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by eutropia 4y ago
This rhymes with a few other articles and blog posts: Wither Tartaria? https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/whither-tartaria > Imagine a postapocalyptic world. Beside the ruined buildings of our own civilization -
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by eutropia 4y ago
> irrevocable, perpetual, Are complete, absolute, non-fucking-starters. The rest, I roughly understand legally to an extent for actually "doing a SaaS with your voice" as being necessary. HOWEVER. I should be able to say "
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by eutropia 4y ago
it’s the same product but they only allow educational content and stuff that promotes Chinese hegemony. They let the rest of the world have nyquil chicken.
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by eutropia 4y ago
I read that our (humanity's) wrist flexibility co-evolved with the presence of clubs and thrown stones, or rather was selected for due to the ability to easily swing clubs and and throw objects versus other hominids without that flexib
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by eutropia 4y ago
Fiction is often more inspiring than reality. There are many ideas he swept into his personal reputation that inspired me when I was younger, and Fuller operating as a locus lead me from one popular idea (the architectural geodesic dome) t
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by eutropia 4y ago
I've been playing TTRPGs via videochat with my friends since pandemic, and I've often thought about setting up video avatars for our characters. It would be especially cool for the DM to be able to switch personas on the fly, and
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by eutropia 4y ago
CD Projekt Red's original great work: bringing Baldur's Gate to Poland. :)
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by eutropia 4y ago
When I was younger and didn’t have a family to look after: I really enjoyed working at a small (30 person) startup with some folks I had been to university with, and some really amazing programming mentors I wouldn’t have met in a BigCo. Wo
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by eutropia 4y ago
Either you have a winning poker hand or you don't - oh wait: bluffing is a thing that people sometimes have to do - even in salary negotiations.
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by eutropia 4y ago
Florence has one of my favorite roadside eateries: the Quaker Steak & Lube! (known for their chicken wings, lol) Any time we drive to the Ikea in Cinci from KY, we'll get hot wings on the way home.
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by eutropia 4y ago
You haven't said anything about land, only about labor, so your sentence does not follow. You’ve made a case for why labor inputs might not be directly related to market price, but that says exactly zero about land?
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by eutropia 4y ago
Slightly introspect for me then, why doesn’t LVT make sense?
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by eutropia 4y ago
(IANAL) Tether was trying to claim that requesting essentially a complete financial report for Tether and Bitfinex was overbroad, but has so far refused to produce any example of a more specific and limited set of information, so the court
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by eutropia 4y ago
I could write a post about how becoming a coffee snob in college led to True and Lasting Happiness. I’ll dispense with the well-painted scenes and evocative memories and just put it plainly, however. Once I started making a french press of
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by eutropia 4y ago
I kinda love this comment. It highlights the absurd dichotomy between what "experts" see and what "lay people" see when they look at the same thing. Parent just wants to see some cool images from Earth's latest and
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by eutropia 4y ago
Hey was created by Basecamp. Sort of the opposite of a startup.
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I think this is really cool. Something that enhances your actual social life instead of acting as a parasitic replacement for it.
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> We could have a serious discussion about why women's sports exist at all, rather than just the open class. And that would bring up questions of just what makes women women -- it goes far beyond what's between their legs and e
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by eutropia 4y ago
This particular issue is tricky. In general, because all nuance gets lost - I would say "sure, I support whatever the trans community wants for sports league rules", because the trans community needs all the support it can get, be
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by eutropia 4y ago
probably efficient because their codebase size would outstretch local disk space requirements, and also would allow for comprehensive access controls
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by eutropia 4y ago
I think a fundamental stumbling block for a lot of AI critics is a lack of concept of "universal function approximation". NNs map inputs to outputs. Period. Theory of mind (or embodiment, or motivation, or "consciousness&quo
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by eutropia 4y ago
I'll make the analogy clear: systemically oppressed people should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stop complaining (because it just makes it worse for themselves). This is a classic American argument.
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by eutropia 4y ago
light train goes up, heavy train goes down and regen breaks back to full battery. gravito-potential energy of raw material converts to electrochemical potential energy in the battery. That’s a cool idea. Makes sense if you can’t find the ma
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by eutropia 4y ago
I was really hoping Chomsky would offer a point of view less firmly entrenched in the politics of 20th century economic imperialism, because he’s normally very insightful. But it does seem like in his own way he adopted a belief in American
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by eutropia 4y ago
Anyone know the correct mana syntax for advanced options? I tried 4RRR and got the text "4RRR" in the mana cost, instead of red mana symbols and 4 colorless.
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by eutropia 4y ago
I'm saying that if you give everyone a raise matching inflation (all things being equal), the people's wages who rose naturally (and contributed to CPI by virtue of raising labor cost of goods) are no better off than they were bef
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by eutropia 4y ago
Is your work in tech supposed to hold a sacred scalar linear multiple of the average labor cost ( read: salary of people who produce food and goods) of life’s necessities? So many entitled people arguing for an economic caste system… Arguin
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by eutropia 4y ago
Get a vintage cast iron skillet; before the race to the bottom resulted in unfinished junk like Lodge, manufacturers used to machine polish the surface of the skillet. I can put a tiny amount of oil in my cast iron and fry eggs without stic
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by eutropia 4y ago
That’s an interesting take; what makes you say that?
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by eutropia 5y ago
avoid the addiction by turning it directly into a citizen’s dividend

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