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by beat 7y ago
I think population growth also factors in. Population is leveling off. In the past century, the global population has quadrupled, so there are four times as many people to invent things in raw numbers alone. But global population will incre
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You substitute one belief system for another. No evidence needed. It's not hard to find people who have done just that.
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Society is made of achievements we did not perform. This sort of hyper-individualist rejection of our sense of community is incredibly bleak and depressing to me. What is the logical conclusion? How far do you take it? Should I, say, not be
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It's a civic pride thing. Even though I don't follow any sportsballs, I do take some pride in the fact that my city has professional football, baseball, basketball, and hockey teams. It's a "we matter" thing. I may
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In Minneapolis, there's a great bbq place that is right across the street from Vikings Stadium. I'm sure it's great game days, but it's a pain to reach any other time. They're abandoning that location and moving int
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Since when are political decisions evidence-based? Serious question. Tax incentives aren't there because they work, but rather because lots of people believe they work. Politics works on beliefs, not facts.
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To be fair, I took that particular medication for over ten years before the crisis. So it's unlikely that the medication itself was the sole cause. And when the symptoms started, I wasn't going to go to the chemist to start concoc
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We have conservation now , now that they're on the verge of extinction. For the cute species, anyway. Read the Lewis and Clark diaries sometime, see how many grizzly bears they encountered, and how much they feared grizzlys. Now look
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Measure not by how we treat other humans. Measure by how we treat animals who interfere with us or are perceived as a threat. Most of them are extinct.
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It's just how Chinese fiction is. My spouse has a master's degree in Chinese pedagogy, so I've had more exposure than most to Chinese ideas and fiction.
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I didn't read it as competition for scarce resources. I read it as preemptive war against an existential threat. The Dark Forest suggests that any alien species presents a potential existential threat, and the safest thing to do is t
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I just got Ball Lightning for Christmas, so it's on my near-future reading list.
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The sequels are where it really takes off. The Dark Forest is far more terrifying - one of the darkest SF books I've read. I think cultural differences play into the read a lot, too. It's an intensely Chinese novel, and I&#x27
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A lot of discussion of best language, etc, is just bikeshedding. (See Parkinson's Law of Triviality) We talk about technologies we use because it's easier and safer than talking about the actual product .
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Yes, already read it! I like Three Body Problem better, but Blindsight is excellent.
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To put it in software terms, it's not a bug, it's an architecture flaw. The "poor regulations" aren't individual issues, but rather part of the fabric of a framework that causes perverse incentives. Therefore, the s
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There's much to be said for sticking with things we know work, rather than experimenting with new things that might work better. If a doctor has an effective treatment for a common condition among their patients, what is the cost of tr
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Having read The Three Body Problem , I am no longer nearly so excited for our first encounter with an alien civilization...
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I don't know how old you are, but at a certain point, the input of a general practice doctor becomes very valuable. Remember, the doctor doesn't even do the little tests you mentioned, like taking measurements and blood tests - th
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I'd like to imagine "laziness" isn't the reason doctors write the prescriptions they do.
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Perverse incentive structures are the fundamental reason US healthcare is so expensive and stupid. It's not "greed" in a simple sense, and it's not "regulation" in a simple sense. It's a system of interact
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Why are you assuming that money is their only incentive? It seems to me that if the promise of a golden parachute led to CEOs simply not caring if they do well or not, then there'd be no point in paying them well or trying to hire the
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Language choice is an implementation detail. As long as the language isn't technically unable to do the job (ie you can't write a device driver in Python), it doesn't matter much. It may be intensely interesting to practition
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Hasn't anyone ever watched the opening scene of Pulp Fiction? Tarantino got right to that... no one is going to stop if you if you decide to rob a diner.
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It's not just California, either. I live in MN, had my car window smashed out for a couple of bucks in loose change. The neighbor's doorbell camera caught it on video, but the cops didn't even want to see it. Just file a repo
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And if we bombed Indiana to the brink of collapse and burned Indianapolis to the ground and nuked Terre Haute, maybe we'd do that.
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I think it's rather an oversimplification to say that five years of reconstruction of a totally shattered Japan caused the Korean War. Or to take any lessons from the immediate postwar period and use them to explain the state of Japan
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Working pickups in the wild are subject to lots of sharp impacts that regular cars do not normally get. Glass is a big problem.
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Honestly? That's not how development works at all, in my experience. Best developers aren't isolated on "most interesting problems", but rather, are getting constantly sucked into war rooms and emergency calls. And when
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Social skills are a huge part of my own IT work. If you can use social skills effectively, you get to decide (to some degree) what you work on. If you don't, then someone else decides what you work on. As long as you're okay with

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