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by roughly 11mo ago
I mean, we’re still working on convincing people that climate change is actually happening, so if they want to keep reporting the 100yr storms that happen every year now, that’s fine by me.
422.
by roughly 11mo ago
Just remember, you can tune an instrument, but you can’t tuna fish.
423.
by roughly 11mo ago
> And the sad thing is, that Apple is the only one with such a laughing stock of UX/UI. Oh, give it time. We thought the same when they went flat, too.
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by roughly 11mo ago
One other thing that comes to mind - the players in the financial markets make so much money off that message-processing speed that it opens up a whole lot of options that may not be available to someone without those kinds of deep pockets.
425.
by roughly 11mo ago
That was a great read with a ton of fun little bread crumbs to follow. Tipo Velez/Super Veloz gets a mention, and it’s definitely worthy of a diversion if you haven’t seen it before. For all the modern handwringing about SF, it really
426.
by roughly 11mo ago
> Like many of his predecessors, Reverend Stone believed that the remedy to a malady could be found close to the cause. That is, if people were becoming sick in a certain place, there should be a plant or other remedy nearby. Huh, this p
427.
by roughly 11mo ago
> So my career has been in software engineering since that involves building and fixing and pays well, but it still doesn't fill the hole. A brief thought on this - I’ve found working in large software companies to be fairly unfulfi
428.
by roughly 11mo ago
Out of curiosity - do you know whether SAM-e can be taken safely with SSRIs? I went looking for this a bit back and didn’t find anything conclusive. I know there’s a handful of seratonergics to steer clear of, but I didn’t get a good answer
429.
by roughly 11mo ago
It’s not, but we seem to have to keep convincing business people that they’re part of society, so it helps to be able to appeal to their pocketbooks, too.
430.
by roughly 11mo ago
Yeah, it turns out that things like free health care, adequate food, good schools, and all that other socialist mumbo jumbo is actually good for productivity and the economy, too.
431.
by roughly 11mo ago
One thing that needs to be emphasized with “durable execution” engines is they don’t actually get you out of having to handle errors, rollbacks, etc. Even the canonical examples everyone uses - so you’re using a DE engine to restart a sales
432.
by roughly 11mo ago
> But I've witnessed multiple solar eclipses in my lifetime and while they were "cool", I had no "hauntingly humbling experience" whatsoever. It's something that happens and that we have a good scientific un
433.
by roughly 11mo ago
Additionally, ritual serves a purpose both for individuals and within a broader society - for instance, a bloodletting during a solar eclipse emphasizes both the vulnerability of society to outside affairs (a solar eclipse is a hauntingly h
434.
by roughly 11mo ago
The difference between this product (and other open source-style projects) and every other product you purchase is all the drama’s happening out in the open. Google, Apple, and Amazon all have the kind of infighting that would embarrass the
435.
by roughly 11mo ago
Honestly I think lesson 7 is nobody's normal. All the things the author's noted about interacting with other people - see how weird and rare it was and how long it took to recognize it? See how often it's on your plate to be
436.
by roughly 11mo ago
I think there’s a fine line between systems thinking and cynicism. Whether or not a revolution is required, it hasn’t happened yet, and it doesn’t seem imminent, and so my tendency is to take incremental wins where I can - to engage with th
437.
by roughly 11mo ago
Sure: yes, the true leftist answer is to abjure any and everything used by the enemy and sequester ourselves in glorious seclusion, but so long as we’re stuck in the machine, it’s nice to be able to carve parts of it out for ourselves. It’s
438.
by roughly 11mo ago
Look I’m pretty far to the left but if you don’t have a healthy skepticism of corporate controlled morality filters, I’d like you to reflect on the following questions in light of both the current administration and recent US history and co
439.
by roughly 11mo ago
Honestly sometimes that's the right way.
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by roughly 11mo ago
Ask a parent what they hear when they hear “irreversible” in conjunction with their child. I promise nobody mistook that for “until the heat death of the universe,” but I can add a note if you really think it’s warranted.
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by roughly 11mo ago
Epigenetics is one of those things that seems wild until you pull the camera back a bit. A cell is affected by and responds to its surroundings - this is not controversial. In eukaryotes, this is usually done by way of altering gene express
442.
by roughly 11mo ago
The description of how this works gave my inner ops guy a panic attack. I love this kind of hack.
443.
by roughly 11mo ago
At a glance, that’s what, 2/3rds of the market in 10 companies?
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by roughly 11mo ago
> Mozilla, after all, likely has a clearer view of the whole user base. This assertion is relying on facts not in evidence.
445.
by roughly 11mo ago
The lifespan of microorganisms is sufficiently short (in most cases) that you’re turning over the entire population regularly - the reason you see such rapid evolution in microorganisms is because they do an enormous amount of dying and pro
446.
by roughly 11mo ago
Shouldn’t be particularly surprising Netflix is leaning in here - they’ve been pretty open about viewing themselves as “second screen”/background content for people doing other things. Their primary need these days is for a large volum
447.
by roughly 1y ago
I mean, there’s risk and there’s risk. If someone comes in asking “how do I mod my phone/ebike/toaster”, sure, caveat commentor and all that. If someone comes in asking “how do I make dioxygen difluoride,” that’s a different categ
448.
by roughly 1y ago
To expand on the original reply to you - shorting companies, or engaging in almost any stock-based activity beyond “buy and hold,” typically entails much, much higher risk than just buying and selling stock. The most you can lose when buyin
449.
by roughly 1y ago
Indeed, by what moral justification does one slow the wheels of commerce, no matter how many people they run over?
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by roughly 1y ago
> it may be better to have a ruling class of corporations and elites. Given that the outcome of that so far has been to deprioritize education so heavily in the US that one becomes skeptical that the people are smart enough to control th

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