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by ianstormtaylor 2y ago
Plastics don’t sequester additional carbon. You literally have to pump oil out of the ground, where it was already sequestered naturally, to create plastics in the first place.
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by ianstormtaylor 2y ago
Sounds much closer to an apologist than an optimist if you ask me. Although more charitably, a future apologist—who maybe has good intentions, but hasn’t stepped back to gain context and realized that their projection is at odds with
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
I see what you’re saying, but this was an anecdote by the 7th grader in relation to their peers. Sure puberty makes teenagers not want to interact with their parents, but I’ve never heard it make them not want to interact with their classma
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
I’d tend to agree with you, it doesn’t track to anything I’ve heard either. As someone who happened to hit that inflection point at the summer after high school I consider my cohort extremely lucky.
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
I’ve never heard puberty described as making kids “a lot less social”, so not sure where you’re getting that from. A source would help your argument.
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
Some would argue that trying to eliminate self or manual checkouts from groceries stores is letting the perfect be the enemy of good.
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
I agree, it’s kind of mind blowing when simple things like this are discovered—very humbling. (If the research can be trusted ofc.) > Now, with our obsessive encyclopedic documentation, it's unlikely that future generations will for
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
This is really interesting research. It’s fascinating to hear about how these experiments are designed in the first place. If anyone is interested in this topic, I highly, highly recommend the book “Ways of Being” by James Bridle. [0] It co
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
> very few civil legal disputes go to court This is much more often going to be true because the dispute was never made in the first place, because of the risk it would entail to a low wage worker. They cannot afford—for reasons of time,
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
Beautiful project, thanks for sharing. How are you liking Recurse? (Also I didn’t see Trouble in the SF list, in case you’re looking for places to add.)
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
This article and lots of the commenters are falling into the same trap that happens in every article about San Francisco. It states: > In 2018, the city created a pooper scooper team, each member of which received annual compensation of
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
Congrats on the launch! This is a great product idea. I'd advise redesigning the way your website blocking works though. For myself—and I'd assume a lot of folks—the idea that a website has to be attached to an app doesn't ma
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
Yeah, I similarly felt like I did a lot of searches every day... and if I had estimated my search usage I would have said easily thousands a month. But I'm also actually in the 600–800 range it turns out. That said, I think Kagi should
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but they grandfathered me on the $10/mo plan with the new pricing changes, and that would cover your usage. I think on the new plans 30 searches a day would come out to $13/month. I know it may sound
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by ianstormtaylor 3y ago
The best thing about Kagi I've found from trying it recently is that it's results are actually really good. Every time I'd tried DuckDuckGo over the years I found myself having to switch back to Google because I was never sur
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
This has to be the least rigorous essay that I’ve read in a while. Somehow it manages to claim it’s taking on the huge issue of “do non-profits drive social change” while also: - never citing a single piece of data or quoting any experts. -
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
> What matters is the percentage accuracy. A black box with a 10% failure rate is better than a fully explainable system that fails 20% of the time. That's not true at all, it depends on the use case. What actually matters is the de
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
Do you have any sources to back up your claim that anti-trust is something that’s most often wielded by big companies against smaller ones? Because it sounds highly unlikely to me. The whole point of anti-trust is to provide a check on only
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
That doesn’t sound like a rigorous definition of emotion to me at all.
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
That doesn’t feel like a rigorous argument that it is “emotional” to me though. A musician can improvise a song that sounds sad, and their brain would be firing with sadness-related musical information, but that doesn’t mean they are feelin
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
> When you take large language models, their inner states at each step move from one emotional state to the next. No they really don’t, or at least not “emotional state” as defined by any reasonable person.
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A Love Letter to React(fly.io)
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
FWIW, I used to feel the same when Firefox was trying to make their brand scream “we are hackers” and the UI had extra junk everywhere. But the latest versions are very minimal, so if you haven’t checked in a while you might want to give it
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
This ended up being an interesting piece by the end. The headline and parts of the article suffer a bit from clickbait by conflating the two different ways “revisionist” is used—sometimes to mean revising past precedent with new knowledge,
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
Anyone have recommendations for which probiotics are the best ones to buy? I always get confused while looking at all the various options, and this seems like a good place to find someone who’s done a lot of research.
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
Here's the debunking: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
Hey! Looks interesting. The two things that would hold me back from using it are (a) not enough institution support, for big places like Vanguard and Fidelity where many people have investments, and (b) no clear pricing structure listed tha
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
Thanks for the reply! I came to that same conclusion about their use of "service providers" after reading through their support docs (and added an edit above), definitely a bummer.
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
If Stripe can leverage their banking relationships to leapfrog Plaid by integrating directly with bank's APIs instead of doing screen scraping... that would be massive! It seems like Plaid's biggest weakness is the flakiness of th
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by ianstormtaylor 4y ago
For an article that’s entirely about comparing two scenarios, it would be nice if the two scenarios appeared on the same graph... or even the same axis... or even the same screen...

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