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by Swizec 3y ago
Touché, I have many fond memories of partying at Metelkova in semi legal bars where high schoolers, college kids, and old rockers mixed as one. Some nights you’d get a punk or metal sore from a band happy to get 10 people listening, other n
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by Swizec 3y ago
There’s plenty non mainstream life out there. We’ve just gotten too old and too uncool to be invited. And when we do get invited it’s like “Ugh Wednesday is no good for me, how does Thursday 3 weeks from now work?”
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Or was it more of a outcompete and outbreed situation? There’s a lot of evidence we more or less absorbed the neanderthal population. Old school tribal genocide style – you win the war/battle, kill the men, take their wives. We d
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by Swizec 3y ago
I have astigmatism. Bright on dark renders with lens flares. On a computer I can just use light mode and it’s fine. Driving at night … I really hate bright lights on tall SUVs. Here’s an example of what it looks like (glasses help): https:
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by Swizec 3y ago
Here’s a super common pattern of procrastination for me that is similar to fear of failing, or even related: “I’d rather do $ANYTHING than $B because I don’t actually know how to get started with $B or haven’t yet decided it’s the right nex
906.
by Swizec 3y ago
My point was more that you can add these guardrails without having to keep track of what the model had previously generated. And I think if you used a perfectly balanced dataset for training, you’d get these guardrails for free because the
907.
by Swizec 3y ago
I don’t think you need to remember what you’ve produced in the past to create a representative sample. There’s no global counter of male/female babies making sure we have a balanced population either. Wouldn’t something like isMale*P(m
908.
by Swizec 3y ago
> American danger of school shootings “nothing we can do says only nation where this regularly happens”. sigh.
909.
by Swizec 3y ago
You get to define "achievement" however you want here. It can mean spending more time with kids, if that's what you care about!
910.
by Swizec 3y ago
Few people regret not working more. Almost everyone regrets not having achieved more.
911.
by Swizec 3y ago
Here's the story with links to previous steps: https://swizec.com/blog/how-i-used-indie-hacking-to-sponsor-...
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by Swizec 3y ago
I moved countries soon after college with not even a job lined up. From Slovenia straight into SFBA because if you're gonna do something that hard, you might as well go all the way. To anyone asking if they should do the same, I say: D
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by Swizec 3y ago
This is a description of how it is currently being used in practice. Yes you can use data well. It is unfortunately not being used well.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> identify high-crime areas that to target for patrolling, which doesn't seem like a huge problem to me The wonderful Weapons of Math Destruction has a chapter on how this leads to a self reinforcing loop. More crimes means more pol
915.
by Swizec 3y ago
Were bees introduced into Europe from Asia? We have evidence of domesticated bees in Egypt circa 2600BC. Not to mention rock art of honey collection from bees dating back to 7000BC in Spain. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by Swizec 3y ago
One of my favorite cultural artefacts from Europe is that "Oh you pay tuition? Sorry your grades weren't good enough" My university only charged you for retaking exams (after 3 tries) and for redoing a year, if you didn'
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by Swizec 3y ago
> “it doesn’t count until it happened in New York” More importantly, a new standard isn't standard until it works in different locations implemented by different companies.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Was it really that laughable? Perhaps laughable is a stretch. I remember aether as an example of the scientific method working in a high school class. We had a theory, it seemed reasonable, it fit observations, and then we disproved
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by Swizec 3y ago
No it was a serious theory that seemed obvious and logical at the time. But now it seems so obviously wrong that it’s almost laughable anyone could ever take it seriously. See also: phrenology. Same phenomenon, different field.
920.
by Swizec 3y ago
As a complete lay person, I’ve always understood dark matter to be our generation’s aether. Obviously there’s an undetectable medium in space for light to propagate through, how else could it work? We know from all our best observations a
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by Swizec 3y ago
As a person with an audience – you get to a point where the audience feels like an insatiable beast that just wants wants wants and never gives back. Soon you feel like a monkey dancing for peanuts to a jeering crowd that will move on to th
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by Swizec 3y ago
Oh worse than not being unique to Europeans, still happening today. Here’s an example from Darfur in June this year: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/africa/darfur-sudan-geneina-m...
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by Swizec 3y ago
It is that simple. Unfortunately that’s not the same as easy. Especially not when your whole environment, culture, and physiology are designed to encourage you to eat too much food.
924.
by Swizec 3y ago
Ideally at that income level you’re buying your way into becoming a capitalist. You should be able to make it into the capitalist class in about 10 years with that kind of salary.
925.
by Swizec 3y ago
All decisions are bets, [the right kind of] thinking just improves the odds.
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by Swizec 3y ago
I am native level fluent in 2 languages – Slovenian and English – and this feels true to my experience. There’s a lot of stuff I can critically think about in English because the words don’t carry much/any emotional weight. They’re jus
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by Swizec 3y ago
But that’s just cosmetics. The system itself is defined in metric. Btw a kilogram is about 2lbs. And funnily in europe we would often order “half a kilo of X” when buying groceries.
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by Swizec 3y ago
Not an excuse for poor processes. Definitely an opportunity for big upside.
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by Swizec 3y ago
> offers a significant boost in comp over start-ups Yes and a lot of those total comp numbers are hiding pretty reasonable base salaries behind a huge “BigTech stocks soaring hiigh”. It is still pretty rare for an Individual Contributor
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by Swizec 3y ago
> Also, these days you can get a reasonably good comp and still be at a startup Yes. Startups these days, at least as an engineer, are a great vehicle for barbell investing. The salary caps your downside (make sure it’s enough to support

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