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by poetically 5y ago
Does EVM have a foreign function interface? What if I want to "call" some web endpoint to get a price of something? How do people manage this currently?
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Behind Low Vaccination Rates Lurks a More Profound Social Weakness(nytimes.com)
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by poetically 5y ago
Alan Kay has a very good explanation for why this is the case.
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David Baddiel explores the impact social media is having on society(bbc.co.uk)
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by poetically 5y ago
War is now a video game.
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by poetically 5y ago
It's a metaphor.
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How the Virus Struck Back(newstatesman.com)
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by poetically 5y ago
Naval is a preacher of the market ideology.
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Technopoly(erraticus.co)
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by poetically 5y ago
Not really.
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by poetically 5y ago
Related: https://web.hypothes.is/ .
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by poetically 5y ago
Most people aren't cut out for solitude but if you want to get better at it then meditation is a good way to get better at it.
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Formal Topology(cse.chalmers.se)
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by poetically 5y ago
So what exactly is this institute going to do? I couldn't tell from reading the press release.
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Informing Ourselves to Death (1990)(web.williams.edu)
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by poetically 5y ago
Awful lot of assumptions you're making there. One might even say it's arrogant and hubristic.
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Technics and Civilization(archive.org)
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by poetically 5y ago
It's certainly a pernicious failure mode.
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by poetically 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29421577
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by poetically 5y ago
What's arrogant about what I wrote?
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Trying to Clean Up All the Ocean Plastic Is Pointless(gizmodo.com)
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Jupiter Ionics: Green Ammonia(jupiterionics.com)
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by poetically 5y ago
My default assumption is that there are plenty of people and there will be plenty of people for a long time. The only real threat to our survival is our own stupidity, greed, and avarice.
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by poetically 5y ago
This is a silly article. Humans will be around until the next comet strike, the question is in what kind of conditions we'll be living until then. The degradation of the biosphere and our declining quality of life is real so it's
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An informal introduction to topos theory(arxiv.org)
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by poetically 5y ago
I don't think it failed. It worked as expected for a system that is built for profits instead of actual healthcare. Which I guess makes my point about the economy not working for people's interests.
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by poetically 5y ago
Even if those problems did not exist we'd still be headed for a recession. The pandemic has given a lot of people time to think and some, maybe even most, have probably realized that the current economy is not actually serving their in
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by poetically 5y ago
There is no formula but you can do what Feynman did. He had a list of 10 problems he was always thinking about so whenever he would come across some new technique he'd see if it would help him make progress on those 10 problems.
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by poetically 5y ago
I'm pretty sure we're headed for a recession. People have figured out that buying the latest gadget is not going to fix their real problems.
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The singularity is not near (2018)(salon.com)
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