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by ajkjk 2y ago
I'm not saying there aren't, like, various propaganda machines meddling with society. Just that people underestimate the power of dynamical systems to do things without coordinated action. Ideas coordinate on their own with requir
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Why does it bother you? Maybe they have a deep essay on the subject that would be really impactful.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
It has been a long time since I thought of sturbucks in the US as hyped. In my world it is for 'basic' people.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I think they predate that by a lot, and I don't think it was anything to do with the ultra wealthy. IMO people talking about political correctness often miss an important point though: that what's believed to be acceptable is lar
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Curious to read this when you think of it.
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by ajkjk 3y ago
I didn't like Obsidian's TeX support very much. Primarily because it is very difficult to get macros working (especially across files). There are some plugins that try to do it but when I tried they didn't work very well. And
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by ajkjk 3y ago
If this had TeX I'd be interested immediately. There's no great way at the moment to mathematical notes, it's a big pain point.
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by ajkjk 3y ago
I wrote an article which might help? https://alexkritchevsky.com/2022/10/12/react-2.html It's based on a theory that hooks click better for a lot of people if they see an MVP implementation of one and und
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by ajkjk 3y ago
I love React. Hooks only made it better. Although they are not, I think, the final perfect solution to the problems they solve.
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by ajkjk 3y ago
Incidentally for the bat and ball problem the way it feels to not mess it up is to install a sort of 'trap' that says 'this is a trick question, kick out to mathematical thinking instead'. Which works but it's not t
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by ajkjk 3y ago
I feel like a lot of the time people's mathematically incorrect intuitions are exactly right if you were asking a slightly different question. What's abnormal is the person who's evaluating their intuition by asking tricky qu
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by ajkjk 3y ago
Well in this case everyone wants something to change. The onion's glory days were in the past.
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by ajkjk 3y ago
What point is there pretending that the giant debate about minimum wage doesn't exist? These points have been argued to death. It is not like everybody hasn't thought of "with a minimum wage people whose labor is worth <15
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by ajkjk 3y ago
The whole system remains a disaster, just slightly less of a disaster than it was.
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by ajkjk 3y ago
Well if your goal is "freedom" all-around then it would make perfect sense that sometimes that would lead to regulations that prevent things and other times it would lead to regulations that allow things. In each case the regulati
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by ajkjk 3y ago
What is going on with this title
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by ajkjk 3y ago
You can still blame the solutions for their problems while acknowledging that they exist to solve another problem...
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by ajkjk 3y ago
There are two ways to see every operation: a mathematical way and a physical way. The mathematical view of the dot product is an operation on vectors that adds their multiplied components, a·b = a_x b_x + a_y b_y + a_z b_z. The physical vie
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by ajkjk 3y ago
Seems to have done a ton, based on the amount of support and aid?
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by ajkjk 3y ago
It's a pretty standard experience?
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by ajkjk 3y ago
Love this idea.
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by ajkjk 3y ago
Probably still in some places, but not in the world I live in.
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by ajkjk 3y ago
On the ground the answer feels like 'culture'. People worship violence a lot less. Maybe that has other causes, but maybe not
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by ajkjk 3y ago
> Why bring this us up now? Because it's relevant
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by ajkjk 3y ago
Yeah every time they mention AI I am more sure that I do not care about them.
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by ajkjk 3y ago
How could you get sued?
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by ajkjk 3y ago
?
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by ajkjk 3y ago
Um. They are heavily regulated? Isn't that what is being argued for for social media?
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by ajkjk 3y ago
I think of it as: in 50 years it will be obvious to everyone that these things fall in the category of "health problems", because they are, similar to junk food, and we'll have a way of societally regulating the danger that i
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by ajkjk 3y ago
...among other things: years of not building enough housing, plus cost disease on the prices of housing construction, plus Airbnb eating into housing supply, plus most new development being in unwalkable subdevelopments or sterile 5-over-1s

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