULA are trying to get to their next generation of vehicles (which won't be competitive in terms of re-usability) Arianespace is a company run by bureaucrats. Incredibly frustrating environme
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by nationcrafting 10y ago
Are you saying resources get hurled into space when we use them? Also, value can increase in a finite resources environment. For example, my iphone is worth a lot more, and is a lot more useful, than the materials it's made of.
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
So, if you're looking at .gov as a service provider, why give it a monopoly on providing those services if that makes its users dependent on it? Roads may be a little tricky, of course, but some services like US Mail could surely do wi
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
It'd be surreal if the stars on their flags were bookmarks.
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
>not once did I see someone question if the government even has a right to determine who is allowed to be married, and why is should be involved at all. This has literally been the Libertarian Party's position since the early 70s: i
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
I'm not sure. I was in Maastricht for a few months in 92 when the treaty was being signed. Maastricht is a border town between Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Every bar and restaurant I went to, every market stall, and many sh
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
France: "Why use your internet when we've got our own minitel?"
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
>Euro as a common currency makes travel super convenient for example, not to mention the Schengen area and open borders. Perhaps the various recommendations made in the late 80s and early 90s would be useful to reconsider. Hayek, for ex
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
You might be right. Very unusual comments indeed. And ridiculous, too. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but so much commenting here is literally just a catalogue of received ideas. Tesla are on a mission to solve massive proble
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Like others here, I don't think WP is terrible if you look at it through the eyes of their typical users. I also disagree that nobody is building a better WP: I recently started working with Webflow, which is very good, quite powerful,
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
>If your kid learns the alphabet at 4 or at 8, what's the difference? It's a huge difference. As soon as a kid can read, they can learn in a way that isn't just you telling them stuff. They can self-direct their learning
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
>The fundamental problem is you can't have a partial union. I imagine you're talking about the monetary union, because it is of course possible to have partial unions in the EU (many EU countries are not in the Eurozone, and ma
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
I've been directing creative brainstorms for many years, and reconsidering things we take for granted, like square wheels, is exactly what we do to trigger new ideas and solutions to problems.
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
We live in a fast-changing world. Just because something was good for Germany/Greece once, doesn't mean that is still the case. I'm reminded of something PG wrote in a recent essay: "When experts are wrong, it's oft
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Not quite. The gold bull run of the 70s peaked at $850. So, even if you bought an ounce of gold at its peak, you'd be getting about $1300 for it today. Cash, on the other hand, would have inflated away quite a lot, so your 100 bucks w
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
>the only reason people purchase a stock is for that stock to be worth more in the future It depends on what you're interested in. Warren Buffett buys shares in companies he never plans to sell, like Wrigley's, Heinz, Dairy Qu
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Indeed (in der Tat), it's a remarkably easy language to learn for Anglo-saxons. Many words are even spelt the same way. Lamp lamp Light licht Arm arm Hand hand Finger finger Often words that are spelt weirdly in english (compared to h
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Indeed. Sorry, I guess I'm showing my age assuming everyone knows which one I meant. Here it is: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Apple_iM...
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Funnily enough, I too have often wondered about that. I've also often wondered why your gender is the state's business at all. One way to make the whole gay marriage thing a non-issue would be to say it's nobody's busin
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Good point re: keyboard and mouse. Especially the round mouse, just looking at that gives me a funny feeling in the metacarpals.
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Re: Stanislaw Lem. You're right, he definitely feels like he belongs in the Soviet writers context. You can tell the difference in culture, context, commercial preoccupations, etc. when you compare Soderbergh's film version of S
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
>Design has always taken more prominence at apple over usability I strongly disagree with you there. In fact, I'd say the exact opposite. The experience of using the product has always been at the very core of Apple's design p
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Simple. You don't need to measure anything like intelligence or creativity to arrive at someone's market worth. Just measure, or estimate, the value of their output. So: how much value are they creating that other humans are prep
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
I think they're fascinating from a Hayekian point of view, namely that small centralised groups of directors have only a fraction of the information necessary to direct large groups, compared to dispersed but dynamic information flows
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Back when we still used Shockwave and Flash on the web, I often used Pong as a quick test to see if designers could program Lingo and Actionscript to a useful level, and how elegant their code was.
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
I'm not sure why so many people still keep advocating elections in an age when it ought to be clear to any objective observer that the average voter is sleepwalking into a new dark age. Perhaps it's intellectual laziness, or perha
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by nationcrafting 11y ago
Beautiful! I saw another way of rendering these recently, which shows the increasing definition on the fly, here: https://guciek.github.io/web_mandelbrot.html#-0.5;0;2;1000

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