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781.
by roughly 2y ago
Both of these are incorrect. There's plenty of evidence of trade between disparate groups and plenty of evidence of art, craft, etc. that indicate our pre-agricultural ancestors had free time and contact with other groups.
782.
by roughly 2y ago
Every once in a while someone recognizes that paying good workers good wages works out well for the business, but that never makes it back into the textbooks somehow.
783.
by roughly 2y ago
Understand that the people arguing with you aren't doing so because they don't know or understand the theory, they're arguing with you because the theory is a toy that only works under very specific conditions which are almos
784.
by roughly 2y ago
That's a good way to phrase it, and something I agree with. I'd heard the phrase "epistemological modesty" a while back, and it goes nicely with this - I think a great deal of harm is done in this world by people looking
785.
by roughly 2y ago
> the market forces will produce a rough equivalent result over time. No, they absolutely will not. Absolutely not. The entire history of the labor movement and of labor law is testament to this. We’ve tried this, repeatedly, in the real
786.
by roughly 2y ago
This is absolutely not how wages are set anywhere and certainly not in tech. Workers are paid according to the prevailing wages and what they’ll accept, not according to the value they generate for the firm.
787.
by roughly 2y ago
There’s been some success here already - as mentioned, there’s some commercial products on the market already that do some amount of nitrogen fixation for at least corn and I believe wheat as well, so it’s not unsolvable.
788.
by roughly 2y ago
> managers are usually paid better than the top IC This has not been my experience most places I’ve worked - you’ve gotta get a couple rungs up the management ladder (director or such) before the pay scale gets above staff and sr staff.
789.
by roughly 2y ago
Typically “middle manager” means you’ve specifically got managers reporting to you - you’re a manager managing managers reporting to a manager: “middle manager”
790.
by roughly 2y ago
Unrelated to the above, except in the mix of sustainability and agriculture - there are a bunch of companies working on bacteria to fix nitrogen for crops without requiring separate fertilizer similar to how legumes do it. I think Pivot Bio
791.
by roughly 2y ago
Huh, I hadn’t drawn that connection - I’d noticed a bunch of new Yemeni shops opening, but I hadn’t tied it to the civil war. That makes sense.
792.
by roughly 2y ago
Even when eroded, the presence of straight lines in the eroded remains has typically been used to identify human-made structures.
793.
by roughly 2y ago
That book is really an incredible eye-opening read, I strongly recommend it. Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything spends quite a bit of time with complex societies in the Americas as well, and is certainly worth a read as well.
794.
by roughly 2y ago
THERAPY. THE THING YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS THERAPY. SAY IT WITH ME: THER A PY. Everything in this post is about how you keep tripping over your own bullshit and don’t know what you want. The only difference between you and everyone else havi
795.
by roughly 2y ago
The difference is we _know_ that LLMs are fancy stochastic models, we don't know that they're capable of reasoning, and the null hypothesis is that they're not (because we know what they _are_ - we built them) - any "rea
796.
by roughly 2y ago
Except that if the model genuinely was reasoning about the problem, you could test it with every variation of materials and weights in the world and it would pass. Failing that problem at all in any way under any conditions is a failure of
797.
by roughly 2y ago
> There are more libertarian views on here due to the DIY and inquisitive nature of the hacker community. Bluntly, it’s also the hacker community, or at least this hacker community, being kind of poor at generalizing things to an overall
798.
by roughly 2y ago
> I really don’t expect to learn any differently by doing further research, which I expect to be a waste of my time. I guess that settles that, then.
799.
by roughly 2y ago
You can avoid a lot of joy that way, too.
800.
by roughly 2y ago
> Items break and are lost. When you become emotionally attached to an object such as a unique imperfect guitar, you are guaranteed to have sorrow when it is lost (e.g. in a fire). Life is loss. You can’t have sorrow without having exper
801.
by roughly 2y ago
High end automated processes can indeed hit extremely high tolerances, but that’s a trade-off on cost (give or take) and often not one the factory is making. I’m reminded of a story about GM, where the top execs would preview drive all the
802.
by roughly 2y ago
YouTube is also a vast repository of conspiracy bullshit with a recommender algorithm that is happy to start feeding you as much of it as you can autoplay.
803.
by roughly 2y ago
I had a relationship turn that way, too, and had the same reaction - it took way too long to recognize what had happened and to step back and realize what I had to do. I didn’t want to admit it was over, I didn’t want to admit I’d been wron
804.
by roughly 2y ago
There are five different airlines, five different rental car companies, and five major hotel chains*. There are a million different restaurants, most of whom handle reservations with infrastructure consisting of a phone, a piece of paper, a
805.
by roughly 2y ago
I’m aware.
806.
by roughly 2y ago
Well, they’ve passed the “culture” part of the citizenship test, then
807.
by roughly 2y ago
Goodreads is owned by Amazon, and Amazon does not make products - Amazon makes product purchasing pipelines. Welcome to the funnel.
808.
by roughly 2y ago
A friend described software engineering as wizardry, in the D&D 5E sense - you study the arcane systems that underpin the modern world, learn how they worked, and then learn how to manipulate them to affect the world in the way you want
809.
by roughly 2y ago
The author of the article is a published author who writes about poverty and addiction - he links to a good excerpt from his book in the Guardian, which might better establish his bonafides for these kinds of claims: https://www.
810.
by roughly 2y ago
The author suggests the opposite, at least for McDonald's - the employees do care and are attentive to the needs of the people in the restaurant, and that's part of why the community springs up there. I'd expect McDonald&#x27

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