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by hgomersall 6mo ago
I've recently realised that the biggest problem with smartphones is not that they steal your attention (which is bad enough), but that they steal your disattention I don't know of a better word for it than disattention. Perhaps do
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by hgomersall 6mo ago
Well yes, if a team doesn't bother to understand the code, that's certainly quicker.
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by hgomersall 6mo ago
It makes sense when the inner operations are vectorisable, as in the example.
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by hgomersall 6mo ago
I had an interesting situation where we had failure of a Thule bike trailer wheel and could see where the connection-to-the-trailer design had changed from an earlier version (from the company that Thule bought). The wheel functioned the sa
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by hgomersall 7mo ago
Well the real insight here is that most "investing" is gambling.
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by hgomersall 8mo ago
Except for the health benefits of not being killed by tired drivers in the dark late afternoons, which is a thing. Currently it's doubly bad because the clocks changing also cause a spike in deaths.
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by hgomersall 8mo ago
Here is a discussion of Zimbabwe more complete that I'm likely to write in a comment on HN: https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=3773
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by hgomersall 8mo ago
I've not made any accusations, nor do I think that the elites are not to blame. I said that "money printing" is not the problem here. The reason it's not the problem is because the quantity of money simply reflects savin
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by hgomersall 8mo ago
The quantity theory of money is trivially shown to be nonsense just by considering what happens to savings (i.e. nothing). You need to up your analysis if you want to truly understand.
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by hgomersall 8mo ago
In my house we discuss a macro feature of children as being "school-shaped". If Terence Tao wasn't school-shaped, would he have been as successful? The counter-point to that is to ponder how many children fail to achieve a si
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by hgomersall 8mo ago
Do you worry about spontaneous combustion of ICE cars? They are far more likely to burst into flames than EVs.
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by hgomersall 8mo ago
That's an interesting parallel. I suspect the point is that entering all relationships with the expectation that all men are pigs carries certain benefits, but then it also likely has costs, such as an inability to form truly deep conn
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by hgomersall 8mo ago
Why is a banana yellow?
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by hgomersall 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... .
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by hgomersall 9mo ago
What is this debt? You didn't answer my question. Who's buying it and what choice do they have, and to whom is it owed ultimately?
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by hgomersall 9mo ago
"debt"? You mean the balancing item from money creation? Question: To which bank does the government owe the liabilities created when it creates the money? (clue: the government owns it).
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by hgomersall 9mo ago
I'm strongly of the opinion that we're seeing the consequence of 40 years of neoliberalism in which there's no longer any political objective of actually improving things for normal people, just hoping the private sector will
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by hgomersall 9mo ago
Yeah, and whilst getting themselves out of poverty they built 50,000km of high speed rail.
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by hgomersall 9mo ago
There's still the incentive to get them hooked. They'd need to ban any platform for under 18s that increases its revenue from greater "engagement".
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by hgomersall 9mo ago
But you can buy it now. I'm not sure what's different if you thought you should have bought your friends.
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by hgomersall 9mo ago
What level of moral compromise is acceptable in this world to take whatever money is offered? Presumably the job of hitman is unacceptable? Where's the line drawn? Personally I'd say that lying to perpetuate a system that is leadi
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On the nature of money and why it matters(jgs952.substack.com)
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by hgomersall 10mo ago
The policy described in my link is literally about making each user search more to get the results they want in order to drive more ad revenue. That would create more searches and a less good user experience.
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by hgomersall 10mo ago
Search died ages ago [1]. Ads dying is a direct consequence of that. [1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
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by hgomersall 10mo ago
Yes exactly - focus at a point. You don't reach threshold pressures until you have sufficient summed waves.
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by hgomersall 10mo ago
The evidence seems to be that the cells are destroyed, not just split up: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9404673/
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by hgomersall 10mo ago
Much better to make seconds slightly larger than 2 seconds, and move to a dozenal system throughout. One hour is (1000)_12 novoseconds. A semi-day is (10000)_12. Oh, we should switch our standard counting system to dozenal a well.
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by hgomersall 10mo ago
If you know something everyone else doesn't, it would be great to see your paper describing how you do that and demonstrating efficacy. So far, the evidence seems to suggest it's not sufficient: https://www.sciencedirec
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by hgomersall 10mo ago
Nonsense, if we view proving as providing evidence for, then absolutely we can prove a negative. We have our priors, we accumulate evidence, we generate a posterior. At some point we are sufficiently convinced. Don't get hung up on the
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by hgomersall 10mo ago
Tools like embassy really are great: https://embassy.dev/

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