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by Swizec 2y ago
> As far as I know, it is strictly a matter of price, there is no technological reason why it cannot work Trees, bogs, and permafrost are already super efficient at carbon capture. This is more of a culture/incentives problem than a
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by Swizec 2y ago
Another good way of phrasing this: Play the cards you have, not the cards you wish you had.
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by Swizec 2y ago
> implying your spouse is not a smart person My spouse is a smart person. But she cares about computers about as much as I care about how billion dollar corporate partnerships are made. She just wants her computer to work and I just want
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Nike loses 25B market cap after investing in DTC marketing(twitter.com)
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by Swizec 2y ago
> is computing actually a solved problem and we're really just mostly reinventing the wheel and enshittifying perfectly already working systems? 80% of the work is json bureaucracy The other 80% is adapting to new requirements And i
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by Swizec 2y ago
We’ve gotten great mileage out of Amplitude’s support for feature flags and experiments. Puts our flags where PMs are already used to looking and integrates deeply with the metrics they care about.
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by Swizec 2y ago
What about when one of the more influential media companies is just a bunch of teenagers from eastern europe doing it for the ad clicks? And it just so happens that one side of the aisle clicks more than the other? > Fake News: How a Par
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Why would a type ever own another type? FHIR, an international standard for medical data, is a great example here. The circular types get so gnarly that I've personally managed to infinite-recursion the TypeScript compiler. We eve
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by Swizec 2y ago
> But these are luxuries and if you ask most doctors, you'll get back "you look great why would you do that?", aka, come back when you're sick. Proactive tests are great! Except for the false positive challenge. If th
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I feel like healthy relationships don't have a rate of a problem or more per week Problems are much quicker and easier to resolve when they’re fresh and small than after you let them simmer into deep resentment. “Hey when you left
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by Swizec 2y ago
15 years of publishing things online :)
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I would suggest a less strong but more plausible claim that GPT4o has trouble summarizing for longer form content outside the bounds of it's context window or something like a lossier attention mechanism is being used as a comprom
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by Swizec 2y ago
> > we may never have an answer to [why the parachutes didn't deploy] > but they want you to click and monetize a 5 minute "talk radio" bit to learn more? > No thanks. We got the HANS device because NASCAR drivers
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by Swizec 2y ago
> and is thus observably a more just compensation model for servers Except for the several studies showing tips have little to no correlation with service quality and depend primarily on the customer’s self perception as a tipping person
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Let's just barricade up the streets. No traffic = no traffic accidents. That’s what my home city did – Ljubljana. Over the past few decades the downtown area has become an almost square mile sized pedestrian zone. It has been wond
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by Swizec 2y ago
GP is describing traffic calming road design. Where planners make roads purposefully feel less safe in certain neighborhoods because that statistically makes them safer per mile driven. A common example here in SF is to add unnecessary be
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by Swizec 2y ago
Cartoons from the 1920’s and up to 1940’s are full of racist tropes like that And yes we watch those as kids at least in Europe because “all cartoons are for kids”
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by Swizec 2y ago
I’ve lived here for ~10 years and I’m still learning. The base realization is that if you come from a mostly homogenous (or openly racist a la apartheid) background, you simply can’t understand how American style racism works. In my home co
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by Swizec 2y ago
> which was explained in manuals as a "keyword signaling an error condition" Fun side-note: As someone who learned programming in parallel with learning English, my brain still thinks of many programming constructs as keywords
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I don't know how true it is, but I've heard that some cyclists had/have to set alarms throughout the night so they wake up to do jumping jacks to get their heart rates back up above the "artificial" 15bpm that
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by Swizec 2y ago
A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept. It takes shockingly little to out-slope 90% of the population. Even for people who pre-select into competitive fields, if you read 1 relevant book per month outside work, you’re waaaa
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by Swizec 2y ago
It's what I was told in driver's ed. Maybe assuming that they're only teaching me how to drive by-the-book was wrong.
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by Swizec 2y ago
My experience of learning to drive in Europe is that there are roads where the speed limit is 90kph but any non-local sane person will drive 60kph (most mountain roads) and there are roads where the limit is 130kph but regular traffic flows
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by Swizec 2y ago
Thanks for sharing this game! It showed me exactly what I'm doing wrong with my current book project (~2.5 years so far). The winning move is to mine for an idea, then just do that idea and nothing else until you get a paper or rejec
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by Swizec 2y ago
Personality is the factory of identity. My personality enjoys the meditative aspect of long distance sports. People who observe these behaviors call me a runner (identity). I don’t consider myself a runner but cant argue that when you see m
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by Swizec 2y ago
> Because activity in many communities seems to dropped significantly, at least from what I can see. Yeah, Discord's seemingly doing better than Reddit or Twitter in this climate, but even then, communities that seemed to be booming
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by Swizec 2y ago
I realized we probably come from different educational environments. Maybe mine just wasn’t as effective as yours. If you learned good/effective communications skills from high school essays, kudos! I did not, but I did enjoy the proce
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by Swizec 2y ago
It definitely has. It’s been commoditized for years actually. Just go on upwork and see the sad rates that copywriters ask for. Producing words is super commoditized. Producing good words not so much.
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by Swizec 2y ago
Yes and none of that is a high school essay. They’re an extremely poor teaching tool of effective communication. As evidence I submit ChatGPT’s own waffly style of writing. It learned that from humans who on average are poor communicators
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by Swizec 2y ago
> students getting ChatGPT to write their essays so they don't have to actually learn anything? You know it’s funny but my math professor in high school had the same argument when I modeled a calculus problem in my computer to arriv

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