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811.
by roughly 2y ago
I often find there’s a connection between a thing being aesthetically beautiful and good functioning as well. It’s not a universal signal - cheap knock-off manufacturing makes it hard to tell from pictures - but often I find a genuinely bea
812.
by roughly 2y ago
Regarding the Silicon Valley Mindset, Douglass Rushkoff wrote a quite good book on the topic: https://bookshop.org/p/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-...
813.
by roughly 2y ago
That’s a fantastic video - to see both of them see it in real time is incredible. The visible emotion from both is really something.
814.
by roughly 2y ago
All intents and purposes not requiring the brain, then. Which one is chess? The only people who consider 18 year olds fully grown adults are 18 year olds.
815.
by roughly 2y ago
God, I hate this crap. Every damn thing on the internet now is some variety of AI slop. Every image is some generative garbage, half the text is the kind of stilted half-accurate wordy gpt garbage, and now I get to dodge a gazillion generat
816.
by roughly 2y ago
Oh absolutely - I don’t excuse people the consequences of their actions because they were dumb, but this very much reads like Pras was the one guy without a good lawyer in the room.
817.
by roughly 2y ago
It always amuses me when people respond with some completely unrelated personal hobby horse like this. There’s nothing at all in my comment in any way related to driving or congestion fees, not even if you squint a whole lot, and no way in
818.
by roughly 2y ago
Do you have a source for the 50/50 chirality?
819.
by roughly 2y ago
Roughly, life is carbon based because carbon has interesting properties for biochemistry and is the cheapest way to make a range of complex molecules. If life somewhere were not to be carbon based, there’d need to be some reason why carbon
820.
by roughly 2y ago
It’s noted a little obliquely in the article that he got paid an ungodly amount of money for his help - at one point, it’s mentioned he got paid $20m to set up a photo op with Obama; elsewhere they suggest $100m total received for his help.
821.
by roughly 2y ago
This is largely because we’ve built a philosophy that eschews any concept of a collective or a people or a culture or a future.
822.
by roughly 2y ago
Christ, yeah - I came here to post the same quote. What kind of horrific shit does one need to go through in life to become capable of uttering that kind of horseshit with a straight face?
823.
by roughly 2y ago
There was an article in the Atlantic a bit ago arguing that a primary problem for the modern church - the reason why people were leaving - wasn’t because the church asked too much of them, but because it asked too little - that there was no
824.
by roughly 2y ago
Agree, but the post I was responding to was suggesting it be used as an agricultural feedstock to feed things the astronauts eat - that’s where my order-of-magnitude calculation came from.
825.
by roughly 2y ago
“They’re Made out of Meat” https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
826.
by roughly 2y ago
The article says the cost of feeding one astronaut for one year is around 5,000-160,000 tons of ore per year. My understanding is the rule of thumb is about an order of magnitude nutritional drop off each step - that is, to produce 100cal o
827.
by roughly 2y ago
Given how much of the rest of the chemical processes of life seem to proceed fairly straightforwardly from the rules of chemical structure and energy requirements for various reactions, I’d almost expect the opposite - that there’s some str
828.
by roughly 2y ago
> Can you expand more on why these AI cases make the complexity tradeoff different? They’re very slow. Like, several seconds to get a response slow. If you’re serving a very large number of very fast requests, you can argue that the simp
829.
by roughly 2y ago
Jay Z had a section in decoded where he talked about how his needs as a young man getting into drug dealing quickly and seamlessly switched from food to new clothes to a Lexus - how what started as something he needed to do because they nee
830.
by roughly 2y ago
> Rupert Sheldrake speaks of this when he says that the genetic code's protein construction genes do not and can not account for the resulting organism's shape. That coordinated construction requires a separate guiding force. O
831.
by roughly 2y ago
The core of the concern about climate change is what it’s going to do to human society. Nobody gives a shit what the climate looked like a million years ago - complex human society reliant on large scale agriculture didn’t exist a million y
832.
by roughly 2y ago
Not that one could tell by their vehicle choice, of course.
833.
by roughly 2y ago
Or, like medicine and a whole variety of other fields, “male” is assumed default and anyone who isn’t the default has worse outcomes. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/business/car-safety-women...
834.
by roughly 2y ago
Nobody needs to take notes, we’ve known what this is for a hundred years. We spent most of the last century trying to get rid of autocracy in various places, there’s entire libraries worth of books detailing this playbook at this point.
835.
by roughly 2y ago
> Once it was set by default, it ceased to be an indicator of user intent. This presumes that it isn’t the default user position. There are three people on the planet who actually want ad tracking, and they’re welcome to go change the se
836.
by roughly 2y ago
Open office floor plans are sufficient evidence that "data driven" is bullshit when it comes to management, corporate aesthetics, and cost saving. Obviously there's no data to back RTO.
837.
by roughly 2y ago
20 years ago I worked Apple retail and this was well known then.
838.
by roughly 2y ago
A problem for large organizations is that all the numbers look big in isolation. $100M seems like a lot of money, but 2% of $5Bn doesn't quite have the same sound, and the 5% efficiency drop because your workers are now having to go fi
839.
by roughly 2y ago
There’s a real art to pulling people into conversation about their views without being cast as a caricature. People often frame their beliefs in opposition, and learning to recognize when you’ve suddenly been substituted with a straw man -
840.
by roughly 2y ago
This is known among wine growers as well - you need to stress the plant to get interesting grapes, otherwise you just get sugar water.

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