FredPret

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by FredPret 1y ago
What about gait recognition
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No-one has to hold the C-suite to account or directly communicate with them in any way. You just need investors and consumers to allocate capital to their competitors. The flow of capital and consumer preference is a decentralized communica
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Bad companies tie up capital and talent unproductively. If a CEO is making a tech product, but knows so little about tech that he's replacing engineers with 2025's AIs, we're all better off if that CEO goes and does something
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Your comment has two lines but manages to be very puzzling indeed. "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" is a term that bares your ideological slant, which I hope and I'm sure you realize. But that you pose our ideological
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Name such a country and then also explore that country's economic history over the past 200 years. I think you'll be hard pressed to find one where life hasn't gotten vastly better.
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We have good working conditions mainly because we can now afford them. Do you think poor people didn't get upset / rebellious in centuries and millennia past? The difference now is that we have the GDP and tech to support much cus
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Musk waving a chainsaw is one out of many hundreds of millions of rich people. And there's reason to believe that he believes he's doing something that's good for society in the long run, even if you disagree with him.
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Unionizing and voting for Saturdays off and the politics of the underdog hardly counts as "warfare". It's when we regard one another as evil that we start to pursue ideology over pragmatism and end up cutting off our noses to
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by FredPret 1y ago
People advocating for their interests isn't warfare. I assure you there are virtually no rich people cackling, monocles and cigars in place, over the fate of the poor. When the working class unionizes or vote for more rights, this isn&
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...why? How? Have you seen any history at all? This has never worked. Cohesive, trusting societies get much further than ones that are at war with themselves. Even so, cohesion and trust are nice-to-haves. Tech progress and GDP growth has
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It's the idea that class warfare will get us anywhere good that's brutally naive at this point.
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The killer feature I want from CarPlay is not blasting my audiobook when the car turns on. I've gone so far as to create a Shortcut to play a silent song on Apple Music, but it's a hack and it only works sometimes.
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield wrote a fun book involving Lunokhod: The Apollo Murders.
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After that, play Civ 1 and follow the chariot swarm strategy. I forget the exact strategy, but it's something like this: - build your cities only two squares apart - research only until you can build chariots, then set Science to 0%. (
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It's only hard if you actually try to engage with all of the game mechanics. - Play as the Dutch to get their four-item capacity ship - settle near Ore - build only one or two cities, and make them as populated as you can. Wagon train
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> Your task is to fix your process so the proportions of green and blue are closer to those of the general population. No, your task is to ensure airplanes don’t collide.
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Wow, I’m convinced! In all seriousness: why do you insist on an intellectual totem pole with art being more “hoity toity” as you say, and more worthy? And if so, why is engineering below painting? In mathematics and some hard sciences, and
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Exactly. Each of us is standing on the shoulders of giants - technological, scientific, commercial, political, and many other kinds of contributions. Life may not be perfect, but we all live downstream from Ugh the Caveman who once held a b
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But Stephenson describes things in this mechanistic, ADHD way. It’s just his technique - he still paints a picture of people with rich inner lives and strong desires. Maybe the characters’ sentiments (mostly pro-Western tech optimism) don’t
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Some suffer from learned helplessness. This turbocharges their resentment towards their boss, their company, and all of capitalism. Appreciating the magic of living in a thriving economy (true for most of the world for decades now) is partl
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Engineering is a form of art where the engineer makes many decisions, large and small, where optimality cannot be proven. Taste most certainly plays a role, and there are engineering products that clearly show good or poor taste. Unfortunat
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Exactly, that's why I do it on the DNS level
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For me it's because: - I need it to work within phone apps, my TV, on Safari, and on Chrome - I just don't trust Chrome addons. When you go to install an ad blocker, there's an extremely ominous warning about how it can read
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by FredPret 1y ago
Very true. I don't even use that feature - I just have my TV cycle through all my Favourite'd photos. It then selects a new subset of those photos to cycle through every day or so. It's perfect, and I get to control which pho
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Being too cool for school really steals a lot of joy from the people who subscribe to that idea. I was a tourist at Pisa not long ago and we really unironically enjoyed "leaning" into our roles as tourists, and now we have fun pic
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My wife and I went on a giant trip a couple of years back. I took tens of thousands of pictures. They're now our Apple TV background. Every time a new photo comes on the slideshow, it sparks a memory and moment of joy. It's like t
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Or, randomly select the senate members and keep the 50% + 1 rule
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Maybe it's handling the eggs that taught the Kiwis rugby
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They tend to do this with spacecraft by turning the whole craft so acceleration always comes through the floor
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It's funny now - imagine being the Commissar for Lens Cap design in the old USSR and overseeing all that

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