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by asoneth 5y ago
My interpretation of the descriptions in the list was not that the author was endorsing the entire product/company, but describing a particular feature or aspect of a product that illustrated calm technology principles. The Roomba&#x27
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'm all for moving to nice places but my takeaway from the article is that if people primarily focus on moving to the current supply of nice places it'll just continue to make nice places a luxury good. If, instead, we actually ke
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by asoneth 5y ago
How you think about exercise and time may influence whether driving increases your quality of life. To me, time spent driving is a pure waste with no redeeming value and I make every effort to minimize it. Whereas time spent engaged in phys
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'm all in for ridiculing the use of jargony fashion terms like "colorways" when a word like "colors" would suffice. But I fail to see how their statement reads as "woke". To me this article just seems lik
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by asoneth 5y ago
That's a great article and spot on. And it's definitely complicated. Just because work necessary to preserve human life is allowed doesn't mean anything done in a hospital is therefore permitted -- a sizeable fraction of the
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by asoneth 5y ago
> It is dead trivial to out-compete Chrome by focusing on power users If that was true I would expect power-user browsers with unchanging UIs to have a larger market share than they do. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-
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by asoneth 5y ago
That's a good point, but note that providing reliability adds production cost as well. Services and businesses with guaranteed high reliability cost significantly more than those with low reliability, and I'd expect that cost to b
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by asoneth 5y ago
There exists a middle ground between everyone gets five nines of reliability (expensive) and everyone only gets three nines of reliability (people die in hospitals). If we focus the same resources on providing reliability where it is needed
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by asoneth 5y ago
> Civilization progress needs more reliability Not necessarily. Similar to software, each nine costs (in money, pollution, effort, etc) at least an order of magnitude more than the last, and at some point it's more efficient to focu
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by asoneth 5y ago
I can't speak to the Christians, but even the most orthodox Jews I know support emergency services on the Sabbath -- and they'd absolutely drive someone to the emergency room if it came to that. Doing your best to observe a day of
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by asoneth 5y ago
Seasonal hours are indeed more expressive than DST. I love when times are indexed in terms of "sunrise" and/or "sunset" such as the parks near me. But it doesn't mean that it is simpler for regular people to im
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by asoneth 5y ago
DST is a sloppy attempt to shift the clock to make the time of sunrise more fixed instead of just rather than fixing the time of solar noon. We should just go all in and define 00:00 as sunrise rather than 12:00 as solar noon. Schools and s
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'd be fine with either DST or summer/winter hours but the latter is a significatnly harder coordination problem. Not all businesses would change you'd end up having to keep track of which things have shifted and which things
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'd be fine with either DST or summer/winter hours -- they're just alternate implementations of the same thing. But coordinating a mass switch between summer and winter hours twice a year seems like it would end up being more
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by asoneth 5y ago
I agree, and I'm glad we'll probably never end up getting rid of DST. If we got rid of DST then I'd lose an extra hour of daylight on summer evenings which would be disappointing. And in exchange I'd have to invest in bl
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'd prefer one that fixes the clock to sunrise and lets noon and sunset drift rather than fixing noon and letting sunrise and sunset drift. I could also try and get my coworkers to move our meetings earlier in summer so I can leave wor
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by asoneth 5y ago
True, but there will be very few documents you can read or conversations you can participate in with only a few hundred words in a natural language. The steep learning curve of most natural languages means it takes months before I can read
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by asoneth 5y ago
lipu esun mi: (shopping list, literally: my buying document) 1 kili palisa jelo mute (bananas, lit: many yellow stick-fruits) 2 kala pi loje walo (salmon, lit: red-white fish) 3 moku kasi laso supa (salad greens, lit: flat green plants for
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by asoneth 5y ago
I am an outsider who has not personally written anything in Ada/SPARK or Rust. But I have worked at companies that transitioned (or started to transition) from C/C++ to Ada/SPARK and from C/C++ to Rust. I suspect that th
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by asoneth 5y ago
Do you have a link? I am curious if the researchers controlled for income.
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by asoneth 5y ago
> Why would you expect someone who doesn't have a stable home life, good nutrition, or good role models to succeed in a gifted program? Interesting. To me it seems like intelligent students with negative environmental factors would
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by asoneth 5y ago
> should make all of these things irrelevant except nutrition That certainly looks like an improvement, but I would imagine that things like poverty and the student's home situation would still play a similar role to nutrition. That
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by asoneth 5y ago
> I fail to see how IQ tests are racially biased While there are some concerns that have been raised about bias within the tests themselves[1], in my experience the concern about testing among actual educators is usually that the tests a
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by asoneth 5y ago
The first I recall seeing the STEAM acronym was John Maeda's efforts to popularize it in the early 2010s e.g. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol1/iss1/34/ His focus at the MIT Media Lab was
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by asoneth 5y ago
I agree. I had a Palm Pre and tried a Palm Pre 3 and they were truly delightful objects to hold. Things like the Unihertz Atom and TCL Palm phone still exist but occupy a miniscule niche. Though ultimately I get why slate/phablet phone
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by asoneth 5y ago
It would be interesting to have studies that distinguish between ethical vegans, ethical vegetarians, and cultural/religious vegetarians. Vegetarianism has been practiced around the world by for thousands of years among Buddhists, Hind
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'm guessing you are against insurance companies charging more for drivers who are statistically likely to be more dangerous? Car insurance telematics [1] seems largely positive in that it financially discourages dangerous behaviors an
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by asoneth 5y ago
In my experience and talking with other parents it's often more nuanced than public vs private (or red vs blue). The best schools in our region are dominated by wealthy suburban public schools, a few elite magnet public schools, and a
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> an urgency that every hobby needs to be monetized as a side gig I noticed this effect most prominently when moving from Pittsburgh to NYC. In Pittsburgh my circle of friends generally had noncommercial side projects, weird art installa
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by asoneth 5y ago
Related, I'm absolutely in favor of everyone moving to a state that matches their priorities, but if someone prioritizes "highly-ranked public schools" then you might want to look closely before moving to a generic "red&

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