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by _greim_ 5y ago
I immediately thought of Scott Alexander's "Meditations on Moloch". https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ His conclusion is that the only thing that could ultimately
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I think sometimes the abstraction moat around an otherwise good idea definitely repels would-be adopters, which an idea needs to ascend to mainstream success, beyond just technical merit.
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What's the takeaway? How can statistics inform action, if such action invalidates those statistics?
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"Tech company" is arguably a term whose meaning has shifted into the domain of common popular agreement, away from any rigorous first-principles definition. It would be equally futile to say "Betsy's Diner may serve coff
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This has become a mainstream media meme, like the whole "masks don't work" thing from last year. Yes, masks work. No, they don't grant 100% protection. Yes, vaccines work. No, they don't grant 100% protection. These
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Simple solution, just use an open font!
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If you (the end user) download and install a font on your machine, or buy an OS with it pre-installed, then you (the end user) are paying the licensing for it. If you (the website operator) link to a font from your CSS file so end users&#x2
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by _greim_ 5y ago
Dragging the "optical size" slider to a lower value, I'm horrified to see that the cutoff on the lowercase 'e' is no longer parallel to the direction of the text. This was always my go-to way of differentiating Helv
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If they completed the trials then they'd have some protection against major lawsuits. But no amount of legal protection would prevent low sales due to widespread public mistrust. Especially at a time when Lyme wasn't as rampant an
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Yeah, one of the terrible things about the anti-vax movement is that it makes it hard to distinguish signal from noise when looking at objections or criticisms of any vaccine.
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> is a stereo that sounds better actually better than a stereo that looks better? That is a value judgement and there is no right or wrong. Disagree; value systems are the inputs to rationality. The only constraint is that you do the int
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> what consequences to billionaires face if they use their wealth in stupid and unproductive ways? Well this one's easy at least. They lose the wealth.
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> How about non-radical redistribution? We arguably already have a weak form of this in capital gains. Invested wealth remains untaxed, since it's already working. Good. Liquidated investments are taxed on gains. Good. But I'd
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> The point is that Musk would/should never have gotten to such an oversized amount of control in the first place There would never have been anything for people to be in control of without Musk. It isn't as if companies like
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> should not allow anyone to have more than, say, $20 million We need to define "have." "Have" as in have X$ as personally owned liquid assets? Or "have" as in having X$ invested in economic development? I&#
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by _greim_ 5y ago
There's been a big focus on video in developing VR, and it's definitely gotten better, but I think audio is too often overlooked. It's a potentially even harder problem than video. Audio has fallen victim to voice-specific co
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> This is incredibly handy when we want an element to sit just outside another one Nice! I've been using `position: absolute` + `bottom: 100%` for this. I'll be adding this trick to my toolbox.
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> proscribed burns "Proscribed" means prohibited. I think you must mean prescribed burns? I assume it's a typo but it conveys the opposite meaning.
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Amazon has committed the "sin of success", so they're in the spotlight. Criticisms of Amazon make sense when viewed as criticisms of laws and incentives all business operate under.
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Agreed! Gratuitous whitespace is a signal. A classic example is purchasing a full page ad in a newspaper with a single sentence in the middle. The signal is basically "look, we're throwing away all this expensive real-estate to te
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by _greim_ 5y ago
Controversial opinion: this is the system working. These spammy affiliate link sites work well enough that Google lists them, people use them, and bicycles get sold. It isn't globally optimal, but it's locally optimal given a cu
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> What happened to having specialized agencies regulate and inspect industries? Government agencies tend get packed with appointees whose political interests undermine the agency's original charter.
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Dare I ask how much the space shuttle cost to launch? Another order of magnitude higher? Ha ha.
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Brave's BATs (Basic Attention Tokens) spring to mind.
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Legal rights aside, it seems like components are so over-engineered and over-integrated nowadays that the best option still ends up being to swap it out or send it to a brand-name specialist.
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I wondered the same thing. I once read this commentary on project management (disguised as a StarWars fanfic)[1] which makes me pessimistic. However I'm in no way involved so I'd be curious to hear what someone more knowledgable t
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As a human programmer, I've also been trained on thousands of lines of other people's code. Is there anything new here, from a code copying perspective? Aren't I liable if segments of my own code exactly match someone else&#x
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I don't know. If I consistently see 404s, I eventually associate that domain with "broken" and start avoiding it. Especially in search scenarios where there's lots of links to choose from.
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Who are "the few" in this case?
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> the great thing is that it incentivises your next door neighbour to build a high rise This is more about NIMBY attitudes and zoning laws, which are separate issues. > their pension won't cover the tax burden of the house they s

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