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by mbar84 4y ago
I've seen the same thing and come to think of books as preparation by the author for these lectures/interviews. The book is a demonstration that the author has thought things through. They've put things to paper and what they
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by mbar84 4y ago
It's not just the frequency of access, it's things that are time critical: Next song. Hazard lights. Lock doors. Accept call. Hang up call.
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by mbar84 4y ago
Then so be it, that's perfectly fine. I'm the last to say people should throw their money out the window when there are better options around.
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by mbar84 4y ago
None of this is related to technology and the best Google could do is expend resources on education. For tech illiterate, maybe the least bad option is that their security is that they won't lose their wallet. I think this is one of th
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by mbar84 4y ago
Let the market decide. You may be right and I wish you well if you're basing investment decisions on your projections. It does not seem plausible to me that nuclear would be uncompetitive on a free market. There are cost curves and eco
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by mbar84 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if some people at google are working on a transactional approach to DOM manipulation, or perhaps something even exists already I'm not aware of. I think what we already have is implicit transactions, where
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by mbar84 4y ago
It's like a discussion on abortion. There are fundamental disagreements that have little to do with technologoy. Everybody keeps repeating their conclusions and predictions, only time will tell who is right.
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by mbar84 4y ago
*foretold
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by mbar84 4y ago
Women's financial independence is fragile. It depends upon the modern Welfare state, financed predominantly by men and the preservation of norms relating to alimony and child support, also financed predominantly by men. Time will tell
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by mbar84 4y ago
Worse than paper shuffling about and numbers changing in a computer is when peoples behaviours change due to such foolishness. People who thought they could retire early but should have been continuing to work. People who bought cars and pr
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by mbar84 4y ago
Thanks for the shoutout. AsciiGrid is dockerized should you want to run it yourself, for example because the keybase website happens to not be serving it anymore: https://github.com/mbarkhau/asciigrid#docker
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by mbar84 4y ago
The only use case for blockchain is money. Everything else is a scam. We only need one money, the one with the most dominant network effects. Right now, if it every happens, that money looks like it will be Bitcoin. This will take a while.
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by mbar84 4y ago
I have done some typographic work for those who would like to make their own print version: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y7ar4mtbapk9qd4/AABEe53IbANo3N_45...
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by mbar84 4y ago
Accumulation of capital is prevented by the misperception that equality is desirable in and of itself. Is it better that we allow the capital in society to be commanded by elected bureaucrats or by people who acquired it in a competitive pr
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by mbar84 4y ago
This is a straw-man argument. Everybody knows there is an issue with a deluge of spam, obnoxious, content etc. The issue is trust/control. Whom do you trust to have control over who sees what content? A public platform should be beyond
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by mbar84 4y ago
I hope this is a signal that, after the experience of lockdowns and isolation, people have a greater appreciation for the value of other peoples company.
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by mbar84 4y ago
I wonder if the memory carousel itself is not so much a survival mechanism, but rather it's a side effect of a survival mechanism. In layman terms, the brain goes into overdrive as it tries everything it can to eek out some minor optim
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by mbar84 5y ago
Read in the voice of David Attenborough.
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by mbar84 5y ago
Competence first, then confidence will follow. I don't think there's a shortcut. I think the shyness is a valid emotion where you're trying to protect yourself from a real danger. If you are not competent and act with confide
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by mbar84 5y ago
Considering the climate in India, I imagine the situation is a bit different there than in western countries. I think raw milk can be safe to drink if it is cooled down immediately during the milking process and kept refrigerated all throug
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by mbar84 5y ago
Sublime Merge offers a nice GUI for the workflow you're describing with `git add -p`
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by mbar84 5y ago
I have a script bound to a hotkey. User experience: <hotkey> 1+1<enter> exit<enter> $ cat ~/bin/ipy ipython -i -c "import itertools as it; from statistics import ;import functools as ft;import operato
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by mbar84 5y ago
Since it was a political decision to shut them down, it's hard for me as an outside observer to judge a statement that they've been "run down". Is there an independent assessment of the safety of the existing power plant
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by mbar84 5y ago
If the current supply is a result of production costs and market forces, rather than geological supply, then this shouldn't be an issue. My understanding is that there is plenty of uranium in the ground in Canada, but it's perhaps
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by mbar84 5y ago
This is one of the nice things about https://hckrnews.com/ Visit once per day and maybe read 5 articles of the top 20 from the previous day. Done.
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by mbar84 5y ago
It seems that today, a data-driven computer model might be able to produce a much better artificial language than was previously possible. If you have grammar, vocabulary and text corpus for each language, parameters for number of speakers
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by mbar84 5y ago
I think he means it in a metaphorical sense. Anything that grabs attention is "LOUD" in this sense (just as is ALL CAPS writing).
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by mbar84 5y ago
Oh come off it. There's a reason it's popular: it's useful. You can search for fonts and use them without having to host them yourself. I argue for downloading fonts yourself and hosting them yourself: https://goog
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by mbar84 5y ago
It's both. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to broaden what he meant by seen/unseen to also refer to econometrics models which incorporate only some things (that can be measured/seen) and not others (that ar
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by mbar84 5y ago
Buy at least some bitcoin, especially at these prices (36K USD/BTC). Not financial advice...

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