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by apatters 5y ago
I find it interesting that the discussion about this feature is only about design/interaction principles. I mean, maybe this is right and a merged search/URL bar is the best call from a design standpoint. I don't mind having
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by apatters 5y ago
We need to get away from the idea of "the Science" altogether because it's an incomplete abstraction and prone to corruption. What is valuable are specific principles like dedeuctive reasoning and the scientific method, upon
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by apatters 5y ago
I am an owner/founder who has experienced similar anxieties and the answer was cognitive behavioral therapy and drugs, both managed by a good therapist. The CBT can effect long term changes in your thinking and behavior, and temper you
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by apatters 5y ago
At the end of this piece you say we are much more like Elves than we used to be, but that's not really true. Elvish magic works the way it does because in classical/Tolkien-esque fantasy, the natural world is friendly to elves: th
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by apatters 5y ago
Kudos on the ONI reference :)
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by apatters 5y ago
We do business with countries where we disagree with their government all the time. The difference with China is that they have so much market power they can alter norms of free expression in our country with that power, and they're ve
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by apatters 5y ago
Because if you don't you'll end up with fewer businesses, which will concentrate wealth, which has documented negative effects on society.
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by apatters 5y ago
My thinking has always been that of all the possible interventions to reduce viral spread, something like making people wear masks while grocery shopping has almost no negative side effects. Whereas closing the grocery store altogether has
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by apatters 5y ago
Until AWS fixes this the best thing to do is just use their service as little as possible. There are plenty of other cloud providers out there these days which don't employ this hostile practice. I closed an AWS account for this reason
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by apatters 5y ago
What Spotify is trying to do is called a roll-up. This is a well tread business tactic favored by aspiring monopolists and the strategy is simple: acquire most of the distribution in the space, then jack up the price. (In the podcast world,
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by apatters 6y ago
There are too many things for a central planning committee to stockpile them all, sure. But if incentives are correct then private actors will spring up and stockpile them for you. What we have today is a supply chain that's been fine-
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by apatters 6y ago
I like how the meditation cultists were happy to downvote this but couldn't actually formulate a response. Proves my point.
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by apatters 6y ago
People are usually attracted to various meditative practices because they want to change the way their brain works. There is a large degree of overlap between traditional meditation and psychotherapies based on mindfulness and CBT. The effi
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by apatters 6y ago
The silos that individual contributors perceive tend to disintegrate as you move up the chain. If you're the GM of some product at a FAANG that has exposure to the legal industry, what you often find is there are tons of great develope
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by apatters 6y ago
Absolutely, he probably would not be the right hire to squeeze an extra 0.1% of performance out of Google search, but on any team which has to understand the needs of the legal industry (plenty of these at FAANG and non-FAANG companies) he
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by apatters 6y ago
Copyright violations would continue to be illegal. I am not proposing that they be legalized (though copyright law could use several reforms as well). I am proposing that for instance Google ought to be required to license Widevine to anyon
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by apatters 6y ago
I think the trick is to start viewing the problem through the lens of anti-trust/pro-competition law. Something like mandating compulsory licensing of DRM technologies so that the DRM manufacturer and Hollywood studios don't get t
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by apatters 6y ago
> I think empathy and caring are natural consequences of that type of displacement from individual satisfaction or understanding and a desire to better understand the world naturally leads to more empathy. Makes sense, it's impossib
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by apatters 6y ago
This was a great read but I found the end of the speech to be a letdown. He does a good job of introducing his core idea: > The really significant education ... isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of wha
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by apatters 6y ago
Oh come on, there is no definition of middle class anywhere that includes someone with $29M in liquid assets.
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by apatters 6y ago
My direct experience with Twitter is I have one dude's account bookmarked and I check it almost daily because he's a great source of local news. I have a profile but I haven't logged in or used it for a long time. My experien
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by apatters 6y ago
This is great. It fills the same role as Twitter, but people's posts disappear after a few seconds, making it better than Twitter. I'm serious here. Twitter's a cesspool filled with people venting about random crap. So is Ven
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by apatters 6y ago
Come on, this is counterfactual hyperbole. In actual feudalism, if you disagreed with the king he could arbitrarily kill you or jail you. Sure, corporations are lame and if you work for one you're a cog in a machine, I agree it can s
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by apatters 6y ago
They're pretty unique, the Wikipedia article has a good summary under "Developers and Funding": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software) Initially funded by a $50M loan from the co-founder of Wh
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by apatters 6y ago
If they comply fully with the GPL then this could be a great new linux distro! If they don't then I will avoid it.
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by apatters 6y ago
> Americans still have the highest economic mobility in the world. This part stopped being true at some point in the 21st century. The slowly shrinking disconnect between reality and this belief is imo the most powerful political force o
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by apatters 6y ago
Mastering lockdowns certainly does not guarantee that everyone gets to go back to the pub. Once you end the lockdown the spread just starts again and you're back at square one. The WHO has been clear in their recommendation since the b
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by apatters 6y ago
If a policy is impossible for a given country to carry out, doesn't that suggest that maybe they shouldn't try? I think most people would agree that Prohibition should have delivered several public benefits in theory, but in pract
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by apatters 6y ago
I think the article goes the wrong direction as well, but for different reasons. We should look to the field of modern psychology for answers about our emotions, not philosophy. We understand the brain a lot better now than we did in Aristo
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by apatters 6y ago
> 1. It's usually not actually helpful to signal that you are desperate and lonely and your life is in the toilet. Once in a great while, someone will be truly wonderful to you because you did that but it's usually counterprodu

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