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> characterizing bad abstractions and proposing better ones Do you know of anything published that tackles this?
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It is an arbitrary but also a useful distinction to avoid the naturalistic fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
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There is a qualitative difference between human and animal societies. "One morning, working alone in the attic, I came across some boxes of skeletons that had been dug up from a monastery. I was soon to be reminded of a lecture given b
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I agree that money and democracy are also human or social constructs. Can you clarify what you mean by rules members of society have to live by?
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> It's just the law of nature. Not really, societies aren't natural because they are human constructs.
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Really interesting perspective, thank you for sharing. Matching specific parts of the brain with physiological jobs seems reasonable enough because its testable. I'm wondering how does one empirically verify potential matches when it c
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Foundation is not the standard library of Swift. Swift has its own standard library that is bundled with the language on all platforms that are supported. And Foundation itself isn't written in Swift, a good portion is written in C. &g
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> Java, JDK 1.1. was released in 97. Things were very different 24 years ago, the language ecosystem was not as competitive as it is today. There are more people writing code today and a greater variety of use cases when it comes to web
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> If Swift was a better designed language, it would have taken over by now. 7.5 years might seem like a long time but it isn't possible to rewrite a stack like Apples in under a decade or two. I also suspect that Swifts lack of inte
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The Foundation library on non-Apple platforms is open source: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation and intended to reach parity with the Apple version. > Our primary goal is to achieve implementation p
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There's a free book "The Swift Programming Language" that should answer most questions about the Swift language and its standard library. The web version is here: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/index.h
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Who gets to decide what counts as optimal?
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> Can we realistically take all that embodied energy that represents our current state and expect/demand that developing nations to pay the same price for carbon as we do, starting now? It's a false dichotomy. The US and others
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The issue with a carbon tax is that it is unpopular for a plurality of voters. There are other types of policies that don't engender the same type of aversion. For example incentivizing banks to make carbon negative projects easier and
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> What happens when interest rates are unable to fall further? Are we already at the end of the ball? How much higher can it go? One interesting option is different policy rates for different sectors of the economy. Last year during the
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Can you provide a source for the mid-range estimate you mention? Global population is on the brink of decline rather than further growth. [1] > I've not seen any real understanding of why the fertility rate is dropping, particularly
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Is there any evidence for these sorts of downstream effects from past privacy-friendly platform changes? I don't see evident ones that aren't confounded.
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I found it very illuminating to read Dostoyevsky's works alongside Goethe's Faust when thinking about the protagonist.
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One can make the same argument for doing arithmetic using Roman numerals.
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> People keep saying we can feed 10 billion people. Whether global population ever reaches 10 billion people is in doubt. Fertility rates are falling faster than the most aggressive UN estimates in all but a few places. [1][2] [1] htt
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Pick a small self-contained project that has a very clear end. Work on it periodically, meaning daily, weekly, as schedule permits; but not necessarily for copious amounts of time. Make a small amount of tangible, obvious progress each ti
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Anybody building something that takes these principles into account? Particularly 3 (sense of accomplishment) and 7 (context).
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This joke (despite being funny) is somewhat misleading of actual economic theory for 3 reasons: 1) market efficiency occurs over the long-term, 2) shocks (of the exogenous and endogenous kind) tend to reset the point at which markets clear,
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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Perhaps the single best heuristic for judging any type of objective claim.
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Economic stagnation, caused by population decline in the absence of robust productivity growth, leads to social problems and the so-called "deaths of despair" in the US. Haven't seen statistics on elsewhere.
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Here's the brutal and ugly truth: why isn't our personal data treated as private property? It's because those who write the laws governing its status either lack the requisite understanding or else practice a form of, to put
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> Look at say rings where personal skill plays a larger role than the advancements in technology. What about advancements metallurgy? And to use an adjacent example, cold-pressed steel techniques increase the number of places steel can b
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IMO both you and GP are correct, ultimately whether the decision to "do" helps or not relies on individual circumstance and context plus on chance factors.
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I think it's a contestable claim, sure, but fraudulent is a bit doth protest too much in this case. Out of curiosity, what does being religious actually mean in the way that you used the term above? Besides the purely superficial, &quo
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Enabling more flexible capacity would fix this problem by introducing additional "contextually aware knowledge and meta-level thinking" into the market. Higher prices would spur additional market entrants to come online faster. T

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