eucyclos

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by eucyclos 11mo ago
>This is undeniable unless you have an argument of how a pool of 500 kids would somehow have less diversity of personality, thought, languages, physical features, intelligence, etc. I have such an argument - have you considered the amoun
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
Speaking of bullying, high school caused me to greatly overestimate how important unarmed combat would be to my future success in life. It's nice to not worry about it on the rare occasion that I go to sketchy places, but it also highl
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
I read something about unaffordable housing being a function of English Common Law systems - couldn't find the original piece so I asked chatgpt to compile some data: Legal System Average Price-to-Income Ratio Common Law 8.9× Civil La
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
from OP's tone I'd guess personal experience - I lived in one in my late teens/early twenties (Alberta still allowed them at the time, maybe it still does IDK). We had a guy attempt suicide in the kitchen one night. I heard a
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
A shrinking population like Japan's also changes the supply/demand curve in favor of people looking for housing options. That's probably a major factor.
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
Add an 'instant pot' or similar (or replace the microwave with one if you're really short on space) and you actually have a huge variety of available meals with a regular outlet + countertop. Home kitchens are designed around
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
I'm probably ignorant of how indexes work at a nuts-and-bolts level, but intuitively this seems like a good idea for certain situations. E.g if we want to keep entries in a specific order but don't know ahead of time how many entr
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
I was gonna say. "to bind your spell true every time, let the spell be spake in rhyme" doesn't just work on spirits, apparently.
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That's my favorite rap artist!
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
interesting. I have the theory that most networks, and most social networks, are doomed to tolerate too much or too little deviance - sailing between 4chan Scylla or reddit Charybdis. I hope you manage to thread the needle!
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
Do you have a plan for dealing with the clickbait problem?
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I think it was mostly caused by fear about nuclear Armageddon during the cold war - it's hard to feel like the world could end at any second due to nuclear bombs while also feeling grateful for nuclear electricity generation. Would be
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
Even if it had never had those issues, nuclear power would still be the textbook example of a fragile system - capital-intensive, centralized projects that can be shut down by disruption to fuel shipments halfway round the world, droughts i
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
I would rather not trust the first person who claims <outgroup> wants to starve me. Polemnics may be legitimate - they may not be, I haven't thought about it deeply - but they are undoubtedly worth dropping from my own informatio
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
There are politics and there are Politics, and I don't think the two of you are using the same definition. 'Making decisions in groups' does not require 'oversimplifying issues for the sake of tribal cohesion or loyalty&
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by eucyclos 11mo ago
I found the same when I was taking intro to stats - I did get a much better intuition for what stuff meant after reading 'superforecasting' by tetlock and gardner - I find I'm recommending that book a lot come to think of it.
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by eucyclos 1y ago
I've found large entrenched players tend to prefer slightly more than a reasonable amount of taxation and regulation in any industry; governments are easier to predict and handle than scrappy competitors.
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From what I see in the roads in China, Tesla is pretty competitive in the right environment
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This makes me think of Alexander's pattern language- according to that framework one of the key components of beauty is texture. I wonder if our dislike of untextured experiences stem from an unease at not knowing where the thing is hi
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by eucyclos 1y ago
Since microsoft kinda sorta owns or is merging with openai it's probably already close to that... copilot is constantly down for me at least, but I assume that's not a hard thing to fix on Microsoft's end if it wants to start
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shift could be the metakey? Maybe too many syllables...
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How many hours writing emails does it have to save human cancer researchers for it to be effectively true?
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Then at least all the rare earths inside the cars we've already imported are inside or borders ;-)
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It is weird to me that nobody wants to import Chinese electric cars. If Chinese investors and politicians are really subsidizing the production of electric cars, importing them would be basically having the new grid subsidized by a foreign
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I wouldn't bet against your 50 year prediction but that's because there will always be more infrastructure to extract oil, even as the oil left to extract dwindles. My own prediction is that rates of oil extraction will continue t