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by lariati 5y ago
Silver Car Crash by Warhol sold for a 105 million dollars and it is just a screen print of a car crash. https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/preview-silver-car-crash-... Honestly, I can't imagine Warhol would n
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by lariati 5y ago
I think I am confusing % fertile women vs all men. I think it says about 10% of women are infertile. One thing to keep in mind with those long term fertility rates is that child mortality rates going back that far is just shocking https:&#
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by lariati 5y ago
No doubt. It is so counter intuitive on the surface that the broad family tree has more women than men. I think it is that we have a bias when having this discussion that children are the product of this Hollywood love story lifelong marria
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by lariati 5y ago
You are generalizing your stable situation and values far too much. The population stats are something like 60% of men will be fathers but 90-95% of women will be mothers. Most women who can reproduce will but a huge percent of men who can
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by lariati 5y ago
Or a combination of both. Ants are a great example though. Like 10 million ants per person on Earth and they are almost all invisible to humans. I would think there is quite a bit of intelligent life in the universe that all feels equally a
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by lariati 5y ago
It is because when we have this discussion it is 95% about credentials and 5% about education. I mean almost every class is available to be audited online for free. Most professors are average when it comes to teaching ability. There is no
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by lariati 5y ago
No doubt, the bigger problem is they shouldn't be able make information trades because they don't have any special information. At this point, none of them should be able to own individual stocks. I would even ban them from owning
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by lariati 5y ago
For me it is even more than this. I don't care about people's politics on literally any level. I don't hold strong beliefs either way on anything. If I want to think about politics I will read an old political science book. T
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by lariati 5y ago
Hysterical because the entire concept is just a nightmare. Endless chain of updates like this that will force the platform to become less and less like reality. Maybe it eventually evolves to everyone in separate pitch black and soundproof
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by lariati 5y ago
This issue needs more attention but this is obviously not going to do anything. Reading about the Online Safety Bill makes me quite glad to not live in the UK.
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by lariati 5y ago
Completely moronic take on this. We have no idea what this level of stimulation is doing to boys at development. I think you are confusing the moral aspects with the unknowns here.
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by lariati 5y ago
Exactly. We have no idea what this is doing to people. There is a shocking drop in the testosterone levels of young men from 1999 to 2016 per studies if you google it. 20-30% drop. The correlation in data would obviously be there but who kn
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by lariati 5y ago
I mean usually throughout history at some level of wealth people want some kind of political type of glory. If not that then some kind of patronage of the arts. The problem with leisure is pretty constant really once you don't have to
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by lariati 5y ago
He has a whole chapter in his book about this nonsense viewpoint that is quite thought provoking. "Everything is just stochastic process bro" is such a dumb view of the world masquerading as an intelligent thought.
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by lariati 5y ago
GAN art is really a one trick pony. I loved it at first and got quite into it but I have seen enough of these images now that the novelty has worn off and they are just kind of shit. Physical painting inspired by GAN art might be cool but I
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by lariati 5y ago
Nice. It is on audible as an audio book too. Sounds like a good book to listen to a chapter on a nice long walk and think about.
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by lariati 5y ago
IMO FM8 is the best by a mile. To me, you give up a little in basically sound quality(and that is probably debatable or depends on your taste) for a massively improved programming interface. You can't go back to a hardware interface af
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by lariati 5y ago
The lack of epistemic humility feels like such a regression. We have basically gone from Feynman's idea that science is the belief in the ignorance of experts to the idea that anything that disagrees with experts in a field is misinfor
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by lariati 5y ago
I would think we would move to just buy assets directly. I don't think the Fed is going to go to a digital dollar just to cut Fed funds to negative. It just doesn't seem like it has enough reward for the risk and stress on the ban
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by lariati 5y ago
Of course we can't do anything smart. Beating a specific type of cancer like breast cancer, that just isn't good enough.
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by lariati 5y ago
It must be different in some parts of the country because the teachers I know are doing perfectly fine, even without the net present value of their pension. The biggest complaint is they are just tired of all the nonsense with covid. I feel
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by lariati 5y ago
Yea they have to work like normal people. Software engineers live in fucking la la land. Teachers can't even bring their dog to work! How can anyone deal with that.
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by lariati 5y ago
I think it is mostly a trade off. Using modern design philosophy you won't risk getting a really terrible UI but the trade off is you will not get something new and innovative. I am sure there are all kinds of issues with the scale of
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by lariati 5y ago
The biggest difference from when I was in my early 20s is that I didn't know Mark Zuckerberg's real time net worth loss and it be a constant news story for that day in the news cycle. I knew Bill Gates was the richest man in the w
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by lariati 5y ago
Love the Socrates quote. I would take the opposite approach if I had kids. Build a really baddass PC with KDE Plasma, great monitor, just a perfect workstation then tell the kid they can't use it. This is what grownups use to build You
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by lariati 5y ago
It is modern as in modernist style of design. I don't get it though either. That style is for flexing and showing off to other people. In that location I would want a baddass log cabin.
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by lariati 5y ago
Civil disobedience is perfectly fine IMO as long as you exactly follow all the rules, get the proper permits, etc.
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by lariati 5y ago
I have never had it. I just order enough to get free shipping and then they sit on it for a day or two and ship it prime.
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by lariati 5y ago
I really would love a browser plugin that removes all mention of crypto/web3/etc.. I am just so bored with reading about anything to do with the entire space, pro or con. An inescapable argument about basically nothing. How do I o
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by lariati 5y ago
I have actually been trying to get into Twitter but it is such a toxic cesspool I can't do it. Trying to start the day reading Twitter is such a massive negative. It is literally a platform for recreational outrage and recreational top

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