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by bachbach 8y ago
I'm going to put a plug for the Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding magazines and websites here. They both also run excellent podcasts filled with inspiration and advice. No connection to either, but they're institutions. Inspi
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by bachbach 8y ago
I had a refutation complied but on second thought I'll say this instead. Nothing of intelligence can be said on this subject on Hacker News. In Politics higher intelligence is a handicap, not an advantage.
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by bachbach 8y ago
We must go back to the future! Seems like a recurring theme. It's near a half century for the moon landings. Should revisit the concept of batteries too. I'm reading a book called This Victorian Life and am constantly impressed by
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by bachbach 8y ago
I've always wanted a world in which pneumatic tubes played a bigger role - as they used to with mail in London and Paris. It used to be possible to get a letter in 4 hours. I was walking down a street the other day, early morning, and
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by bachbach 8y ago
I think the reason why toxic is getting used more frequently is because it is saying "a thing I/We don't like has a viral quality". Flamewars notoriously have that feature, like a black hole dragging in more and more par
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by bachbach 8y ago
It is easy to dismiss 'get laid' as boorish and interpret 'did you get enough sleep?' or get out more' as semi-accusatory, because we're prone to thinking crude feedback is less apt for us, we must be more comp
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by bachbach 8y ago
My suspicion is that many people going to therapy are lacking in one or more items from the basic hierarchy of needs. I went to therapy once. In hindsight I'd have been better off with a girlfriend and friend companionship. I'd as
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by bachbach 8y ago
I will not, but I also didn't begin by introducing the tinder - he did. "USC/Google team used computer vision tools to identify gender bias in modern cinema" is waving a flag for a specific political belief that is not s
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by bachbach 8y ago
> The least we can do is try to use this technology for social good. For example, a USC/Google team used computer vision tools to identify gender bias in modern cinema That sounds entirely worthless. A social good involves helping s
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by bachbach 8y ago
> Fifty years ago, a washing machine, refrigerator, and color TV were high end, luxury goods, available only to the relatively wealthy. The color television - yes, but washing machines and fridges are older mass market appliances than mo
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by bachbach 8y ago
The middle classes process information. It makes sense that blue collar workers will ultimately earn higher wages than them. It has already occurred in some cases but it's going to become a general pattern. Computer automation is simil
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by bachbach 8y ago
There are some really good podcasts out there. I like Fine Homebuilding, Gastropod, Conversations with Tyler. Podcasts aren't a great way to get into the details - but they can provoke new thoughts and give you a lay of the land. It&#x
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by bachbach 8y ago
I think what I have seen is a god damn joke. But the ideal holds a lot of potential. I would like three criteria for my home. In order of difficulty. 1. A magic mirror portal for IoT. The If This Then That website gives some concept of how
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by bachbach 8y ago
> People do actually need social media, poor people and underprivileged communities especially. Lower classes need time, money and knowledge. None of that comes out of social media, even LinkedIn is a big reach. I'm blue collar myse
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by bachbach 8y ago
David Krakauer of Santa Fe Institute has expanded on the same concept with some great Youtube videos. Everybody I meet today has some memory loss, the younger the worse it gets. In the future there may be "Mind Gyms" for exercisin
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by bachbach 8y ago
True - and why not, it's their backyard to worry about. It's the lack of introspection in the West that irritates me - any constructive talk immediately gets deadlocked by flamewars on class and race even if great arguments and ev
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by bachbach 8y ago
Like the orly shorthand. I've used less polite versions for years in the margins.
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by bachbach 8y ago
UK and US media have an obsession with the flaws of Japan, and also like to overlook the monumental difference in crime rates by chalking it up to fabrication.
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by bachbach 8y ago
It's likely in my opinion that the idea of objectivity in media is meaningless.. The issue is why were you reporting that issue at all. There is a wonderful blog post by Ron Unz on this: https://www.unz.com/runz/
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by bachbach 8y ago
This chart, like nearly every political chart I've seen misunderstands something really important. There are not two mainstream political ideologies in the West aka Left Wing and Right Wing. There are three. At first this is confusing,
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by bachbach 8y ago
If you want my opinion, it is to pay off your mortgage. It's not sexy, but the idea of interest rates staying low for the next two decades is unbelievable to me. Of course I and we don't know your full set of circumstances so ulti
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by bachbach 8y ago
Something like Urbit probably. Those sorts of ideas sound improbable - it's hard to say whether it takes 10 years or even a different civilization. The Romans never managed to pass land reforms. The Chinese tech sector has gotten aroun
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by bachbach 8y ago
What would you say is the explanation for this?
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by bachbach 8y ago
Yes it is. I find it remarkable that people don't see how totalitarian this is as long as it's <insert political enemy here>. Talking shit on the internet should not get you arrested. We already have laws for people for maki
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by bachbach 8y ago
> Educated people are naturally more skeptical of their media and what the sources are. I have not found that to be the case and I think you should scrutinize that assumption very carefully. Perhaps a majority of intellectuals in the We
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by bachbach 8y ago
This: > it seems like long term strategic thought is more important than ever is true for the minority only. Of course any description of what's happening and what can be done to prevent it is to the right of the Overton Window and
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by bachbach 8y ago
The education system prioritizes the average, the mean, mediocrity. It's a political aim I believe - I expect without our 'schools' society would look completely different - the spread of outcomes much wider.
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by bachbach 8y ago
> I’d bet it’s happening with humans, too, but that’s just an observation for another day. Ho Ho! Tell me more brother. I am curious. This links up with David Krakauer's ideas I'll bet.
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by bachbach 8y ago
Or developing a flexible flywheel that destroyed itself by tangling - like the Velkess project.

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