ericmcer

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by ericmcer 3y ago
I have a 14 year old and the content of social media seems to be what bums her out. She seems to be ingrained with the idea that she will never own a home, environmental disasters will be constant and the economy will be in shambles by the
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Yeah you can't replace having great parents with anything. This is why our current solutions are failing so badly, but telling people they are responsible for their children's outcomes does not get as many votes as telling them th
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I think it also has a weird effect on how you save money. I have been broke before and worked for < $15/hr from the ages of 16-25, but I came from a middle class family and always had the mindset that I would someday have money. I t
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by ericmcer 3y ago
The health insurance industry makes more money than the oil industry. It isn't a coincidence that most of our taxes go to healthcare and the top grossing industries are all built around it.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It is a feature, interfaces between pieces of software is some of the most expensive and challenging parts of writing it. When every piece of software is written specifically with that interfacing in mind it will just run better. Now Apple
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I think it is most repugnant when you are working really hard and (very slowly) building your life up. It was really easy to be charitable when I was young and working meaningless jobs for $15/hr and I had my whole life ahead, and it
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I have seen people download 3d model file formats (stl) and position/scale them in front of them, and then walk around the 3d model. I am not sure if they added anything to the Vision Pro but it was pretty impressive. I would not be su
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by ericmcer 3y ago
That isn’t really what the parent is talking about at all… If your issue is with the device requiring connection with an external account, Vision Pro requires an AppleID which will tie it to way more of your digital things than a Facebook l
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by ericmcer 3y ago
This is 100% anecdotal and lacks any kind of research, but... I heard it was a more subtle propaganda. The American feeds could have messages about how bad the economy is, how futile working is in a corrupt system, how depressed and traumat
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I agree with this in principal, but in practice it seems troubling to have every person (even beyond kids) hooked on a stream of info that is controlled by a foreign government who doesn't like us very much. If your plan is that people
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Plastic is amazing if you consider the alternatives (glass and paper) and ignore the negatives. Don’t most microplastics come from textiles as well? Washing clothes could almost be a process designed to add micro plastics to water.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
For now they are still just cars with no driver. Once they are fully trustworthy though, the interior of the car could be repurposed in some interesting ways. Take out all the driving controls, add a desk, move the climate/radio contr
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by ericmcer 3y ago
The amount of street sweeping is directly correlated with how much they can make ticketing cars that are parked in street sweeping zones. In San Francisco they sweep the streets daily and throw $70-80 tickets to any car caught during sweepi
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by ericmcer 3y ago
How much do you think it would cost the city to implement something like this themselves? It would probably involve hiring 2-3 bike riders, a manager, some people to oversee/analyze the efficacy of the program, an approved supply chain
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Why bother disputing claims about AI made by the CEO of a new AI startup. They are obviously going to be throwing lofty statements around about its capabilities.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
They have to keep a human element, there is no way they can give the chatbot authority to do things like reset passwords, add users to accounts, issue refunds, etc. If they do that will be a hilarious attack vector for companies.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
The bit about Cobain's suicide felt like it was probing around something important but blaming it on Capitalism felt a bit off. Cobain would have experienced something similar at any period in history, that is what happens to talented
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Really good article. Of course Capitalism will package and sell anti-capitalism if that is what makes money. It will try to mirror societies desires, which I don't think is a terrible thing. What should be feared is efforts to manufact
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by ericmcer 3y ago
What are you picturing climate change looks like in +50 years when you say your kids/grandkids will have horrific lives because of it? Are they wandering a dystopian hellscape in search of water?
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by ericmcer 3y ago
If you are finding programming easy doesn't that just mean you aren't trying hard enough? There are tons of unsolved problems, tools that aren't optimal, and products that don't work as well as they should. If fixing tho
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by ericmcer 3y ago
This attitude is so nuts to me… like our parents/grandparents did bad things so we should just let the country burn because we deserve it.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
This gave me a flashback to a public speaking class in college back in... 2006ish. I gave a speech about how recycling was bullshit and a waste of time. It was very poorly received haha.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
I’m the complete opposite, I wish I was being born 20 years in future. I am kinda terrified of being 80 when they come out with some technique for heavily slowing down aging and our generation just has to sigh and accept we just missed the
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by ericmcer 3y ago
This all makes sense... Companies trade with market caps 20X their yearly earnings and get huge subsidies/bailouts from the government. Why would they court customers when the real money is in courting financial institutions.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It is scary. Our best recourse is just to "trust the science", but there are a ton of parties invested in keeping the status quo.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Primary care seems kind of like a personal trainer or other accountability person. Sure you can take your heart-rate, blood pressure, EKG, etc. and make assessments on your own (I got a pretty thorough setup for ~$150), but most people nee
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Agree, this feels like an example of the government adding hoops for people to jump through.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
The way to make this useful is to give it info about your own DNA and let it answer questions like: "tell me about my/my kids chances of balding". If you want to learn something about your DNA it would take years if the strat
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by ericmcer 3y ago
If only there was a way to do this without compromising privacy. Sexual assault would become a guaranteed prison sentence if a DNA db existed.
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by ericmcer 3y ago
It would be a happy ending if it meant the end of useless busy work to impress managers. The machine would understand you need extra employees to deal with spikes in customers and wouldn't require employees to "stay busy" dur

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