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by fallingknife 1y ago
1. All animals are equal 2. But some animals are more equal than others
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by fallingknife 1y ago
The most damning part to me is that Mochizuki dismissed Joshi's work and insulted it. That's a crazy response to someone trying to improve on his theory, and shows more of a religious belief that a mathematical conclusion.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
> Learning difficult subjects fundamentally changes how you think about and approach things. Citation needed on this. But even if I accept the premise, what percentage of school is leaning difficult subjects? For me it was <5% and
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Because a college degree isn't an intellectual achievement. It's 4 years of school when you've already done 13. I went to one of those schools where people go "oh, you went to $SCHOOL" when they find out, and I al
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by fallingknife 1y ago
You don't have to understand infosec to not get phished. And education doesn't do a damn thing to help you resist those algorithms.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
And then forgetting. If you're not interested, you cram for the test and then forget. I see little point in forcing people who don't want to learn into classrooms. Worth a read https://www.astralcodexten.com/p&#
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by fallingknife 1y ago
What was the point of having those students in the classroom in the first place?
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Either the test must be the same for everybody or it is not a meaningful signal.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Before college was a means to get a job, it was status signalling for the upper class by showing they could spend 4 years not working and learning things with no economic value that few could afford. There was never a time when a large por
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by fallingknife 1y ago
They aren't intervening in the current hot war against Europe
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Disallowed characters like that give the impression that plaintext passwords are being stored.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
If you can invent, build, operate, or fix useful things, there will always be someone willing to pay you.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Only a small minority of farm workers owned the farms they worked on even back before tractors. And the tractors didn't do much to help most of those owners either. Industrial farm equipment increased the area a single farmer can wor
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Given how much better employees have it now than before all the productivity gains of recent history, the only question I have about the economic system is how can we get more of that?
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by fallingknife 1y ago
It's all the same money printing. The issue is that people generally believe that emergency measures were justified in early 2020 when the crisis hit and there were so many unknowns, but not justified a year later when the virus was a
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Raising interest rates has nothing to do with the 2022 war. If it did, rates would have come back down. Interest rate increases don't help with supply/demand driven price spikes. They do help with money supply and aggregate dem
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by fallingknife 1y ago
ZIRP had little to do with it. Tech is less levered than any other major industry. What happened is that growth expectations for large tech companies were way out of line with reality and finally came back down to earth when the market fi
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Visa isn't happy. But fuck them in particular.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Airline ticket prices are flat since 2000, which is down almost 50% after inflation. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SETG01 . So I say let them keep doing what they're doing.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Doesn't feel much different than Google paying for being the default in browsers
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Then maybe you should watch all the times they failed before they didn't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ
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by fallingknife 1y ago
They have succeeded in all parts of the flight plan on different missions. So the concept is proven out, but they just need to improve reliability to string it all together.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
This is very true. No real American trusts authority, whether that is the government, or large companies, or other institutions like universities. This is why Uber could get away with breaking the law as long as they were still seen as a
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by fallingknife 1y ago
US startups can devote 100% of their energy to getting their product and operations right. Then when they enter the European market they already have that part down when they start dealing with your governments. European startups attemptin
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by fallingknife 1y ago
How much bandwidth is there in Iceland? I suspect not much because the population is only 400K. You will need to lay new undersea fiber. And how are you going to build them? The construction alone would take a massive amount of resource
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by fallingknife 1y ago
That would mean that 5.5% of the SF population are lyft drivers
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by fallingknife 1y ago
But if you substitute the pre-doordash system of calling up a restaurant and ordering delivery or take out, the energy savings aren't even 1%. One gallon of gas contains 34 kWh of energy, so if one delivery takes 0.5 gallons of gas, it
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by fallingknife 1y ago
> In a period defined by rapidly growing wealth inequities, there is increasing discussion about whether we should also be asking how much is too much. One. One person who goes around arrogantly proclaiming how much money they think ot
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by fallingknife 1y ago
"Wally, you're in charge of supporting the legacy system. How long will it take to add this feature?" "Remind me, when are we planning to finish switching over to the new system, again?" "six months" &quo
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by fallingknife 1y ago
> "It's okay to be white" (IOTBW) is an alt-right slogan which originated as part of an organized trolling campaign on the website 4chan's discussion board /pol/ in 2017. A /pol/ user described it

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