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by dqpb 4y ago
I guess that means they won't be changing their name to Goldman SPACs
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by dqpb 4y ago
> while supplies last This is true for every product ever made
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by dqpb 4y ago
> I had a stack of cheap books from a used bookstore and a handful of surplus nonworking computers that would have been thrown out. And a parent who worked an NASA. I agree I don't think excessive privilege is responsible for succes
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by dqpb 4y ago
Stressing over WFH is what a leader does when they’ve run out of ideas for real innovation. It exposes how weak and powerless they feel.
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by dqpb 4y ago
He sells cheap counterfeit Chinese products, and children’s toys laced with lead. What’s this about high standards?
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by dqpb 4y ago
How were the first forests made?
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by dqpb 4y ago
There will always be self righteous gatekeepers. This is the inevitable result of centralized control.
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by dqpb 4y ago
If someone has only one Japanese parent are they Gaijin?
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by dqpb 4y ago
The author is confusing efficiency with utilization.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Imagine a super api endpoint that returns all the data as a single massive json response. GraphQL allows you to serve that, minus the data the user doesn't care about.
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by dqpb 4y ago
It’s much more specified. You can look at physical things like their dna, their brain, chemical markers, etc. Even without these, one doesn’t need God to understand the concept of variation.
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by dqpb 4y ago
> the [confidence] that makes you certain a majority of the world are fools for practicing religion-- that's the real thought-terminating cliche My pet theory is that an alien species planted religion in humans as a KPI to determine
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by dqpb 4y ago
> How else do you explain making yourself totally vulnerable to another human for no reason other than the possibility that they will be nice to you for life … Our social impulses are the result of several billion years of evolution. The
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by dqpb 4y ago
I guess faith is a knob. You can dial it down when explaining it to a critic and dial it up when exerting control over an adherent.
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by dqpb 4y ago
> the will and passion necessary to believe in yourself and your abilities is inherently spiritual Having raised a child, I think the will to explore is natural and innate, and confidence in oneself is developed and reinforced through ex
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by dqpb 4y ago
The difference is that beliefs can be updated by new information. Faith cannot.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I take issue with two aspects of faith as it's often used in religion / spirituality / metaphysics: 1. When faith is claimed to have a direct physical effect. For example, faith healing in which ones faith conjures divine int
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by dqpb 4y ago
> The central goal of this series is to explore the evolving relationship among faith, science and philosophy Faith is the ultimate thought-terminating cliche. Its malware for the human brain. The good parts of religion/spirituality
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by dqpb 4y ago
Brad and Edgar are both athletes. Brad plays football and Edgar plays baseball. Brad is watching Edgar play baseball. Edgar’s behavior indicates to Brad that Edgar is not a talented athlete. However, Brads frame of reference is football, wh
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by dqpb 4y ago
I think we’re living in the most exciting time in the history of the universe. Our resource consumption is on trajectory to result in global civilization collapse around 2040: https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article&#x
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by dqpb 4y ago
Everyone should get some equity.
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by dqpb 4y ago
The main problem is that promo-culture is fake meritocracy. Real meritocracy is a market economy (barring corruption).
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by dqpb 4y ago
> Bezos Earth Fund I assume this is to clean up all the trash Amazon sells?
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by dqpb 4y ago
> "Starship can land 100 tons on the lunar surface," said Aarti Matthews, Starship Human Landing System program manager for SpaceX. "And it’s really hard to think about what that means in a tangible way. One hundred tons i
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by dqpb 4y ago
I don't think it's malice. I think wealthy people are predominantly focused on keeping their fortune in-tact, and growing. I don't think they feel a great responsibility to spend it. But, in my view, the whole point of capita
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by dqpb 4y ago
The US has almost 1000 billionaires. Any one of them could decide to mobilize researchers for this purpose, but instead they have decided it's not worth doing that. In fact they have decided it's not worth mobilizing anybody to do
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by dqpb 4y ago
Sometimes you have to highlight that specific people were wrong before, particularly in a power imbalance. Unfortunately, most organizations don’t do distributed meritocratic decision making. The hierarchical structure is often a key compon
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by dqpb 4y ago
There’s also no such thing as “sushi grade” fish.
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by dqpb 4y ago
You can politely explain to someone that you think they are wrong now evidenced by the fact they they were proven wrong in a similar situation before. In fact, I would argue its literally your job to do so. You’re paid to make the right dec
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by dqpb 4y ago
“I told you so”’s are better as saved rounds for future disagreements.

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