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by econ 7mo ago
> the ability to find essentially any information ever created by anyone anywhere at anytime, Except from. You know, books. And all the websites die pretty fast. At an insane rate. > the ability to communicate with anyone on Earth o
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by econ 7mo ago
I'm trying to think in the other (wrong) direction. If we can't escape funding things with advertising the document format can be improved to facilitate what people are trying to build. If each page view needs to be a full multipl
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by econ 7mo ago
I say we should allow random characters at the end of passwords.
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by econ 7mo ago
Not entirely on topic: If pot is illegal people will grow extremely potent variaties. If it's normal you get very tasty variaties that give a mild buzz even if you smoke pure joints all day. It's like comparing a casual light beer
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by econ 7mo ago
I'm happy the old icons are still available. I consider the flat icons (by default) a bad idea because one can't use them with peripheral vision. Even after getting used to them i have to look much longer to see which does what.
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by econ 7mo ago
Very impressive effort. He mentions so many cool ideas. I really like the drop-down with what you want on the toolbar. Good way to unclutter the settings menu. I wonder what would be a good way to visualize settings the user changed (and ch
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by econ 7mo ago
I use to have a routine with a friend where we paid close attention to the table manners of his wealthy upper class relatives. Then when they did something wrong we would point it out loudly as if it was the end of the world. Best was 3+ mi
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by econ 7mo ago
I once see someone's chopsticks taken away from them and replaced with a knife and fork. I've always wondered what they did wrong. Now I see they probably covered half this list. Haha
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by econ 7mo ago
I've never been sentenced to repeating myself. I'm sure people normally hope for improvements in silence without informing me. Thanks! The general point was that "Improvement" that ruin muscle memory usually aren't.
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by econ 7mo ago
That might be what they think. I just installed windows and it had countless dialogs. Most have a reason to exist but it's a lot of work. The Ubuntu live usb on the other hand just boots into the desktop environment. It just works? The
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by econ 7mo ago
If you have two candidate ui designs you pick the best of the two. If you have an established ui and a candidate the new design needs to be dramatically better. It has to scream superiority. If it isn't that you are just ruining ux. I
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by econ 7mo ago
I had some thoughts on dynamic tax rates depending on how desirable a product or service is. Then can do standard formulas like, will operations continue if the power is out, internet, smart phones, running water, phone lines, payment proce
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by econ 7mo ago
In some review of a super cheap Chinese car people kept endlessly repeating how it had real buttons on the dashboard. The doors had electric locks which I thought was disappointing. Imagine a car door that can be opened after an accident or
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by econ 7mo ago
The unmonitored copying alone!
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by econ 7mo ago
Ricardo Semler had a hilarious take. When allowed to pick their own topics some kids chose to play only videogames. They dropped far behind. Then They hear other kids learned how to read and write! From scoring no points the gamers went to
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by econ 7mo ago
I was comparing the lawless freedom of the darkweb with lawless society. They really seem one and the same. In contrast the conventional internet has surprisingly little overlap with conventional society. Not sure which historic dystopian s
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by econ 7mo ago
Education is a weird field with perhaps a few thousand years of very good unimplemented ideas. Imagine training an llm by putting it in a room with other untrained LLMs? All that knowledge is sure to rubb of!
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by econ 7mo ago
The thing that bothered me, say there are 5 topics that need pages but only one has this huge growth in articles. Like say discography vs books on Wikipedia.
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by econ 7mo ago
If you manufacture something it's nice to ask what part breaks first and consider making it easy to replace.
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by econ 7mo ago
This is actually hilarious, the OSes are so bloated GBs of ram isn't enough to fit two. The sheer amount of useless nonsense that must be in memory.
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by econ 7mo ago
We lack much vocabulary in this new situation. Not that I have words for it but to paint the picture: if I hang out with people sharing some quality I tend to assume it's there in others and treat them as such. LLMs might not be people
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by econ 7mo ago
And no explanation what happens after that with the minutes they had before.
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by econ 8mo ago
Could make a list of pending papers and allow others to pay for them.
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by econ 8mo ago
For what it's worth it worked for me.
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by econ 8mo ago
Perhaps but if the difference is significant I don't know. Everything changes then we try stretch rhetoric from stabbing someone with a sword to hypersonic missiles? We might hold the pilot responsible if they erase a building but I&#x
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by econ 8mo ago
milton h. erickson developed conversational hypnosis to bypass the conscious mind. This is of course a great accomplishment in the field. It also had me completely convinced that one should only listen to what is said rather than how. So, (
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by econ 8mo ago
Yes but the guy at the end of the street beats his wife too!
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by econ 8mo ago
Drone pilots don't get any info about their target, certainly not enough to make a judgement call. If they object (or burn out) someone else is put in the chair. People are conscripted, they put on the uniform and become legitimate tar
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by econ 8mo ago
I like the substitution concept. What humans can do depends on the abstractions and the tools. One could picture just the shape of the jet and have a few ideas how to improve it further. If that is enough info for the tool it could be worth
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by econ 8mo ago
Antarctica is a great place for datacenters. They can power them with any of the 300 national security reactors and easily keep them secret from the taxpayers forever.

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