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by pmichaud 4y ago
I think sex is a tightly related primal drive, but no, I think literally children is something similar, mostly for slightly older people, mostly women, but with plenty of young people and men feeling it too. I know a lot of people like this
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by pmichaud 4y ago
The real answer about why people in general have children isn’t formatted like a “reason.” There’s a primal drive in most people, a kind of psychosomatic/biological imperative that drives them (to great lengths, when necessary) to have
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by pmichaud 4y ago
This is also my strategy for similar reasons. I don't ever want to be confused that the future is watching what I do online, so I post using my name.
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by pmichaud 4y ago
It’s not just for snow. In general, moisture management is a huge deal in construction, and having a surface that naturally causes water to go away rather than collect is a boon. You CAN do flat roofs but they are more expensive and complex
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by pmichaud 4y ago
Two Factor Authentication.
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by pmichaud 4y ago
It’s only zero sum if there is only a preset amount of things to own, but in fact you can own something that never existed before you owned it.
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by pmichaud 4y ago
Yeah this is a good point. Maybe it’s solvable with simple tech like this: https://www.amazon.com/brotrade-Hanging-Jewelry-Organizer-Je... Get a similar soft display case with compartments big enough to hold cell phones, an
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by pmichaud 4y ago
Why not? One of the main failure modes of bureaucracy is escalating attempts to deflect blame for both individuals and the organization as a whole, where all that leads to a nightmare of red tape that pulls against the original intent of th
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by pmichaud 4y ago
My wild-ass guess is a grammar check bug. Since it words on both “and” and “but,” I’m thinking it’s some check related to conjunctions.
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by pmichaud 4y ago
Any complex system will have a bunch of feedback loops, so it’s likely both a symptom and a cause.
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by pmichaud 4y ago
I’m pretty confused about how bad this post is considering how smart Gelman is? He’s making facile arguments even if you ignore that he hasn’t understood what either steelmaning or strawmaning are. I would say more, but other people have co
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by pmichaud 4y ago
I’m not an expert, but my rough understanding is that you have to take the nominal budget, double it for marketing and other incidental stuff, then halve the nominal revenue to account for the cuts taken by distributors and theaters and wha
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by pmichaud 4y ago
This is a nice little vignette dramatizing the exact thing the article is about. You might want to consider that before you end up divorced.
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I think the place where this model breaks down, and perhaps the source of most of the apparently ideological conflict around it, is that the abstraction of the externality tax doesn’t cash out to reality well enough. Modeling an externality
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by pmichaud 5y ago
On the demand side there is a spike basically from low interest rates plus everyone trying to move into a house over the past couple years. But that’s starting to chill out as the house prices got pretty prohibitive and interest rates are l
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Is there a link to the paper or a different article that contains information, instead of… not?
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by pmichaud 5y ago
It’s a fun crack at the problem. I’ll say (very annoyingly) that I have a hunch that the formalization is fundamentally wrong somehow that I can’t quite put my finger on, even though branch factor does seem like a really great candidate for
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Yes definitely! A large impact can kick enough debris into the atmosphere to cool the earth. And people have floated the possibility of injecting basically a bunch of “debris” to combat global warming. The problem is that the system is chao
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I think this is an interesting issue. We have this idea of “common people” being jurors, who are supposed to apply common sense to the facts of a case, as a sort of balance against corruption and weenie-headed legal technocrats, but the who
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by pmichaud 5y ago
One of the basic metrics that EA people track is "neglect," so if there's a way to make a big impact that actually seems possible to do, but also there's already a lot of people and money doing it (ie., it's not &qu
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I’m not fully convinced of my own position here, but I have long suspected that “zipping” at all is an abstraction that shouldn’t really be exposed to the user. Like it’s a throwback to an earlier era. The basic trade off is size for speed,
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Yes, I think you have it right, now. I’m actually surprised about your listed definitions because as a native english speaker, those definitions seem definitively wrong to me, as desperation means exactly that you haven’t quite yet given up
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by pmichaud 5y ago
This is awesome! I've spent a lot of time thinking about similar issues and making do with 16bit grayscale, but reading interactive maps or tiles from apis, I've seen all the problems mentioned in the intro, and it only took me a
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by pmichaud 5y ago
In the original essay, "reasonable" specifically meant "rational" in the sense of "able to be deduced from first principles." The point of the whole essay was that math was was spookily good at modelling realit
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I guess I'll add my anecdote. For me this really depends on whether I'm "into it" or not. When I'm doing what I need to do but my heart isn't in it, I mostly match the "a few hours of real work per day&quo
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Paywall?
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by pmichaud 5y ago
You really seem to not understand hacker culture, which I guess isn't your fault, maybe it's before your time or something. But there's something special and important about it. That special and important thing is why this pl
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by pmichaud 5y ago
Yeah, I hear this a lot, and I heard this as a child. Maybe there's real data indicating this is the normal outcome, I don't know. But I do know that in my personal experience, nothing was better for my social growth than skipping
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I think the main thing is that you have to actually talk to the people you want to sell to to find out what their problem is and why it's still a problem despite their next best alternative. Then you need to talk to them about the pote
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by pmichaud 5y ago
I've seen this a lot at large, cubical farm type places. I think you're just not in the 20% doing 80% of the work. Whether that's a mistake or genius, I think is debatable and depends on the person.

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