fellowmartian

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by fellowmartian 10mo ago
It wouldn’t be HN without an EU bashing comment for no reason. Seems like it’s living in people’s heads rent free.
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by fellowmartian 10mo ago
The goal should be to not produce homo economicus in the first place, not to figure out how to build a society out of them in the same way you build a trustless smart contract.
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by fellowmartian 11mo ago
There’s tons of variants of ZFC without the “infinity”. Constructivism has a long and deep history in mathematics and it’s probably going to become dominant in the future.
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by fellowmartian 11mo ago
It’s quite rich coming from this guy, but I’m glad he’s seen the truth nonetheless.
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by fellowmartian 11mo ago
You’re preaching to the choir here, I know nuclear is good and safe, but most people really don’t.
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by fellowmartian 11mo ago
Nuclear is attractive? Are we living on the same planet? I wish it was attractive but it’s quite obviously the opposite.
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
There’s obviously no improvement on this metric and hasn’t been in a while.
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
Ah yeah, a classic, “practical”, capitalist realist take.
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
Because it’s not a printer? It’s a cartridge control module you can install on your 3d printer.
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
Ironically Python is the worst language for everything you’ve described. Packaging is pain, wheels are pain, everything breaks all the time. It’s only great for those standalone scripts. Nobody in their right mind would design Python the wa
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
I’m not suggesting grandpa reads code, contributors do. We all know that most commercial code is much shittier than open source. Sure, commercial code usually covers more edge cases and has better UX, but is cobbled together from legacy and
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
I think this is a false dichotomy. Open hardware with open source software would be more protected simply by being more stress tested and vetted by more people. If you need even more protection you can employ zero-knowledge proofs and other
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
Free Trade is the only freedom you should want or need. /s obviously.
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
Can you elaborate? The sibling comment called this situation dystopian, wondering how you cope.
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
Jewelry diamonds are made in a press.
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
Well if corn is so productive and efficient then surely it doesn’t need any subsidies. It can stand on its own merits in a real free market.
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
The argument you’re making works just as well for any other crop. Productive land is the asset and the security, not the corn itself. In fact, growing the damn corn everywhere degrades the soil. We might as well grow wheat, rice, legumes, e
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
It’s not being stored. There’s no “strategic corn reserve”. What is not being consumed by people or animals gets turned into biofuel - the worst kind of fuel from thermodynamic perspective and one that would never exist without market disto
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
definitely closed-loop, might even be a servo
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by fellowmartian 1y ago
I’m a senior engineer and I find myself using agents all the time. Working on huge codebases or experimenting with different languages and technologies makes everybody “novice”.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Actually, Rust embedded ecosystem exists and is amazing. It’s a breath of fresh air after having to use vendor SDKs from ST, Nordic, and even Raspberry Pi.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Yes, because employers will also be replaced by AI. Technology penetration won’t stop at some arbitrary boundary, it will go all the way through to logical conclusion. We have a chance at qualitatively better world, but we’ll need to act an
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Most people are missing the fact that there’s a whole immigration economy on the other end, it’s not a passive storefront (that was banned in the 19th century). People want to immigrate, but the people who are best at immigrating aren’t nec
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
An alternative explanation would be that creates mitochondrial stress that is in beneficial in some ways, maybe similar to Zone 2 training?
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
Refreshers aren’t priced at the price of the date of hire, that would be crazy. It’s not more exponential than holding S&P 500.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
I perfectly understand what orders of magnitude means. The growth you’ve described does happen, eg if you start at $65000 as junior eng and end up in dozens of millions a year as a SVP or CTO at FAANG-level company. My point is that even th
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
It’s not exponential though, at most you’re looking at 2-3 orders of magnitude growth unless you’re a founder.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
I’m sorry, but what exponential growth are you talking about? No company will ever pay you that much as a regular salaried employee.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
All breeds have breed-specific issues, but saying that Poodles have similar issues to brachycephalic breeds is just silly, those are different orders of magnitude of suffering.
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by fellowmartian 2y ago
The problem is linoleic acid and our overconsumption of it. It seems to cause way more oxidative stress during metabolism, to which the brain is more sensitive. Plus it also seems to adversely affect metabolism of other kinds of fats. And i

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