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by diego 4y ago
Discipline is what you have to use when you don't have a habit. Once you have built the habit to do the thing, discipline doesn't enter the picture. It's the default. You don't buy candy because buying candy is not a thi
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by diego 4y ago
I just tried Copilot with VS Code and python for the first time. If I define a function with some parameter name, I get suggestions as I type the body. I change the parameter name to gender, no suggestions. I change one letter in the parame
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by diego 4y ago
From the article: > The Royal Mail is aiming to deploy a fleet of 500 drones to deliver mail to remote areas, starting with small islands like the Shetlands or Orkneys. Britain’s National Health Service is trialing drone delivery for me
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by diego 4y ago
Obvious business idea: toilets that slide a containing partition before flushing. There's no need to use the seat for that, or to require the person to get up. There might be easier mechanical ways to accomplish the same.
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by diego 4y ago
There are certain kinds of problems that don't allow you to overthink. If you are on a tight deadline and you need to get something done (e.g. fix a bug, add a feature) then the situation forces you to make _a_ decision and move on. Yo
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by diego 4y ago
Nobody needs to travel with 8 pairs of underwear. Take two or three high-quality ones (e.g. Ex Officio) and wash them at night. Also, I have yet to visit a civilized location in the world where you cannot buy a decent disposable razor that&
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The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today(twitter.com)
331 points by diego 4y ago|293 comments
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by diego 5y ago
The reason people keep using Twitter it's because it's designed / evolved to be very addictive. Most of us don't engage our rational mechanisms to go "I am about to spend X minutes engaged on Twitter, what's th
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by diego 5y ago
Probably because many people who follow him on Twitter have no idea what running a startup is like, so they are imagining a completely different context. Business plans do make sense in other contexts.
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by diego 5y ago
Agree with that. However, in 2022 writing is not the only way to order your thoughts outside your head. I for example have put together Youtube videos without writing anything down. The process is like this: - Think of a point I'd want
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by diego 5y ago
> And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial. This would imply that Socrates only had trivial ideas. Socrates would disagree with this statement, and so would a large number of people. This belief se
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A Job Pays Much More Than a Salary(iamnotarobot.substack.com)
2 points by diego 5y ago|0 comments
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by diego 5y ago
No, but if you don't have your half memorized and they take it from you, the other half is useless. This is more useful if you want to leave your crypto to your family if you die, provided that you make it easy for them to find your ha
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by diego 5y ago
An analogy is shorthand for: here is something relatively complicated. We can look at it with the same model that we have agreed upon for this other thing. If the two things are similar enough in the ways that the model applies, then it&#x2
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by diego 5y ago
Think of all the technologies that we use today that were invented at companies that no longer exist, or are no longer relevant. E.g. Java was invented at Sun, C at Bell Labs. Why would it be different?
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by diego 5y ago
That is an opinion. The 2001 crash caused a crisis, then a recovery, then two decades went by with many ups and downs. The entire peg might have never happened and Argentina might still be where it is today. Are you old enough to remember t
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by diego 5y ago
Exactly. The reason inflation happens is that the government overspends, then prints money because it can. There are no magic tricks to stop inflation if you're constantly devaluing your currency.
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by diego 5y ago
Study Argentine history. They have tried everything imaginable, and managed to control inflation for a while. Look at the 1-1 peg between the peso and the dollar that lasted 9 years. It's much more complicated than you think.
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by diego 5y ago
Of course. What does that have to do with my comment? Spotify wants to carry Joe Rogan, and they also want to carry Neil Young. Neil Young is the one who wants Spotify to choose.
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by diego 5y ago
Those of us who live in the US enjoy free speech, which clearly allows types of speech that are considered misinformation. In order for a platform to censor speech that is otherwise legal, they must either do it out of principle (they simpl
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by diego 5y ago
I generally read audiobooks at 1.5x because 1.0 seems terribly slow to me. This more or less matches my reading pace for printed books, so 16 hours seems right.
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by diego 5y ago
I cannot believe nobody has mentioned 5D optical data storage. Much denser, designed to last 10 centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage
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by diego 5y ago
I didn't see an article. I saw a tweet with statistics. I had to look for the article, it's further down past a few hidden tweets. I appreciate your written explanation, I'm not a fan of the "downvote as disagreement&quo
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by diego 5y ago
Better for whom? The upfront investment is much higher. If the market buys energy from you, they give you money. You can turn bitcoin into money instantly without having to store energy. You don't care about the value of bitcoin fluctu
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by diego 5y ago
As I understand it, the gist of web3 is to do away with the need for having centralized organizations who control a particular resource. For example domain names, identities, speech. In the beginning, the web was supposed to be an egalitari
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by diego 5y ago
Without even getting into whether the guilty deserve it or not, you are assuming justice is infallible. What is your best guess for the rate of false positives on death row?
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by diego 5y ago
This is normal. You will get used to it, and you will likely bounce to your personality before the windfall. You have solved one problem in life that most people never solve, and that puts you in a very small group. However, the rest of the
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NFTs, OpenSea and Conflicts of Interest(diegobasch.com)
3 points by diego 5y ago|1 comments
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by diego 5y ago
This question is backwards. We used to write differently with typewriters and notebooks. This is like asking if no longer using a car and instead walking would change the way we move around. The answer is "of course, why would you even
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by diego 5y ago
The same can be said for commuting, and for wearing presentable clothes to go to work. Nothing new under the sun. The difference is that smartphones actually have other uses besides work.

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