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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Perhaps, but I categorized it as bribery: pay some money to cross this or that hurdle. We did not _have_ to go to Syria, as we are just tourists. But I had no hard feelings; we anticipated something like this, and considering that it was on
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Similar story going into Syria, just before the war: we were at the Turkey-Syria border, trying to cross into Syria, and the Syrian border police decided to search all our belongings, including our wallets. Two hours later we got the visa,
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
The trust to refactor needs to be earned. There is a social dimension to refactoring. People that come to a codebase and immediately start refactoring don’t understand this. They believe they can just make objective arguments and others wil
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Not necessarily. You could just model the world/universe, and provide high enough resolution only when needed, just like in a game. On the other hand, you could also truly simulate each particle and molecule and then let higher-order p
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
That's right. Bluetooth works great in 1-to-1 and 1-to-many relationships, but not in many-to-many.
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
No, I do not believe there is a conspiracy like this. What I said was specifically about living language style learning vs. the traditional sight reading and then translating type of learning. The latter is the primary style, and if you wan
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
I wish learning Latin/Greek as a spoken language would become the default pedagogical method. I recently studied ancient Greek extensively in the Boston area. I was well aware of the living language community--people that speak and wri
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Exactly, I came to say the same thing. You could pay for UBI with some MMT trick, but you‘d just end up inflating/rescaling all the prices. It would only work as a massive wealth redistribution program where the rich and middle class g
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Super insightful! The blog post itself also touches on this, slightly, by asking what the connection between compute and money is. Is compute just a proxy for money? Or, will in the future money become increasingly a proxy for how much comp
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
It’s not gonna be like we image it now: virtual places where people gather. It’s going to be the twitter feed equivalent of an online world: tailored to you and your preferences to maximize engagement.
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
So interesting! I have been to the the mountain a few times, and once I get to know the life of a specific monastery better, I’m always surprised that there is quite bit of technology, especially computers. I think many monks have laptops n
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
While I agree with your comment, new tokenization laws, like the one in Switzerland, make it possible to create tokens and NFTs that transfer legally binding rights. E.g., you can go to a judge, prove that you own the private key to a walle
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Yep, I have many of them. It's hard, and and sleep deprivation is not the most direct path to Zen. But... behind it all there is this deep seated satisfaction and, yes, happiness with raising children.
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
What alternatives do you suggest? Guilt?
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
The quote in the parent comment says that the whole hedonic machinery within us is a result of natural selection, of which conscious happiness is just a side effect. Then why not just go ahead and do what that machinery drives you do to: go
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Well, if you want a really reductionist view of happiness, which also happens to be largely true, you could say: have children.
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Great article, but the author puts too much hope in regulation. While I believe that new laws will help, the solution must ultimately come from new technologies, platforms, and protocols. The kind of information extraction that these compan
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
I cant wait for the serif revival. Soon we are going to return to much more intricate, embellished, and ornate design, just like the seal in the article. As you say, the new displays are gonna make it feasible.
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Also, there is the middle way: kustomize. It's built into kubectl
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
I used to live very close to where all the walks start. I would say it’s one of the best places to start exploring Boston. That is, along the Emerald Necklace.
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Yep just came across it as well: > If you were a French soldier, whose land had been invaded, whose wife or sister or mother had been taken into a German concentration camp and raped or killed, you might have found it difficult to contro
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
The classical definition of "pleasures of the body" is "sensible pleasures." That is, pleasures that require the involvement of the senses. So, by that definition, gaming and twitter would be bodily pleasures since you c
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Maybe they did notify the authorities but did not want to tip their hand? I certainly would do it that way. Also, plausible deniability if the gangsters get caught, and need a scapegoat.
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by lukebuehler 5y ago
Sorry, I’m not into language wars. I would say the best language to get something off the ground is the language you already know. No language will offset the time it takes to learn it in the first project.
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by lukebuehler 6y ago
Yep, another way to put it is that any NFT is worthless unless it is tied to some network effect. This can be merely social convention, e.g. an artist announcing that this is his Ethereum address, or an auction house acting as an intermedia
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by lukebuehler 6y ago
If I may piggyback on your question: isn’t it only the hash of the digital asset that is unique and that you own as a NFT (e.g. an ERC-721 token wrapping the hash)? So if I change a single pixel or compress the picture with a slightly diffe
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by lukebuehler 6y ago
I think there is something similar at work with decentralized platforms: they might never be as slick as their centralized counterparts, but it’s a kind of ascetic choice that opens new doors.
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by lukebuehler 6y ago
I think this is outright foolish. So many spend all this time trying to make it, especially on this site. I’m no better, but I would like to know what it’s like on the other side before I make all the sacrifices to get there. Say all these
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by lukebuehler 6y ago
Not sure why people downvote you. I’m not in your situation, but I often wonder if I’d have a lot of FU money if I would experience a lot of ennui. I think people really don’t understand how lonely it can be at the top. Even Musk keeps sayi
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by lukebuehler 6y ago
Nice! I just discovered the same. I have kids but I love to go on long hikes alone, so I just started to go on long walks after they go to bed. I discovered similar things that this article mentions: amazing star gazing, and also moon rises

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