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by lukifer 6y ago
Yes, it takes some precautions to make crypto unseizable (sufficient encryption and/or brainwallets). Even then, governments always have the "$5 wrench" option, in which they hold you in contempt and jail you for not turning
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by lukifer 6y ago
The evolutionary biologist Diana Fleischman is currently writing a book (a bit tongue-in-cheek) called "How To Train Your Boyfriend". She's discussed the ideas in a few talks and podcasts: https://www.youtube.com&#
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by lukifer 6y ago
And in the same breath, accepting that it's entirely natural / inevitable that others tend to operate as though the world revolves around them, and forgiving them for it (within reason). Carnegie's "How To Win Friends...
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by lukifer 6y ago
Learned Optimism & Explanatory Style: - Permanence: Optimists point to specific temporary causes for negative events; pessimists point to permanent causes. - Pervasiveness: Optimistic people compartmentalize helplessness, whereas pessim
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by lukifer 6y ago
It's no different than bearer bonds [1]. "Utterly worthless" is a little strong; while for 99% of users, it's arguably inferior to a banking authority than can restore your assets in the event of fraud, there are those t
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by lukifer 6y ago
While I'd still prefer keys, this is quite helpful, thanks for sharing!
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by lukifer 6y ago
Yes, that helps, but I still have to take a beat and look down, as opposed to muscle-memory and not even thinking about it.
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by lukifer 6y ago
I'm grateful we still have the headphone jack at all.
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by lukifer 6y ago
I use both the 16" and the 2020 Air, the keyboards feel identical to me.
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by lukifer 6y ago
The silver lining of the "Apple Tax" is that machines retain value for an absurdly long time, even those which are verging on "obsolete".
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by lukifer 6y ago
+1 to TouchBar hate. It was a major factor in "upgrading" my personal machine to a 2020 Air, which is the best (least-worst?) of all worlds: Touch ID + F-keys. Luckily the size/performance tradeoff works for me; but anyone wh
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by lukifer 6y ago
My argument is that "noun" is a purely human abstraction, and that phenomena that act noun-like in nature are at best snapshots of iterative processes. Within the bounds of the noun abstraction, sure, I'll cede that point. Bu
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by lukifer 6y ago
Hypothetically, if an alien civilization powered itself through a mesh of evenly-distributed orbiting solar power stations (a Dyson sphere with one-billionth coverage would still produce in an insane amount of power), would we have any way
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by lukifer 6y ago
I didn't grok infinity until I started thinking in terms of verbs rather than nouns. As a static number, the concept of infinity makes no sense; but once reimagined as a process (start counting up from 1, and never stop), all apparent
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by lukifer 6y ago
Re: education, I think Bryan Caplan and Robin Hanson have got this one right: it's 80% about signaling and conformity, and only 20% educational payload (on average). As with so many bad systems, perverse incentives and social normaliza
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by lukifer 6y ago
Modernity, isolation, alienation, commodification: these things are bad for us. http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-park/
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by lukifer 7y ago
"Objectively" is not the right word here. There's a reason I used the word taste, rather than looking at specs or technology or performance: it might be that a $0.99 McDonald's hamburger is "objectively" inferi
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by lukifer 7y ago
For anyone curious about the details of building a Turing machine in MtG, Because Science did a thorough breakdown and demonstration, using actual cards: https://youtu.be/pdmODVYPDLA
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by lukifer 7y ago
"Do no harm" sounds suspiciously like "don't be evil": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis Just as with politics, it's mostly well-intentioned, "good people in a bad system&quo
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by lukifer 7y ago
There's no disputing preferences. I still feel weird about face ID, and would rather have buttons.
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by lukifer 7y ago
It's plausible that individual users are simply downvoting for not finding it interesting: information that isn't new, preaching to the choir, etc. While it's possible, I'd be very skeptical that YC/admins are inten
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by lukifer 7y ago
I only recently learned about the concept of "flak" [0], as described by Chomsky in "Manufacturing Consent". It occurs that Cancel Culture de-platforming shares a lot in common with the last hundred years of coordinated
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by lukifer 7y ago
I've seen at least one person in my social network, whose employment hasn't been impacted, offer to give their check to someone who is furloughed or laid-off. It's tough to say, since there's always the risk of more layo
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by lukifer 7y ago
I don't think the idea is to pick someone at random; it's more like speed dating, where you check for initial chemistry and aligned interests, and then decide if you want to take it further. Maybe you even do some due diligence an
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by lukifer 7y ago
I agree that policy makers bear primary culpability; but that doesn't absolve you morally for your individual choices. This is not "free money", in the sense of "I found a $100 bill on the street"; it comes from the
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by lukifer 7y ago
I think the idea is similar to statistical sampling, or Nielsen ratings: to have a branch of government which is, on average, mathematically representative of the public, in a way that no electoral process could ever hope to accomplish. The
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by lukifer 7y ago
The category I'm thinking of is a subset of self-referential; a concept which is encapsulated in its expression, where it is an example of itself: "This is a sentence" or "is sentence fragment" or `<html>`. It
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by lukifer 7y ago
Totally understood. I don't think Bret claims to have a good answer to the problem. I think his thesis is that we're in such uncharted territory, facing multiple existential crises, that none of the thought technologies that helpe
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by lukifer 7y ago
I love these sorts of "conceptual onomatopoeias" :) - "word" - every Audible book begins with: "this is audible" - "shibboleth" works perfectly well as a shibboleth
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by lukifer 7y ago
PG's "Keep Your Identity Small" should be required reading in high school / college: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html Unfortunately, humans are to some extent intrinsically tribal (when Haidt call

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