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by noirbot 3y ago
I guess my question is if that actually makes things worse. The people who were likely to believe falsehoods unquestioningly probably already do. How much does the ease of making new convincing falsehoods ensnare new people vs. causing the
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by noirbot 3y ago
That seems about right. I'm about to just try to sell this laptop. It's the most I've ever spent on what's probably the worst computing device I've ever had. I could spend most of $1200 replacing all the flawed part
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by noirbot 3y ago
Yea, I've had no issues with the Linux of it really, the hardware is just... bad. It feels cheap, the battery is terrible, having it near any magnet messes up its sensors for if the lid is closed and causes random issues, and the scree
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by noirbot 3y ago
I feel like they either have zero or infinite value. On pure "which laptop would I pick to do a task" it's almost never going to be a Framework. It's objectively a worse laptop for almost all daily tasks. The issue is th
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by noirbot 3y ago
Is this historically accurate? Most of my renaissance art history class memories involve artists kinda getting controlled by their patrons a lot of the time. Plus, the patron usually got to own/sell/commission works from them. Sur
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by noirbot 3y ago
But I'm not sure even that follows. Most of the folks I know who got a divorce or cheated on their partner generally weren't in love with both people at the same time. Obviously it's hard to ever get an true answer on some of
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by noirbot 3y ago
I'm not sure your conclusion follows from your data. Sequential monogamy isn't polyamory. There seems to be strong evidence that, given autonomy, most people aren't monogamous for 20+ years, but it doesn't follow that th
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by noirbot 3y ago
Yea, by october when the "maybe we shouldn't do a lockdown any more" talk was 6+ months in, it feels like it's clearly in the "there's a case to be made" zone.
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by noirbot 3y ago
Yea, for sure. Mostly responding to the OP more than stating what happened. I think we generally agree - for better or worse, most of the world decided on some limited strategy, which made the prospect of doing any sort of elimination essen
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by noirbot 3y ago
I haven't read the specifics of the GBD, but isn't some of the "it was clearly quackery" confounded by: 1. In 2020 especially, and even now, the specifics of long covid and other side effects, as compared to other downsi
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by noirbot 3y ago
This is somewhat the difficulty of balancing the needs of governments. A short term/term limit leads to more inexperienced people doing the job. That's good in some ways - keeping new ideas coming in or keeping people from doing t
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by noirbot 3y ago
Maybe that's true, but in the long run, I'll stick with the "community" of multiple SaaS providers all awkwardly sharing a permissive license than the one provider who took their ball and went home with it. Ultimately, t
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by noirbot 3y ago
I'm not even sure that's always the case. There's plenty of cases where you can be right, but not seen to be right for years, and be miserable for all of that time, and still be miserable even when you're seen to be righ
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by noirbot 3y ago
It's perhaps a more... difficult listen, but Do By Friday has a special place in my listening. It's perhaps the least about technology, but the most about people and what this sort of Wisdom is about. It's hard to recommend b
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by noirbot 3y ago
I'm biased some by having listened to him talk on a lot of these thoughts over the years, but in general, I find his "wisdom" so easy to digest mostly because it feels like it comes from a place of earnest humility. There&#x2
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by noirbot 3y ago
> Never argue on the internet. No one will remember whether you won or lost the argument; they'll just remember that you are the sort of person who argues on the internet. This is burned in my mind and doesn't anchor enough of
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by noirbot 3y ago
I think any of it. I haven't seen a full episode myself and I'm not that young at this point. In general, it's now just stuck in my mind as a stand in for any sort of thing. I think there's an XKCD for this sort of thing
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by noirbot 3y ago
This seems like an odd thing to state with such certainty. I'm not sure I see how it would be good for competition either - having worked for a grocery store before, management was generally aware of competitor's prices, at least
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by noirbot 3y ago
Are you talking about their black coffee? Or their other sorts of drinks that are often less than 50% actual coffee? Because if anything, the usual complaint about literal coffee at Starbucks from people who like coffee is it tastes too mu
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by noirbot 3y ago
I believe it's been tried some, but it both doesn't produce quite the same output in important ways, and it's expensive enough to do that just having a larger building and racking the barrels for longer isn't that much m
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by noirbot 3y ago
Yea, this is always the thing that gets me about the "lol wine tasting is all lies" crowd. Sure, I'll easily admit that I may not be able to identify and explain the difference between various grapes or such, but that doesn&#
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by noirbot 3y ago
Yea, I feel like that's true of spirits as well. It's easier to get an acceptable Scotch or Rum than it used to be, but at some point, the cost to age something for 5, let alone 10 or 20 years just isn't something you can sho
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by noirbot 3y ago
There's definitely ways you could do it well that don't make a mess - telling your coworkers ahead, or at least the ones who would have to take your workload. Or subtly making sure to knowledge-share before you leave. I'm say
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by noirbot 3y ago
I mean, it is your problem if you like any of those people and expect them to maybe be part of your career network in the future. I know I'd have a hard time considering referring someone who gave zero notice when quitting. Sure, it&#x
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by noirbot 3y ago
I suppose, but I've recently had this issue applying to things with a large company. There were at least 20 open positions that fit my skillset, many of which seemed to be literally the same role on different teams. They made me apply
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by noirbot 3y ago
I'm not even thinking about it as a matter of arguments over if the book is good or such, just the interesting phenomenon of different sorts of art. I find some works to be singular in ways where even if they're emulated, the orig
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by noirbot 3y ago
That's an interesting point of comparison. Games have that element of interaction that makes it different from a movie or a book in terms of how well it ages. For all sorts of technical reasons, even though Doom invented a lot of the g
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by noirbot 3y ago
Perhaps, but I also think there's elements of the film making of The Matrix that also impacted the way that action movies were shot and planned. There's a lot of scenes that seem less cool when you probably saw the Simpsons or Com
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Yea, I had the good fortune of reading it in a class in school where we went through a number of spy thriller books as a genre exercise. Reading it alongside something like the original Casino Royale by Ian Fleming is a really interesting p
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by noirbot 3y ago
I'm really curious if there's a name for this phenomenon - being unimpressed by something that was a transformative work at the time because of how much it transformed the genre or medium in its image. I often think of The Matrix

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