GVIrish

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by GVIrish 4y ago
You didn't see Twitter Spaces, Fleets, Birdwatch, Tweet Editing, and Twitter Blue? Some of those features have been successful for them, some not, but they've been releasing features.
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by GVIrish 4y ago
The thing I always wonder is, in habitats where birds would normally have to deal with feline predators, how is the domestic cat worse than that? Any birds in environments that have feline predators would already be adapted to avoidng cats
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by GVIrish 4y ago
Seinfeld talks a bit more in depth about his writing strategy in a podcast he did with Tim Ferriss: podcast: https://tim.blog/2020/12/08/jerry-seinfeld/ transcript: https://tim.blog/2020&
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by GVIrish 4y ago
It's stunning that people bought into Luna 2.0 after the first Luna token imploded. It didn't take a few years, it was what, a few weeks later?
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by GVIrish 4y ago
It's not about passion at all. Plenty of passionate work themselves to the breaking point and end up with crappy games or failing to release at all. It's that making ambitious games is hard, and if your organization doesn't
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by GVIrish 4y ago
Enzo Ferrari is such a unique character in automotive history. Not only did he piss off Ferruccio Lamborghini so much that he created a competing car company, he also enraged Henry Ford II so much that Ford decided to build the GT40 to bea
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by GVIrish 4y ago
Modern Ferraris are actually pretty reliable as supercars go. A few years ago Ferrari started included free maintenance for any new Ferrari for 7 years, so most owners are only really paying for tires and gas. Not to say the cars are perfe
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by GVIrish 4y ago
We already do. Crash safety standards, seatbelts, and mandatory air bags dramatically decrease injury and death in crashes, and numerous other safety mandates reduce the chance of a crash in the first place.
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by GVIrish 4y ago
Yeah I mean wash trading isn't that sophisticated, but it is wizardry to the people gettinf fooled by it. The algorithmic peg and other stablecoin shenanigans aren't necessarily that sophisticated either, and yet...
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by GVIrish 4y ago
It's not necessarily that people thinking 20% interest is safe is greedy. It's that many people don't have the financial literacy to understand that something paying that high of an interest rate is going to be risky. And t
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by GVIrish 4y ago
The financial wizardry behind NFT's is the wash trading. A lot of average people looking to get into NFT's simply don't understand that many of the 'success stories' they see of people making big money on NFT'
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by GVIrish 5y ago
I think this could be a large part of it. Putin's Russia is rife with corruption and cronyism. Those two things can dramatically reduce the effectiveness of a military. To start with, the yes-men problem means significant bad news is
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by GVIrish 5y ago
Hahaha, my brain type the wrong word but it's funny so I'll leave it.
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by GVIrish 5y ago
> It's clear that masking young, healthy adults who are tasked with the responsibility of rushing into oncoming bullets and missiles if need be, to mask themselves for going on now well into our third year of covid, which was never
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by GVIrish 5y ago
The problem is that it hurts the perception of Google, particularly for enterprise customers. If the perception is that Google is unresponsive and gives customers no recourse to address obviously incorrect behavior of its automated systems
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by GVIrish 5y ago
> The primary issue this week is that this section of Virginia rarely sees snowstorms of this magnitude and further most DC residents have no idea how to drive in it (or know when to stay home). That's not really it. We get snowsto
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by GVIrish 5y ago
Sweden did worse than the other Scandinavian countries that enacted stricter Covid restrictions, including lockdowns. Sweden had roughly 5-7x as many deaths per capita as its immediate neighbors of Norway and Finland. Germany had less dea
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by GVIrish 5y ago
It's not about contempt for defi, it's about applying the same level of regulatory oversight to defi that any other lending institution would have. Truth of the matter is that in the financial industry there are always cutthroat a
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by GVIrish 5y ago
The SEC is not trying to gate-keep wealth building, they're trying to protect consumers from fraudsters that feast on average consumers. People act like all of these companies trying to cash in on the crypto gold rush are on the up and
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by GVIrish 5y ago
When you think about it, the behavior isn't all that different from the way MLM converts act. MLM true believers would tell you it's the future of commerce or something and that it'll provide them financial independence or e
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by GVIrish 5y ago
This is what I think is the reasonable take on ORMs. If you're using one because you don't wanna learn SQL, that is a bad reason that will most likely result in more work in the long run. But if you're using it to increase p
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by GVIrish 5y ago
I was going off my memory of Bison populations, was way off there, thanks for the correction. Either way, we'd still be better off if we dramatically reduced cattle farming and restored some or all of that habitat, particularly in Sout
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by GVIrish 5y ago
If you can't sell people on nuclear power, there is no way in hell you're gonna sell people on extreme taxes on oil. And even if you could, the base load problem will still be there. Maybe if carbon were heavily taxed it would in
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by GVIrish 5y ago
> Humans made space for their preferred ruminants, like beef, by displacing vast populations of other ruminants which have similar climate impact. I don't think most people fully appreciate just how large the natural population was
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by GVIrish 5y ago
Humans don't always react rationally in code red situations though. Right now the irrational fear of nuclear power is stronger than the fear the average person or politician has of climate change. Doesn't mean that the climate c
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by GVIrish 5y ago
Sure heavy industry in space wouldn't pollute the Earth, but the physics for this just don't work out. How would you get all the produced goods back to Earth? Lots and lots of rockets that would then have to fly back up to space
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by GVIrish 5y ago
Yeah I just read stuff like that and tune out because it so resolutely silly. It takes a huge amount of energy to get into orbit. Other than satellites and a space station, we have nothing in space. But we're gonna move heavy indust
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by GVIrish 5y ago
Yeah I would be careful about drawing conclusions and assigning blame in this situation because it's hard to know all the factors leading to his dismissal. At the least, it sounds like there were problems with his leadership for month
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by GVIrish 5y ago
But you're back to the problem of breaking the business model of these companies. If everything was opt-in, subscription-only, that would fundamentally change these platforms. Even then, with zero moderation, feeds that people subscrib
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by GVIrish 5y ago
Nah it doesn't take anywhere near that amount of time to raise some produce. Maybe a half hour total per week, if that. Some stuff is easier to grow, some is harder, but for example I barely did anything on my strawberry patch this ye

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