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by dalbasal 4y ago
Sure. Also co-authors, advisors, friends and all sorts of contributors. That said, the author is the sun and editors' role is to help authors write their book. The editor is not under the impression that it is their book.
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Well... Novels tend to be written one person. They get written at that person's pace. Sometimes authors stop for years, then return to books. A lot of them have tons of uncompleted chapters, scenes and such sloshing around. Films are a
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Not only is it hard to get any conclusive answers at all in food/health science... I find it's very hard to even identify controversies, scientific mysteries and open questions. The posture adopted tends to always give the impress
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Technical, nerdy people are often combative in passive aggressive ways. Assuming a "I am the objective one" is often just a blindspot. Everyone is subjective to some extent, and admitting that you are a person with a perspective (
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I think this is a good/important article. Yes, it is a "POV" perspective, and has elements of defensiveness but it is also honest and open... trying to find better communication. >>>impatient and cut me off or interj
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Westworld (season 1) based their fictional theory of robot consciousness on Bicameral Mind. I thought it was brilliant, and honestly can't shake the feeling that it might work. It kind of got me fired up about chatbots as a basis for c
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I disagree. This isn't barber shops and orange juice. Real estate is a far more structured market. Limited space. Price-pegged debt availability. Transport/infrastructure. Long term asset inflation trends. This creates a lot of am
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Scale. How much, relative to the whole is (a) Thiel's contribution to this fund (b) the portion of the fund's investments which live up to above ideals. Also.. IDK that even the best are examples of investments living up to the i
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I think spouting blatant lies is and should be something you can "get away with," at least legally. Jones was (IMO) actually attacking these people. He continuously unleashing a mob of shitposting arseholes and actual lunatics on
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I shouldn't be commenting this deep into flame but... That's a demonization argument. If anything china-related is bad ipso facto, then I suppose discussion ends where it starts. What comes after " tyrannical, genocidal, geop
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Robot scabs for the coming union wars in amazon warehouses. Kidding, but maybe that's the actual idea.
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IDK if it's that smug. It was just a prank/troll. Possibly, it got a bit more circulation than expected or was less obvious than expected. It feels kind of like a "ha! on your toes" style that translates poorly from pe
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Sure. The weirdness comes from the intersection of believing/espousing in the possibility and necessity of A, while also negating A. I'm not necessarily that annoyed by the straightforward hypocrisy. Everyone does that kind of thi
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T'was a great essay, but... same "hypocrisy." Most of Marc's investments went into crypto/fintech, social media and such. He dabbles in some hard, physical, even socially useful investment... but it's a 1/
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by dalbasal 4y ago
So, I get that there's a major hypocrisy here... and that this demonstrates NIMBYism and such. Personally, the passive-aggressive tone of the tweet makes this especially aggravating: "purported concerns about..." That said, I
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Possibly, but I dunno if mixed income is the only ingredient required for that recipe.
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Yes, if you want to print it out on paper... but don't you think someone might want machine readable?
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Terrific, but terrifying.
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I agree that there's a "that's life" aspect to collateral/tradeoff. That said, I sympathize somewhat with the parent. "Done right, negative side effects are minimal" is an uncomforting statement. First, be
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Autor doesn't appear to be talking about research/publishing. He just wants frequentism banned for undergrads.
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Imo, the bigger question is big or small architecture. Who owns it becomes derivative of that.
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That's why I noted "Thibault Communism" to narrow it to his specific thinking on this, which IMO is quite lovely and unique. TD is the one who who articulated it this way, and there are pretty strong logical and operative lin
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You are absolutely correct on the meat of this. What parent is observing is mostly a more consistent PR operation. That said, some of that is too sharp. There is some degree of " is this actually an important or interesting story. &qu
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I would agree with you in a lot of cases, especially public administration but... In Thibault's case, he has consciously and deliberately made it so that his political views do affect choices at all levels. A lot of it is quite dir
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There are more reasons, but... At core there is a dichotomy between Chess.com's business-model-ish approach and Lichess' communist approach... to put it in Thibault's own words. No freemium tiers. No subscription plans, ads,
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>> a lot of copper is consumed for applications that don’t need it. If prices go up, the industry can adapt. Very likely true. This is usually the case with materials, and as the article mentions it is happening. However ... this doe
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Idk if that's a better definition. It's better if what you are describing by "conservative" is a fairly narrow Anglo-American Conservative Ideology. Influential, sure. But not most of conservativeism, even within Ameri
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How do you decide to designate something as more animalistic or human. Is is caring for children animal or human? Being socially pleasant? What makes attending a naturist summer camp animalistic? FWIW, the majority of recent, western naturi
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I disagree entirely. First, the notion that someone somewhere in society doing porn is bad for the society itself. The desire to shave off societies' "stray hairs" is deeply immoral. It has always has been, but that does not

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