recursivedoubts

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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
to modify sinclair: it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his bonus depends on his not understanding it
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
Employees reportedly worried CEOs only care about money
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
the ai writing is so painful, even if the news is good
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
why weren't you always eating pork then? (I like both, prefer beef usually but buy pork often, dislike how hogs are treated tho compared to cows)
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
The neat part is that there is no inflation here: you just substituted a worse product for a better one and our friends in the govt call it good.
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
yeah, it's called inflation, it really sucks for everyone except the people who receive the new money early (mainly the banking system, but also people w/liquid assets + finance adjacent industries like housing) we should avoid it
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
you are falling into the trap of thinking of a house as a maintenance-free place to live
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
nobody is angry about the hostage crisis
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
lol yeah ok man
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
What I mean is that the ability of the domestic economy to produce, with automation, is constrained mainly by demand and raw materials. Producing plastic toys would not make a dent in the productive capacity of the US and in fact would inc
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
economic capacity is effectively infinite at this point, demand and raw inputs are the constraining factors (suggested reading: social credit (canadian not chinese) Not making cheap plastic toys means you don't have the supply chain an
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
I've got an idea, very creative & unconventional: You know how we tried to defeat Vietnam militarily and it was a disaster with all sorts of US service members lives lost, their families destroyed and lots of civilians killed? A
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
yeah, i'm familiar with the just so stories told to us by economists, but the reality is that by moving the entire supply chain to asia there are huge knock on effects on our own ability to innovate and produce wealth the us has papere
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
It's been funny watching the slippery slope fallacy fallacy at play w/the supply chain: - We'll only move cheap plastic toys to asia - We'll only move low-value clothing to asia - We'll only move inexpensive electro
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
lol I almost included that quote, but the reality is that china isn't communist in any meaningful way
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
i don't think they view it as a mistake
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
Maybe we shouldn't have moved the entire supply chain to asia. "we"
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
Here is my advice to a young person interested in computer science: https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/ TLDR: - Knowing how to do things with computers will likely remain useful in the future - Learn fundamentals usi
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
yes, I caveat that at the end: > Once we have strong AI, maybe the situation changes. But that’s what we’ve got today. However, I am doing research on AI and hypermedia and I'm skeptical that the late-bound, discoverable dynamic o
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
Here is how REST came to mean the opposite of REST: https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi... And here is why REST is probably largely pointless in machine-to-machine APIs: https://inte
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
i am now complete anti-gambing and anti-pharma ads
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
I am running an iphone 12 mini without problems. I expect I will eventually run into them but at that point I'll just stop upgrading apps.
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
The complete transformation and legitimization of betting culture in the United States has been surreal to watch. From you had to know a guy to baseball TV announcers giving odds on a home run this inning in less than a decade. I know this
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
if you are willing to run an old OS (and the OS's are getting worse too) then I think you should be OK
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
legit could be your last phone ever, why upgrade?
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
the digital library should have always been open access now it will be fodder for the slop machine (i think that LLMs are going to wreck the peer review system for all but hard-experimental papers)
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
we are working on this minimum viable set of changes currently: https://triptychproject.org/
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
how deep does this rabbit hole go?
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
idk just seems like $25 is a good price for a fun game you know?
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by recursivedoubts 3mo ago
The cover art is by ash on fiverr. He also did the cover of hypermedia systems: https://hypermedia.systems

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