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   by gffrd 4y ago

   Well, it was fun while it lasted! See you in the dark ages …
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   by gffrd 4y ago

   Best $6 you’ll ever spend.
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   by gffrd 4y ago

   > But we don't have border closing or "show your papers" or all the rest for influenza Now wait a second … that's not a bad idea!
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   by gffrd 4y ago

   Super curious about this, too. Also! What did they do before they could store 100TB of pricing data? How has pricing (and care quality) changed as a result of being able to do this type of thing?
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   by gffrd 4y ago

   … however, the market decided years ago it didn't want to support a multitude of choices, when all other viable options went belly-up, or currently fail to get traction … or, to be fair, can't compete with the giant marketing mach
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   by gffrd 4y ago

   So college is now like medical procedures / car dealerships, where the price exists to set a value perception, nobody pays it, and everybody loses?
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   by gffrd 4y ago

   … and that's your choice! In their defense—both Apple's, and the public's—the general populace is, like, 99.99% OK with outsourcing those choices to a company that's way more interested/invested/capable in know
8. 278.▲
   by gffrd 4y ago

   Wait … did I read that right? $40k Per semester ? Guess I haven't looked at tuitions in a while.
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   by gffrd 4y ago

   Thanks for the pointer! Search turned up this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416003 "Why does anything exist?" … and also these: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-uni
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    Ah! Thanks for the lesson … and always good to see references to design heritage.
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    This is an excellent summary of how to make decisions, and to continually get better at making them. > and how well convinced we are of what the accuracy based on past experience; and how much the deciders knew about last inaccuracies, w
12. 282.▲
    by gffrd 4y ago

    Are you saying the universe is math?
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    If what I'm reading below is true—that this represents an almost-production concept—then this is a very good-looking production car: it takes some design risks and has surface work that's unusually good for a mass-market vehicle.
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    Interesting! What would be a better way to think … or, what is harmful about GDP thinking?
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    True. This is a public-facing PR-style piece from USGS, which is what struck me as unusual.
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    So … like $12,000,000,000,000 of gold? I'm not sure if that's more or less than I'd expect.
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    Was surprised by the same. Does USGS measure in metric??
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    Interesting. Some questions I'd ask if I was evaluating a product like this … - Do you make it in colors other than black? Very little in my house is black … - What's the "usable area?" (excluding the charging slots) - W
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    This is an interesting conversation. Good taste is what we see and like … but also patterning after people we want to impress / be associated with, is it not? Taste is very complex: it's hierarchical, social, not fixed, not absolu
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    Like sharks: so few fatal interactions, but so much large-scale hand-wringing about shark attacks. I'd double-down on that same wager …
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    Was Aphex Twin using DALLE two decades ago?!
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    "Elderly man sitting at laptop looking puzzled, holding credit card"
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    "Boardroom full of attractive business people gathered around a laptop with one of them pointing at the screen, all wearing suits, whiteboard in the background"
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    "Smiling happy family holding cell phones above their heads standing in a field of grass wearing all white"
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    I like the thought that, years from now, we're all drinking eating weirdly-presented food / drinking weird cocktails because AI synthesized the images of drinks around the web and decided `cocktails always include fruit` and `all
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    Also: endel.io Similar to flowful, endel creates generative soundscapes based on mood/need: focus, read, work out, drive, you get the picture. I appreciated that they made a concerted effort to anchor what they did in music and scienti
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    Came here to mention generative.fm … it's great, been using it for years. The creator, Alex Bainter[1], posts a lot of interesting/great stuff about generative music[2,3], and recently published the collection of music theory util
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    … but there's no continuity with radio … or not a uniform/dependable continuity, at least: the mood is different song-to-song, and there is no control over the "levers" beyond _skip_ and _like_. So, to "train"
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    > Seattle is, overall, pedestrian-hostile Seattle looooves to pat itself on the back for being pedestrian/bike/commuter-friendly … but it has a VERY low standard for "friendly."
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    by gffrd 4y ago

    > worried that I'll be "ruined" forever. You will be. And that's OK. It's a good thing: nothing else can compete with New York, so you're relieved of the pressure of equalling/one-upping it. What do you