skosch

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by skosch 2y ago
> For the first time ever, I wasnt counting the days until retirement or a long 7+ day vacation. That sounds rather positive. Still 'it was not the dream'?
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by skosch 5y ago
I instinctively want to agree with you, but isn't it possible that throwing orders-of-magnitude more engineers at these kinds of problems will eventually get them solved, but right now nobody is doing that because the hardware is too e
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by skosch 5y ago
Have you? Because the rationalists I know are genuinely well-adjusted people. It's cheap and easy to make fun of the lesswrong community as a cringy cult of AI-obsessed neckbeards. And to be fair, the writing style on LW tends to suppo
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by skosch 5y ago
Most proposals in this direction (e.g. Glen Weyl's "Radical Markets", [1]) make reasonable exemptions for basic personal needs, so people don't get thrown out of their (modest) homes or lose their personal belongings une
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by skosch 5y ago
"Second most popular language in the area" is a gross distortion of reality. It would make zero sense for a local police officer to choose to yell at local protestors or local colleagues in a non-native language that carries sig
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by skosch 6y ago
The latent space of type design choices is large but very much finite, and concepts like "warmth" consistently refer to features like large curves, low stroke contrast, deliberate imperfections (that evoke physical reproduction) e
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by skosch 6y ago
Nice, Tai Le looks really close! I first thought it might be Deseret Cursive [1], but I don't think that's it either. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
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by skosch 6y ago
No, but RH knows, and could make that distinction if they wanted to. RH is punishing margin and non-margin users alike until it has enough cash again to resume making orders. To be clear, the RH T&C very broadly protect them in case of
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by skosch 6y ago
Well, in a world where users had to have fully funded their accounts before making any orders, the clearinghouse would have nothing to worry about. So it's not exactly independent from whether end users are using margin. It looks like
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by skosch 6y ago
I'd like to add: org-mode is overwhelming, so just take it easy. Set up a notes folder, sync it to the web, and just use org as a plain markdown/todo list editor for a while. Perhaps add org-roam (like vimwiki with backlinks). The
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by skosch 6y ago
It is being funded – at a small scale, but growing nonetheless. Just yesterday the NYT wrote about $3M from Silver Lining and $4M from NOAA. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/climate/climate-change-g
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by skosch 6y ago
Yes, and that is impressive! But he has also set several cold exposure world records that these people probably couldn't replicate that easily, or perhaps ever.
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by skosch 6y ago
I haven't listened to them but can recommend the Medlife Crisis episode [0], in which he reviews the scientific literature around the effects of cold exposure, blood oxygenation/acidity from hyper-/hypoventilation, and relate
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by skosch 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial
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by skosch 6y ago
I don't know about vimagit, but vim's org-mode support is very barebones. Give doom-emacs a try though. You really can have the best of both worlds nowadays.
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by skosch 6y ago
That's not quite right. Even if there were no gravity or other forces, there would be no incentive for matter to go in one direction vs another, regardless of the distribution of matter around it. Over time you'd get a uniform-ish
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by skosch 6y ago
As another commenter pointed out, the victim is the public's trust in the financial market. With transactions between private entities, information asymmetry is a normal part of life. But if you want to be able to sell your shares on a
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by skosch 6y ago
Please provide credible evidence for this claim.
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by skosch 6y ago
Radiolab has a wonderfully deep episode on this topic: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/post-... The main issue is the sheer volume of content. Four seconds – that's their estimate
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by skosch 6y ago
That's not Kentucky you linked to, that's west of Cologne ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinisches_Braunkohlerevier )
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by skosch 6y ago
Yeah, sorry. I should be clear: I didn't in any way mean to imply that a carbon dividend would come close to being a UBI, just that it works the same way: a fixed chunk of money for everyone, every month/quarter/year. A nano-
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by skosch 6y ago
Everyone gets back the same amount. You can't even know how much carbon tax you paid, because it's levied at the source. It's a redistribution scheme at the expense of polluters.
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by skosch 6y ago
Not if you make it revenue neutral – HR763 is basically a mini-UBI funded by carbon taxes: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/energy-innovation-and-carbo...
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by skosch 6y ago
> fried his brains from LSD This, too, is an armchair diagnosis and unnecessarily sensational language. According to Wikipedia: > Asked if Barrett may have had Asperger's syndrome, his sister Rosemary Breen said that he and his s
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by skosch 6y ago
You're right, changing one's worldview is difficult, and we certainly shouldn't force anyone to endorse views they don't hold. That said, hitching one's identity to unfalsifiable beliefs ("there is nothing scie
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by skosch 6y ago
Insulting people is a bad idea in general, but there is an obvious difference between religion on one hand and sexual orientation/race on the other: you can choose (and change) the former but not the latter.
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by skosch 6y ago
Bezos' dollars are a lot more fungible than that. What would "owning ancient Egypt" on paper do for you, really?
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by skosch 6y ago
The overall design is nice, but you may want to reconsider the combination of Visuelt and Helvetica Neue. Not only are they just different enough to noticeably clash; what's worse, I thought the Helvetica was (unstyled, fallback-stack)
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by skosch 6y ago
You've got the right Robin Hanson. The key argument is that there is lots of uncertainty, but variolation is probably worth trying. And if volunteers can be found, why not? One shouldn't need to be a virologist to credibly make th
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by skosch 6y ago
That's a misunderstanding of the problem. Optimizing for engagement tends to favour extreme, simplistic, and highly emotional viewpoints. In other words, it caters to human nature. This tendency is harmful to rational discourse, re

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