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by saulpw 3mo ago
I'm working on this! https://magworld.pw
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by saulpw 3mo ago
For a good exploration, see "Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons" (1995). https://www.jstor.org/stable/2782506
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by saulpw 3mo ago
A nondescript transcript-based collaborative audio editor.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
Because of scale. Social media companies manipulate literally billions of people, whereas the luxury fashion industry only manipulates millions of people. Sports gambling is another example of the issue at scale. When it was at a racetrac
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by saulpw 3mo ago
Yeah, at least it should be over the same time period!
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by saulpw 4mo ago
This is so awesome! Exactly what I was hoping for when I released the dataset, thank you and nice job. (And if you'd like to do the same analysis on a larger dataset, please reach out!)
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by saulpw 4mo ago
I agree and am open to ideas about what to do about it!
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by saulpw 4mo ago
Why are you talking to the OP like they're a bot?
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Gravity does not work in our favor. It takes energy to go towards the sun.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
You started with logic gates. How much EE did you do, or the actual physics that makes the transistor possible? Those are the previous (deeper) levels that people had to know before they got abstracted away.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
> or you have to control pregnancy and childbirth People are quite naturally controlling their own quantity of offspring, to the dismay of our leaders who insist on perpetual growth. If we limit immigration (not my preferred approach, b
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by saulpw 4mo ago
Well yes, you have to spend the money wisely. How could we construct a system so that we have 2x as many teachers (thereby halving the classroom size)? That would have a lot of good second-order effects beyond test scores.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
This sounded like generated text to me. "The gap" etc
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by saulpw 4mo ago
Okay, and? Just because they'll find some other place to put it with worse terms, doesn't mean you should let them have it in their preferred location with bad terms.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
I'm reading "Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld" by Byung-Chul Han, who has things to say about it. "Things" are naturally possessions to be owned; the non-things that we as a society are moving towards are info
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by saulpw 4mo ago
Those grocery store employees [at a national chain supermarket] were not going to get a nice raise regardless, and petty theft is either already accounted for or covered by insurance. One outcome I can see though, is that if enough is skimm
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by saulpw 4mo ago
That's like a teenage "i am very smart" thinking. I mean sure we can look at some string of random bits and say "that looks random" but you can't just generate any old string of random bits to replace it (whic
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by saulpw 4mo ago
random digits aren't compressible though?
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by saulpw 4mo ago
I agree with everything you're saying, except it's a handful of individuals. The top .000001% are responsible for 90% of the acceleration of the train. You can hardly blame someone for not paying for a tomato.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
Blaming this individual for 'accelerating the descent' is like blaming a hobo for catching a ride on a runaway train going downhill. The ensuing trainwreck is already inevitable, at least you can get part of a ride out of it!
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by saulpw 4mo ago
I played Poople for a few months, same concept but with an actual goal achievable in a few minutes. https://poople.com/
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There are 3 orders of magnitude between nano (^-9) and pico (^-12). An Angstrom is ^-10m.
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Cute name, but alas .tar is not random-access. The .zip format seems to be uniquely simple, ubiquitous, and random-access even for huge files.
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by saulpw 4mo ago
> Also, my main gripe with parquet (single table per file) is not even addressed, so, also the name is a bit hyped up. When I was working with parquet, I imagined a .parquetz file format which was just a zip file containing any number of
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by saulpw 4mo ago
> As a person who's been participating in human-to-human communication your entire life, you probably have a pretty well-developed sense of how to structure the flow of a piece of communication. Not OP, but this is where you're
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by saulpw 4mo ago
This sentiment (not necessarily the content) is what I'm striving to communicate with Mag World[0] (website and podcast so far). [0] magworld.pw
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by saulpw 4mo ago
You're right, of course, it's always a mix. But it's a much different future if there are only 1% of people who are happy/stable/rich, and the other 99% in abject misery, vs 90% with stability and opportunity. Als
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Vibe HN: VocaBowl (how many words do you know?)(vocabowl.netlify.app)
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Python environment management is notoriously reticulate. I can totally imagine that they got stuck on some path bullshit so that the installed packages were on a different Python than the one they launched in the IDE. I've been using
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Renters are not generally able or willing to do basic home maintenance, so

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