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by kansface 4y ago
I don’t know the historical record for ancient Egypt, but I imagine we are way bigger and way smarter on average because of childhood nutrition and lack of parasites - see also, North Korea.
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by kansface 4y ago
It doesn’t feel like twitter wants to change.
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by kansface 4y ago
Continual rage and social justice mobs surely keep a ton of people off the platform, myself included, even if the vitriol drives the existing crowd into a fervor of usage. I don’t think rage is a prerequisite for engagement in general.
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by kansface 4y ago
Part of the answer has to be that companies don’t want to solve it because it would destroy metrics that buoy ad prices. Charge per tweet or per account and the problem would be gone overnight.
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by kansface 4y ago
Music is a social convention about the same as language. It may be interesting where words or grammar originate, but it’s ultimately not important to communication.
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by kansface 4y ago
Negative. I’m a classically trained guitarist with degrees in music and physics. You are correct about the frets, but not the strings themselves. Sometimes, you really need the two E strings to be perfectly in tune, sometimes, some piece
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by kansface 4y ago
Presumably, that would be Main Earth.
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by kansface 4y ago
My understanding is that Corporate DEI is mostly bottom up, not top down.
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by kansface 4y ago
Podcasts have completely replaced NPR for me. I’d highly recommend it.
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by kansface 4y ago
They brought in less than 50k dollars on a 300 million investment with very high, ongoing operating costs.
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by kansface 4y ago
Some manufacturing can presumably be spun up with not too much effort if you have other heavy industry around and access to raw materials. Chip fabs require way more than retooling a line. We could quantify the problem as the amount of ti
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by kansface 5y ago
Other US cities don’t have this problem. Other Bay Area cities don’t have this problem! SF doesn’t have a problem with gun violence. It has problems with petty theft, organized crime, degradation of public spaces, and homelessness. Co
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by kansface 5y ago
I disagree. Social media as now implemented are Darwinian black boxes optimized to evolve the most contagious memes, because engagement is stupidly easy to optimize for compared to any sane metric. As it turns out, the things we share the
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by kansface 5y ago
Do the numbers check out here? How does Amazon compare to Standard Oil divided by the relative sizes of the federal government? I’d guess that Rockefeller comes out way ahead.
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by kansface 5y ago
This is not historically accurate. Insurance through employers came out of the federally mandated price controls during WW2, and was later solidified by massive tax breaks for corporations for providing said insurance (under the eager endor
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by kansface 5y ago
Crime is systematically underreported in SF compared to other cities, except for murder I’d guess.
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by kansface 5y ago
Products don't run themselves. Software must be upgraded because of security patches; if you don't keep up, after a while you can't because of skew. Customers require support when stuff goes wrong. Infrastructure changes f
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by kansface 5y ago
What percentage of German GDP are we we actually talking about to get there?
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by kansface 5y ago
Have they really? It seems so impossibly unworkable given we don’t make most things here.
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by kansface 5y ago
> Which makes me think the reason biology or sociology doesn't have crackpots ...either that they just are not interesting to the retired engineer, or they dont take as many years of intense study. An alternative, cynical interpreta
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by kansface 5y ago
Somewhat ironically, refusing to acknowledge or honor conventional status games is itself a status increasing play among hackers, which invalidates the spirit of the advice if not the advice itself! This is also probably terrible advice for
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by kansface 5y ago
Or you know, occasionally you accidentally create a new front in the culture war which is far more expansive and destructive than the side effects of the original problem.
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by kansface 5y ago
I don’t think the state has the legal authority to auction off established water rights, some of which likely predate the existence of the state.
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by kansface 5y ago
I was playing it with my wife for some reason. At one point, it sent her out of the room, crying, so we stopped. I'm not sure if that's a recommendation or not.
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by kansface 5y ago
Does anyone have practical experience running WASM in long running processes on node, as compared to something like Neon? Writing C in TS doesn't look particularly appealing to me, but node extensions bring their own set of problems.
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by kansface 5y ago
Lets start with the federal government! I recently had the experience of the IRS sending me progressively angrier letters via an obviously automated process claiming I didn't pay taxes last year. As it turns out, they had record of r
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by kansface 5y ago
Maintaining a really good credit score requires deliberate action and high conscientiousness over a long time. That is just a really strong proxy for success in life. There are loads of people with bad credit and high income - chronic gamb
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by kansface 5y ago
Right, I supposed we should consider bonds compared to where else would you put the money atm - nothing looks particularly attractive.
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by kansface 5y ago
I do not believe this is how humans work.
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by kansface 5y ago
> It seems to me that the intensity with which some people fixated on the absence of generics cannot be explained just by frustration with writing non-generic code, which by all accounts was annoying but not overwhelmingly so. You speak

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