mellavora

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by mellavora 4y ago
> (population growth is) the primary driver of increased consumption I disagree. My suspicion is that the primary driver is marketing, telling people that happiness and self-realizations comes from what you buy rather than what you give
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by mellavora 4y ago
I keep hearing that a problem with solar is that it doesn't work at night. So I can see that as a (solvable) problem for industry, but for personal life? This idea that you need to have your lights on all night is rather recent. For a
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by mellavora 4y ago
> The US has uniquely good protections against abuse by government officials. I hear even civil forfeiture is in decline. Though too many cases still end by plea bargain. Which has interesting parallels to torture https://chi
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by mellavora 4y ago
> First of all, yes in a broad sense most people are gonna get fucked trading options if you don't know what they're doing And this is exactly the problem. Most people don't know what they are doing, and it isn't easy
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by mellavora 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "not that much at risk", the parent posted > Our kids came back with a cold every 2 weeks, for approximately 2.5 months. That was not fun. Noting also that frequent colds can lead to lifelong
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by mellavora 4y ago
I prefer folders. Memory, on a biological level, is tied very strongly to place or paths. Not just in humans, not just in mammals. My folder hierarchy gives me a path that lets me find things. I remember where I put them, I remember where t
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by mellavora 4y ago
> You always try to cover an obstacle with fire, I misread your comment to mean flames/burning stuff (not weapons fire), and wanted to pause for a moment to admire your approach to life. :)
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by mellavora 4y ago
> currently completely overmatched by anti-tank weapons The Chieftan disagrees with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7T650RTT8 I suspect he has more practical and theoretical knowledge on the topic than the sum to
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by mellavora 4y ago
oh happy day when that word is removed. Pet peeve.
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by mellavora 4y ago
Well, you could look at i.e. Daniel Kish (as mentioned above). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kish "Kish's work has inspired a number of scientific studies related to human echolocation. In a 2009 study
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by mellavora 4y ago
Which is why I don't like headphones. Move your head and the sound doesn't move. Can't locate anything that way.
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by mellavora 4y ago
there is more than one way to honeymoon; they aren't all trips to the Maldives. Most important part is quality, low-stress time with your beloved. I have friends who recently lost most of their physical possessions (including house) to
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by mellavora 4y ago
Well naturally not, because obviously you were using low-quality speaker cable and the cable capacitance would muddy the sound. Also, the speakers were probably the wrong brand. /s
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by mellavora 4y ago
> no general user should ever see a command line. Gack! Why not? If the computer is supposed to be a "bicycle for the mind", then shouldn't it be designed to enhance our thinking, and also to force us to "think differ
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by mellavora 4y ago
> Capitalism is a system dependent on perpetual GDP growth. Disagree. I'm a big fan of capitalism, and recognize that it can take different forms. https://muslimheritage.com/capitalist-early-arab-islamic-civ... argu
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by mellavora 4y ago
only until retirement.
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by mellavora 4y ago
I can think of one or two reasons, - It is damn good at what it is designed for, and that use case covers a lot of ground. - No maddening update cycle which breaks all of you code once every 6 months There are some languages where the prima
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by mellavora 4y ago
I see the merit in avoiding daily news sites, but I spend way to much time on HN, and this is the first time I've seen the Iran protests mentioned here. vs almost daily for the last while (week? month?) on CNN.
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by mellavora 4y ago
I agree with your point that strong "mutual aide"/kin institutions often (but not necessarily) lead to low economic growth. And clearly surplus extraction + capital accumulation (leading to productive investment) strongly enh
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by mellavora 4y ago
Even better, let's get rid of names as identifiers. We all know names are problematic. We could use government-issued tokens, maybe on a government-run blockchain. And we could use the same for our personal (corporate) selves, such tha
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by mellavora 4y ago
Isn't that what the cocaine is for?
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by mellavora 4y ago
OMG!Why did you do it! Why did you mention the kittens! Before this moment, I was blissfully ignorant and had time to get things done, time to take walks in the sun with my wife, And now, now, mrweow!
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by mellavora 4y ago
> we (the US) usually adopt new technology first. Evidence for this? Compare to Japan, to Sweden?
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by mellavora 4y ago
not if you are spamming your number when you call
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by mellavora 4y ago
What is this "green button" of which you speak? And how do you "punch in" numbers, don't you mean spin the dial?
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by mellavora 4y ago
Could you let us know what headphones offer a control to disable noise-cancelling algos?
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by mellavora 4y ago
Dunbar's number is that ON AVERAGE people can only maintain 150 relationships. "maintaining relationship" is not the same as remembering or knowing the person's name. It is spending enough time with the person that you h
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Ford drops full self-driving cars(cnn.com)
28 points by mellavora 4y ago|17 comments
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by mellavora 4y ago
based on performance results this year, about as well as a set of steak-based armor would protect a person from a pack of wolves.
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by mellavora 4y ago
> The modern university isn’t basically the same as the 1970s university except post Baumol's cost disease. The budget looks dramatically different. Agreed. Look at ratios of professors to non-academic staff. "The number of non

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