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by mrwh 4y ago
Plus one to this. I think it's both true that the app-based dating world is demoralising and heavily biased towards a privileged minority of users and that the pre-app world was even worse .
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by mrwh 4y ago
'Igor Stravinsky’s revolting ballet “Rite of Spring,”' Er, what? If that's the author's opinion of one of the most thrilling pieces of music of the 20th century then I'll take the rest of their opinions with a pinch
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by mrwh 4y ago
To me, this is just the difference between packing for an occasional trip versus going full road warrior. For the former, yep why not just use something disposable. But for the latter, anything that avoids a visit to the dentist has to be p
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by mrwh 4y ago
I remember a bunch of us joining Orkut when it was pretty new. There was a sense of: well, now what? We were already socialising in real life, so an online social network added nothing. In retrospect we didn't understand the point of o
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by mrwh 4y ago
Chalmers: Does a rock implement every finite state automation? http://consc.net/papers/rock.html Meanwhile, Integrated Information Theory is a proposal to solve some of the issues about consciousness that the author ra
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by mrwh 4y ago
That said, I have heard that a large percentage of men get zero matches, just none at all. At that point yes it's a poor proposition.
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by mrwh 4y ago
A few matches a week seems... fine though, right? Unless one wants to go on a first date every day of the week, and really who has time for that? If anything, hundreds of low-quality matches (because men just say yes to everyone) seem worse
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by mrwh 4y ago
Dating does suck! Though I'm not sure that dating apps suck more than what they replaced - pubs and bars really. I'm old enough to have dated before apps were the default and it wasn't exactly a less superficial time.
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by mrwh 4y ago
It is an article written more in sadness then anger (though there's anger there). Anecdote: a couple of weeks ago I took an Uber to Civic Center to BART back to the East Bay. It was the evening but not super late. The driver deposited
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by mrwh 4y ago
I know I do. And I know I used to feel a bit guilty about it, that a real software engineer would use some fancy debugger. There are plenty, I work at a FAANG. But as others have pointed out, printf is often the best approach. It's ite
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by mrwh 4y ago
To be clear, personally I think a world in which everyone has less but no one has none is, on a moral level, a better world. If this is a fair example of Rawls' thought, then I'm with Rawls, and am not a utilitarian.
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by mrwh 4y ago
So for a specific example, in a world in which (say) 50% of people earn a dollar a day, and 50% a hundred dollars a day, and we are judging two potential policies: 1), that reduces the number of people on a dollar a day to 25%, so that now
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by mrwh 4y ago
I'm curious, care to elaborate?
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by mrwh 4y ago
Other professions handle this via professional qualifications. Architects - and please do contradict me actual architects! - are not tested on their knowledge of basic architectural concepts as part of interviewing at a firm, because that&#
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by mrwh 4y ago
Proactive, rude, driven, suffer-no-fools, fast, unsustainable, etc. There's a lot that "offensive" could mean. I must admit, I'd look askance at anyone I work with describing their approach as "offensive".
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by mrwh 4y ago
Until recently (and for decades indeed) I'd have said Ron Gilbert's Monkey Island 3. Which is now happening :).
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by mrwh 4y ago
I'm sure you know this story already, but nice example: https://gizmodo.com/one-mans-nearly-impossible-quest-to-make...
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by mrwh 4y ago
Maybe in Mountain View, but even then: it was never that many people who stayed after hours (I worked there for years, then transferred to SF, where even fewer people stayed/stay late).
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by mrwh 4y ago
I do mean Modi. Just my uninformed guess of course, and Xi is a surer bet on the China side. 2030s are going to be a gerontocracy for much of the world. (I rather hope to be wrong on this!)
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by mrwh 4y ago
Partly disillusionment honestly! I was in a self-driving car six years ago and it all seemed imminent, and wasn't. Turns out getting the last 5% of the way there is much, much harder than hoped.
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by mrwh 4y ago
Hehe, yes. And let's add: my most stable address is still my Gmail one.
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by mrwh 4y ago
Salt sensor (2009!): https://foodchannel.com/2009/salt-sensor-introduced-to-help-... ...so one of the predictions pretty much already existed, at least by the terms the author seems to be grading themselves (5/10?
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by mrwh 4y ago
I don't know about that. 100 lines a day, 280-or-so days a year, is pretty doable for the average L4. You could do that in migrations alone, and people do.
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by mrwh 4y ago
Exactly! Why did she die? So someone could have a moment of pleasure, someone who then never gave her another thought.
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by mrwh 4y ago
(Off-topic, but...) I recall an interview on KQED with an activist who absolutely was proposing to get rid of the entire police and carceral system. When asked how they would deal with, say, a murderer, their response was a) there'd be
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by mrwh 4y ago
My sense of the distinction: luck is rare. Not everyone can be lucky, by definition. Fortune doesn't have the property. For example, one could say that everyone who grows up in a liberal democracy is fortunate. Something which require
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by mrwh 4y ago
I'm guessing there's a fair amount of research on the "optimal" amount to steal. No good killing the host after all.
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by mrwh 4y ago
This is bizarre and example of how I don't understand the crypto world at all. Shouldn't a stable coin that is manifestly no longer stable be worthless? Is it known whether the hacker managed to translate their coins into somethin
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by mrwh 5y ago
Oh my word the caltrain! I had no idea before I moved here. I live miles away from the track now, and I can still hear it.
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by mrwh 5y ago
Alterative hypothesis: the reason we see fewer artistic geniuses is a result of the winner-takes-all nature of the arts. Before that happened at a regional level - one country had its geniuses, another country had its geniuses. Now, it happ

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