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by maratc 2y ago
> it covers even just the act of practicing Imagine that a gene modification is discovered that allows a significant breakthrough in human memory. First, people with Alzheimer would undergo that treatment, to the cheers and applauds of v
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by maratc 2y ago
> those people realized they're able to coordinate better when they have synced clocks, which made new things possible The development of clocks is related to industrialization and opening of plants that need all the workers to be t
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by maratc 2y ago
Think of e.g. the development of optics that brought us the eyeglasses first, and the telescopic sight on a sniper rifle second. Now imagine an army of median humans that need to fight the army of genetically-modified humans that can see in
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by maratc 2y ago
Yuval Harari makes an interesting point in one of his books: that many kinds of these inventions always start as a way to treat people with some kind of a medical condition and bring them into the "median" spectrum, but there&#x27
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by maratc 2y ago
OTOH, an interesting point is that the Manhattan project cost 0.4% of GDP in 1940, and Apple buyback ($110B) is 0.4% of 2023 GDP ($27T).
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by maratc 2y ago
Both the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program were 0.4% of GDP. With today's GDP of $27T, $108B would be equal — Meta have only spent less than a third of that on GPUs.
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by maratc 2y ago
One thing that might be missing from your calculation is that "one median-family-year of work" meant "about one person working" in 1940 but means "about two persons working" in 2022.
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by maratc 3y ago
“Start up nation” does a good job exploring this topic. In short, it’s about never accepting authority and challenging everything, the roots for that come from the culture and even the religion.
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by maratc 3y ago
> I could patent a car that is charged by USB If you paid the filing dues (a significant sum), and nobody has patented that before, then yes. > nobody could build a car charged via USB? Anybody could build a car powered by USB, and
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by maratc 3y ago
IANAL but there was a patent describing a USB-powered vibrator. While the idea of a vibrator is not new, and the idea of powering devices via USB isn't new either, the combination of these two non-new ideas was new. The patent was gr
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by maratc 3y ago
Correlation does not imply causation. Moreover, the general trend does not promise a personal trend. There's correlation between being in relationship and reporting happiness. This can be taken as a proof that being in a relationship m
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by maratc 3y ago
So MMXXIV = 1,000 * 1,000 * 10 * 10 * 1 * 4?
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You can start from here https://youtu.be/0Oy3sEatMxw?list=PL084D9BAA7417477C&t=3420
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by maratc 3y ago
Seeing you expecting it to decline and me expecting it to rise, I guess we could return to this conversation in one year :)
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You don't have to be his fan to hear his explanations about the studies and their methodology, it could be very helpful if one wants to understand what makes people report that they are happy. As the people return from the army feeling
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by maratc 3y ago
You’ll be able to enjoy the YouTube lecture by prof. Yuval Harari (as originally recorded) where he addresses the issues of happiness, measuring happiness, and how and why Israeli society ranks so high.
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by maratc 3y ago
There's no point being made about what is a "good thing" or a "bad thing", since that depends on the values of the people making the judgment. The point being made here is that having a lot of (religious, family, co
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by maratc 3y ago
There's a difference between "Do you believe in [some sort or form of] God?" and "Do you regularly spend a significant part of your day doing what your God expects from you?" To put that into perspective, imagine a
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Whatever metrics anyone comes up with today, cannot be scaled back historically. If e.g. you put some metric around "do you have a car", and try to use that metric towards "happiness", this implicitly puts all the people
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by maratc 3y ago
All these studies are self-reported happiness (basically, many people answering the question "How happy do you feel today?"). Israel ranks high because large parts of the population — the religious ones, with not a lot of income b
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by maratc 3y ago
Alternative explanation would be quite different: once people have their needs and worries taken care of, they immediately think of new needs. These new needs are (naturally) not being catered (yet), so people feel unhappy. Once these are c
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by maratc 3y ago
This has been researched, the ultra-religious population (with the traditional clothing, very large amount of children, not much of an income) are regularly reporting high levels of happiness.
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by maratc 3y ago
> Some museum recently announced they'd gathered a temporary collection of 20-odd Vermeers. That would be Rijks in 2023[0], they had 28 Vermeers on display, tickets sold out within two months, half a year ahead of time. [0] https:&
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by maratc 3y ago
5 + 3 = 8 are supposed to be on the Fifth, with additional 4 in Washington, DC, unless there's some exhibition going on currently that I'm unaware of.
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by maratc 3y ago
In most serif typefaces, one of the glyphs is significantly thicker than the other, and they don't meet exactly at 50% height. If one rotates the letter X 180 degrees, it would look out of place. https://upload.wikimedia.org
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by maratc 3y ago
Can you please expand on how much of that chain can be qualified as "Ethernet" (or "TCP/IP") and how much is "neither at all", and how different that is from e.g. a classic "DSL with ATM" chain?
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by maratc 3y ago
Again, I'm not certain of the entire stack beyond my house, but the device they brought for installation was sealed in the box that said "Media Converter" (not "ONT") on the box. It could still be the case that they
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by maratc 3y ago
This could be true in the general case, but in my specific case I was provided with the username/password combination that I fed into the PPPoE configuration page of my router.
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"Modem" stands for "modulator-demodulator" and it is there to convert the TCP/IP traffic in your house to some sort of non-TCP/IP connection that goes to your ISP. In case of cable provider, I believe the outgo
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by maratc 3y ago
I am sorry to be pessimistic, but once Putin is gone, someone else is going to take his place. There won't be much difference between Putin and the other guy, and that (small) difference may be for the better or it may be for the worse

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