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by rabidrat 7y ago
There is another, more fundamental difference between VisiData and spreadsheet apps like this one: being column-oriented (as opposed to cell-oriented). Cell-oriented spreadsheets are great for one-off calculations and creating a visual wor
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The problem is that if/when the Democrats win, the Republicans will use the same tactics and delegitimize those election results. We are effectively living in two forked realities with no way to rejoin them.
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The population is not stabilizing. The growth rate is stabilizing. We're still adding almost 100m new humans to the roster every year. We're going to hit 8 billion in 3 years (ahead of predictions made 20 years ago), and then
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by rabidrat 7y ago
That's the issue, I've found, with hoping that calamity will make the problems visible enough to shock us into making systemic changes. Humans are very good at inventing clever short-term "solutions" that ameliorate the
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by rabidrat 7y ago
We are all not-conscious for large swaths of the day. We think we are conscious all of the time, because it is only when we are conscious that we think to think about it. So we subconsciously maintain a kind of linked-list of conscious pe
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> The corn used to feed the food animals is considered "not fit for human consumption" because it's rather hard and tasteless.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I'm really struggling to get my head around the emotional trauma here. He bought the unlimited ticket, got many multiples of value from it over 30 years, and then they renegged. Had they never offered the ticket, he would have paid m
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Are you over 40 yet? It changed for me this last job hunt.
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And within a pretty tight range, too. I've heard that if O2 is more than 25% of the atmosphere, things would catch fire spontaneously; if less than 15%, they wouldn't be able to burn at all.
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A lot of that is Bucky's writing style though too.
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> During a single round-trip from North America to Europe, the plane's jet engines would burn more energy per passenger than the passengers would be able to generate with their own muscles over their entire lifespan.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
The earth can make more oil given enough time. There will never be more fissile material in this solar system.
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Those in the near- and medium- future are already lamenting our lack of concern for them :(
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We've got 300k years of fissile material, at current usage rates, which is only a small fraction of our current energy usage. If we magically went to 100% nuclear fission for energy (which is not reasonable for personal transportation,
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by rabidrat 7y ago
That requires active enforcement, which requires both resources, intent, and process. The parent's strategy requires a much simpler infrastructure change and zero maintenance.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> In 1971, my father got a 110 baud model 33-ASR teletype We still use UNIX/C (1970) and the command-line is still very much a teletype.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Gatekeeping is the only way communities can keep themselves healthy. There is no such thing as a universal 'community'. From day one, life has been about letting in certain elements, and keeping out others. Without this selectio
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Perhaps scaling to Google-size is the problem.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> Among the many hardships of prison life, perhaps the greatest for Wilde, was the absence of talk. The “silent” system then in operation, condemned men to a solitary existence in their cells; and even during the short interludes of exer
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by rabidrat 7y ago
A 50% increase in people means a 50% decrease in wildlife. (at least it has in the past).
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Much of that land (the western-middle) is not very habitable. There's a reason that almost no one lives there now..
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I've done a 4-day work-week, and I was at least as productive, and definitely happier. I found myself screwing around less at work, because I had less time and there were things I needed to get done. And then, when I was really engag
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by rabidrat 7y ago
A common objection is that they will leave as soon as they can find a 'better' (higher-paying) job. So not worth it to invest in them. This sucks, but it definitely explains a lot of discrimination at the higher-end of the scale.
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The temperature is increasing, though...
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That is interesting, I wonder if we could use the level of disagreement in the comment sections to detect propaganda vs news sites.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> the android ecosystem is so diverse its hard to write any comprehensive review about it That in and of itself is the basis for a meta-review. The OP says this, in fact: > I suppose this is really my fault for not spending enough ti
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I'm guessing you didn't go to college in the past 10 years. Things have changed. Nowadays it is impossible to pay for college with any kind of job you can get in college. And many internships are unpaid. So by not paying for c
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I don't want to have to return things! What a waste of packaging and shipping and effort. Now fraud detection and product QA are added to the gig economy, and we're paying for the privilege.
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And yet we get another billion people every 15 years.
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> He worries about death but has said more than a few times he wanted to die or kill himself. As a 2 sigma gifted kid (I guess), I had some of this same tendency, starting around the same age as your son and becoming all but unbearable m

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