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by q845712 3y ago
In all fairness it's really hard to make money off of "reduce" and "reuse," and we've decided to use money as the system for allocating all of our resources.
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by q845712 3y ago
in my experience it is how both real and imaginary Canadians talk
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by q845712 3y ago
> the growth obsession is a product of the Reagan-era I hear you, but uncle Karl names and shames the growth-obsession in Das Kapital which predated Reagan by over 100 years. It's a part of the system that many people have incentiv
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by q845712 3y ago
It feels a little inevitable though, given the other rules of the system: Companies don't become more valuable by having a steady earnings forecast, they become more valuable by having an _increase_ in earnings that is forecast to cont
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by q845712 3y ago
if it helps, that's just the stars and galaxies we're capable of observing. There's probably more :)
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by q845712 3y ago
I mean like the incentives aren't aligned. So maybe you're giving an example but i'm honestly not sure. :) in the space of cve or malware detection, the user wants a safe/secure computing experience with minimal overhea
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by q845712 3y ago
I could be wrong as I was young and not yet in the field, but my impression has always been that sometime in the 80s/90s as the whole "networking, world wide web, wowie!" moment happened, there was this idea that "maybe
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by q845712 3y ago
I have no specialist knowledge in this subfield, but after reading the article's arguments that basically if you could sic the entire bitcoin network on 2048 RSA it would take 700+ years, I have to wonder about perverse incentives. An
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by q845712 3y ago
I said this elsewhere too -- while in general I like things _like_ the poignant guide, and appreciate its existence, I never actually finished reading it. To me it's an interesting touchstone work showing/reminding that the "
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by q845712 3y ago
Honestly at the time I remember getting weird twee/precious vibes from the Ruby community and I wasn't particularly interested in it or Rails. I only discovered _why's poignant guide later after I had to learn Rails on the j
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by q845712 3y ago
it's probably a good starting position to assume that since we all the share the same closed-ish system called planet earth, there's interconnections between different systems. Certainly the border areas between desert and not-des
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by q845712 3y ago
"animal models" is a fairly standard phrase in research: When people research depression, alzheimers, cancer, etc., they generally start with mice and work their way up through monkeys before coming to human trials. For many condi
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by q845712 3y ago
but there's a premium on our youth -- The people who complain that it's harder to find a job in their 50s and 60s can't _all_ be wrong or mistaken. I feel like we like to imagine that these treatments would extend our 20s and
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by q845712 3y ago
if they have money they can buy a gopro; I've known many cyclists who list having the record of a potential accident as one of their reasons for buying and using a gopro.
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by q845712 3y ago
I'm not sure it's exactly "what customers want" so much as it is the sweet-spot or intersection of the two curves: "what customers want" with "how much cost and risk owners and managers are willing to put
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by q845712 3y ago
Geocities HTML chat was my first chatroom experience. IIRC my friend found it because they had purchased "chat.com" and had it forwarding to some chatroom? But I could be wrong about that honestly, curious if anyone else remembers
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by q845712 3y ago
as someone else is already saying -- Arizona basically already has this for DMVs. There's a parallel system of privately owned and operated offices where you can make an appointment to e.g. get your drivers license. You show up right a
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by q845712 3y ago
check section 3 of this review: https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/golubitsky.4/reprintweb-0.5/o... or for a narrower slice this paper is reference [6]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/1
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by q845712 3y ago
:) it is also a big part of buddhism. IMO the intersections between several systems are very interesting as they tend to be the most fruitful even if pursued without the context of the rest of the system (ie if you think you can cherry-pi
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by q845712 3y ago
Just sharing my own experience, but the more time I've spent contemplating death the easier time I've had with it: Every beginning implies an end. Every birth and growth implies a decline and death. All coming-together results in
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by q845712 3y ago
Their language is "Tibetic" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetic_languages
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by q845712 3y ago
depends on the situation but generally most people aren't that enthusiastic to be your UX guinea pigs, and it isn't that much fun to administer the same test so many times in a single day (think of how bored your optometrist sound
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by q845712 3y ago
I was hoping you were going to link to a DIY tms, so i will: https://www.instructables.com/Transcranial-Magnetic-Stimulat... Note the disclaimers, especially "TOUCHING THE DEVICE WRONG DURING ASSEMBLY CAN INSTANTLY KI
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by q845712 3y ago
in the interest of pluralism and live/let-live though: I've found it more rewarding and interesting to learn and participate in some relatively ancient rituals than to track and attend sports games. I don't think these thing
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by q845712 3y ago
I'm not a proponent of either, but as I understand creationism there's a "divine plan" and as I understand simulationism there's just a "vast parameter search" so imo being inside a simulation would be dis
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by q845712 3y ago
imo part of the goal is to convince you that "reason" is ... - an illusion - an affectation of the bourgeoisie - an incomplete and imperfect tool - only effective within a limited and hard-to-bound domain - a tool of oppression -
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by q845712 3y ago
> an incoherent blob of text arguing with itself. Kinda like HackerNews but from before someone invented modern threading and quoting, yeah?
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by q845712 3y ago
it seems easy to undervalue undeveloped land. I think the argument being made is that we have land that's already connected to the electrical grid, already has roads and routes for servicing, already has fire mitigation and contingency
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by q845712 3y ago
> > Open sourcing code is also extra work that has to be done and will make the software more expensive to make and maintain. > Not if there is an established standard and practice of writing code in an open source way. I've w
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by q845712 3y ago
YMMV but both my macbooks occasionally display evidence that they were awake while they were asleep (e.g. if i close the hing at 10pm and open it at 8am, it might show 2:14am for a few seconds before catching up, but also they show new unre

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