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by mihaic 4y ago
What I think this misses is that one of the main purposes of something like Arecibo is to be inspirational. The coolness factor is something that helps science as a whole, from making kids interested in scientific activities and even boosti
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by mihaic 4y ago
This nice story has unfortunately two flaws: it ignores the cost of opportunity for doing all that highschool match (the alternative is not nothing, it's learning something else), and it uses a terrible example -- calculus actually is
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by mihaic 4y ago
My experience might be limited to my geography/culture (Eastern Europe). While I agree that it's hard to have an assessment of new generations that isn't biased by your beliefs, I also think that simply giving up because ever
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by mihaic 4y ago
I can back it up, although only in a longer conversation, as it involves a lot of personal experiences. You're right that past generations could be more bottled up because of social expectations, but I've seen also more flexibilit
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by mihaic 4y ago
I see this quote or mentions along this line popping up every single time someone says there is a regression in a newer generation. But some generations actually are worse than their predecessors (at least in certain aspects). There are uni
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I mean, the more complex the world become, the worse our choices are in free market, since we don't see the long term consequences of some decisions. For instance, getting a streaming-service subscription is convenient for the consumer
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I think one thing most posts saying "he optimizes for the algorithm" ignore is that content also slowly influences our desired and our culture. It's all a gigantic and relatively slow-moving feedback loop, where content influ
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by mihaic 4y ago
Am I the only one that really dislikes the Cpp2 syntax? I get it's coming from a Rust influence, but it just feel much harder to parse by humans. The way a function is declares looks just like a variable assignment for instance, but in
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by mihaic 4y ago
More of a curiosity given how different it is culturally and culinarily. Obesity is socially shumed more, which I'd imagine correlates negatively to health issues from a vegetarian carb-rich diet.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Given that this study was made in Brazil, I can't not imagine the social consequences of not eating meat (exclusion from barbeques, etc) and how those also affect mental wellbeing. I would love a cross-culture study of this, especially
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by mihaic 4y ago
I still believe that the main reason Python is slow is because people kept repeating that Python is slow and just accepted this as unavoidable. Combined with how nobody sponsored the main work on something like this, even though everyone wo
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That sounds about right, but when it gathers about a billion dollars in it I'm a bit shocked it's still "just a start-up".
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How the hell do governments sleep for years on this sort of stuff?
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It's a bit ironic that I find the "many friends" approach to cheapen the deeper connections I have with only a handful of people. In the end, I think these are different kinds of socialization, and these all work when both pa
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by mihaic 4y ago
What I find more inexplicable is how many people actually enjoy the show. Even if one of the biggest fictional universes where not attached to it, the writing and details absolutely ruin the show for me. At times, the characters seem to giv
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by mihaic 4y ago
Yes, it's not called "imaginary estate", but even practical things can be speculated. I'm sure I would pay $500 per month for internet or drinking water for instance, but in general this type of rent-seeking behavior is
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by mihaic 4y ago
After so many cycles, Bitcoin has become one of the most respectable pyramid schemes available to the general public (only behind real estate speculation maybe). I think we'll see another even worse cycle unfortunately within the next
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I like the suggestions, I do think it need to be a bit shorter to be viral. Riffing on this, how does "we've misdefined this" sound?
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Yes, I've also struggled to pause many disagreements just to clarify terms, ironically because the other person didn't get what I was doing since there is no common word for this sort of disagreement. If anyone has a good one, ple
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Anecdotally, I've found out in recent year about many women having serious thyroid issues. I'm sure more people being open about their health increases this, but the sheer frequency seems absurd. Whatever industrial chemicals we&#
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Most taxpayers in western countries will pay for those costs in the next decades.
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I left a 4 star one myself, but I guess it's just a coincidence that IMDB is owned by Amazon and it disappeared.
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by mihaic 4y ago
IMDB is an Amazon subsidiary that has removed all reviews bellow 6 stars for Amazon Primes new flagship show.
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I find this sort of article both oversimplifying and overcomplicating why innovation stopped. Talking about big abstract things sometimes clarifies things, but often leads to situations without a clear path forward. How do we simplify regul
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For this sort of situation, I'd always avoid any generic advice that isn't a "how to". "It depends on the team" really is the only generic info I'd share, since you still have to consider your situation. T
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It would be more inconvenient, but at the same time it would feel more self-consistent. It you'd want to limit alcohol consumption (just an example), you don't want to ban tequila but allow gin for instance. You can say ban anythi
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I am one of those people. I'm more willing to accept a more stringent requirement if I also perceive it as fair and can see an actual improvement in something. A restriction is fair for instance if it draws a cost/benefit line, an
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This is the sort of extremist attitude that alienates the general population from all environmental measures. Like banning plastic straws while the cups are still plastic, it enrages even many with a moderate amount of goodwill. I agree w
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I don't think this actually answers why Netflix needs to many engineers. This seems like the sort of thing that one or two experienced engineers would spend a year refining, and it would turn out like this. This is the sort of impressi
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Internet discourse always gravitates to extremes. I passionately dislike the big tech monopolies, but complaining that a search engine uses your IP to improve their results and maybe do some A/B tests is counterproductive to the privac

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