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by kgin 6y ago
I would ask why 80 just happens to be the best lifespan for humans. If we’re optimizing for things you listed, imagine how much more child-inspired joy and new idea throughput we could get if we had kids at 18 and died at 40? I’m still unc
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by kgin 6y ago
I have been in love with the Morgantown PRT for awhile now. How can you not love a still-running proof-of-concept world's fair style vision of futuristic transportation in a college town in West Virginia.
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by kgin 6y ago
I seem to be hitting trying to read this. Can someone help summarize the results of this analysis?
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by kgin 6y ago
I don't love the government-owns-your-body aspect to this.
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by kgin 6y ago
https://medium.com/land-buildings-identity-and-values/what-i... > Tokyo could be the rare example of a once expensive city that successfully managed the difficult political process of removing planning restrictions
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by kgin 6y ago
People will be arguing that "true self driving is impossible" for decades after we've all been already happily riding around in cars without steering wheels. Level 4 self-driving with remote assistance will allow "driver
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by kgin 6y ago
Tokyo absolutely took advantage of that clean slate, but San Francisco's issues don't seem to be related to physical infrastructure.
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by kgin 6y ago
Absolutely. But it really feels like kicking the can down the road to try to deal with severe inequality just by decriminalizing theft. There has to be a better long-term solution.
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by kgin 6y ago
Sounds like NYC now as well. All the hard parts without the positive things that made living there worth it.
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by kgin 6y ago
Addiction is a progressive narrowing of what brings you pleasure. Addicts don’t choose their addiction over happiness, they lose the ability for other things to bring them happiness through desensitization.
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by kgin 6y ago
Unilever's marketing team rightly recognizes this as a moment when temporarily boycotting running facebook ads gains them more attention and good will for free than their ads that were previously running on facebook did for pay.
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by kgin 6y ago
It’s not just about the percentage of false positives, it’s about how much easier it is to generate false positives. Human face-matching accuracy is worse than software in many scenarios (“is this the man that robbed you?”) but it requires
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by kgin 6y ago
It’s really a question of rate of spread v. vaccine availability. If a vaccine really does become available in early 2021 then there is value in slowing the rate.
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by kgin 6y ago
Where do you live / what type of buildings are these?
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by kgin 6y ago
I’m surprised to see the negative reactions here. Everywhere else online seemed overwhelmingly positive.
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by kgin 6y ago
It’s amazing how much people want coffee to be bad for you. That’s been a constant for at least hundreds of years.
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by kgin 6y ago
The full length top-to-bottom sidebar is a big improvement on MacOS and IPadOS. The full with titlebar was never optimal for wide screens.
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by kgin 6y ago
The head-scratcher for me is that people would rather battle this out with Apple so they can release compiled binary apps for projects that simply display text and images and buttons instead of just using the web for free. It's only th
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by kgin 6y ago
Definitely not everyone. But the percentages must be at least 90%. Maybe even 95%?
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by kgin 6y ago
In my experience, “everyone” eventually leaves NYC. After 12 years, I have only one friend left from when I moved here. The average tour of duty in NYC is 5-6 years. Covid accelerated that timeline for many people, but they would have left
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by kgin 6y ago
The untethered headset makes sense from the perspective of Apple’s history. One of Apple’s core tenets is that convenience trumps everything. Often to the chagrin on power users. Always to the chagrin of spec lovers. But it has worked very
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by kgin 6y ago
Google needs an entirely separate brand/entity to launch these things. Nobody wants to hang out at the utility company office no matter how much free coffee they put in the lobby.
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by kgin 6y ago
Not fail fast, fix incrementally. Why set all or nothing requirements on the change when incremental change can do a lot of good right now?
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by kgin 6y ago
I imagine work on that problem will be ongoing long after it’s been figured out for everyone else. Definitely shouldn’t be a prerequisite to starting on the easier situations.
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by kgin 6y ago
What you're paid has nothing to do with your productivity or business value, it's about how much they have to pay you not to leave (or for a new job, to accept) Inertia means that you have to pay someone more to change their life
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by kgin 6y ago
The implication is not that young blood has specific positive properties, but that old blood has specific negative properties. Simply removing some of the "bad old blood" is already enough to measurably improve biomarkers. Identif
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by kgin 6y ago
Absolutely, I want to know what people I care about are up to. I don't want my entire social world to turn into hot takes. There are important issues, absolutely. But my personal relationships with other humans are not based on their h
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by kgin 6y ago
If there’s one interpretation that makes sense and one interpretation where thousands of millions of people are just stupid or crazy, it’s worth going with the interpretation that makes sense.
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by kgin 6y ago
The specific incarnation of border controls as ICE isn't the only way to control the border. I'm sure that some people are advocating for completely open borders without concern for consequences. But I think the larger call is say
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by kgin 6y ago
Apple Health data is stored on the phone only. It would end up in encrypted iCloud backups of the phone, which would put it in the government requesting all your data with a warrant situation. It’s not an easily accessible thing.

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