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by milesvp 3y ago
What I’m curious about is how this relates to other findings that ADHD individuals tend to be better in crises than non ADHD. That is a scenario where honing in and focusing on doing the necessary thing is paramount, and where many just flo
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by milesvp 3y ago
> emotional regulation to avoid throwing good money after bad I was once interested in going pro, and I landed on some advice that said to go to a poker house and fold every hand for 3 hours. Poker has very high variance, and you can eas
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by milesvp 3y ago
No, the legal system operates from what we decide it to. More importantly one of it’s roles is to help alleviate assymmetries of power, any use that does the opposite, I would argue, is a form of corruption. Now, someday labor may have mor
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by milesvp 3y ago
Employers can afford to waste time. It’s their business. There has always been an asymmetry between employment seekers and employment offerers. It’s rare that a company will lose it’s lease when a job interview turns out to be a waste of ti
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by milesvp 3y ago
> I was born ugly One of the ugliest people I have ever met was also one of the most charismatic. This person looked like a troll from a fairy tale, just hideously ugly. But he could hold a room like you wouldn’t believe. And people were
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by milesvp 3y ago
> Can I run a media server on an ESP32? No. You can run a web server though. Now I’m curious if I can push enough data to stream audio. I know the chip can handle 48k stereo samples, presumably I could stream that much over wifi. I may h
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by milesvp 3y ago
There was an interesting interview with a long timer with google on a podcast I listen to (freakanomics?) where the concept of ads came up. Apparently very early on google did the analysis and found that google search provided something lik
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by milesvp 3y ago
You’re not wrong, there is a lot of unnecessary vendor lockin. But as someone who has worked on IoT, security is much trickier than you might like. Security for a non wireless device can be completely relegated to physical access to the dev
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by milesvp 3y ago
I’m a little suprised that Richard Hamming doesn’t come up in this conversation. He’s a mathmetician who noticed from working in research at many different locations that there were 2 kinds of people, those who worked with their doors open
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by milesvp 3y ago
Oh my. I’ve fantasized about this for years. I assumed that physics would not be on my side for this one. I am going to be watching these tonight.
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by milesvp 3y ago
Short term homeless is an interesting demographic to target. I’ve seen some threads talking about being homeless, and a common thread (very anecdotal) that I see repeated is how often a small amount of money was enough to lead to an evictio
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by milesvp 3y ago
The state exists to help solve collective action problems. It’s not about giving it more power, it’s about making it do its job. Taxation is a primary tool for dealing with collective action problems to help align incentives. If people don’
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by milesvp 3y ago
I’m not convinced this would drive up prices. In the way you’re painting, yes, if you implemented this suddenly and the large companies were suddenly left holding a big tax burden they’re going to have a new profit maximizing price point fo
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by milesvp 3y ago
The fed has been slowly draining money with higher interest rates (or maybe more precisely have slowed the increase in the money supply). That part is potentially symmetrical. It’s the inability for the fed to effectively convince congress
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by milesvp 3y ago
Oh yeah. Marketing drives a lot of shit. Also I think the trend towards “marketplaces” makes things worse. Used to be if it was in a store, it meant there was a buyer whose job was to vet products the store sells. Cheap products would get r
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by milesvp 3y ago
I don’t know that we can. One aspect of enshitification I don’t see talked about is how the middle of markets are disappearing. Economic forces seem to push goods to both ends of the spectrum, either super cheap or super expensive, with no
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by milesvp 3y ago
Yeah, I wonder about the high utility prices in california too. I don’t have good answers other than we absolutely need to treat utilities with very high standards. My suspicion is that part of the problem is a common allowance of “cost plu
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by milesvp 3y ago
Yeah. I’m disappointed that the fed has such assymmetric ability to deal with the money supply. The velocity of money went way down at the start of lockdowns. The correct move is to inject huge amounts of M1 to conpensate. The fed did this
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by milesvp 3y ago
They got the title wrong. Record profits due to decades of poor monopsony governmental policies. We are living with the end results of the allowance of company merger after company merger. Capitalism only works when there is considerable co
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by milesvp 3y ago
Black sticky rice is a favorite dessert of mine. I always have to resist it when I see it on a menu at a Thai restaurant.
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by milesvp 3y ago
I’ve seen “scrum” work. The single most important thing we did was the retro always happened. In the retro we somehow managed to create a safe space where we could honestly discuss ways to improve. This may never be repeatable depending on
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by milesvp 3y ago
Would be nice. I think the main fix would be making sure that debt used to buy companies can never be transferred to the company purchased. I understand that money is fungible, but accounting is often there to deal with the most egregious a
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by milesvp 3y ago
For those interested, it seems that it’s the flooding of rice fields that are responsible for the majority of the emissions this article is talking about. Something about anaerobic organic matter decay. I am not an expert, but did some quic
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by milesvp 3y ago
Back in 2006, I knew a lot of people who used to call any webpage with a potential product a startup. There was one group I was associated with who did a biweekly "8hour startup" day. The idea was you'd come together for the
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by milesvp 3y ago
>The economy is a closed system This is sort of not true. The biggest example of why is the concept of the velocity of money. If you’re unfamiliar with this concept, it’s the idea of of how many times a single dollar is used in a given t
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by milesvp 3y ago
Interestingly the balance was for multiplayer and they didn't update single player missions to accommodate the changes. I liked to replay the single player campaign periodically, and there was one base infiltration mission that became
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by milesvp 3y ago
Nonsense! You lack imagination! There are numerous reasons for companies to exist. Off the top of my head I can think of a few. To provide goods to populations. To provide services for populations. To give the owner something to do. To perp
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by milesvp 3y ago
I’ve had very similar problems asking technical things. I wish it would do like humans do, and say “not sure have you tried an option that might be called Foo?”. a good human tech repi doesn’t always have the precise answer, and knows it.
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by milesvp 3y ago
I would tend to agree with this. But as a frugal person, I find I don’t spend enough money on certain categories. One, often forgotten, value of a budget is to learn where you’re underspending and help enforce that. For me this is often edu
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by milesvp 3y ago
I applaud your sentiment. If I didn’t already fear a general collusion from the big players I too could get behind this idea. Sadly, the logical outcome of company towns in the kind of monopsonistic environment we’re in in the US is that th

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