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by null000 5y ago
> it seems faster for its intended use... But then you have to store the entire before & after locally? That's the entire point of using a hash for change detection.
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by null000 6y ago
Counter-anecdote: I was diagnosed sixish months ago, prescribed medication about 3 months ago. The meds don't have the same high of alcohol or weed, but there's definitely an occasional deep sense of calm and wellness - one that&#
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by null000 6y ago
I don't think your last point is a good thing. It sounds like the problem with Academia is the source and requirements of the funding, rather than the work itself. I'd much rather academia had ample enough funding where people cou
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by null000 6y ago
The academic/business split is weird. In business, you're much more likely to be unknowingly treading on known ground, but the visibility of lessons learned is, in most cases, incredibly narrow. I've worked on compilers blind
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by null000 6y ago
I blame religion. Not all religion, not every religious person, and not exclusively, but looking back - there was a strong emphasis that "we're all awful people really at our core, and the only reason anyone is half decent to anyo
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by null000 6y ago
This is an article written by an angry user whose usecase isn't well supported. Like, it's a valid gripe I guess, assuming you think music storage and streaming should be perpetually free even if you didn't buy any of it on t
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by null000 6y ago
This doesn't need to happen, but this is the logical conclusion when we ensure most of the housing market is controlled by landlords rather than owned directly by the people living there. Also, when you turn housing into an investmen
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by null000 7y ago
I played through the game and did the pre- and post- game study. At the beginning, I tried pretty hard to genuinely gauge reliability, and was more willing to use some nuance (maybe I don't think the tweet is written fairly, but it tou
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by null000 7y ago
The whole point is that the algorithm doesn't know about obstacles or success as a concept baked into the algorithm. Likewise, this is pretty initial research, meant to inform and promote In other words, this isn't meant to be sup
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by null000 7y ago
Tbf, the problem comes in when developers (or someone - developers are probably just the most visible) make a pile of cash for coming in, pushing renters out of a small numbed of relatively affordable units, ploping down a building with a
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by null000 7y ago
I think that's a side effect of the modern expectation that everyone move cross country on a dime if it makes sense economically. Kinda hard to figure out ecological best practices when families can barely stick around for a generation
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by null000 7y ago
Keep in mind that they might only get a room, but it's probably a pretty damn big room. And otherwise nice. Not sure I'd take that tradeoff at my current age, but considering I lived in a shoebox with a shared bathroom during Coll
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by null000 7y ago
The nice thing is that they're at least moving those people out of the lower tiers of housing. If someone can afford $5000 a month for rent, I'd prefer they compete for mansions that would otherwise remain vacant than townhomes wh
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by null000 7y ago
That's kinda like saying "Age is a protected class. But being on a fixed income isn't"...
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by null000 7y ago
One of the things I think is under-discussed (although the article does touch on this) is that this is another move to take customers from buyers to renters. It used to be that customers bought things, and then they owned them - games inclu
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by null000 7y ago
> a fertility crisis or environmental collapse Not sure it really makes sense to fix a lack of people with something that's extremely labor intensive (at least up front). Not to mention, getting robots to be cheap requires a really
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by null000 7y ago
> the technology in which they are an expert is obsolete A lot of the principles, idioms, patterns, and instincts experts pick up transcend technology. Sure, they won't be able to optimize a framework they've never interacted w
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by null000 7y ago
I'm reminded of the three panel meme comic. "Yeah, we have passenger train service" " good passenger train service?" "Hey, lets not get ahead of ourselves"
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by null000 7y ago
Amtrak is heavy rail - that's light rail, which is kinda different.
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by null000 7y ago
I've been listening to the Revolutions podcast recently, and I'm currently in the post-french-revolution series of European revolutions. Kinda funny - France tried setting up some guaranteed-work promises and implemented them thro
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by null000 7y ago
> Freight trains get priority on the rail lines so many times the train was stopped for possibly hours waiting for freight trains to pass. This mentality weirds me out. As in: Why are we explicitly valuing the time of companies over the
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by null000 8y ago
I don't think this is a particularly new insight. Yes, most retired people suffer if they don't have a life outside of work. Yes, most people do indeed define themselves by work. Yes, automation threatens to undermine or relegate
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by null000 8y ago
I recognize and respect the point, but there's a pretty major differences: Raw material cost, automate-ability, and scale. We have processes to get super pure silicon in huge chunks that can be processed basically entirely by computers
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by null000 8y ago
Market concentration causes huge problems - outsized lobbying power, increased wealth concentration, potential for judicial abuse, unbalanced power dynamics (e.g. between youtube and it's content creators, or Amazon and its sellers) an
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by null000 8y ago
Yeah, I was in High School around 2008. Facebook was already a thing, as was obsession over followers. Smart phones had been around for a bit, many kids had them and had their phonest as had Twitter and a few other things. Middle school ju
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by null000 8y ago
So if you assume government costs scale linearly per person (which is actually probably opimisic) and then you turn down a bunch of money a company would normally pay as they're bringing in dump trucks of people from out of state, that
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by null000 8y ago
Oh, sorry, it was "only" 1/2 a billion that was specially on the table for Amazon (if up thread comments are to be trusted) That's not peanuts.
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by null000 8y ago
We're talking about federal taxes exclusively
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by null000 8y ago
This isn't a dystopian future, it's a dystopian present. Most of the work people do today doesn't really need to be done, but we force people to do it anyway for various reasons. https://strikemag.org/bullsh
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by null000 8y ago
> These post-drinking feelings of guilt and stress have come to be known colloquially as “hangxiety” This sounds like one of those made up terms that news articles always insist exist, yet nobody ever actually uses in day to day conversa

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