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by impostervt 4y ago
I just finished Bill Gates' "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster". Very good book, and it makes two points (among many others): - To reduce carbon in the air, getting clean electricity is key. If we can do that, we can more easil
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by impostervt 4y ago
So, I know this is anecdotal, but I've seen a number of my friends (mostly male engineers) have kids later in life (35+), and a higher-than-I-would-expect number of those kids have developmental problems. Some act out more violently th
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Verifying Believability(commoncog.com)
2 points by impostervt 4y ago|0 comments
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by impostervt 4y ago
This reminds me a lot of those companies that sell Bitcoin mining shares (though obviously way more environment friendly). I guess it makes sense, but if the thing makes money...why do you need my money?
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What killed the writer Mark Baumer?(erikhoel.substack.com)
1 points by impostervt 4y ago|0 comments
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by impostervt 4y ago
Seems like some in the comments are having a hard time calling the author's income "passive". Just an alternative - if you can find a profitable niche, you can have the book ghostwritten. A non-fiction book of around 30k wor
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Save America’s Patent System(nytimes.com)
3 points by impostervt 4y ago|0 comments
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by impostervt 4y ago
The "easy" solution seems to be - if it's sold on Amazon, you can't sell it on Etsy. But I guess that would still harm the original developers of the IP :\
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by impostervt 5y ago
This seems like the only real, market based solution. Various taxes that could be implemented (or bans like from this article) will either have no effect or unforeseen consequences. The market, right now, is constrained by regulations. Addi
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by impostervt 5y ago
Very cool stuff. For me, the most interesting was the ability to take a piece of art and generate variations of it. Have a favorite painter? Here's 10,000 new paintings like theirs.
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Ability to see expertise is a milestone worth aiming for(commoncog.com)
85 points by impostervt 5y ago|18 comments
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The Red Wedding for Rural Pharmacies(mattstoller.substack.com)
9 points by impostervt 5y ago|2 comments
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How the NYT has changed its map symbology as Russia invaded Ukraine(twitter.com)
4 points by impostervt 5y ago|1 comments
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by impostervt 5y ago
Buying value stocks may be better than buying an index, but identifying value stocks is hard and time consuming. Wouldn't the average investor be better off buying index funds, since the average investor does not have the time, inclina
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by impostervt 5y ago
I publish books on KDP. Not low/no content, though. I really wish amazon would charge $5/month/book you put up on KDP. It would eliminate a TON of garbage, and any half decent book would more than make up the $5/month to
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by impostervt 5y ago
Congrats on the launch! Not related, but I just finished reading The Book of Koli, where genetically modified trees get out of control and nearly wipe out mankind, so this made me chuckle.
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by impostervt 5y ago
Perfect first line imo. Tells you the characters, the setting, and the plot.
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The Wicked Problem Experience(cold-takes.com)
2 points by impostervt 5y ago|0 comments
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by impostervt 5y ago
As a publisher that uses ACX/Audible, it's REALLY hard to figure out how much they should be paying you. When I look at my Sales Dashboard, there's no monetary figure. It's also set to Lifetime Earnings, instead of the c
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AI makes animists of us all(erikhoel.substack.com)
3 points by impostervt 5y ago|1 comments
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by impostervt 5y ago
All frameworks are great, until you need to do something non-standard, and then you'll spend a large amount of time fighting the framework. The more "standard" the product you're building, the better off you'll be c
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PUBG’s developer is suing the developer of lucrative PUBG lookalike Free Fire(theverge.com)
1 points by impostervt 5y ago|0 comments
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by impostervt 5y ago
As an ex-AngularJS developer, who worked on porting a LARGE app to Angular - if you're in that boat, look into just rewriting in Vue. It's similar to AngularJS (more so than Angular) but with some extra niceties.
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The Dangers of Treating Life as a Game(commoncog.com)
3 points by impostervt 5y ago|0 comments
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by impostervt 5y ago
I've been reading Bernardo Kastrup's "Decoding Jung's Metaphysics". In the book, Kastrup quotes from letters between Pauli & Jung several times in order to try and show how Jung though privately about metaphysic
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It’s Hyperobjects All the Way Down(wired.com)
12 points by impostervt 5y ago|2 comments
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Too Big to Sail: How a Legal Revolution Clogged Our Ports(mattstoller.substack.com)
3 points by impostervt 5y ago|0 comments
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The Criminal Case Against Mark Zuckerberg(mattstoller.substack.com)
17 points by impostervt 5y ago|1 comments
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by impostervt 5y ago
Loved this line: "Being a Bene Gesserit is like being what people on Instagram who tell you to drink your own urine think they are."
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Scenius – the intelligence and intuition of a whole cultural scene(notboring.co)
3 points by impostervt 5y ago|0 comments

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