Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
The Mercator is like circumcision. There might be many reasons invoked for it, but the main reason is that it's just what people in the US are familiar with. Even with no real trade-offs it's fairly clear that Google would still h
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't want to misrepresent their argument, and I don't want to go into a gotcha contest, but that's not what I got from the GP's comment. They said that bitcoin wasn't used the way dollars are used, which is diffe
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by Bakary 4y ago
On the contrary, it is a reverent homage. What other map is so significant in modern-day culture that it has gained any reputation at all, let alone a cadre of haters? Thanks to it, discussing map projections will never not be funny.
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by Bakary 4y ago
In my view that is the strongest use case of bitcoin that exists at this time, but the usefulness of this practice is dependent on the value of the crypto resting on the speculative desire of most of its adherents.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I think the causality is reversed here. Financial success on substack will come from developing a particular style that doesn't exist elsewhere in quite the same way, just like a writer or musician. It's not that people will walk
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by Bakary 4y ago
People sometimes treat established fiat currencies as a speculative or at least arbitrage-based asset, but they are a tiny minority compared to those who use it as well, currencies. With crypto the proportions are reversed. Those who use it
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by Bakary 4y ago
But for each of these markets there is something beneath it. With equities there are companies or at least some form of non-virtual economic activity. With real estate there are houses. With art, there are paintings and artists. With VCs th
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by Bakary 4y ago
You don't even need serious mental illness. Just the desire to have someone listen because you are discontent but otherwise sane.
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That's because the "actual" left was dormant or in small numbers until a decade ago
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The part about journalism is particularly troubling because Twitter is like crack for journalists and has thus played a big part in decreasing the credibility of the profession. The platform is a journalist's fantasy brought to life. T
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by Bakary 4y ago
What I don't really understand about the ideological basis for crypto and NFTs is that the number of people who are interested in it for reasons other than enrichment through speculation is vanishingly small. This of course circularily
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by Bakary 4y ago
This is a very interesting point. I've noticed that the idea that fiction is omni-present is normie-approved (books like Sapiens being bestsellers, anxiety about the media narratives, etc.) but fiction as a whole being bad is not somet
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't think it's unrealistic, just that we could possibly add more gradations and call it a spectrum, from the normiest of normies that is completely unreceptive to anything out of the ordinary to world-alerting thinkers who wen
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by Bakary 4y ago
The market is a bit more streamlined now, so once you check the 4K OLED smart TV surround speaker box there's less to discuss about hardware. With the rise of streaming, the decision is binary: use it or don't. And if you do use i
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That is true, but at the same time the depth is so high that short of speaking to another Johnny von Neumann you are not likely going to have that original of a conversation when compared to the pre-existing literature out there.
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Two different ideas. In depth conversations about touchy subjects (in a broad sense) can happen in many contexts, and it's important to drop the halo effect around the wealthy. In this case, not even just the wealthy in general but als
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by Bakary 4y ago
The idea of being a "stranger" as opposed to a "normie" is deeply seductive. I've had the tendency to believe it myself, but then I stumble onto some book or argument or discussion that acts as a reminder that it&#x
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't entirely disagree with what you mentioned but I believe it paints only part of the picture and heading to the next level of abstraction is necessary. Tautologically, a wealthy or high status person will know quite a bit about h
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It's somewhat tangential but I heartily recommend the Poul Anderson short story "The Man Who Came Early"
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It makes more sense to see it as frustration about the space that is then applied to individual authors. Hating on Newport is rather pointless; it will not affect his life or yield useful ideas. What's happening is that people are grow
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by Bakary 4y ago
I'm curious why you think this sort of conversation would only happen between wealthy people. The other aspect to consider is that to have deep conversations, you essentially need 95% reading 5% actual discussing because the depth can
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by Bakary 4y ago
Cal Newport is probably one of the "best" salesmen in the space because he has an actual non-meme job and seems to have more good faith than most others. But at the end of the day, his actionable material can be easily compressed
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by Bakary 4y ago
Sounds like a specialized productivity tool would be of little help there, since no tasklist can withstand the problem of just not being able to get started on a task. And something like GTD is only going to be another burdensome and anxiet
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It's not really about productivity. It's about creating a sense of control over your life. The reason there is an industry around this is because the need is never sated, and the productivity methods are switched around like fad d
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Unless you are stuck in a very poor country or with a debilitating illness, there are few other eras in history where you have as much freedom to change this.
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It's a waste of time in the sense that it's too late to change, but in itself it is the mechanically superior way to write and block letters ought never to have been adopted. I just feel aesthetically depressed when I think of mil
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by Bakary 4y ago
I believe this is because these settings are linked to the host in some of these apps. For instance, captions can be blocked by the host on Zoom. There is no such aspect to consider when streaming video for a single user. How do I know this
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Ironically we could be creating a generational divide over the fact that older people seem to like to categorize and explain away the youth without proper insight into the matter.
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It's not just a case of hearing loss. Much of the time, the soundmixing is just godawful.
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I don't understand the idea of cursive being useless or difficult. Are Americans learning some sort of old-fashioned lettering that I'm unable to picture? To me cursive is just the natural, fast, and smooth way to write by hand, w

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