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by scoofy 8mo ago
I suspect you don't understand how serious the problem is. The problem isn't "we need to add bike lanes." The problem is that the streets have to be repaved anyway and if the city can't afford to simply bring them
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by scoofy 8mo ago
Strong Towns has already done the financial analysis for Los Angeles. It's not looking very good: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025-10-27-ground-zero-l...
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I actually chose "socks for Christmas" as a metaphor because the types of people who like socks for Christmas are grown-ups, and grown-ups tend to actually view municipal finance as important and interesting.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I have been a Strong Towns follower/member for about 6 years. I really don't think people realize the world of pain we're signing up for by not actually fixing the underlying problem of lack of density and walk-ability and th
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by scoofy 8mo ago
>investors The marginal investor does.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I do? It's a trivially comparable thing? I'm not even talking about ALL prescription drugs. I'm talking about the fact that some have interactions that can kill you. Having "life savings gone" consequences from a ra
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by scoofy 8mo ago
Yes, but the already have the power to ban apps if they wanted to. They just don't. That's the point.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
The point is "a warning" is not enough to communicate to people the gravity of what they are doing. It is not enough to write "be careful" on a bag you get from a pharmacy... certain medications require you to both have
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by scoofy 8mo ago
OP here. You make a very good point. Most of the holes definitely don't need a consistent gradient across every point on the hole. However, some will. The goal is to reveal that underlying nature of the hazards, and this includes conto
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by scoofy 8mo ago
>Like take a course, randomly flip some squares to sand/water/grass/etc, compute the new strategicness, and keep it if it's higher. Holy crap, this is a really good idea. I’ve already shown how this is done by adding
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I suspect that in the future, apps will be like these blogs: most people will have them. The app authors will they they are great, most won't be great. Some will be great and hugely popular, many will be great but nobody will know or a
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by scoofy 8mo ago
That was always the plan.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
This is an effective strategy if you're a fit model, or close to one. If you're within the standard deviation of the sizing chart, you'll probably do fine most of the time. I like golf. Most people use a standard shaft. In fa
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by scoofy 8mo ago
People not liking Taleb and then dismissing him because he can be rude has always been one of the strangest things that so many people do. I remember about halfway through Skin in the Game , after being put off by most of what I'd bee
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I'm trying to respond to this stuff in good faith. Yes, I agree with you. I don't see how this is relevant to the argument. If you are in a non-scalable industry that gets taken over by technology, that sucks. My point was being i
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I'm not trying to say 'everything is fine, nothing bad is happening a world of recurring technology and industrial revolutions.' It's not. The way things are set up is bad. My point is the author writes a column about ho
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by scoofy 8mo ago
If we get AGI and fully autonomous robot assistants, we'll live in a post scarcity world like Star Trek, or somebody in control the robots will use them to enslave all of humanity... so... high variance outcome could go either way.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
There are much less expensive ways of playing the lottery than investing a year of you life into an unprofitable product that must be scaled to be successful, and only then hoping gets bought by a direct competitor.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I mean a tailor who adjusts clothes and occasionally makes something bespoke. Tailors typically operate a launderette and act as middlemen to a local dry cleaner. I’m not talking about a fancy man making clothes for rich people, I’m talking
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by scoofy 8mo ago
A huge part of the tailoring business are making small adjustments to cheap clothing to get them 90% of the way to bespoke. If you’ve never done it, I strongly recommend getting your jackets tailored. Even a casual jacket will fit and look
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by scoofy 8mo ago
The point of doing something non-scalable is that you can enter and exit the market fairly easily. You don't need to be a tailor your whole life. You can make a living as a barber, electrician, teacher, or nurse. I'm not sayin
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by scoofy 8mo ago
So, I really felt like more people should be reading Nassim Taleb's Incerto series of books. A lot of the issues that fall out of AI he dealt with in his books like ten years ago. He gives one the best pieces of advice I've ever
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by scoofy 8mo ago
It's a corrupt patronage system out in the open, not actually "state control," it's major companies (oligarchs) willingly being controlled. CBS doesn't "fear the FCC"... who didn't even have a rule. I
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by scoofy 8mo ago
It's mostly bots causing the 502 errors by overwhelming a the server that I don't want to pay much money for. Every few day I'll get 20K bots from Singapore and China banging the site all day. I'll eventually spend time
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by scoofy 8mo ago
Hey, yea, these are an artifact from the fact that I used a modified golden spiral as a way to regularly distribute the shot pattern within the probability density function. But yes, there are quite a few artifacts and shortcomings from the
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by scoofy 8mo ago
So, yes, OP here and you're effectively right on the money. Mark Broadie's strokes gain approach is literally dynamic programming applied to golf. He even discusses a bit of the history of dynamic programming in Every Shot Counts
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by scoofy 8mo ago
This is my project and after publishing it today, and while I'm very flattered that so many folks have read it already. Still, I've found myself pushing back against this 'unweaving the rainbow' narrative. The maps, impo
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Building a model that visualizes strategic golf(golfcoursewiki.substack.com)
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by scoofy 8mo ago
The records already exist. Check your local library. The entire point of this is the scrapers undermine the business model. If anything, we should simply me asking archive.org to limit their access to humans.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
They were supposed to be a nonprofit!!! They lost every shred of credibility when that happened. Given the reasonable comparables, that anyone who continues to use their product after that level of shenanigans is just dumb. Dark patterns ar

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