nazgulnarsil

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by nazgulnarsil 3y ago
They're identity totems
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by nazgulnarsil 3y ago
And then sell to someone who is willing to trade away $ sufficient to retire on for just a home. I'd say this seems crazy but we're already there. People in SF and NY sit on homes and keep working when they could sell the home and
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by nazgulnarsil 3y ago
Uranium extraction can be electrified. You're the one spreading an obviously mistaken view.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
I think everyone is overwhelmed, their attention slammed. So they want things that don't activate a lot of cns arousal.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
>Is there some non-economic outcome you're trying to support by investing in this company? Is the investment really the best way to achieve this?
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
The memetic shift, in coordination with the MSM, has been successful. Companies can now lay off normal numbers of people (for their scale) in waves, and sustain a narrative that times are tough, removing employee motivation to unionize as w
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
We're abusing kids to service a completely unworkable subsidized childcare solution with an incoherent pedagogical model. The future will not forgive us.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
Valve's reliance on arch means I think it will continue to see interest and active development
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
People's revealed very strong preference is to not live near poor people. As long as the only legal and socially acceptable method of satisfying this preference is high house prices you will consistently see overwhelming voter support
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
take them to small claims court, $25 to file online. It costs them money to respond otherwise you get a summary judgment in your favor. Only way to get them to change is to flood them with costly procedures.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
take them to small claims court
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
I put in several papers I am familiar with that are long and complex and got back reasonable sounding summaries. Impressed.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
"Well well well, looks like stocked shelves changed global geopolitics after all, didn't they?" Stocker, rolling their eyes "Yes, sir"
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
Realized revenue and profit are not the job of the layers of indirection. Liability laundering is.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
Womier low profile brown switch keyboard. Does wired, 2.4ghz, and 3 bluetooth modes at the press of a button. Was the winner after trying lots of mechanical keyboards. Tape mod and o-rings (about 20 minutes of work) and it feels and sounds
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
enerational wealth diffuses in 3 generations iirc
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
I don't get it, dell already sells an 8k display for much less than the apple
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
I recently had a Linux evening trying to enable a swap file for pop os that was inexplicably lacking one by default leading to hard locks when I ran out of ram. I eventually fucked the install badly enough that I needed to wipe the boot dri
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
Uses the term "very clear" a lot for something with such hand wavy reasoning. Probably not a coincidence.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
>I have never -- never -- encountered a value-producing use case for cryptocurrency that can't be solved by either signed git commits or a SQL database. You have always --always-- lived in a high trust society with trustworthy insti
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
Rule of law de facto doesn't exist in other words
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
Shinzen Young, in The Science of Enlightenment, posits a strong time dilation effect from regularly meditating. After experimenting, I found this to be true, and have at least doubled my subjective life span.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
The incentives of marketplaces are partially aligned with scammers. Solving this would be of major impact for the global economy.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
65% of voters or thereabouts are homeowners iirc. Untouchable.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
Opening the Heart of Compassion is one of only a few (and the best imo) English language expositions on the Buddhist model of human psychology and I found it enormously illuminating and applicable. Many get put off by the first section whic
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
do you imagine the energy cost of mining gold and silver to be the same? in this world, do you imagine that silver is unprofitable to mine or that gold is wildly profitable to mine? Maybe you should be buying gold mining stocks.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
how do you imagine that the cost of gold on the open market and the cost of mining the marginal ounce*risk diverges? The cost of mining gold and silver is obviously not the same.
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
you don't understand reusable proof of work. If it didn't take energy to get more gold what do you imagine would happen to the price?
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
yet another case of not reading and understanding the original paper or econ more generally. Energy, labor, ingenuity, and resources are used to pull gold from the ground. After which it serves as a reusable proof of work. Is gold leaky?
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by nazgulnarsil 4y ago
Vision by David Marr Heuristics by Judea Pearl The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming

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