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by jrowen 3y ago
Agreed - within a specific context I don't find the comments described in the article to be toxic. Obviously not always the right approach with loved ones but in a mostly pseudonymous space where people largely have a shared understand
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by jrowen 3y ago
1. I know most aren't. Part of what I'm getting at is having different strategies for different segments of the homeless population with different needs. This idea would target that small number of the most...disruptive? of them (
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by jrowen 3y ago
In thinking more about this, I'm starting to feel like developing solutions specifically for the most mentally ill/unstable individuals is important. 1) They're a danger to everyone including other homeless. 2) They have an o
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by jrowen 3y ago
Existing structures targeting lower density and higher cost per square foot could be repurposed and optimized for affordability. Even policy changes regarding what new projects are permissible would go a long way. Are you making the argumen
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by jrowen 3y ago
I think they mean building mass affordable/free new housing rather than using existing stock.
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by jrowen 3y ago
Interesting points. Are there more effective programs elsewhere that build more hospitable/restorative spaces? Put another way, are there organizations doing "the right thing" based on the most current research? Having lived
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by jrowen 4y ago
What's amazing to me is how some people continually try to minimize him. The proof is in the pudding. He assembled the top talent to produce the best products that pushed our experience with technology forward. Very few people are able
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by jrowen 4y ago
99% of student writing is trash already. I don't think the point is to produce great works, just to provide a more relatable way for students to engage with the material than traditional boring assignments.
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by jrowen 4y ago
The issue for me is that it's not attacking the root of the problem. Are we just going to keep escalating this solution to keep up with emissions? Any breathing room it creates, like breathing room in almost any budget, is going to be
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by jrowen 4y ago
One major difference though (at least in my experience with hardware stores in rural Northern California) is that many of the employees actually have a good amount of experience with the tools and materials and can offer recommendations and
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by jrowen 4y ago
Yes but they know that many people (virtually everybody in my experience) immediately cover and bulk up that beautiful form. It's not really like them to say "well that's their choice to ruin our beautiful work" - it&#x2
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by jrowen 4y ago
Why hasn't Apple ever made a version with a built-in ruggedized case? I hate putting the case on but in practice it's too fragile of a thing for many people's usage patterns. Seems like one of those things, like the flashligh
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by jrowen 5y ago
The author mentions "functionally 1/3 of my customers" and "I can not stress how much this has f*cked over my business." Since they also mention that they would like to hear what people think about this situation, h
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by jrowen 5y ago
This article seems to give RGB a bad rap but I think it makes the most sense for gradients. I wouldn't want a yellow to blue gradient to cycle through a (partial) rainbow of colors. But I also wouldn't really ever choose to make a
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by jrowen 5y ago
When I first heard the term "doom scrolling," I thought it was something along these lines. Scrolling some feed or another, past the point when you should have moved on, to avoid confronting these types of tasks for just a bit lon
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by jrowen 5y ago
However, the step from "can develop on its own" to "will develop on its own" is highly non-trivial. Yeah, that's the rub. When starting from a more primordial level, the search space is widened to truly astronomic
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by jrowen 5y ago
For one, flying is a relatively simple physical phenomenon, and once we had a firm grasp on the principles of lift, we were able to design our own solutions. Intelligence is, in comparison, an incredibly complex phenomenon that seems a lot
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by jrowen 5y ago
That’s mostly a question of how one chooses to define “intelligence.” For the purposes of this type of discussion it’s usually equivalent to “whatever humans have that other animals don’t.” We’re looking for something that would be relatabl
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by jrowen 5y ago
I love stuff like this, in the past I spent a good amount of time wondering about what were the key milestones in the development of intelligent life. Multicellularity is a good example. From my (admittedly outsider) perspective, a lot of t
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by jrowen 5y ago
Isn't it somewhat inherent to the singularity concept that there won't be early signs? Either the machine has achieved runaway self-improvement capability or it hasn't.
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by jrowen 5y ago
It doesn't seem fair to say that he has no intention of not doing it again. "I'm not sure I would make this piece today, anyway. I'm increasingly critical of artwork that attempts to engage with the theme of surveillance
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by jrowen 5y ago
One reason is that people generally expect large companies to have a level of scrutiny and process associated with collecting that data, and reasonably trust that it won't be used "improperly." That trust does not extend to &
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by jrowen 5y ago
IMO, we draw the line based on effectiveness, not idealized morality. What's going to be easier: a never-ending campaign of trying to educate and motivate millions of different average Joes to properly recycle [some item], or simply le
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by jrowen 5y ago
I think the "lone" part of the phrase is what's problematic. I don't think people intend to claim that they worked entirely on their own in isolation. I interpret it more as having been noticeably in a league of their ow
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by jrowen 5y ago
I've never understood the line of thinking in this sub-thread. What important point is being made by nitpicking and tearing down people who - for perhaps a complex set of reasons including luck - have managed to reach legendary hero st
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by jrowen 6y ago
The suggestion made in the article is to ditch the bid for brevity and just use the more verbose forms, i.e. “people who favor more enforcement of immigration laws” or “people who are present in a country in violation of its immigration law
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by jrowen 6y ago
That's true, skyscrapers and cruise ships are pretty marvelous in a similar way. When I visited the Met in New York I was most fascinated by the building/complex itself. How many individual pieces, how many workers, how many desig
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by jrowen 6y ago
To go a bit further, I feel like "reduce" just isn't really in the vocabulary of living organisms. Once any particular cat is out of its bag, it's not going back in (though I'd love to hear some examples to the cont
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by jrowen 6y ago
Something I sometimes think about in this vein: how many lines of code, written by how many people, in how many different times and places, are traversed on your computer every second? It's kind of mind-blowing to me, and I can't
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by jrowen 6y ago
I played a bit of UO, but I played a lot of Star Wars Galaxies, which was in many ways the spiritual successor, as Raph Koster was the lead designer of both. Raph came from a background of roleplaying in MUDs, and both UO and SWG had very

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