SuoDuanDao

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by SuoDuanDao 20d ago
I'm currently teaching Chinese high school students, and I don't buy it. There is certain content that's blocked here, but most of what's on the local tiktok is pretty trash either way because t's not the subjects,
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by SuoDuanDao 21d ago
Beyond a Free-for-all, ID-checked gates, or a sanitised platform there's a fourth option: you declare what you want less of and your own software enforces it against the platform's preferences.
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by SuoDuanDao 23d ago
Ads are everywhere. I really think the 'fight against advertising' needs more of an aiki bent than it has. Advertising is such a massive juggernaut, we have as much hope of stopping it as a naked person has of stopping a freight t
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by SuoDuanDao 1mo ago
The trouble with adblocking is that it causes discomfort to a powerful party without making any demands. We withhold attention at scale, but we never say what we'd accept in exchange for giving it back. The only thing the advertisers c
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by SuoDuanDao 1mo ago
That is a great point. We have such a 'bias for action' in popular culture, especially in places like Hacker News, that we overlook how much energy successful cultures have put into 'bias for restraint'. I very much like
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by SuoDuanDao 2mo ago
This reminds me of 'friendzone' discussions - "if this guy keeps asking to date you when you've made it clear you're not interested, why talk to him at all?" -"Because he does all kinds of things for me th
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
I'm sapiosexual, so really hot and not all that clever can't co-occur from my perspective. But education is orthogonal to intelligence and really not a factor. I'd probably find e.g. an intelligent woman raised in a hunter-ga
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
10 000 hours is the number observed among elite performers (Olympic athletes, chess grandmasters, concert level musicians and the like) - I don't think most people complaining about the difficulty of contemporary dating are aiming to b
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
I think you're onto something. It seems like thinking about 'meta-relationships' tends to depersonalize the individual interactions and devalue the individuals involved. It's as though successful relationships are a fitt
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
why was this flagged?
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
Spending more to reduce recidivism is like insulating your house - if you think you can't afford it, you probably can't afford not to do it.
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
Canada's internet companies are basically crown corporations. Squashing competition doesn't help the consumer as much as you might imagine.
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
I'd guess there is still more interest in moving to London proper than space for additional housing within the city though.
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
I'd say Jo Zayner's the closest to Tesla due to the showpersonship and self-experimentation in public.
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
I wish I knew whether I was actually better at erotica than other genres or people are just more likely to pay for erotica. I suspect it's the latter...
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
didn't know that. Are they massive by European standards (significantly above 75 acres)? I'm sure they're small by American standards given the size of the landmass...
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
This field has its own version of Pascal's wager - if magic isn't real, knowing that puts one in a minority of people correct about the matter globally but only reduces social friction in a modern western society. If it is real, i
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
as always, it depends on practices. Here's a pretty good presentation on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z75A_JMBx4&t=783s&pp=ygUbY2...
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
I think the comment about dutch farms was that they were getting along fine with high labour costs and small footprints.
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
direct to consumer seems like a huge growth field to me actually, there's much less need for a middle man (grocer) now that everyone can buy and sell via their preferred marketplace app.
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
Specifying technical books is interesting - my first book was fairly technical (though the spiritual theme which probably reduced the target market significantly) but my most successful books monetarily were far and away the erotica I wrote
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
At the end of the day, intermittent renewables and nuclear are both low-externality energy sources chasing the same public funding. Neither competes with high-externality energy sources except in rare situations, and since the public purse
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
I don't have the numbers with me, but I've seen convincing discussions that it can work with some caveats. The main issue being that spot prices are extremely volatile, so it's possible for a player at the utility space to
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
reasonable statement. I think of programming as a discipline with three core skills, those being choosing what problem to solve, writing a solution, and debugging the solution. I suppose it's the writing that's gotten a lot easier
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
Batteries are currently following their own version of Moore's law, though they double in quality (or halve in price) every 48 instead of every 18 months. Of course, that isn't a trend that can continue forever, but it doesn'
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
Well, yes. Permaculture seeks to adopt practices from the kind of long-running success stories you're describing. For historical reasons it does so much more with respect to paleolithic practices than bronze age ones, but there's
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
Fewer, I'd assume? What I'm curious about is whether anyone has advice for people getting into programming now.
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
I agree, but I'm worried about where that leaves junior devs - what are the entry level jobs for coders in a post-LLM future?
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
It is a fair amount of work even with forest gardens (I grew up in a permaculture project that began a few years before I was born). I think the economics are only appealing to the rational actor if the labour displaces time spent in the gy
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by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
I'd really like a citation on the 'big ag has less environmental impact' claim.

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