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by achrono 4y ago
There is no reason to go into the motivation of chocolate consumption. Yes, it's ironic if you get poisoned by lead by eating something you think is saving you from calories -- but that to me is almost a deviously mocking tangent to ta
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by achrono 4y ago
Won't blow steam on what is clearly outrageous but in addition to the subject itself, what is this paragraph doing in this article? >Some studies suggest that the antioxidants and relatively low levels of sugar in dark chocolate cou
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by achrono 4y ago
The key message, in my reading, is that at the heart of Western civilization is a sort of schizophrenia. Because we (or at least the True & Decent Inheritors of it) like to believe that the West is this singular civilizing force -- i.
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by achrono 4y ago
First rule of thumb imo that usually isn't mentioned for elevator pitches but still applies is to tailor the message to the audience. Second would be try to find appropriate metaphors -- how about "I'm a meta full stack devel
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by achrono 4y ago
I actually thought it was good enough to get going, because wouldn't we then enter the rabbit hole of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics? Only way out might be a Penrosian realm!
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by achrono 4y ago
Can someone explain why anti-fragility is the correct term to use here? It feels like this is a highly resilient and fault-correcting system, but the definition of anti-fragility is the ability to increase in capacity to thrive in the fac
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by achrono 4y ago
Not to forget Adobe Acrobat not letting you sign documents on non-Windows versions!
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by achrono 4y ago
While this satisfies some idle curiosity, I don't really get what justifies spending the resources in posting such stuff. Is this a recruitment tactic somehow for such companies?
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by achrono 4y ago
In the same boat as your previous self, thanks for this timely reminder. What did therapy look like? What were the most impactful things for you?
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by achrono 4y ago
Would be great to know the economics of self-hosting there. Beyond the effort to actually set it up, how does the $/m compare? And outside of self-hosting, would you recommend any other providers who you'd consider more secure? Pr
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Whoops, I Deleted My Life(theatlantic.com)
1 points by achrono 4y ago|4 comments
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by achrono 4y ago
"if Apple hadn’t already ransacked my pockets for subscription fees to maintain my ever-expanding photo archive, and to insure and finance “care” for my ever more expensive assortment of its products; if Microsoft hadn’t insisted that
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by achrono 4y ago
Why? $150K just a slap on the wrist for the Navy, and the whole "actual usage" argument is suspect, but I'd love for a cyber law expert to weigh in here.
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by achrono 4y ago
What puzzles me is Socrates refers to listening to an oak (tree) or even a stone, but dismisses the possibility of the same from a painting. What does he even mean by listening to an oak? To my 21st c. ears, it is much more sensible to talk
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by achrono 4y ago
I wonder if it would help mitigate the false reading of causality from a correlation X-Y chart if we lay these charts out on a 'V' layout instead of the usual 'L'. It might (1) distinguish these clearly from X-Y charts t
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by achrono 4y ago
If they're providing better results than actual crystal balls or tarot cards, isn't that progress to be (cautiously) celebrated?
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by achrono 4y ago
Why not? We're talking dice, not coins. (Unless you're saying the superforecasters are doing coins and not dice, which makes sense.)
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by achrono 4y ago
The incorrect 3 were related to the Omicron variant -- not bad for armchair* analysis! * My take from reading Tetlock's book is that superforecasting is essentially painstaking analysis by laypersons based on common rationality followe
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by achrono 4y ago
Dualism, yes, but silly -- maybe not. Yes, it's obvious that brains are made up of their chemistry, but this is not (just) about the human brain or even necessarily any brain. We haven't been able to draw a line for consciousnes
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by achrono 4y ago
Surely colonization was not a "minor factor historically", comparatively or not. Polities have engaged in conquest and oppression for sure, and the subjugated have always paid the price. Baghdad for example lost its glory after co
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by achrono 4y ago
As the article hints, the irony is that many postcolonialists have a caricatured understanding of history. There are proper intellectual histories that establish abundantly that pre-15th century science, engineering and mathematics have bee
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by achrono 4y ago
+1. I think if we do ever get to a solution for "trust and verify", it would only then create a new problem as to how do you trust and verify this solution/system that allows us to do so in the first place.
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by achrono 4y ago
"[...] let a person confess within reason" That evidently is where everything gets messy. We don't have a way (yet) to determine if it is "within reason". Transcending this tendency of deflection requires transcendi
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by achrono 4y ago
+1. Also, for a leaked internal email it's awfully quiet on numbers. If you didn't tell me this was Zuck, I would probably have assumed this is a vantage point essay from a bright MBA student, certainly not Zuck himself!
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by achrono 4y ago
For sure. The idea with the 'indigenous' approach would be that it does actually address the problem meaningfully rather than just being a lousy alternative. India has historically been pluralistic and a one-size-fits-all approach
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by achrono 4y ago
Regardless of where this thread ends up on the definition of 'computer', I guess the more interesting question is: how close might these folks have been to building something like Babbage's engine? If you had to introduce pro
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by achrono 4y ago
Sure, agreed with (a) in general that they both can be causes of decline, but in the specific case of this post, it is amply clear that the wide range of intellectual areas that ancient Greece excelled in (with barely a parallel) was radi
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by achrono 4y ago
Calculus, flight, transistors etc. were not delayed because of knowledge being confined , but because of knowledge being persecuted .
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by achrono 4y ago
"whether people can live the life they want" is itself influenced by culture, i.e. it is one thing to say that LGBTQ+ should not be ostracized but another to come up with specific models of how to deliver on this value. What I&#x2
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by achrono 4y ago
It is 'hostile' today also to a whole bunch of other freedoms. It isn't realistic to expect that India will automatically have the same values as the West, and while it is at that to also anticipate & go ahead of the West

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