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by roughly 5mo ago
No, we're talking economics here - picture a spherical human in a perfect marketplace
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by roughly 5mo ago
Haven't dug in on the technicals, but this is coming out of CERN, it looks like - and in that light, the links to "We're hiring" on that page almost feel like a flex...
183.
by roughly 5mo ago
I'm highly agreeable, and I've had to learn not to be. Knowing when to challenge people - "strategic non-agreeableness" - is extremely valuable. I've also made most of my career off being somewhat neurotic - I'
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by roughly 5mo ago
Unfortunately, “SCOTUS previously declared this unconstitutional” doesn’t have quite the same sense of finality it used to these days.
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by roughly 5mo ago
Two notes on this - one is that smell and taste are the earliest senses we have. The first thing organisms began to sense about their external environments were chemical gradients, and that’s in essence what smell and taste are doing. The s
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by roughly 5mo ago
Because until recently that was part of the sales pitch. The post-WW2 political order was that the US Govt was the security guarantor for the "western world," which meant countries allied with the US traded an almost unparalleled
187.
by roughly 5mo ago
Many years ago there was an attack that went around that used the server’s BMC as an entry point. Thing is, BMCs are universally shit, so as part of the attack, the attackers also fixed a bunch of bugs so their connection could persist. I w
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by roughly 5mo ago
> I think people should have the freedom to do what they want; if you want to have a truck that has horrible exhaust, fine, but we'll have it piped back into your cab for you to breathe instead of the people behind you, and if you w
189.
by roughly 5mo ago
This is well-put, but the problem comes when you’ve got leadership looking at what appears to be a fully-functioning version of the product that the market is clearly indicating to them is sufficient to drive revenue. Budgeting the 6 weeks
190.
by roughly 5mo ago
There are two relatively recent books that dig in on the relationship between humans and governments or states and the degree to which these were less of a linear history and more of an ongoing negotiation - Against the Grain by James C Sco
191.
by roughly 5mo ago
Brother, have I got bad news for you about all the places outside your door.
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by roughly 5mo ago
BYD's direction was largely at the behest of the Chinese government, who were willing to demand things of BYD in exchange for that protectionism, instead of wringing their hands and saying "nothing you can do about the market&quot
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by roughly 5mo ago
And, more to the point, BYD exists because the CCP has been aggressively protectionist of its domestic companies and has been strongly involved in growing, supporting, and protecting its domestic industry to ensure it has one. BYD is not a
194.
by roughly 5mo ago
I’m curious if this was built off the work Moxie did with them back in the day, but as I recall Facebook Messenger had E2EE built off Signal’s technology a decade or so back, and the zeitgeist back then was at least a little bit less user h
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by roughly 5mo ago
I can believe that. Gambler’s Ruin gets costly when you’ve actually got money on the line.
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by roughly 5mo ago
Many of those countries have mechanisms by which one can express their preferences earlier in the process, ones which have been successfully used to pivot major political parties in new and unexpected directions, although those mechanisms a
197.
by roughly 5mo ago
Backup cameras are used in a very narrow set of the circumstances that car mirrors are intended for. They augment mirrors.
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by roughly 5mo ago
No, screens cannot replace mirrors, but we’re doing it anyway.
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by roughly 5mo ago
> Just imagine if the us empire and its institutions, war machine parted ways with the country and its population. I suspect we may not have to imagine this for long. The DOGEing of the federal government pulled a lot of the benefits of
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by roughly 5mo ago
> And also again, if you don't see "something must be done" you're not able to adopt their perspective, so of course you'll never understand this, because you're seemingly refusing to. Fine, you do what you
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by roughly 5mo ago
If there’s no reasonable alternative that satisfies their “something must be done” without creating massive negative consequences for the rest of society, then in fact something must not be done, and the large corporate entity will either h
202.
by roughly 5mo ago
Nor do these drones
203.
by roughly 5mo ago
> I wonder what would be the military usefulness of such a drone If you're talking about the cardboard drone specifically: it's incredibly cheap to manufacture, which means you can easily deploy a gazillion of them. They'r
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by roughly 6mo ago
Do you know the history of why California became a tech mecca?
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by roughly 6mo ago
This one’s been particularly hard to sit out because the executive and managerial class are absolutely mainlining this stuff and pushing it hard on the rest of the organization, and so whether or not I want to keep up, I need to, because my
206.
by roughly 6mo ago
Graphene is not a consumer brand and they do not intend to be a consumer brand. They do one thing: make as secure a phone OS as they can. That’s it. If you’re expecting them to do anything in a friendly way, it ain’t gonna happen, that’s no
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by roughly 6mo ago
> the way our system operates They have the other system.
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by roughly 6mo ago
TBH I think the bigger problem for how we teach kids are twofold: 1. There's a right answer to every problem in school 2. If you got it wrong, that's bad, and you did bad. The pattern I've seen from younger people these days
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by roughly 6mo ago
One place I've seen people get caught here is when they don't actually have the information they need to solve the problem - when they don't understand the problem space well enough, or they don't know the boundaries of
210.
by roughly 6mo ago
Fun fact: Neanderthals actually had larger brains than Homo Sapiens! Modern humans are thought to have outcompeted them by working better together in larger groups, but in terms of actual individual intelligence, Neanderthals may have had u

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