kiliantics

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by kiliantics 2y ago
While better understanding is certainly useful, the framing does seem a little unfair to me. It's not like other treatments don't have their downsides. Most people will tell you they don't like seeing the dentist but few woul
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by kiliantics 3y ago
This is how I've begun to feel about almost every consumer product out there these days. This "enshittification" of the bulk of the output of our economy puts so much burden on any discerning consumer to do all the research n
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by kiliantics 3y ago
organise with others, form a union
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by kiliantics 3y ago
This is specific to python but Pyladies has a pretty active community in NYC
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by kiliantics 3y ago
animals living in zoos actually tend to die younger than their counterparts in the wild so you have basically made their point for them it also suggests that we in modern society are basically domesticated/in a zoo compared with our hu
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by kiliantics 3y ago
> like wtf. is it legal to harass your neighbors with smell and toxic fumes every day just because you want to feel a bit comfy Same can be said for car use. Majority of trips are a few miles and could be done by bike or replaced with tr
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by kiliantics 3y ago
How about a bat box so more bats live in the area and eat the mosquitos. Salamanders also eat mosquitos but the materials most people use to kill mosquitos, like permethrin, unfortunately also kill salamanders. I am a mosquito magnet too an
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by kiliantics 3y ago
I built this same frame from the Sobon plans last summer on a lot of raw land I got with my wife. It's a supremely satisfying building method in so many ways, the simplicity, longevity, locality of materials: mine just sits on some lai
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by kiliantics 3y ago
Another would be boatbuilder checking in. I started a rather ambitious project during covid to build a 21 ft sailing dory. It's my first boat but I insisted on going with traditional solid timbers and rivets and all that. I'm just
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by kiliantics 3y ago
It's tragically hilarious to me that the car brain imagination can only consider moving a multi tonne large dangerous vehicle around in order to simply ease the discomfort of the small bag of groceries. Most people use little wheeled c
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by kiliantics 3y ago
I've bought specialty woodworking tools from Dictum that are good quality
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by kiliantics 3y ago
I think of it like this: for psychedelics, the change to your brain chemistry is like changing the hardware architecture leading to changes in software behaviour. The fundamental processes of thought in your mind work differently and so the
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by kiliantics 3y ago
Not to mention a massive carbon footprint by the sounds of it
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by kiliantics 3y ago
I've also done this kind of thing in my spare time. It's definitely rewarding in many ways: you get to enjoy the fruit of your labour in your lived environment, you know you did a more detailed job than someone you paid would have
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by kiliantics 3y ago
In some sense yes, if they couldn't live only from the return on their investments, they are technically a worker. That would be the Marxist definition but it's obviously more of a spectrum than a binary. CEOs in most large compan
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by kiliantics 3y ago
I would like someone with a right wing politics to explain how their worldview is confirmed by his works. To me the messaging seems undoubtedly Marxist and his Wikipedia page mentions that Curtis was influenced by Max Weber. He is also quot
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by kiliantics 3y ago
Most soil fertiliser today comes from fossil fuel. This was the whole Haber Bosch breakthrough. If we give up artificial fertiliser and need to use animal manure, that would not justify the unsustainable scale of livestock we have today. Th
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by kiliantics 3y ago
All those animals need to eat. Most crop farming is done to feed livestock rather than humans. That's a lot of wasted land use which could be habitat for wild ecosystems if we just cut down our meat consumption.
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by kiliantics 3y ago
To your point about buildings, I wish we considered the "technical debt" of our society's built infrastructure more. It seems we went very wrong with this habit of building and rebuilding on such short cycles, especially on l
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by kiliantics 3y ago
Building roads costs an incredible amount of carbon
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by kiliantics 3y ago
So an unknown "high-tech" person bought it in 1998 for $2 million, because a New York court ruled that the Greek church had no legitimate claim to it, despite possessing it for over 900 years. And since then, all this research has
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by kiliantics 3y ago
Experienced machine learning and data practitioner: applied research and engineering/MLOps. Background in statistical modeling for astrophysics (PhD). Open to MLE/MLOps and certain data science and data engineering roles. Location
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by kiliantics 3y ago
According to the NYC MTA[1], there are close to 6k buses in the fleet with 1.2M riders per day. That's over 200 riders per bus per day. With each paying a $2.75 fare, you are making about enough to cover your estimated costs. I think t
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by kiliantics 3y ago
As someone who mostly cycles to get around the city, I would love this situation. I could get around everywhere so quickly between all the car-tar without the fear of being killed by a careless human driver. But if this thought experiment t
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by kiliantics 4y ago
this is another great one for teaching tech skills, specifically at high schools in lower income areas: https://codenation.org/
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by kiliantics 4y ago
This is the best answer. Voting and consuming differently are not impactful enough. Only mass labour movements will get the wheels turning. The proof is all there in recent history.
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by kiliantics 4y ago
> It doesn't seem reasonable to say we have hundreds of years to figure out a solution. We've also known about the global warming problem in great detail for well over 50 years at this point. Since then we haven't figured
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by kiliantics 4y ago
On the topic of tin openers, I'll bury one of my most strongly-held kitchen beliefs here -- almost all openers that get produced and used are utter rubbish. The only kind that is any good is a Hebeldosenöffner, or "lever tin opene
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by kiliantics 4y ago
In a way, I believe the idea of a "just, meritocratic world" masks the actual underlying problem -- that we do not have measures in place to prevent individuals or small groups from gaining grossly disproportionate levels of power
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by kiliantics 4y ago
What if there is a country which has had a strong influence over turning your country of origin into a place that is very difficult to live in?

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