shipman05

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by shipman05 10mo ago
I'd say irrational risk-ranking is a near-universal human weakness. Parents fear kidnappers more than car accidents. The elderly fear whatever the news is telling them to fear more than heart disease or falling.
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by shipman05 10mo ago
I think the info is even more outdated than that. The article is from August 2024 but it cites "a recent survey by Databricks" that from what I can tell isn't linked to, so who knows what data they're referring to. I was
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by shipman05 11mo ago
Yep. Totally agree. It's situational. IMO, a marginally prettier presentation is rarely worth the opportunity cost of what else I could get done with the time, but sometimes it is.
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by shipman05 11mo ago
A text-based tool like this certainly puts a ceiling on presentation quality. Whether that really matters is situational. In most cases, content is more important than style once a certain threshold of "not hideous" is reached. Th
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by shipman05 11mo ago
"If you want restrictions on gambling, on advertising it, on participating in it, on making money from it, you want to restrict individual liberty." I grant that, but I never claimed the contrary. I never suggested that banning ad
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by shipman05 11mo ago
It feels like banning advertising for gambling would be a sweet spot between harm reduction and maintaining individual liberty. Sports gambling ads have ruined sports media. State lottery ads are even worse. The government should not spend
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by shipman05 11mo ago
One reason for this that often goes unmentioned is the shale gas/fracking boom that made the US the world's #1 energy producer. That macro-level development allows the current administration to act as it does. If gas was less plen
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by shipman05 1y ago
There's an episode of Your Favorite Band Sucks that details a lot of how this works, and that's the picture they paint. Unsure how accurate it is, but the guys who do the show have a lot of experience in the music industry. You ca
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by shipman05 1y ago
Yeah. I joined the sit-to-pee club after I started having to clean my own bathroom and toilet. It really is a win-win-win
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by shipman05 2y ago
I understand the sentiment, but there's a reason it's called the autism spectrum. I work with several software engineers with autism who are as capable as their peers. Sure they may have behavioral quirks, but not significantly mo
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by shipman05 3y ago
You say "You should read more about how cows are fed and raised before forming opinions." And you shouldn't assume you know everything about strangers on the internet. I'm no rancher, but I'm quite familiar with cat
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by shipman05 3y ago
I do not presume to know your dietary habits, but I find it interesting that only ~4% of US beef production is "grass fed" yet everyone claims to be only eating beef grazed on semi-arable land using regenerative agriculture. &quot
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by shipman05 3y ago
I drove through some when visiting Aruba (Netherlands overseas province) and loved them. They seemed even safer than typical roundabouts and super intuitive
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by shipman05 3y ago
Electric cars are an optimization of the wrong solution. E-bikes and trains can change the world.
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by shipman05 3y ago
Electric cars are an optimization something we shouldn't be doing in the first place. E-bikes and trains can save the world.
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by shipman05 3y ago
"credible eye witnesses" This is a contradiction. Not that eye witness testimonies are completely without merit, but "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" and eye-witness testimony alone does not meet tha
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by shipman05 3y ago
> How much land, in solar panels for example, is required to power this? It says "The CO₂ can then be safely and permanently stored underground by our storage partners — Carbfix in Iceland." So my assumption was that the collec
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by shipman05 3y ago
The map clearly shows Mayan and Teotihuacanan civilizations in pre-colonial eras. Is the map perfect? Of course not, but I'm confused by your insistence that it's ignoring Mayan and Aztec civilizations when it plainly shows them a
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by shipman05 3y ago
No disagreement, but from what I can tell the map does indeed show Mesoamerican civilizations for which we have written records.
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by shipman05 3y ago
"there was no history in Africa and N and S America" By most definitions of history that is a true statement. Wonderful and rich civilizations may have filled those blanks areas, but if there were no written accounts that survive
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by shipman05 4y ago
Having foreign policy you disagree with does not make America non-democratic. There are many areas in which the American government doesn't seem to represent the will of the people, but military spending and interventionism are broadly
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by shipman05 4y ago
Newark is full of those horrific ipad stations. If they were only used for orders, that would be one thing (still a bad experience), but the fact that every seat at every bar and table has these things flashing bright and distracting ads th
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by shipman05 4y ago
Nice guerrilla marketing, James Cameron.
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by shipman05 4y ago
sus
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by shipman05 4y ago
+1 to the background trick. Faces were pretty convincing, but the generated backgrounds all seemed to have a generic filler appearance.
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by shipman05 4y ago
If you want to build to last, build with stone.
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by shipman05 4y ago
Yes, and that crossed my mind. Japan may be the exception that proves the rule, though. The Meiji Restoration and rapid industrialization of Japan are special cases that, to my knowledge, no other nation in any part of the world was able to
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by shipman05 4y ago
Most history books endorse some version of this theory. It's not some libertarian revision, and it has absolutely nothing to do with communism (which didn't exist in any recognizable form anywhere in the world until the 19th Centu
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by shipman05 4y ago
I've often wondered if digital media is a factor in the way many East Asian countries have closed the gap with Europe when it comes to economic productivity. - Phase 1: Before movable type printing press - no strong advantage for eithe
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by shipman05 4y ago
"I remember feeling derisive about marketing as a young techie — it wasn’t creating the value. Nowadays, I often marvel at how much amazing value is present that people just don’t know about. If only there was a way to bring it to thei

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