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by pezzana 5y ago
> Some people will say that this essay is a missed opportunity: “How can you write this essay without mentioning crypto even once?” Or money, for that matter. If beliefs are network effects, then money sits at the base layer of that netw
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by pezzana 5y ago
> In 1998, Zimov brought the first horses to what he called Pleistocene Park, a fenced tract of land an hour’s boat ride from the research station. Since then, the park has grown to eight square miles, and it is now home to a hundred and
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by pezzana 5y ago
This attitude is a major reason why public education is so utterly messed up in the US. All of the social and mental work that should be done elsewhere is simply not done. Time after time, the schools (and police) are called on as the last
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by pezzana 5y ago
> ... It's been a couple months and I have achieved nothing. Not a single PR merged. ... There's a lot to be said for getting into a rhythm of picking an issue, solving it, and merging it. Doing it a few times can be a real con
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Searching my inbox, I found an email from April 16, 2020 where I told someone who’d me asked that the lab-leak hypothesis seemed entirely plausible to me, that in fact I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t being investigated more, but th
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by pezzana 5y ago
> You could argue that it doesn't matter that much where the internet's content is hosted. And whilst that's true to some degree a truly self-controlled personal website differs a lot from a social media site in the detail
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Modern Trench Warfare in Eastern Ukraine(coffeeordie.com)
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by pezzana 5y ago
The crux of the author's idea seems to be this: > Intellectual loneliness is a challenge that many people feel, but nobody talks about. It’s built on a paradox where you feel alive when you’re learning on the Internet but soul-crush
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by pezzana 5y ago
> 2021 was not too kind to me. I discovered that I not only have OCD but OCPD, a personality disorder. Then later... > I simply have to accept that there is nothing out there for me. That I will be miserable as long as I continue to w
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by pezzana 5y ago
One would be to stop sending groups of people to that station. Whether or not that's "realistic" is another question. It really depends on what's at stake, which is not clear yet. But the point is that governments around
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by pezzana 5y ago
> All staff members preparing to depart to the station had to undergo a PCR test in Belgium two hours before leaving for South Africa, take a PCR test five days after their arrival in Cape Town, where they also had to quarantine for ten
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Ukraine's WWI-style trenches 150ft from Russian 'invasion' force(mirror.co.uk)
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by pezzana 5y ago
> ... It may sound strange but I almost feel I have to ask for permission to move on. Like it's not real unless I share it with someone else. Why not do that? Share it with someone else.
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by pezzana 5y ago
> The central bank considers it important “to use these new technologies and latest-generation payments infrastructure as valuable options to advance financial inclusion in the country,” the administration of President Andrés Manuel Lópe
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The Parrots of Silicon Valley: An Ecologist’s Perspective (2017)(accordiongordon.wordpress.com)
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by pezzana 5y ago
It might be interesting to classify the various kinds of pivots. For example, one that gets covered from time-to-time is the one where customers start using the product differently than the founders intended. The examples here are WhatsApp,
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Wild Parrots of Sunnyvale(sunnyvalegarden.com)
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by pezzana 5y ago
Have any estimates been made for what it would cost to move all iPhone assembly to the US?
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Ukraine–NATO Relations(en.wikipedia.org)
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TuSimple finishes 80-mile, semi-truck ride on public roads without a human(electrek.co)
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by pezzana 5y ago
Missing from this actionable survey is the skill of answering questions that haven't yet been answered in the secondary literature (books, reviews) or even primary literature (journals). This is, of course, what research and a PhD is a
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by pezzana 5y ago
> In a crypto economy crowded with vapourware and alpha-stage software, Axie Infinity stands out. Not only has it amassed a large base of users, the in-game economy has actually provided a real-world income stream to working-class Filipi
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by pezzana 5y ago
This may sound like a big deal, but Germany only currently consumes about 12% of its electricity from nuclear power, according to: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c... Solar and wind have inc
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The long tail of Elena Ceaușescu’s fraudulent scientific work(theguardian.com)
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by pezzana 5y ago
> Surveying the landscape, it seems likely that if there is a bubble that it is not in equities but rather in credit. In an environment where low single-digit positive inflation is widely expected by market participants, how can it be ra
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by pezzana 5y ago
The usual caveat applies: > Does it work? It does and it works quite well. Tests have shown that the preparation developed by the scientists forced the production of antibodies in the bodies of mice, which through the white blood cells a
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Minced Oath(en.wikipedia.org)
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Financial Repression(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pezzana 5y ago
The structure of this essay sets up the paired positions as opposing ideologically, but it's not clear that they are. Take this for example: > It’s like, what do you call someone who’s absolutely terrified about global warming, and
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by pezzana 5y ago
Paywalled. From an earlier article in Forbes: > Using real neurons avoids several other difficulties that software-based neural networks have. For instance, to get artificial neural networks to start learning well, their programmers usua

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