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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Isn't that how you get a dog breed?
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Do they have gift bailiffs who come and take your couch if you can't give an expected gift at some point? What's the interest rate on gifts? I'm not sure how to make the above sound less snarky - I'm genuinely interested
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
So we've got to optimize rest now? I'm so tired of this world.
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
The actionable advice for me was just "you have permission to sleep 8 hours, it isn't a waste of your life. No animal escapes the need to sleep, and thinking you can 'game the system' by robbing yourself of sleep night a
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Anyone else find something distastefully cynical in the description of "gift-giving" as "credit extended on a personal basis with an inter-personal balance maintained over the long term"? I'm not saying its wrong ex
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Thanks. Lots to think about. I do lack the "excuse", which might be a problem, but we'll see.
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My main worry about doing this personally is that it would be a form of "golden handcuffs". I'm pretty sure I could persuade my current employer to let me do a 4-day week (for a pay cut), but I'm also sure making that a
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
I'm not sure that is the point. I personally don't think we can treat the choice made by such large numbers of people as comparable to the choices of a few modern cabin-dwelling weirdos. I think we should take seriously what appea
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
I don't know. Impossible to tell, I guess. I'm just pointing out that choice didn't come into it for many people. What choices they would have made had history gone differently, I can't say. Whatever might, hypotheticall
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
But on the other hand, the Enclosures provoked a number riots[1], so I don't think everyone agreed with you that "free" city life was better than rural serfdom, with common rights intact. [1] https://en.wikipedia.o
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Tell that to the tuskless elephants that appear to be evolving now...
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Google "The Enclosures". In Britain people had their right to subsist off common land removed by Parliament[1]. You can argue that the move from agriculture to industry, from countryside to city, would have happened anyway. What i
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Plenty of work makes the world worse rather than better. It would be a net positive for the world if the people doing those jobs played video games, watched TV and read books instead.
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
It's a bit like Feminist consciousness-raising in the 60s and 70s. Women started getting together and realising "my problems are not specific to me, my family, my marriage. We're all experiencing the same sorts of things.&quo
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Its not that I think an ancestral perspective is a bad one. Its just that: - existing hunter-gatherers have a bewildering array of different diets, many of them high in carbs and vegetation. - wild meat is very different from farmed meat (y
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
More paleo-carnivore rubbish?
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
On this particular Friday, I feel this could have been written personally for me...
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Great. Now how about the rest of us?
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“Authorship Environments: In search of the “personal” in personal computing”(youtube.com)
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Much more heavyweight than Ractors though, right?
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Ok, not "solved" in a "everything just works and nobody notices" way, but they have a way forward. The "shared-nothing Actors" model is well demonstrated to work well in Erlang, Elixir etc., so it seems like a
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by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Ruby seems to have got past its GIL problems with Ractor[1]. What's stopping Python from doing something similar? [1] https://scoutapm.com/blog/ruby-ractor