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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
David Foster Wallace predicted not only that, but its rise and fall. http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Learning how to ask a good technical question is an extremely valuable skill in and of itself, and StackOverflow is one of the few ways you can learn to do it. Just as you've said - if you ask a coworker (or a real person in general) t
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Yeah, giving away your game completely free has similar problems to being a maintainer of free open source software.
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Agreed. A barometer of how well you're doing can be: how effective are you at persuading people when you need to? If you get in the "everyone around me is an idiot / don't know how computers work" head space you&#x2
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
I think the Fyre Festival fiasco is pretty strong evidence for the efficacy of "influencers." In that case there was no real product to buy, the _only_ reason to try to buy the product was its advertising, more than 4,000 people d
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
When the Switch was announced I thought it was trying to be too many things and wouldn't be able to do any of them well. I was right. However, what I underestimated is the Switch's ability to do each of those things _well enough_.
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
https://www.pinterest.com/philippinesdoug/mobile-van-office-...
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
This is a good point. I've been hearing "deplatforming" as the word for what's happening and that seems more accurate than censoring. In part because if we call this censoring and then later the government actually does
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
It's not about the "CN" bit. People are talking about why the variable exists at all. Essentially the reason being ventured is that that relationship has a specific name and meaning in Chinese with no English equivalent beyon
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
If you're in to that sort of thing sing Amazing Grace to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song (or vice versa).
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
I'd be interested in an answer to this too. We've seen a similar phenomenon in college costs - more government loan money available, higher tuition, repeat. Why would UBI not result in a general uptick in costs that would mean the
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
> "Every day was a hot new idea and yesterday’s priority was forgotten. Why bother making progress towards a goal that will change tomorrow?" ("Rob's" comment on the OP's article) This to me is the single bi
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Not a counter point to this article, but a counter point to the efficacy of monetary rewards. > "Study showed that monetary incentives are great for routine, mechanical work. But how does it play when talking about cognitive, advanc
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
You're doing the Lord's work reustle. Really irked that they bill themselves as a solution in the public safety (emergency response) space while objectively being detrimental in that domain. There are better services out there.
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Looks like this drew some downvotes, but it gets a +1 from me. Reliable realtime "censoring" in video chat platforms _not intended for sexual content_ would make informal video chat a lot more user friendly. I'd totally video
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
This convo reminds me of a bit from The Red Green show (from memory): > Harold: "Red! We found an old bomb in the lake! What do we do?!" > Red: "Call the American Air Force." > Harold: "We tried, but it&#x2
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Thanks for the link! Haven't gone through all the historical data, but a data point that stood out: F-100 hit 1724.1 in '85. I suppose numbers like that could bring averages up in a hurry.
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
> "Ken Kozlowski, a former C-133 crew chief who served as chief mechanic and flight engineer on a privately owned Cargomaster that flew until 2008. Through monastic devotion to understanding every system on the C-133 and by developi
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
> You're assuming that "take on debt" means literally taking on debt that you don't pay back quickly. No, I'm saying I don't want to have anything to "pay back" to anyone. _You_ are free to live di
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
To be clear - I 100% understand why people who want to do credit checks like credit scores. It's not that they have no value, it's that they have too many down sides and it bothers me that it's increasingly difficult to &quot
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
I did the credit check - I didn't have a credit score, because I didn't want one. I had existing rental history, a drivers license, and W2s (all also required for the application). I don't think my identity was in question, b
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Where this becomes "bad for society" is when the customer _has to_ take on debt for the sole purpose of building a credit score. Some of us would prefer not to utilize debt at all, but if we want to (for example) rent an apartment
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
I had no idea something like this existed. A beautiful combination of cool, clever, and inspiring. Thanks for making me aware of it.
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Disagree. As soon as one person's actions can affect another person a system arises for resolving their inevitable conflicts and facilitating cooperation if required. What do you call that system? Many would call that "government.
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
After having two phones fail due to the mini connector I switched to only wireless charging and I love it. I understand the charging performance hit, but that's much more easily mitigated than sketchy cords/ports.
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
> "Dumb people are happier than smart people" That seems counter intuitive, and everything I'm seeing on an initial search says the opposite. Example: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-19659985 . The agg
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
The general answer: Your pattern is a single point of failure. If someone figures it out they can figure out your passwords to multiple sites. The most likely threat is your password to one site leaks or gets fished and then the hackers rec
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
RIP. I miss Pebble.
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Very cool! Any plans for making it possible to create Android apps with this?
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by lostphilosopher 7y ago
Churches also do this in an intergenerational fashion. My office does volunteer work, but my kids and my parents don't take part. That's a hard bit to replicate in other groups even if those groups are actively engaged in charity.

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