nazgulnarsil

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by nazgulnarsil 28d ago
9oz
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by nazgulnarsil 2mo ago
And presumably eventually those exhaust ports would be obfuscated, necessitating the stealing of plans to identify such vulnerabilities.
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by nazgulnarsil 4mo ago
I can't read this article because it's pay walled
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by nazgulnarsil 4mo ago
the large majority of people do not keep their property until death.
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by nazgulnarsil 6mo ago
this seems like an illustrative microcosm of the political stance of Vermont.
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by nazgulnarsil 6mo ago
This should be called what it is: Brand Fracking Trust will be arbitraged until there are few information asymmetries to exploit.
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by nazgulnarsil 6mo ago
Yeah, seems like classic representation vs traversal complexity trade-off a la David Marr.
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by nazgulnarsil 7mo ago
the previous normal lasted decades, this one will last a year.
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by nazgulnarsil 7mo ago
it never made sense to have devs all over the world doing the same task with tiny variation. Centralization was inevitable. LLMs might have been a step change but the trajectory was already set.
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by nazgulnarsil 1y ago
US has tensions (lack of broad social agreement) in its regard for several subjects, so those areas absorb infinite money as the incoherent regulations and rent seeking around those black holes festers. Housing, Medicine, Education, Justice
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by nazgulnarsil 1y ago
We have eliminated the ability to discriminate against those displaying anti-social behaviors or commons damaging externalities in the name of fairness, leaving monetary discrimination the only remaining legally viable recourse and are dest
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by nazgulnarsil 1y ago
There is a blame industry and an excuses industry in an arms race with each other.
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by nazgulnarsil 1y ago
>our ancestors died extremely early No they didn't, stop using averages.
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by nazgulnarsil 1y ago
If you buy things that are productive you come out ahead on a trade deficit. If you buy things that are consumptive you are pawning future productive capacity of the country. Every country does both, obviously, what matters is the overall b
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by nazgulnarsil 1y ago
good designers are obsessed with how things are used. the others are platonically wanking.
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
Because the 13" is close to the same physical size as the old 11
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
A bunch of math is like this too.
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
Already
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
Capitalism-meritocracy= lottery. This feeling percolates deeply into society over time.
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
Accelerando
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
frozen, thawed and reheated rice and potatoes triples their resistant starch content, drastically increasing their satiety.
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
Nutrition researcher here. The combination of free acids and free sugars seems to have a synergistically terrible effect on metabolism. The man who discovered diabetes tried to warn about this. The bottom line is you don't want process
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
Not covered in the article are the snack bars which to this day tend to be an oat and chocolate base with added protein and vitamins. This persisted far past the time it was possible to make something better tasting and better for you. I wo
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
Highly recommend Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation.
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
the mechanics of cooperation probably scale better than those of defection, by their nature. Defectors need to pay higher costs guarding themselves against the other defectors, and always trying to figure out how they are going to pick the
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
If you're confused by a widespread practice, consider that it doesn't have the purpose you assume it has. In the case of tech interviews, it's plausible they're selecting for willingness to be abused by managers.
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
There was the zenphone 9/10 in the same size, which also sold poorly enough that the 11 is a regular huge phone. Other than the same thousands (not even millions) of us complaining online year after year there's just no demand.
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by nazgulnarsil 2y ago
One of the most helpful things for me was eating more fruit, particularly citrus. I believe the sugar craving may be a disguised vitamin c craving.
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by nazgulnarsil 3y ago
'democracy can only last until a majority coalition realizes they can simply vote themselves largesse'
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by nazgulnarsil 3y ago
Sometimes I look at a product from a major company and wonder if I'm taking crazy pills. Why am I as some rando able to instantly notice stupid design? Don't they have teams of people examining obvious failures? Butterfly keyboard

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