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   by api 8y ago

   So as with all other open systems, spam is destroying the web.
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   by api 8y ago

   It's amazing to me how little (if ever) they bring up massive antibiotic overuse in agriculture. High density farms for pigs, cattle, chickens, etc. are goal directed evolution experiments for antibiotic resistance.
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   by api 8y ago

   There is a fringe hypothesis around called the "expanding Earth theory." The idea is that the Earth and presumably other planets gain mass over time by some unknown mechanism like particle capture in their core. Dinosaurs didn&#x2
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   by api 8y ago

   We should do it then. Maybe nobody ever looked because we assumed these things to be invariant.
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   by api 8y ago

   One partial fix is to vastly over provision SD card storage. SD cards use very simple wear leveling algorithms, so having a card that is 20X larger than necessary can extend life a lot.
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   by api 8y ago

   > good proxy for The idea that it's good or clever to use rough proxies for things is one of the worse ideas to spread kind of virally through various intellectual communities in recent years. I feel like it may have spread via Less
7. 9667.▲
   by api 8y ago

   Perhaps, but this is only one narrow kind of merit and it's responsible for a disproportionately large fraction of the outcome. Networks also have gravitational type dynamics that accrue more network influence to existing influencers,
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   by api 8y ago

   At this point it should be obvious that network effects of every kind are the largest single determining factor in success, yet so many continue to believe in naive meritocracy.
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   by api 8y ago

   Maybe Apple doesn't really care that much about the Mac. The iPhone ate the company. They're a mobile phone and services company now. Macs are an afterthought.
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    by api 8y ago

    Ultimately you're probably right about there being no demand limit, but I think there is context here. There probably are demand limits on Earth, and demand limits certainly exist at any point in time. I disagree that without an "
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    by api 8y ago

    I have to be contrarian in spite of aesthetically preferring the classical city. Nothing about the suburbs made sense to me until I had kids. Now everything makes sense. Young kids require a lot of gear. Hauling all that without a car is ha
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    by api 8y ago

    The thing is this is how algorithmic timelines, lists, etc. work. They're programmed to drive engagement. Fear, hate, outrage, sensationalism, and controversy are what does that as has been known since the time of P. T. Barnum.
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    Ethereum is game-changing technology, literally(medium.com)

    1 points by api 8y ago|0 comments
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    by api 8y ago

    Some attempts at evolutionary AI / genetic programming might technically count given that they can achieve program synthesis almost ex nihilo, but the computational requirements to do anything interesting are monstrous. So far neural n
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    by api 8y ago

    We do those things. She also does like an electronics kit we got, so it's not exclusive. But she prefers the girly colored legos. :)
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    by api 8y ago

    My daughter shows a preference for cute/pretty toys and girly colors (we didn't push this on her, she just did it) but also for toys that do things or let her build, design, etc. Unfortunately the majority of the girly color cute
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    by api 8y ago

    Beware of the defeatism imported by pretending these problems are intractable. Markets are conversations when the participants are relatively equal. Barter and informal commerce in voluntarist/anarchist communities would be somewhat cl
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    by api 8y ago

    All three of those notions failed because nobody yet understood the awesome power of network effects compounded by aspects of digital communication (incompatibility, fragility, performance benefits of hierarchical trees, security concerns)
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    by api 8y ago

    I can't see it as anything now except foreshadowing of the emergence of radical fascist brown shirt gangs into the semi-mainstream.
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    by api 8y ago

    We tend to overestimate the impact of technologies in the short term and underestimate them in the long term. The Internet visionaries overestimated how rapidly the Internet would change the status quo. Instead the status quo came and colon
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    by api 8y ago

    Like the bag ban in California this will probably just increase trash by causing people to use bulkier disposables. Restaurants and such will replace these with super-cheap glass or metal disposables that also consume more fuel when shipped
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    by api 8y ago

    I'm still such a fence sitter on this. I am fairly close to a free speech absolutist, but I agree with others that FB is a private platform and isn't obligated to provide bandwidth to anyone. Another concern of mine though is that
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    by api 8y ago

    FTA: "a small number of users are having issues" Still in denial.
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    by api 8y ago

    Yeah, this is like 90% of it. They passed the point of diminishing returns from thin/light back in the early 20-teens, especially for "Pro" laptops. For a pro laptop I want power, battery life, and durability far more than th
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    by api 8y ago

    > arm processor which will do away with throttling and fans Not if you want desktop performance comparable to a Core i7/i9. The ARM64 A## chips can perform like desktop chips but they can't sustain that performance without ther
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    by api 8y ago

    I like it in the abstract, but I get itchy whenever I see something that puts politicians potentially in the position of picking winners in the tech space or market space. They just generally lack the engineering expertise to do this and te
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    by api 8y ago

    It was often the best choice for getting a product up and running fast and rapid iteration for exactly the reasons you mention. Once the schema solidified, it stopped being the right choice. We (ZeroTier) experienced the same thing but with
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    by api 8y ago

    This isn't that hard. It's even easier now that many people have IPv6. IPv6 still usually requires rendezvous due to stateful fireballing but it otherwise behaves like 1:1 NAT. (IPv6 is occasionally deployed with NAT, but in that
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    by api 8y ago

    I've been a solo founder for some time. By far the toughest thing for me has been the cognitive load. I don't mean raw time. I generally have enough time to get done what I need to get done. I'm talking about the sheer number
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    by api 8y ago

    Isn't the simulation hypothesis essentially convergent with strong theism? If some kind of God created the universe and explicitly created us and is basically running things, isn't this a "simulation" of sorts? Consider