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by fossuser 5y ago
There’s a weird thing in the Midwest where I grew up where people talk about exercise as if it’s unhealthy (and basically nobody exercises). Then you come to the Bay Area and see just how much people can really exercise. Older people exerci
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by fossuser 5y ago
> “ For a lot of people on the outside of that demographic, he's just a fun, brilliant, if occasionally douchy guy who's way less out of touch than his billionaire contemporaries, and actually works to build neat things.” Yeah
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by fossuser 5y ago
The child name thing seemed more likely Grimes than Elon? Even so I just don’t think these things are a big deal? I also don’t agree with the anti-billionaire/anti-capitalist sentiment though. It’s just odd to me given how much he’s do
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by fossuser 5y ago
Just because it’s obviously false when it comes to Trump, doesn’t mean it’s false all of the time. Also Elon’s behavior isn’t that serious (and he’s not POTUS).
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by fossuser 5y ago
> “That really gets to the heart of it. Was it negligence, or was it just a thing that could have happened at any of the BSL labs with some small probability? What exactly is the mistake rate in similar labs around the world? Was it real
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think it’s political tribalism more than anything else? It’s become more clear after this SNL thing. On Twitter people on the left claim vaguely that Elon is bad and why is SNL doing this etc. People on the right say Elon is great and SNL
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah it’s really good. Yes, he also exaggerates (or more accurately I think is too ambitious about timelines). It makes him miss sometimes, but it also is the reason SpaceX is where it is and they can turn around a rocket insanely quickly.
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by fossuser 5y ago
It’s not obvious if you think revealing the car ends the game (and you lose). I think when I was first told it the person said “takes a door away” which is even less clear.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - and at least for me this was part of the confusion. The problem is often stated incorrectly. Critically the host always removes a goat. If the person presenting the problem just says “the host opens one of the doors”, but doesn’t spe
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by fossuser 5y ago
One hypothesis for why genres matter less is musical abundance and identity as a result of that. I think when you had to buy a record or CD people would consider themselves a “punk rock” person or whatever for any genre and they’d tend to b
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by fossuser 5y ago
Ah - thanks, I vaguely recalled $150 but not sure where I read that.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Thanks - appreciate the thoughtful response and you checking for me. I'll be better about this.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Also the users willing to pay are the most valuable to advertise to. I think I also read the per user dollar value of ad revenue was $150/month? Way more than any individual would pay - and losing a subset would reduce this for the oth
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "There are maybe one in a dozen proponents of the lab theory that are legitimately interested in these questions. For the remaining 11 out of 12, the Wuhan Lab theory is just a belief that they wear in public to signal "China
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by fossuser 5y ago
What bothers me about it is not only did it take a long time for the “truth to win”, but mainstream media orgs actively suppressed it because of tribal stupidity. It was used as an example of “fake news”: https://www.nytimes.com&
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by fossuser 5y ago
I’m also pragmatic in the sense that this doesn’t change easily or quickly, but there’s a difference between incidental animal death due to plant agriculture and raising animals for slaughter. I think the goal is suffering reduction - anyth
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by fossuser 5y ago
I disagree actually - I think the animal suffering morality angle is the best argument for most people (as long as it's done in a way that isn't too adversarial). Most people don't care about the environmental costs, we do lo
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by fossuser 5y ago
I haven't tried the whopper yet, but that's mostly because I only really eat Burger King in airports. Looking forward to trying it though.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I'm a vegetarian that eats the fake meat and I'm glad it exists even if it's not perfect. I love hamburgers and for me, it's the biggest loss after becoming a vegetarian. Impossible is the closest I can get to recreating
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah, I was disappointed in it at first but after becoming vegetarian it's really nice to have it even if it's not perfect. When you have it with all the condiments it's good enough.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I think we have the same perspective. On mouse-scroll direction, the 'reverse' is actually the way the content moves (if you imagine your hand on the screen). I came around to thinking this makes more sense than the directi
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by fossuser 5y ago
1 is just the cost of living in a world that isn't static. 2 is what I'm suggesting to mostly avoid if you can.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Ads are a corrupting influence on the web - the issue with framing this as more open access compared to for-pay services is that it sidesteps how the model corrupts the content of the services itself. There are the data collection and priva
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by fossuser 5y ago
This is very 'unhacker' advice, but I generally learn to love defaults. I also think a lot about sane defaults when working on/deploying software to customers myself. I choose what systems to use in part based on how good the
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by fossuser 5y ago
Thanks - that was good. Also reminded me of an older comment I wrote a while back that’s a little related (at least has some more absurd examples I had forgotten about). “ Illegitimate (or at least arbitrary) authority is something schools
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah I mean I’m with you - I like local control and I think Urbit is cool because of this. That said, the potential for mighty is real and dismissing it for these reasons is dumb. The same logic would have also dismissed nearly all modern w
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by fossuser 5y ago
> “ People are not claiming that it is a bad idea because it is infeasible or not valuable, but because it is dangerous and also because it sounds technically ridiculous. (thin client inside thin client)” This is the kind of asymmetric d
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by fossuser 5y ago
You're right, and I think that's wrong: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html
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by fossuser 5y ago
All reasonable points, though I think whatsapp is secure - I think for most people the best choice is Signal for general messaging and assuming everything else is largely public. Even in Signal people can and do take screenshots, so really
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by fossuser 5y ago
These knee-jerk responses are lame. - IDs stop the spam problem and give people control over something that keeps its reputation (and they're cheap). - Federated systems normally suck because administering the servers and keeping decen

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