netcan

20 ms·

211.
by netcan 3y ago
>I think the real sell with bauhaus design is that it was and is super cheap. Cheap isn't a bad thing. The reasothat some of the best ideas in architecture are irrelevant is specifically avoiding integrating economics into them. Tha
212.
by netcan 3y ago
> I think many people will be very uncomfortable with such motion very quickly So... I think OP's point stands. (impressive, surpasses human/algorithmic animation thus far). You're also right. There are "tells."
213.
by netcan 3y ago
This is true, but I do think it's worth reflecting on why/how. Someone writes these things. They are influenced by lobby, yes, but even lobbies, think tanks and such generally draw their ideas from what's lurking around in th
214.
by netcan 3y ago
>One might say who cares if they don't define it? Well, if you don't define it, there's no point in discussing whether it exists, how it came to be, or what it comprises. > You might as well be asking the question: how
215.
by netcan 3y ago
So... It sounds that you're up for a meander. Do it. I suspect that both the public interest in domestically manufactured toasters and your interest are related. There's something basic about a toaster. The basic consumer electron
216.
by netcan 3y ago
Yes... basically. Dialogue. Audible-like dialogue. Back and forth. Difference of opinion. exactly that, > Does your inner voice have autonomy, does it want things separate from what "you" want? ...Almost. I'm aware that it
217.
by netcan 3y ago
I think "hearing" the voice is the confusing part, or only. Hard to know if it's a difference in the phenomenon itself or in how people characterize and perceive it. To me the question is about thinking conversationally. Inte
218.
by netcan 3y ago
> there's only one model (or company with models) that's actually worth paying for. Yes. Perhaps. That said "the model currently worth paying for" isn't the only possible business model or approach to "win
219.
by netcan 3y ago
> right now they really really seem to be failing at it. Maybe the core tech in gemini is great. But it's nowhere I think it's still an open field. Ability to make AIs into products and businesses... that's a lot of the g
220.
by netcan 3y ago
Good read. > Google’s collection of moonshots — from Waymo to Google Fiber to Nest to Project Wing to Verily to Project Loon (and the list goes on) — have mostly been science projects .... ... a car service rather far afield from Googl
221.
by netcan 3y ago
I meant that 2100 on lichess is about where tournament CMs tend to be... roughly. It happens to converge about there, but that's coincidence. Online is a different game, sure. But relative strength is not that variable between games.
222.
by netcan 3y ago
I'm 70%-ile online chess player. That is average relative to players active on lichess in a given month. I'm better than most people (maybe top 10% even) that "play a little." I'm (I assume) well below average for a
223.
by netcan 4y ago
I disagree with everything but the conclusion. I'm dubious that the "Fed's money printer" had much of an effect on inflation. It certainly didn't cause the SVB or other banks to go under. The rate increases did that
224.
by netcan 5y ago
Not sure this is a good posture regardless. First, I'll note that a lot of poor people IRL have just as much "social conscience" than other people, especially politically. Poor people vote based on the whole range of issues t
225.
by netcan 5y ago
On one hand, prices change. Services change. When a sandwich shop stops carrying your favourite pickles... such is life. OTOH... I do feel this is problematic. Wordpress.com isn't FB/Twitter, but it is a meaningfully big part of
226.
by netcan 5y ago
The primary concern of Mercantilism was to maximise exports and minimise imports.. I disagree. Rather, I think this is a common but bad reduction. Mercantilism as Smith described it isn't just protectionism. Protectionism is just a f
227.
by netcan 5y ago
Good piece. There are plenty of other good ones. Re: Monopolies & Cartels. People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contri
228.
by netcan 5y ago
I'd call nonsense on the Keynes point. Keynes argued for all sorts of things at different points in time. He never observed any sort of Keynesian doctrine or orthodoxy himself. Also, the actual money system was very varied across his c
229.
by netcan 5y ago
Fun rant. IMO, much of what The Drinker describes is just plain old bad writing, but currently it's a lame writing in the style or George RR Martin or whatever is modern. It's not the style that sucks, it's the writing. GRRM
230.
by netcan 5y ago
I don't see how this relates to my comment. Where did I imply that spotify should escalate, or do anything for that matter?
231.
by netcan 5y ago
This is an extreme position, and IMO unrealistic. The key term here is " a moral-less dumb pipe ." I'm not sure it's even realistic to expect "dumb pipes" to me morally neutral, but that doesn't matter be
232.
by netcan 5y ago
IDK... I think the right thing to do isn't entirely obvious. >> a better alternative would have been to keep operating, while declaring openly that their media machine will be available for the dissidents in Russia >> At
233.
by netcan 5y ago
I disagree. "Cutting off" means all sorts of things. Blocking russian sites from being posted is a form of cutting off. " Too blunt an attempt to slow disinformation " is, IMO, bordering on euphemism. The increasingly en
234.
by netcan 5y ago
Yes, but no. You need the ability to distinguish between a bad social cliche like "short skirt, asking for it" and this.
235.
by netcan 5y ago
Or private expenditure, in the case of this article.
236.
by netcan 5y ago
The trade off was fossil fuels though. There aren't good answers to the problems these pose either. I always thought the security/proliferation arguments against nuclear power were the most convincing, but in germany's case I
237.
by netcan 5y ago
I didn't mean to take it literally. I'm criticising the rhetorical use, and I think it's common enough to consider a cliche. My objection to your argument is that (a) it applies everywhere. Public health, defense, education,
238.
by netcan 5y ago
So... "Eradicating poverty" may be a little more opaque than one might think, and context matters a lot. If you live an isolated peasant existence, is poverty nonexistent or is it universal? Is a person living in a shared room ten
239.
by netcan 5y ago
I quite like the main points of this article. I don't quite agree though with the " go to space VS help homeless people, on the margin " part of the frame. Marginalist thinking is useful for understanding the dynamics of many
240.
by netcan 5y ago
Perhaps in theory, considering that when you look at someone's face outside on a sunny day, it is brighter than that. OTOH, staring directly into a lightbulb isn't pleasant, so I suppose there's more to this. Either way, I th

More ›