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by dbingham 8y ago
To extend the aside a bit: everyone's body (and microbiome) is different. We should really never judge dietary choices made for personal health/lifestyle reasons. Because what works for our body won't necessarily work for a
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I dunno, my buddy who just got a degree in high energy plasma physics working on fusion reactors might disagree with you. And really, you just sound like every crank ever who thought X technology was totally unfeasible and always would be -
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by dbingham 8y ago
Well, I just found the NextGen projects and have been playing around with them. This looks like a massive improvement. Fixes most of my pain points. I'm still going to miss Waffle's tight integration with Github -- being able t
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by dbingham 8y ago
Have you ever used waffle or something like it? Waffle attaches PRs as little rows underneath the primary card. On the PR row you have a one click link to pop open the PR in a new tab, an indicator of each review on the PR (and its status
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by dbingham 8y ago
Well, that's fun. The linked blog post doesn't seem to exist. I can find no mention of this new release on Jira's blog anywhere. Plus, there's no release date for these features (which seem like desperately needed impr
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by dbingham 8y ago
This makes perfect sense given the multiplier affects built into the Capitalist system. The more money you have, the more easily you can grow that money. The moment an imbalance forms it would naturally continue to grow. The fact that Cap
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by dbingham 8y ago
Following this rabbithole lead me here, which explained it in a way that made sense to me: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DY9h6zxq6EMHrkkxE/spooky-act... Just in case anyone else is struggling with this, as I was
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Sure, but you could still create a two way walkie talkie that couldn't be eavesdropped on and would allow faster than light communication this way, theoretically.
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Wait, why is Quantum Entanglement a non-starter? How does that require a conventional channel? Once you have the two entangled, assuming you have some way to change the state of one with out breaking the entanglement, then how is that not
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by dbingham 8y ago
Those are a poor copy of the style. They're way more simplistic and less detailed.
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Who? I'm a leftist and pretty widely read and I've yet to read anyone explicitly advocating for state control of the whole economy. For pieces of it, such as Health Care or Education? Sure. For better regulation and wider redistr
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by dbingham 8y ago
Nothing shameful about making a mistake, happens to the best of us. But you might want to edit your first comment to point out that you were referring to a different device in case people don't make it this far down the comment threa
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by dbingham 8y ago
What about the Remarkable ( https://remarkable.com/ )? It's both got a larger screen and it's supposed to have a vastly improved refresh rate. I haven't tried it, but I'm really really curious about it.
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by dbingham 8y ago
You know, I spent last year subscribed to a bunch of these niche journals with the hope of broadening my intellectual intake. I tried to get a good variety - everything from Jacobin (socialist) to National Affairs (neocon). I'm not s
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by dbingham 8y ago
This is awesome and really helpful! As a piece of feedback, having a large section of concrete Cloudformation examples (both JSON and YAML) would be really, really helpful. There are a lot of examples in AWS' documentation, but they a
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by dbingham 8y ago
I think the OP probably did mean that and wasn't thinking that much more deeply about the statement, but I also think it is that very mindset that the posters challenging it are targeting. Because that mindset - looking at everything
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by dbingham 8y ago
As someone currently dealing the consequences of being far too cavalier with long term environmental pollutants like PCBs and lead, I would argue that behavior you're describing as being that of a "3 year old" is actually a g
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by dbingham 8y ago
> I think its more that when its life and not the Government that is going to punish you for failing, you're going to work harder at not failing. > I would counter that without those punishments and protections, its possible that
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by dbingham 8y ago
As someone who's participated in many organizations and movements that were purposefully against power structures and authority, I can tell you that it can go either way. I've seen it work, where people found ways to fluidly hold
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by dbingham 8y ago
Climate predictions, the accepted scientific ones, have consistently been more conservative than what has actually happened: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-p...
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Since 1850s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record
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by dbingham 8y ago
The over-sensationalization is purely the media. It's not coming from the models or the scientists running them. Please don't over generalize your anecdotal experience to an entire field. Especially not with something this impor
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by dbingham 8y ago
This approach is also risky. We don't know what climate effects might fall out of very fast, very localized changes in the composition of the atmosphere. What's it going to do to the climate if we suck a bunch of carbon dioxide
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by dbingham 8y ago
Agreed. And we're suffering all kinds of negative consequences from this system. I think one of the great economic questions facing our generation is "How can we keep the efficiencies of scale we've gained while reintroduci
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by dbingham 8y ago
It has nothing to do with altruism and everything to do with the fact that most people are not driven by the hoarding of wealth. Most people recognize the need to make a profit because they need to survive and support their families, but i
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by dbingham 8y ago
Fair enough. However, the context of this discussion -- and the modern economic context -- is made up primarily of corporate actors. Which is one more reason why the application of Adam's philosophy doesn't make sense.
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Sure, you could argue that, and maybe Adam Smith was at the time. It's been a long time since I've read him, I'd have to go back and re-read it to decide to what degree I think he's making that argument. But that is not
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by dbingham 8y ago
You've got it backwards. They are able to make a living happily doing their craft because there is a portion of the market that values their craft. They didn't choose their craft because they recognized their was a market for it
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I don't trust self interest. Especially not in my butcher, brewer, or baker. Pure self interest gets you McDonalds, Bud Light, and Debi cakes. I consume exactly none of those things and have no desire to consume any of those things.
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by dbingham 8y ago
The advantages are not all personal. The environmental benefits that come from reduced travel and reduced need for office space (which sits empty much of the time) is no joke. Neither is the economic / environmental benefit of freein

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