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by Balgair 1y ago
It's always a bit revealing, with these kids of interstellar missions, how people reveal their own unseen biases. Clearly such a mission is beyond the capabilities of our world currently. Like, obviously such a mission is something tha
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The best piece that I have found on Donny and his voting assembly is from 1852. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumai... Perhaps, unsurprisingly, it's Marx. But mostly its Mar
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by Balgair 1y ago
Thanks!
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Ahhh, no, not in France. From what I can tell (which isn't much) Durov is living in France and seems to like it there. I'm not going to assume the people that are a product of his sperm donations are all living in France, but I wi
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by Balgair 1y ago
I'd say give it a whirl and see how you like it. I'm not sure about YT, but my podcast app allows for me to map the left earbud's +/- buttons for volume and the right earbud's for playback speed. I can go slower or
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I love this for Shakespeare performances and other old plays. Most of Bill's work are on YT, in full, for free anyways. So you can find a 'good' one and read along, getting the nuances in performance too. LibreVox has a lot o
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Most audio players these days have an option to listen to the media at higher speeds. Through some FFT magic, I think, the tone doesn't go up either; it's just faster. I watch most of my YT vids at ~2x now and most podcasts are at
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So then we'd have to assume that the error was not a 'simple' one. Which is a lot harder to find and fix, almost by definition. I mean, look, this isn't a good sign for spacex. Whatever problem there is, clearly it'
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I'm sorry what? What do you mean by diffraction here? Are you talking about the bokeh? The laser isn't interacting with any other elements than the air before it makes the gradient sheet light up. And the permisivity of the air is
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Aside (for Father's day): I find it a bit ... cute (?) that all these philosophers that debate this kind of stuff [0] seem to mostly be fatherless bachelors. Like, men that have had kids just don't seem to happen upon the issues o
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Aside: Veritasium had a great video similar to this on the paths that light takes. I'll link to the part where they do the best physics demo I have ever seen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZ1Ez28C-A&t=1500
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Oh yes, there are lot of those folks in there too. But then you get hardcore socialists from Korea that are pretty worried about the issues there. And some muslim scholars sometimes. Like, I said, it's a 'fun' grab bag of peo
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ACX had a good review of a pro-natal book here: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-selfish-reasons... TLDR: The reviewer, who has twins under 2, is flabbergasted and can't figure out the book's logi
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The project 2025 stuff is pretty much all they have to go on. Literally, they are looking any plan whatsoever, and this was the 'whatsoever'. If you want to steer the next admin, go grab the $20/mo Claude subscription, work w
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Aside: I hang out in 'Pro Natalism' social media every once in a while. It's a really strange place and a bit fun as a result. The thing is that low fertility impacts everyone, so you get a lot of strange bedfellows. The fu
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To some degree, I mean, it's LA. Somewhere in the 19 million people in the Southland, a car is burnt in anger or celebration every weekend. Lakers parades are famously family unfriendly. Businesses are robbed daily and violently. I mea
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Gracias ;)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin Not only was William a loyalist, he was the last colonial governor of New Jersey and was one of the chief leaders of the loyalists. His early years and heritage are just c
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Yeah, plagues and famines are really bad at driving solidarity. They tend to do the opposite. I also had high hopes in the beginning too. But I feared that it would be like the Plague of Milan in 1630. That particular plague is in Il Promi
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Prediction: By 2035, a common interview question for hedge-funds and FANGs will be: "Can you make unlimited bets on fanduel and draftkings?" Goofus: Yes, I bet on them all the time. Why do you ask? Gallant: I don't really bet
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Scandinavians tend to have lactose intolerance as children that they later outgrow. It's not a universal thing, but is common enough.
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Oh gosh, 72 is way more anti-prime, I've always just used the rule of 70 in my head though. if I have a calculator handy, I'll use [(69.3/rate) + 0.3] as that's really close to the actual numbers for rates under about 10
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I remember two churches I attended. In the first one, the communion was actual wine. The priest was adamant about it being real wine. But, we had a guy who was a recovering alcoholic in the congregation. Now, if you know anyone that is reco
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkKPsLxgpuY Veritasium had a good primer on IQ scores and what they actually mean for your life TLDW: IQ score seems to really only correlates to being too dumb to be conscripted and effectiv
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Fun little quirk of IQ: Lower-IQ scored couples tend to have children with higher IQ scores, and higher-IQ scored couples tend to have children with lower IQ scores. The explanation seems to be that whatever random genes you got to have an
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Love the app! But it crashes for me every 255 seconds after start-up on Android. Yes, I timed it. Is there a way to submit bug reports?
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> Designing a "mostly ChatGPT-proof class" is in my opinion actually rather simple: just be inspired by the German university system: Now the real question is the costs. In that, can you somehow make this system work at scale w
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Aside: It's going to be a great time when the crows, raccoons, and other semi-intelligent wildlife discover that these drones have food in them at seemingly random reward schedules. Sure, you can give the drones little tasers to keep t
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Longer term, we can expect Ukraine to do this over and over, even is they loose. Like, if Ukraine lost the war today, folded up, surrendered, kaput. You'd still get organized splinter groups with funding from small nation-states or eve

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