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by eucyclos 9mo ago
I think they mean cost of incremental units. 0->1 is much more expensive than 1->100 in software, unlike with things like lattes or houses
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by eucyclos 9mo ago
I'm agnostic on the question of objective moral truths existing. I hold no bias against someone who believes they exist. But I'm determinedly suspicious of anyone who believes they know what such truths are. Good moral agency requ
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by eucyclos 9mo ago
Your last paragraph brings to mind an insult from a fictional culture where the very wealthy and powerful can live indefinitely: "<minor villain> has grown nothing. And he has planted nothing". Such a perfect summation of th
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by eucyclos 9mo ago
The trick is to tie your sense of identity to being a badass with more than enough self control.
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by eucyclos 9mo ago
I thought it was German and had an awful time trying to parse it. Makes so much more sense once one knows it's Greek.
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by eucyclos 9mo ago
Cool! https://eucyclos.wixsite.com/eucyclos
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
There's an interview with Dan schmachtenberger where he talks about the worst book ever written (his opinion is that it's 'the 48 laws of power'). He made the point that being consistently wrong is actually pretty impres
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
Dead Internet Theory seems the new iteration... not finite in extent but in novelty maybe, a small mirror maze with infinite reflections on a very small set of themes.
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
I still don't understand what happened to stumbledupon. That was INTERNET! for me.
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
Card's idea that everyone could publish and excellent voices would be amplified was correct in premise, though it's conclusion was completely off. Classic XKCD parodied it brilliantly IMHO: https://xkcd.com/635&#x2
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
I really like Neal Stephenson's neologism 'amistics' - referring to which technologies a culture knows about but chooses not to use.
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
I really don't agree with this argument because copying and learning are so distinct. If I write in a famous author's style style and try to pass my work off as theirs, everyone agrees that's unethical. But if I just read a l
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
I wonder whether it's a nostalgia thing. People rode in these trucks and saw senior guys they admired owning them when they were young and on the make, and now they think that's the kind of truck successful people own even if it&#
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
I saw (and rode in) a lot of them in Alberta (Canada's Texas). Typical day for a work truck: -owner starts you up from the hotel parking lot -3-5 guys get in, you get your morning coffee via a drive through -You pick up a 'slip ta
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
I can't think what the issue would be aside from range. One thing that stood out to me about the cybertruck is that they made huge tradeoffs to make it more aerodynamic. The only reason to do that is to increase maximum driving distanc
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
I'm working on a collection of mnemonic images for learning written Chinese. Each has a solarpunk-style image referencing both the character's meaning and pictographic etymology, with the character overlaid and color-coded to indi
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
Maybe it's just the similarity in appearance and cause of death to Carradign and Epstein making me see patterns that aren't there, but I cannot watch a Bourdain clip without getting the sense something is deeply wrong.
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
Talking about why one feels a particular way requires trust in the interlocutor, so I'm not surprised outsiders don't hear anyone taking about it. As for insiders, is it a given they aren't?
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by eucyclos 10mo ago
It's often better to segregate creative and inhibitive systems even if you need the inhibitive systems to produce a finished work. There's a (probably apocryphal) conversation between George RR Martin and Stephen King that goes so
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
I have a DVD set of old UFC events - I think UFC 1 to 84 or something - and I remember in one very early event in Japan the commentators talk about how silently focused the crowd is. Of course, some people do find Japanese culture extremely
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
I think by including those, the author is saying that we tend to think that what is best for us (this tool is great/awful for my work) is also best for everyone else. It might also be a case of 'I understand this tool better&#x2
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
Dialect formation is also an instinct when forming close connections with any group of people. The prevalence of acronyms in workplaces is probably due in larger part to collective rather than individual ego formation.
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
Since you said you're genuinely curious - the answer to your first question is no. I'm grateful for what diversity and creativity does exist - and I recognize that even with public schools in the mix, it's more than what exis
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
North Vietnam's leaders were. So was Iran's.
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
not the school administration, other students.
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
You're tempting me to start doing just that. Maybe focus on keeping the conversation productive in keeping with HN's community guidelines.
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
The trouble I have with this line of argument is that, at least for male children, the skills one learns for dealing with 'problem' people in school (IE skills one would learn in an MMA gym) are not relevant for dealing with probl
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
I saw a study a while back - don't have the link handy - that while homeschooled kids of all ethnicities showed improved education outcomes compared to their public-school counterparts, African American kids improved the most. Not real
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
I can give a very simple example - in my high school history class, the cold war was presented as a conflict between communism and democracy - despite the fact that on an economic field the conflict was clearly between communism and capital
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
"In study after study, the homeschooled have scored, on average, at the 65th to 80th percentile on standardized academic achievement tests in the United States and Canada, compared to the public school average of the 50th percentile.&q

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