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by apsurd 3y ago
Interesting blog. The article is a good reminder of common introspections on money. I like the points on freedom: "freedom-as-leisure (vacations)", "freedom in work", and "freedom in attention". TLDR: what is w
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by apsurd 3y ago
Graeber is an anthropologist. If anything, I would say he _loves_ humans, and humanity.
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by apsurd 3y ago
can you talk more about gumption (inspiration) traps you experienced at work? i take this to mean some powers-that-be destroyed internal motivations you had? also curious to hear your learnings on holding onto inspiration.
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by apsurd 3y ago
you make a good observation, but as the replies mention, it's likely a more nuanced reality than just gender. Id agree that at baseline a male gets certain crude roles thrust upon them, but i want to say it's not unreasonable to j
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by apsurd 3y ago
all 4 billion women want that laundry list of qualities? that's silly to say isn't it, of course you didn't mean literally all women, but that's why i'm commenting - it's crazy to me how we choose to play other
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by apsurd 3y ago
my bias is in product development experience so from that lens i think it's a mistake to focus on the technical aspect of your pitch, or really any technical improvement. "chat is a solved problem" to people. mind you, i get
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by apsurd 3y ago
> I think the tech and the product will evolve but only by finding out if others feel the same. Yes, I agree, my personal tagline I play around with is: "the future is human" It's supposed to be witty marketing. There&#x27
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by apsurd 3y ago
The poop is just spread out so you don't notice it any given place you happen to be, because LA is bigger. Much bigger.
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by apsurd 3y ago
What? I know we're talking about SF but the LA example is much more obviously clear: so everyone in LA _is actually in entertainment_ when they move? The servers and baristas went there "for the job" as a server and barista,
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by apsurd 3y ago
it's a little dramatic to say it's an unpopular opinion for you to not want to exchange deep hour-long life stories with your neighbor every interaction. of course! i'm replying because the fact you mention "i know my n
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by apsurd 3y ago
im really enjoying reading your samples. It's a very lightweight way to explore books i don't know about and haven't read. i like it a lot!
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by apsurd 3y ago
Definitely! I personally welcome more paid communities as a de facto spam/abuse/troll/commitment filter. I'm interested both as a participant and as... let's call it what a positive mental-health online community lo
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by apsurd 3y ago
I am also curious about the logistics of the club. It seems to be this: https://circle.so
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by apsurd 3y ago
i agree, it's fun because of the people. a product is "not fun" when it impedes on those personal connections. like the obvious thing of injecting ads everywhere, a product doing that, is not fun in my view. it's infuria
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by apsurd 3y ago
> Software for chatting on the Internet should be small and fun. Small and fun is the magic here. There's immense product insight in building a product experience that feels really small, intimate. It's the counterbalance to th
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by apsurd 3y ago
main position is: "a super intelligence does not _need_ anything from a lower intelligence" Think of it like social engineering by a super intelligence. If you agree that cambridge analytica influenced large groups of people'
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by apsurd 3y ago
Your suggestion is like squirrels promising us nuts in the squirrel analogy. If AGI is a super intelligence, there's nothing we could give it that they couldn't get on their own. Except for maybe novelty. edit: and anything less t
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by apsurd 4y ago
I count writing JSX as hand-written as the child comment mentions. Also HAML in rails. I realize this perhaps is a fuzzy definition as we move along the spectrum of automation and abstraction. What I mean to say is I still have a more-or-le
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by apsurd 4y ago
The main problem is who gets to decide on the one anointed approach. Diversity ends up being a good thing, and also makes everything more messy and more complex. Take your example of the Open Web. I wouldn't be in software without the
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by apsurd 4y ago
my assumption is that "war on drugs" is naive. gotta treat it like an illness
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by apsurd 4y ago
i shouldn't have called out a specific country. So sweden has a population of 10 million to USAs 330. I'm just getting at the idea that by design, USA seems to want to deal with all of these people. There's 2x order of magnit
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by apsurd 4y ago
For that id say it's the simplest explanation: warm weather. so all west coast has it harder with unsheltered. cities that are more progressive, like portland, sign themselves up for the worst of it, yes! fwiw im a socal native, and no
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by apsurd 4y ago
San Francisco is the gold rush town. everyone comes to strike it rich. That includes the mentally ill, addicts, and unsheltered. It's a crazy city isn't it. Please be kind. if everyone wants something and SF is the open place you
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by apsurd 4y ago
best info i got on this topic is from weight training videos. applies to everything though, give it a shot. it's long but you can easily see from the slides what he's saying https://youtu.be/zNePCoXjC4s quick gist
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by apsurd 4y ago
adding onto the "disagree" siblings. that money is status is far too simplistic. plenty of people are simply not impressed by money. it's not even really a concerted thought, it's just a matter of different strokes for d
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by apsurd 4y ago
> I like writing things as if I know what I'm talking about (I don't) lol, made me smile. from your bio. its also important to acknowledge privilege is valuable but not necessary. i know we're saying the same thing but it&
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by apsurd 4y ago
best security is not obviously money. i wouldnt know of course, but there's a good scene that covers this in the first(ish) season of House of Cards: Kevin Spaceys character laments about otherwise excellent talent shortsightedly chasi
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by apsurd 4y ago
this guy is not comprehensible. i do know who he is, but wow... how times have caught up to, maybe both of us i guess.
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by apsurd 4y ago
Farnam Street blog is very high quality. All content is free and I ended up paying premium to support the project. I'm saying this because I agree with you - IT IS A TRAVESTY - that seemingly Internet rot spares no corner. Ads, overlay
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by apsurd 4y ago
quick reaction: the grit you have to complete work stuff maybe has to move to the side project. For example reverse your day: first 2 hours are for your side project. this likely will feel weird and shake up your current strategy, but that&

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