routerl

11 ms·

61.
by routerl 3y ago
We're downvoting you because you're confidently (and obviously) incorrect.
62.
by routerl 3y ago
+1 Love his "What [course of action] did for [country]" videos. E.g. What eating the rich did for Japan. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5_-Ac68FKG4
63.
by routerl 3y ago
I'm envisioning 2048, but themed around voting drives, with cookie-clicker-like graphics progression, culminating in a "you won all 50 states!" celebration.
64.
by routerl 3y ago
> with late 19-th and 20th century eyes Oh, so centuries later? Right, just as I said. > those continental philosophy (as opposed to analytic philosophy). W. V. O. Quine, one of the most influential analytic philosophers (and mathemat
65.
by routerl 3y ago
> I wonder how his vector math was? He was born around the same time as the invention of analytical geometry (i.e. the idea that it is possible to do geometry using algebra), and "vector math" (or linear algebra) came several d
66.
by routerl 3y ago
> Kant was mostly convincing for himself (to whom he was a great fan of) and Kantians This is shown to be false by the historical record. Kant was, unquestionably, the most influential thinker of his day. Centuries later, Einstein himsel
67.
by routerl 3y ago
I don't have any real suggestions, but the two important Euclidean books were the Elements and the Data ; the latter is about what exists, and the former is about the relations between what exists. You're right that Plato was t
68.
by routerl 3y ago
> Do I understand your comment correctly in that thoughts should be either rational or not? You didn't understand correctly. "Rationalist", in the OP, is a historical label which can retrospectively be applied to a specif
69.
by routerl 3y ago
> the project dreamed up by Leibnitz (and more distantly by Plato) More distant than that. It all comes from Euclid. Who, you know, was actually tremendously successful in that project.
70.
by routerl 3y ago
Priority is a ceiling which can shift; see the history of public transit in LA, before car companies destroyed it. Dignity is a floor; it is very difficult to lower a floor.
71.
by routerl 3y ago
Yeah, good work. I wonder if we can train an LLM to translate corp-speak into real English. I think it might be akin to the difficulty of translating Darmok's language.
72.
by routerl 3y ago
They're the same characters in Chinese, and pronounced differently, so I doubt your hypothesis in this case.
73.
by routerl 3y ago
イギリス is also written 英吉利, which implies that it came from the Mandarin, not Portuguese.
74.
by routerl 3y ago
No kidding. Name one big technology firm that is user-oriented, I dare you. And no, using industrial UX techniques to "guide user behavior" does not count as being "user oriented". SV doesn't build software for pe
75.
by routerl 3y ago
A case opening the door to, e.g. a candidate takes out a bank loan at x%, then offers a loan to his own campaign at 2x%. The candidate is then legally allowed to solicit campaign donations after the election is already over , to cover the
76.
by routerl 3y ago
+1 for the Nothing phone. It does remind me a lot of the OnePlus One, back in the day.
77.
by routerl 3y ago
You assume that "branding yourself as an expert" is the same as "becoming an expert".
78.
by routerl 3y ago
I think you're right. There are proven ways to do this without the fatal result, and this company ignored many of the industry best practices. I look forward to seeing this play out in court, because it has the potential to create a re
79.
by routerl 3y ago
Yesterday, people involved with the Darwin awards were saying "let's wait 24 hours". For the pilot and co-founder, yes, he deserves the award. For the passengers, I predict lawsuits. But apparently the contract included a cla
80.
by routerl 3y ago
The sub wasn't steel, it was a carbon fibre weave. The tiniest crack would have caused catastrophic shattering of the hull. For every ten meters of descent, pressure increases by 1 atmosphere. At 4000 meters, that's 400 atm, or ~4
81.
by routerl 3y ago
Even within Usenet, this was readily acknowledged [0]. The forums and social media that followed were, in part, trying to solve exactly these problems. I genuinely think that the current inheritors of Usenet are private group chats; trust b
82.
by routerl 3y ago
> Really shitty of Nintendo to sunset the console and then close the door behind them on the way out. The age of abandonware[0] is over. The promise of future earnings from streaming/downloads means all major content producers will
83.
by routerl 3y ago
> I'm not sure any fab in India can manufacture that kind of thing. That matches the impressions of TSMC and Apple. The reason I recall is the unreliability of the infrastructure.
84.
by routerl 3y ago
On a recent thread about a shortage of electricians, several commenters talked about taking on electrical work themselves, in a way that passed every inspection, by working on the scale of months instead of, as the pros do, days. This track
85.
by routerl 3y ago
> But I am concerned about the direction Android is headed I'm with you, but we'll always have AOSP. And the cellphone market is now segmented enough that we'll probably also always have rootable phones.
86.
by routerl 3y ago
No, it's way, way older. As in "Hapsburg portraits" and "Ming Dynasty scrolls" old. And let's not forget the last time a technology came around that could "fool history"; how many people still belie
87.
by routerl 3y ago
> ...you're going to come back with a much different understanding of Chinese culture and its people And of American culture and its people. You might re-evaluate some ideas you'd grown up with, becoming a more cosmopolitan&#x2
88.
by routerl 3y ago
I think that's more similar to Burger King offering promotional branded cups.
89.
by routerl 3y ago
> One major draw of Lego is their licensing of expensive creative IP. This is the real genius beyond the manufacturing (which other comments are correctly praising). Lego was/is the only brand that gets to make, e.g. both Mikey Mo
90.
by routerl 3y ago
Yeah, you got it. This is the real answer. The glut of PhD's is at such a level that the last teaching jobs available to industry professionals have all gone to boomers who will stay at those jobs until they die.

More ›