PeterHolzwarth

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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
Oh, the pandemic - that's a great counterpoint you bring up. And I like the distinction you make that the collective experience was quite strange: collective in the aggregate, but profoundly isolating in (individual) practice. I wonder
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
Thank god. Win 10 continues to be the most attractive OS Microsoft currently kinda provides, despite being borderline unsupported. It continues to astonish me just how staggeringly anti-user MS's OneDrive push has gotten: think of Word
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
so therefore don't create laws or pass city ordinances? I don't understand your logic.
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
I think veganism in America went through a popular phase, then simply faded as a pop concept. Perhaps your experiences in the UK merely reflect that, there, it is just going through a temporary uptick of fad.
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
I don't know that I would characterize the typical Substack writer as a "journalist." It's just opinion blogging.
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
"a society needs to face a potential collective crisis to "produce its own fabric."" Good point - the linked article, and the article it itself links to, essentially, but without realizing it, indicates the American ex
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
Pithy rejoinder, thanks! If this were /. in 1999, I'd call this +1 Insightful.
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
The majority of people live in cities - and a growing majority.
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
Quick reminder that Apple was part of the silicon valley crew that partook of illegal non-poaching arrangements with other SV companies, helping to stifle salaries and more. But, that's a bit of a tangent. On the other hand, Apple is a
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
And at a macro level, often found to be accurate due to how the businesses in India operate. Poll the west's engineers: you'll find that engineering from India is not currently viewed very favorably, in general. There are excellen
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
Yeah, good point - I assume a lot of the seeming anomalies are due to conurbations that, as you say, aren't obvious when just looking at borders.
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
My goodness, I didn't realize how many states are dual time zone. Florida, Oregon, Idaho, both of the Dakotas, and many more - I assume there's a historical reason for each, but that has got to play havoc with things at the state
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
You appear to be sponsored by the word "stupid."
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
Well I get your point, but Sweden has a GDP of just under a trillion. The example US state of Idaho has a GDP of about 100 billion. It really is just a quiet, no-frills, rural kind of state.
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by PeterHolzwarth 3mo ago
I don't know that this is an easy comparison to make. Switzerland is 16k square miles in size (and about 9.1 million people). Taking a random, low-density American state as a comparison - say, the innocuous and sparsely-populated weste
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by PeterHolzwarth 4mo ago
That's kind of the point.
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by PeterHolzwarth 4mo ago
A couple years of reduced weight, and all the benefits that entails, doesn't sound bad.
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by PeterHolzwarth 4mo ago
Thanks for that link and info - I had never heard of this issue, even obliquely!
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by PeterHolzwarth 4mo ago
That's quite admirable to correct yourself in public. Good on ya.
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by PeterHolzwarth 4mo ago
What a ridiculously myopic take. Slavery was the norm in most places in most of human history. Pick a continent: there was slavery there at one point or another, and often over extensive periods.
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by PeterHolzwarth 4mo ago
They say they have a flat structure. People who have worked there, despite some axe-grinding, indicate otherwise.
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by PeterHolzwarth 5mo ago
https://archive.ph/SofZ1
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by PeterHolzwarth 5mo ago
The AI use thing is a bit iffy, as the "upper middle class" people are using it heavily simply because the tools currently on offer are made for the type of work they do (and remember: if you are a FAANG engineer, you are very sol
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by PeterHolzwarth 5mo ago
I get you, but as the months progress, we keep finding that more and more experienced engineers are finding a lot of time-saving value in this new tech. I think we are past the point where we can just dismiss their input - these new tools d
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by PeterHolzwarth 5mo ago
There's no "productivity growth attributed to AI" -- yet. I think we've gone beyond anecdotal evidence of experience engineers finding true value in this new tech. It may not have registered yet, but skilled people are u
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by PeterHolzwarth 5mo ago
On the off chance you care - you can keep javascript disabled on this article, and just a No Style page style to read it.
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by PeterHolzwarth 5mo ago
Article is a bit short. Here's a few more to flesh out the topic and the plant, tho honestly only by a smidge (none of these links require javascript enabled) https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/botany/news
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by PeterHolzwarth 6mo ago
In regards to the first method, are you saying that the skins of beans are the majority source of undigestible sugars in beans? <edit> actually, come to think of it, fiber is also a source of gas. Are the skins of beans the higher sou
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by PeterHolzwarth 6mo ago
I'm not very familiar with this topic. What is the chemical mechanism through which you feel that baking soda reduces undigestible sugars in beans?
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by PeterHolzwarth 7mo ago
A minor thing - I know that article is part of a broader body of work and is not meant to solely present your ideas by itself. But nonetheless, since you linked to it, I had to scan down quite a bit to answer the question that was immediate

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