mikkergp

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by mikkergp 4y ago
I’m not totally insensitive to libertarian arguments about a free society and limitations on government, but I also wonder given all the constraints on a government and societal pressures, what tools does a government really have if they wa
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by mikkergp 4y ago
What you're saying we've 'solved' safety? What does this even mean? Scale changes things. What works for 10 people doesn't work for 1000, 10,000, 100,000. Also - You're saying there's nothing new to le
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I'm kind of excited about this because I hope it increases demand for induction stoves so that they fix useability issues like this, and make more. Right now you're lucky to go to Best Buy or Home Depot and find a single inductio
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think _because_ of their intimate knowledge of the craft, Chef's are going to give you a wider variety of answers with less certainty than anyone else.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I often wonder, do 'good people' make better executives than 'bad people'? Extending on that, I think there's a lot published on how to have more empathy and all these ways to be a good person and manager, but is t
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It is not 'literally' what it means, because it's missing the important distinction of _not defunding the police_. Any definition of defund the police involves something along the lines of "divesting funds from police d
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I never know how to conceptualize my feelings about these things, do you sort of try to talk about and spread ideas about what should happen or what's realistic. Part of what is embedded in the idea that police is the only public safe
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by mikkergp 4y ago
While I agree with you high level, I heard an argument on a podcast yesterday which resonated with me, which is that we don’t really talk about public safety solutions outside of the police. No problem has ever been solved by taking money
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by mikkergp 4y ago
While true for habits, I eat cake like maybe 3 times a month four months out of the year? I never drink soda, but I couldn’t tell you what my consistent sugar/fat/cholesterol intake is, it varies with the seasons/stress, etc
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by mikkergp 4y ago
But it seems like if you're making the argument that science is getting harder, then raw numbers should matter more than percentages. From the article: "I’m claiming that science is getting harder, in the sense that it is increas
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by mikkergp 4y ago
So, in the abstract, they say they controlled for "lifestyle" but then the researchers are paraphrased in the article as saying "This is an observational study, which means the data cannot conclusively prove that coffee itsel
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This effect makes me very curious, because yeah I wouldn't think adding sugar would be better, but one effect could be that - if people are really only using a teaspoon of sugar, maybe people who are able to moderate the sugar intake i
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by mikkergp 4y ago
The researchers themselves state they're not sure if coffee is good for you or it is indicative of other lifestyle factors.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It sounds like they didn't cover lifestyle factors, but I'm wondering if you even could. Over 7 years, does 170,000 participants means people lying or not remembering things properly cancel each other out? or would the data be to
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Echoing your thoughts, I used a friends Oculus and it was really awesome and inspiring and had echoes of that tech I fantasize from science fiction novels. But after five minutes it was really like, I can't wait for version 17 of this
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Yeah, this distinction is also melded with a persistent/live distinction. I know in reddit/hn/forum I can go back at the end of the day and read everything I missed, so it's 'obviously' asynchronous. Mentally
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by mikkergp 4y ago
One weird problem with not having empathy as a leader is you think everyone works the same way you do. It's bizarre to me that you couldn't see that some people might be more productive working from home. I liked going into the
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by mikkergp 4y ago
There's sort of a tipping point where enough companies being remote heavily dilutes the talent you can find in a city now. It probably means any one city after the pandemic has at most 50% of the talent it had before.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I've heard various iterations of this philosophy over the years: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-it-can-pay-to-buy-the-...
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by mikkergp 4y ago
My bad. You're right. I think my point still stands though ;-). Some of these companies are really good at figuring out hard things.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> all the heinous shit US defense and intelligence does, whom Amazon is also in bed with, a-ok I seriously doubt people think this.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Who decides what constitutes a "human rights violation" in the first place? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology How about we start with rape, torture, and murder, and work our way back. But like r
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by mikkergp 4y ago
1. I've worked with very few people who are smart enough to criticize ideas as "stupid" and the fact that you're in the position you're in suggests you're not one of them. And that's fine! 99.99% of us a
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I’m very confused by all the news articles being wishy wash on this, but while I understand what you say to be the truth, I think the reality is we won’t know what the “actual” consequences are until 1. Musk makes some kind of decision offi
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I don't know if I have an issue with GMO persay, but it seems the general science in nutrition is so poor it would be nice if we had some evidence before we started changing things. It seems like at best the current science suggests t
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I don't know if this is a new trend, but there's this idea of news that news is "just the facts". Now I think most reasonable journalists would disagree with this notion, and they would say that news is facts + context.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Yeah, I imagine a challenge would be making a second really fun game in a different genre from the first. The different 'games' would probably have to be relatively lightweight and lean into the fact that it's the interactio
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Isn't there a pretty broad swath of what people find fun? I mean isn't Eve Online called a "spreadsheet simulator" (Long before the recent Microsoft Excel Integration)
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I had a similar idea, for siege combat. You play the general/king of the castle, and it's all first person. The only way to interact with the battlefield is by talking directly to the people who will do the work, so you can eith
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I'm surprised nothing like this exists, I've thought about making something like this, but I think one challenge is it's really hard to bootstrap an economy without some other gameplay element other than trading. Otherwise,

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