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by arrobbiato 2y ago
I guess I fell for it, then - I’m not particularly intelligent nor media-savvy, so perhaps that’s no surprise. In your estimation, what’s an example of a fact that Boyle misinterprets in this video?
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
This is great, thanks for creating this. I hope it brings you success, I certainly plan on using it. One important aspect of choosing a protein powder is the amino balance - especially for vegan proteins. Unfortunately many brands don’t pr
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
The excellent financial podcaster/youtuber Patrick Boyle has a related entry, "Crypto Has Bought The 2024 Election": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpZvC_5leDY
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
This is just as promising as cell-cultured meat, and for the same reasons.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Siliation or esterization of the long carbohydrate chains would make them close to indigestible, and also far more water-resistant, but at that point the cost (including environmental) would outweigh the benefits over concrete.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
You might argue that faith, in its various manifestations, is the root of all economic distortions and malaises. That being said, no, I don’t think that a subset of evangelical Christianity caused or meaningfully contributed to the 2009 cr
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Just keying on one comment here, which perhaps no one will read: I was, in fact, a paste-up man in the early 1990s, slapping together copy and ads for a magazine. As such, I was a ping-pong ball in the battle between account management and
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
It would be great to see some real solutions to the menace of private equity, or at least to see these solutions discussed in the mainstream public discourse. Which is a good reason to vote third party, if you're in the US: they might
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
> I can't imagine taking The Atlantic seriously on anything. Agreed - I stopped taking The Atlantic seriously after their 2009 cover story, "Did Christianity Cause the Crash?"[1] To ignore CDOs, the Glass-Steagal repeal,
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
This is my experience as well. Claude excels on topics and in fields where ChatGPT 4 is nearly unusable.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Mixed feelings about this: clearly this is meant to match one of the killer features of Claude. I like using Claude, and I'm also a big supporter of Anthropic - not just because it's an underdog, but due to its responsible and et
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
It always seemed that my generation, at lease where I lived, listened to our parents’ music - Led Zeppelin, The Stones, The Eagles, Pink Floyd, and the like. We hated the music pushed on us at the time, e.g. Madonna and Huey Lewis, and oh l
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
It’s frustrating that neither major US political party is even mentioning private equity, given how significant its effect on the economy has become.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Surprising that the legendary Taco Bell in Pacifica isn’t the most expensive one, though it is close. It has a fireplace, it serves margaritas, and it has a walk-up window for hungry surfers. https://californiaisforadventure.com&
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
I’ve always wondered why companies like these don’t have hedge funds which trade based on this info. You’d think Alphabet and Meta could make a fortune essentially front-running trades with this info. Patents too.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
927.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
I’d propose some kind of certification for SaaSes, maybe including a digitally signed seal on the website and a registry, validating that the site doesn’t use dark patterns. Or maybe something like that exists?
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Definitely not just you. My wishful thinking compels me to bring a book on a plane, but I usually end up either trying to sleep, or playing yet another stupid game of iPhone Civilization.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
I have too, and you’re quite right. Also the various 2D-to-3D face generators are mostly awful. I’ve done a deep dive on that and nearly all of them seem to only create slight perturbations on some base model, regardless of the input.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Carbon intensive. Most of them are agriculturally sourced, and fossil fuels/feedstocks are not likely to be widely replaced in agriculture for several decades, at least.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
You would win that bet. I can tell you that chicken meat coming out of a bioreactor tastes nothing like chicken meat from a chicken - and in fact it’s revolting. There are several additional steps needed in order to make it palatable.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Here’s one: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.21.537778v1.... Decent summary: https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/lab-grown-meat-carbon-foot...
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
One of the main factors: generating the growth media for the cells is by no means carbon-free, and some of the ingredients are very very carbon intensive to produce.
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
This is exactly right. I saw enormous batches turn to bacterial sludge on a regular basis, which is exactly what you’d expect even in very clean environments. The fundamental problem is that bacteria are specifically evolved to infiltrate a
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Definitely there are some exciting advances in vegetal protein, as well as fungal protein. It’s still difficult, but (in my opinion) the difficulty there is the inertia of consumer tastes, and the food distribution business. They’re not try
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
The idea is that cows, and all the infrastructure around raising them, are a huge source of greenhouse gasses, while just cultivating cow meat eliminates everything not directly related to producing a hamburger. More recent studies [1] cas
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by arrobbiato 2y ago
Cell-cultured meat industry veteran (and dropout) here. If Singaporean companies are able to make a viable business out of cell-cultured meat, that would be fantastic, and a boon to the world. Some skepticism is warranted, though. It&#x2