machinehermiter

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by machinehermiter 5y ago
Spot on.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
Those are wonderful. I listen to quite a bit of audio books and while some voice actors are superb, some are just terrible for my taste and ruin the book. If I can dial in the pace of speech then I would almost prefer this to real actors, r
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I will be back at the office full time next week because I like the office. I know though this is not sustainable after going in a few days last week. This only makes sense when all your competitors are also stuck in commercial leases. I th
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
Thanks for this interaction. Going to think about this while I go on a walk.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
IMO we can't know truth for almost anything that is really going to be discussed on social media. The best we can do is a probability of bullshit. I don't want truth tellers. I want bullshit detectors. These are not the same thing
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
This type of language is real slippery though when we start applying it to subjects and ideas that are not falsifiable. I think when you apply this in that context you will inevitably end up with digital authoritarianism. I would say it is
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
My fav is anything with Seth Lloyd. He is straight out of central casting for a MIT professor. So great, so nerdy, so interesting.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I am an American with a life long love affair with Canada. I follow Canadian news and media pretty closely. Claims like these are what I read about all the time in Canada. As an American, to me their culture has moved to a very strange plac
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
Sounds good on paper but there is a good chance this just makes the expected value of the bets spent on government influence by anti-competitive forces go up in the long term.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I mean I love to work now but there have been times in my life when I was younger I could have made the stimulus money last a long time listening to mp3s and drinking natty ice or red dog. A year easy. Maybe 2 or 3 with a little creativity
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
No doubt. You can even go a step further. What about this discussion we are having right now on here about this topic? Why bother just for useless upvotes? No one is even paying me to think about this.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
The older and more educated I become from free classes online the more ridiculous our education system seems. I pretty much know if I learned the material or not. A test is nice to confirm this for myself but the way we have put test scores
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
At some point, I would think you at least need some kind of regulation with stable coins. You don't need that big of a correction from here for the sum of Tether/USD Coin/Binance USD to overtake ETH even. If that happens then
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I just don't think smart companies can afford to force the employees back to the office right now. It does feel like some kind of worker revolt. Literally everyone I know wants to quit or do something else. Not like we are talking inde
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
Lead from the back. Do what I say, not what I do. Just terrible leadership.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I just think if you look at human history as a whole the natural equilibrium is authoritarianism. We have been in this far from equilibrium state of individual liberty and we are drifting back towards equilibrium. Because of the WW2 generat
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I love that I haven't used Facebook in so long I can't even picture what this means.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I think this part of the problem though. We don't believe we can really do anything at this point so we have turned everything into a stochastic process with multiple draws needed and it gives everyone an out when things don't wor
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I don't think anything would stop someone from publishing a great paper in physics or computer science on their own in 2021. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's book The Formula is kind of about this. While nothing would stop an individual f
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I would think the issue is we have to start with what are we solving for exactly? Max GDP for the country in question? Max GDP contribution to global GDP for the country in question? Max global GDP? Maximize some individual distribution for
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I would think objectively it really doesn't matter that much either way. As someone who is fully vaccinated, I think we are at the point of many people just have a form of Stockholm syndrome and have formed a psychological bond with th
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I mean I can remember having this exact discussion about MS on Slashdot 20 years ago. If anything MS and Bill Gates have a vastly better public image than 20 years ago. Bill Gates has gone from the public image of a lucky fool with blue scr
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I am experimenting with trying to go in the opposite direction and not listen to music at all. I mean this in the sense of actively trying to get music out of my life completely. I can't listen to music and sleep or do anything even va
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
Same here. Prozac and walking 30min a day building up to 50min a day changed my life. I eventually quit smoking a pack a day cigarette habit also. It took years for me to try SSRI though. Not taking prozac was a combination of being stubbor
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I think the problem is head related transfer functions are too specific to people's head size. One time in my life I have heard amazing HRTF encoded audio with this dog running from what sounded like 100 feet away and then coming up a
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
The average American spends 2 hours and 3 minutes a day on social media. Is that not enough? Would 3 or 4 hours be better? Maybe the problem is you need to get the distracting nonsense out of your life?
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
IMO there is an equilibrium problem. I really have no problem working 45 hours a week. I am not changing to 36 hours a week while a co-worker works 45 and then the co-worker is the one who ends up getting promoted. I am not working in a coa
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
Something worth reading would not have a title like this.
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
Totally agree. Our economics language sucks. Ponzi, efficient markets, even "capitalism".. These words have so many degrees of meaning they are practically meaningless for communication. Then on the other end, mathematical rigour
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by machinehermiter 5y ago
I think flat earth is the best test case. What would an "ojective" flat earth search result look like? I would almost have to say that a flat earth search result should contain "evidence" that is pro flat earth. I hardl

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