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by lukifer 7y ago
It'd be a great business opportunity, to provide resources for turn-key homesteading. (It'd probably work best at the level of small communes, rather than individuals.)
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by lukifer 7y ago
Note that a land value tax implies a tax on ground rent, not on improvements: http://www.landvaluetax.org/what-is-lvt/ That said, most areas have overly draconian zoning and regulatory costs (driven in no small part
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by lukifer 7y ago
Self-selection? I imagine those are biologically wired for a late-night chronotype either don't join the Marines, or wash out relatively quickly.
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by lukifer 7y ago
There's evidence that some people are biologically pre-disposed towards waking up late, aka "owls" [0]. During adolescence, the tendency for delayed sleep phase rises to 7-16% [1], though it drops down to 1 in 600 for adults.
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by lukifer 7y ago
Hah, was planning on linking to Nicky Case[0], but of course that's exactly who's behind this! :D Very exciting project. We're absolutely leaving "leaving money on the table" by not leveraging the full power of the
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by lukifer 7y ago
Not open source, but Swinsian is a sort of spiritual successor to iTunes 1.0. Runs fast, none of the modern bloat: https://swinsian.com/
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by lukifer 7y ago
True. My understanding is that they're fairly active in the Hacklang community; they're big enough to have received a mention in the HHVM docs: https://docs.hhvm.com/hhvm/FAQ/faq
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by lukifer 7y ago
I view the PoW problem as being a subset of a broader problem with otherwise-efficient markets: there are often game-theoretic incentives to be intentionally inefficient . An example from nature is a peacock's tail, wasting resources
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by lukifer 7y ago
> Apple’s implementation on the Magic Trackpad, for example, is incredibly effective. +1. I held off on a new MacBook for years, stubbornly clinging to a 2014 model on the expectation that an imitation click can't possibly be as goo
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by lukifer 7y ago
Quizlet also uses Hack.
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by lukifer 7y ago
> we need to pay more attention to the cons I like the probably-accidental double-entendre here. ;) I think there is some attention (though probably still not enough) being paid to algorithms/clouds/etc gamifying our dopaminerg
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by lukifer 7y ago
I've only done 3-days and not 7, but for n=1: - make sure to consume salt (adding to water is the easiest); if anything, err on the side of both too much water, and too much salt (we normally consume a lot of both through food). - Some
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by lukifer 7y ago
I loved this line from Eric Weinstein's conversation with Garrett Lisi: "A good scientist is engaged in a dialectic between arrogance and humility." A dash of narcissism can be good, when contextually appropriate, and kept in
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by lukifer 7y ago
The standard objections apply: - Correlation, not causation - Self-reporting questionaire - Not controlling for meat quality/sourcing (though at least they differentiate "processed meats")
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by lukifer 7y ago
I think there's an argument that "empathy" (or even its wider-scoped sibling "compassion") has a potentially sociopathic element: a sort of cynical manipulation to appear virtuous to the tribe, one which is more eff
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by lukifer 7y ago
"Just" is something of a sneaky word: https://alistapart.com/blog/post/the-most-dangerous-word-in-... But by some measure, human thinking is itself math: emergent pattern-recognition traveling through co
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by lukifer 7y ago
Well, there's the rub: 32 bits for IPv4 was clearly inadequate. IPv6, on the other hand, gives us with 128 bits = 3.4 x 10^38 addresses, which seems from our vantage point like it should cover us until the end of time, even if we colon
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by lukifer 7y ago
Given the old joke about wanting the job being a disqualification for having it, maybe it's time we started electing people who don't want the job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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by lukifer 7y ago
I think the vast majority of humans are simply disinterested in objective truth, except to the extent it's actionable in our day-to-day lives; otherwise, our sense-making is driven largely by the utility of social signaling: https:&#x
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by lukifer 7y ago
I think the fear is, the companies will be hindered from making those innovations if they have to go through a centralized approval process, particularly if that process is slow, bureaucratic, technologically illiterate, resistant to change
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by lukifer 7y ago
I agree; if this law were put to a vote, I would vote against it. I just think it's conceivable that we hit a point where there's very little end-user benefit to additional improvements, and we achieve an equilibrium that essentia
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by lukifer 7y ago
> Locking onto USB-C now could be a very "640k ought to be enough for everybody" moment. I agree in general; but at some point don't we hit diminishing returns? If I were to say, "18.4 exabytes of RAM ought to be enou
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by lukifer 7y ago
This is an instance where I oppose the idea in the abstract, but support it in the specifics: USB-C has finally achieved a degree of "good enough" (naming/labeling issues notwithstanding) to be the ideal universal connector.
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by lukifer 7y ago
CGP Grey: "This Video Will Make You Angry" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
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by lukifer 7y ago
There's a myth that the market offers rewards proportional to value provided. In reality, the market offers rewards proportional to value that can be withheld , as leverage for price negotiation. It would be a big deal to create an ec
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by lukifer 7y ago
Obviously it's not the same, but here's Doom on an iPod classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgpMhJijlmM Hope we can see a vid of Quake on iPod soon!
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by lukifer 7y ago
My understanding as a layperson is that trees do pull CO2 from the air, but they trap it in the tree itself, rather than putting it back in the ground. When the tree dies, or is cut down, or burns in a wildfire, "most of the carbon tra
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by lukifer 7y ago
"No one ever got fired for buying iPads" is the new "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM".
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by lukifer 7y ago
Ha, just thinking aloud! More of my own psychological barrier than a knock on Lisp. I do like it quite a lot, it's just completely alien compared to a life of experience with C-like languages.
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by lukifer 7y ago
I've never spent any serious time with Clojure/Lisp, and the nested parens have been a pretty major impediment. I'm curious if anyone's ever experimented with dialects that replace brackets with significant whitespace (n

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