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by VHRanger 3y ago
Love the update from a year ago where you need to click through 3 layers of settings to run code someone else wrote on MacOS now. And on the other end, window's UX is going down the drain year over year.
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by VHRanger 3y ago
Erowid stories of Datura are some of the more terrifying ones on the website. Example: https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=17700
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by VHRanger 3y ago
For what it's worth, there's no product yet with Jai so that's all there is to talk about.
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by VHRanger 3y ago
Which is why electric SUVs are actually a step backward on a lot of fronts except CO2 emissions.
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by VHRanger 3y ago
There's a list of obvious tax code changes that would immensely improve the current housing, transportation and climate situation: - Land Value Tax - Carbon Tax - Space and weight tax on personal vehicles Of course any of those mean ch
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Managing Digital Photographs(karl-voit.at)
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Men Without Work [video](youtube.com)
3 points by VHRanger 3y ago|0 comments
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by VHRanger 3y ago
[citation needed] It was profitable, and it's trivially easy to verify that it was profitable, because it was a public company before it got bought.
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by VHRanger 3y ago
Alternate title: "dying social media company desperately grasps at new routes for monetization"
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by VHRanger 3y ago
Schema is the better word here. Look into "schema therapy". Schemas are just your set of inbuilt, instantaneous responses to common situations or thoughts. You don't need trauma to have maladaptive schemas.
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by VHRanger 3y ago
There's a difference between accounting profits and economic profits. Growing a company that loses on its unit economics (eg. WeWork) ought not to make founders rich
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by VHRanger 3y ago
That's a question in geology and archaeology called the Silurian Hypothesis: Could we even detect a millions-of-years old civilization in the geological record? 1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748
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by VHRanger 3y ago
> Reconverting a former customer is cheaper than converting new customers from an advertising perspective It depends for what? In mobile games for instance you're considered to have burned the user out if they churn from the game&#x
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by VHRanger 3y ago
> Makes you wonder how any construction at all is possible in a 3000-year-old city You build up rather than out
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by VHRanger 3y ago
That's just the regular corruption in the country. They also make tofu-dreg style buildings and that has nothing to do with historical preservation
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by VHRanger 3y ago
The problem is that it's pretty rare that you re-convert a churned user. So its much better to go 0->11m than 0->100m->11m and burning 90m user accounts off
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by VHRanger 3y ago
Sidestepping the console issue, many DS games play very naturally because they're touch screen based
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by VHRanger 3y ago
Thanks, whenever Wolframs stuff comes up that bactra piece and this one: singlelunch.com/2020/04/23/why-stephen-wolframs-research-program-is-a-dead-end Should be mentioned since people should have the context that he&#x2
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by VHRanger 3y ago
Yeah they held off becoming a blob for a solid decade
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by VHRanger 3y ago
Right, this is why proper faster binary search use eytzinger array layout: https://algorithmica.org/en/eytzinger
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by VHRanger 3y ago
That's what the mobile game studio supercell did initially (hence the name): divide the company into a bunch of 15-25 person indie studios. It also eventually became a monolithic org. Same with Valve and flat org structures. Once somet
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by VHRanger 3y ago
You're describing a dysfunction of the dopamine system You can see it in people with unmedicated ADHD for instance, who prefer the stimulation of something toxic (a fight, drama, etc.) To boredom, even fully aware of the consequences o
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by VHRanger 3y ago
Using selegiline as a stimulant has a lot more risks (some irreversible!) and side effects than just using an amphetamine or methylphenidate like anyone else seeking the same effect would. It certainly explains the tremors you saw him have
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by VHRanger 3y ago
He wasn't just on amphetamines, he was also on MAOIs which are stronger stuff
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by VHRanger 3y ago
How would you *deny* the SC status? Replications keep failing until everyone is pretty sure it's not it. Proving the absence of something is rare to see.
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by VHRanger 3y ago
After reading the r/physics thread on LK-99 [1] I've cooled significantly on the matter. Basically: people who work in SC think the initial science seems very sloppy and the replication attempts don't come close to what you n
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by VHRanger 3y ago
For what it's worth, in general, the more information the voting system provides, the more. I tend to like it. I prefer IRV ranked choice to FPTP. I prefer proportional if possible. I tend to really like cardinal systems [1]. I think t
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by VHRanger 3y ago
Thanks for the info! > It's notable that Australia's ranked ballot system also seems to have narrowed choices there to a two party system and they have no left wing party equivalent to the NDP anymore. It's been a while si
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by VHRanger 3y ago
Can you give more sources into the 2017 FPTP not happening event? That was one of the biggest issues I was rooting for, and they claimed "it wouldnt have benefit the system", which I mark as bullshit on the theory [1] So I was alw
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by VHRanger 3y ago
> Does Kagi work as a business if it doesn’t grow to millions of users? You're paying for the service. One would hope the unit economics are immediately positive, unlike ad-driven businesses or VC-scale-at-all-cost growth businesses

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