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by eszed 4mo ago
Well-made leather shoes have none of those drawbacks (besides polishing; nothing to do about that). When I was in high school my grandmother bought me a pair of (eye-wateringly expensive, partially hand-made) dress shoes. I can remember the
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by eszed 4mo ago
You're right about there being a change of attitude, particularly in the direction of mis-perceived risk - we see that in surveys about fear of crime relative to actual crime statistics - which makes parents way more leery about sendin
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by eszed 4mo ago
Indeed. That's directly addressed in their definition of the rule: > No feigning surprise isn’t a great name. When someone acts surprised when you don’t know something, it doesn’t matter whether they’re pretending to be surprised or
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by eszed 4mo ago
> Kids don’t even play outside anymore and I don’t think it’s because the market took away third spaces I agree with this, but I think it reinforces GP's point that what's missing is time : slack in the day. I grew up playing
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by eszed 4mo ago
> if we somehow created jobs elsewhere so that poor people wouldn't have to fight rich people for city air Or, maybe... a VAT-funded UBI?
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by eszed 4mo ago
I agree. To expand your point, that requires upstream regulation of trash incinerators (and road safety, which I'll ignore because developed economies mostly have that at least nominally in place), to make sure it's not a noxious
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Funnily enough, I don't get seasick in heavy seas - even below deck without a horizon - but I will sitting at the dock with light motion. It's like my vestibular system "knows" to shut up when the chaotic motion goes bey
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by eszed 4mo ago
Is navigation a legitimate use of a phone screen while driving? I wouldn't want the dots on my map, so I'll charitably assume that's what GP meant.
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Yeah, I'm hanging on with GrapheneOS (on a Pixel) until their native-hardware (Motorola) phones come out, which hopefully will solve this. As I understand it, third-party (banks and so forth) app vendors have to accept their security a
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by eszed 4mo ago
You're absolutely, completely, 100% correct that the nature of good institutions is to make the virtuous path the easy one, and also that medical norms and practices do a (generally) good job achieving this. You're also missing yo
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When I taught university, I put every required book on reserve in the library. I also <wink-wink nudge-nudged> about "alternative methods, that you're absolutely not allowed to use. The college gets kick-backs from [book p
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by eszed 4mo ago
Fun! I mix white and whole-wheat flour, which we think tastes better. Half and half, and up the baking powder by ~50%.
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by eszed 4mo ago
Good points. I expect you're familiar with the Abundance Agenda folks? They're mostly talking right now about energy and infrastructure, which I think is a correct choice, but there is a next step to take with consumer goods, so t
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That's what I took away from it, too. Facebook circa 2008 was great : your friends talked what were up to; everyone posted their pictures from that party last night; you didn't see anything from anyone who wasn't at most a s
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by eszed 4mo ago
You're right, too, but also in the European chain stores - Carrefour and Spar, and the like - I see more quality produce and local cheese and regional products than I do in North American equivalents. They're sold right alongside
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by eszed 4mo ago
Vibrant city centers in the US have small stores, too - even town centers in high-income areas. In Europe (especially, in my experience, France) they're common, because they've supported and subsidized them in all sorts of un-econ
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by eszed 4mo ago
I took essentially no photos in my twenties (long before phone cameras) for exactly this reason - and, in the short term, absolutely did remember events better than the folks who were constantly looking for their next digicam shot. I'm
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by eszed 4mo ago
I take your point, but the other argument against scaling in this way doesn't rely on sentiment: it's unsustainable. I actually hate that word, but the point is that current production methods create (unpriced) environmental ext
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by eszed 4mo ago
Try this: https://www.seriouseats.com/foolproof-2-minute-hollandaise-r... I used to make it on the stovetop - even learned how to rescue it when it broke - but I don't anymore. You can decide whether using a hand blend
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Which show?
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Has Brexit played a role in this? When I was in and around British universities, ~20 years ago, EU grants were a significant source of income.
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I agree with all of that. The problem in our area - I realize every local (US) school system is different, which itself seems to me to be a problem - is that the after school program is enormously expensive. Our kid is skipping (public) TK
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by eszed 4mo ago
Ignoring whatever you mean by injecting "ethnicity" into the question, I've interacted kids in all of those socio-economic situations and think both that GP's point about innate curiosity is true, and that GGP's unw
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by eszed 4mo ago
Yes, to all of this. The pedagogical term for the concept in your final paragraph is "scaffolding", and it's critical. Teachers have to know how to break their subject down into digestible pieces, and then find the proper o
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by eszed 4mo ago
I think we agree on all of those points. I'd posit, however, that whatever "it" is, and however you define it, humans are further up the scale than other animals. That's partly why I mentioned language use; it could be t
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by eszed 4mo ago
I read the same piece you did (if it was on HN, anyway), and it described highly-educated-in-Kenya people. Nothing low-class implied. I suspect (though I may be wrong about this) that lower-class Kenyans aren't likely to be literate in
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by eszed 4mo ago
You're right, of course, but the post-War consensus in which (most) major powers (mostly) acknowledged international law and (mostly) restricted themselves to economic, rather than military, competition was... nice. It took the two mos
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Aye, that's the question, and we don't know: everything in this sub-thread my comment kicked off is speculation. The thing is that several large groups of (or at least led by) fundamentally reckless people are racing to build mach
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Sure, but capacity for self-awareness? I'd guess that hamsters dream, and that their subconscious processes (eg, desires for food and sleep and sex), and maybe even emotions, run much like ours. It's just that humans, with more
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by eszed 4mo ago
I'd expand a little bit to say inevitably emergent property. That is to say, if you create a sufficiently complex information-processing network, some level of consciousness will result. With regards to current AI, we're a fair

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