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by Liron 7y ago
I would ask yourself how likely this nightmare scenario really is, since you seem to be planning your life around it. Seems super unlikely. I'd invest in selling you insurance at like 4:1 odds that it won't come true that you woul
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Most of us have rich lives compared to the average parent in 1950. I was struck by how Bryan Caplan put it in perspective [1]: > If you asked parents in the Fifties to imagine raising their four children with the help of the technology a
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by Liron 7y ago
This essay jibes with the thesis of “Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids” [1]. It’s a book that nudges you to have one or two more kids than you were otherwise going to have. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Reasons-Have-Mor
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I also did not experience the chemical changes part. At the time I was wondering if I would, but nope.
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> With a lot of Cycorp projects, it's hard to point your finger at exactly where the "AI" is happening. Lol. It really sounds like none of the projects need Cyc. Sounds like the model is to bait smart engineers to work at
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https://youtu.be/nUBtKNzoKZ4
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I suspect you're suffering from status quo bias. Try flipping the situation around: imagine we have this same area as undeveloped land, with a button that magically converts it into the current Bay. Would you prefer to develop the land
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How'd you pick the name?
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Ya, here's why I think "make your programs shorter" is a good criterion. If a language compresses conceivably-desirable programs to a smaller AST size, then for all N, a higher fraction of size-N ASTs (compared to other langu
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Use Mind-Hangers to Teach Concepts Better(lesswrong.com)
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I don't know how good Box was at conveniently syncing a folder back when Dropbox launched, but I'm guessing that wasn't a strength of theirs, because I know people got excited about Dropbox's pre-launch demo video. Azure
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Now Brex has to up their UI/UX game
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It's only ISA-like for businesses whose low-profit times are their low-revenue times, like seasonal businesses. But often businesses have a relatively steady stream of revenue and fluctuating/unpredictable net profit/loss (es
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How Specificity Works(lesswrong.com)
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Specificity: Your Brain's Superpower(lesswrong.com)
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I've had this idea before and I would have named it "LastBreath" or "Low Chattery". But their name is good too.
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It’s on-topic for my other tweet: https://twitter.com/liron/status/1137729277359734786
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by Liron 7y ago
Google is famous for raising the bar on speed and yeah, their performance is usually impeccable. That’s why the existence of a consistently slow Google search is newsworthy.
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Google search takes 7 seconds on certain queries(twitter.com)
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Right, plus there are plenty of Americans who want to work for say $13/hr if the job is a rewarding one. The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 is arguably low enough to raise somewhat because why not, but $15/hr is clearly hig
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No, componentization is only one of the major concepts of React. Declarative reactive re-rendering is key, as opposed to having to imperatively code the details of how UI parts transition from one state to the next. For example, iOS UI deve
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Of course, another example of how React is the software engineering paradigm shift of this decade. Comparable to last decade's shift from desktop to web apps. Interesting that React is fundamentally an invention at the level of progr
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by Liron 7y ago
I meant the convenience of tossing something away and having it go somewhere properly out of the way. You mention "defecating wherever you find convenient" - yes, another pleasure of modern life is that at any time I can walk to a
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by Liron 7y ago
Yeah, hybrid cars might be called a "local maximum"... at best. "Local" because they were always predictably a technological dead end. "Maximum" because they maybe gave us a slight improvement in fuel efficienc
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We really shot ourselves in the foot with this whole pointless "recycling paper and plastic" thing huh? The convenience of throwing something away is a triumph of modern civilization and one of life's little pleasures, and we
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Where's the Twitter of Podcasting?(medium.com)
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> They end up in sketchy territory i.e. the pixels, forcing people to reveal how they use gmail in order to sign up, tracking every-single-aspect of how users are using their site, hyped up bullshit etc. You're passionately assertin
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Yes, most founders still get the order of operations wrong and build too much before understanding a problem. I actually think [1] the term "MVP" gives people a misleading idea of a lean startup, because you don't need a &quo
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A million dollar homepage isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollar homepage by the same founder [1] [1] https://calm.com
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!agreed

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