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by commonturtle 6y ago
Woah, I didn't notice that Jared Diamond wrote this article. The style felt familiar.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
14. I used Turbo C++ and wrote little command line apps that solved polynomial equations and drew ASCII shapes :)
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Now I have a good excuse for all the spicy food I eat :) But seriously, sample size seems small, only ~1200 across chill eaters and non-eaters. Effect size seems pretty small too from the graphs at the end of the article. Given the current
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Well, I am sympathetic to your point about the appeal of e-ink devices: great battery life, easier on the eyes, and lower costs. Things like the Kindle, the Remarkable tablet, or the Boox have great potential. I'm just skeptical about
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I ask this with no malice: What makes people work on projects like this? I'm willing to bet that the phone is bound to fail and their OS will be doomed to obscurity. How do the creators not see this? Three reasons I don't think it
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Oh wow, I didn’t know ikea had a motorised standing desk. Would be more than happy to pay $500 for that; hand-cranking the desk up and down gets tiring after a while.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
It honestly seems like technology affects older generations more than newer ones. Look at the people most susceptible to fake news online, vast majority over the age of 50. Younger people understand how the internet works; you can’t trust e
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Wonderful post. I really enjoy the authors other posts as well, would recommend his blog.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Why not just give it to charity?
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I have an Ikea Skarsta: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/skarsta-desk-sit-stand-white-s5... . Pretty affordable and well made standing desk (~$250). The only problem is having to crank the desk up and down can get
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I guess this is what inspired the pneumatic tube systems in Bioshock: https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/Pneumo_Tube .
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Interesting idea. With populations increasingly getting older in the west, the future belongs to the old. Helping them live better lives is a great opportunity.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Wow, Jolla is still around. I thought they must be dead by now. Has anyone used them and can comment on how usable Sailfish OS is? I can only seem to find reviews from 2014, which is a century in cellphone-years.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Well then, you should try this Iranian dessert made with... Lamb neck meat: https://www.tasteatlas.com/khoresht-mast :) From what I've heard the meat just blends into the dish and gives it richness without really givin
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by commonturtle 6y ago
You could 25x their budget and everything would still suck. Money is not the problem, competent governance is. Until they fix that the public should refuse any further tax increases.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
In England you'll find references to 'the corn laws' and 'the corn exchange'. Corn meant any kind of grain. I believe it still does in some places, and what is called 'Corn' in the New World is called &#x2
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I'm 29, following the rule of thumb where you have (your age)% in bonds and (100 - your age)% in stocks. Is 30% too much or too little from your experience? I can understand people preferring stocks at the moment because bond yields ar
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I'm skeptical of these UBI experiments in general, because they don't take into account that widespread, permanent UBI will change people's behaviour in very different ways from a small, temporary experiment. How do populatio
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Just index funds for now. ~70% in some Vanguard world index fund and ~30% in bonds. But I'm planning on doing some research on some microcaps as well. For individual investors with sub-$1M portfolios microcaps are one of the few places
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Why is this surprising? I also think that buying the latest smartphone is a waste of money, but every two years I find myself upgrading to the latest iPhone anyway.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
These seem to be questions rather than problems. Also I'm not sure 'hardest' is the right dimension to look at. 'The World's Most Important Problems' would be a more useful list.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Does it really matter if they are fraudulent? Most advertisers measure (and are willing to pay for) conversions, not clicks. So even if there are lots of fake clicks, the number of purchases wouldn't change. If advertisers have to pay
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I think at the 600 mile range electric cars would seriously start to get tempting. 600 mile range + supercharging (something like +30% charge in 1h) and I'd buy in a heartbeat.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Have there ever been government interventions that have managed to improve anything in a situation like this? It seems to me like every new technology has its detractors trying to ban it or limit it in some way. People thought reading and w
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by commonturtle 6y ago
It's probably a bit of both luck and success like everybody else.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Switzerland is an expensive place. PPP adjusted it probably ends up being ~$15/hr, similar to Seattle, etc.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I used DayOne for a while, then moved to Windows which it doesn't support. Now I just scribble notes in OneNote.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
I would prefer working from an office just because of the benefits of collaboration. For generic cookie cutter projects WFH works well, but IMO complex large projects can be executed much faster by a co-located team of people.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Finding an alternative to the social part of college is the real challenge. The transferring of knowledge is already commoditized and available freely online.
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by commonturtle 6y ago
Really interesting article. Still two questions about the economics that I don't understand: 1/ Why no economies of scale? Why aren't there companies that own 100k machines throughout the country? 2/ Why don't the v

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