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"culture", aka reasonable response to external coercive forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish
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TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runbook
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https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-laptops/
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A lot of allegations, but no evidence. Seems like the article is just there to drive clicks. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also the archive for that article: https://archive.ph/qAklm
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That's a pretty good argument for using and expanding on Tor-like encryption schemes and services. Can't get sued, if they can't identify who the user is exercising their right to free speech to speak truth to power.
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Love it. The writing style reminds me of Shoggy Seldom. http://www.theallguardsmenparty.com/ (Don't blame me if you lose the rest of your day reading that)
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youtubedl still works great. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
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No mention of hbomberguy? That's criminal. He's great if you haven't seen him before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hbomberguy
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> the problem is most acute in countries that are “technophilic, pluralistic, educated, *where women have rights*”. > promoting the idea that our culture faces existential crisis unless we reproduce, the aims of pronatalists overlap w
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I love that when they make this statement, they're linking to Twitter: > Working for big companies might be "safer," the investor shared on X ... Where Twitter, in the news: Elon Musk says he’s cut about 80% of Twitter’s s
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> That strain was further relieved by additional oil and gas production in many parts of the world and partial replacement of fossil fuels by nuclear power > In this changed balance between supply and demand, the cost to utilities of
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Exactly what I was hoping to see. Thanks. =)
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Great response, thank you. > Does the existence of a seat-belt suppress the "natural heightened attention" (whatever this is) of the driver? I love this analogy. It neatly highlights that an individual, no matter how "atte
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> The problem is that people who are in charge of other people's money will risk it for various reasons, often due to a conflict of interests. Thank you for your response. I wanted to amplify this point. This sort of thing is very c
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> “What we’ve missed is that it wasn’t a big event that had a big impact, it was a bunch of small surprise events that just added up. There’s this kind of this reset where we’re saying, ‘OK, we really have to get a handle on this.’” They
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Obligatory: The set of investors is huge, some are bound to get lucky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory And, the more
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> The research on artillery rounds by Bain & Company, which drew on publicly available information ... Nothing about quality, if there's a high failure rate, having such unreliable weapons may do more harm than good for the Russ
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> “It does make you afraid now. I’m talking to my wife about moving out.” > Astrini says Brazilian politicians still do not take the environmental agenda seriously. Fascinating to watch climate change disasters that spur the first rea
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https://archive.ph/wbwC2#selection-1063.0-1069.161 ---- > CAN PRIVATE companies pushing forward the frontier of a revolutionary new technology be expected to operate in the interests of both their shareholders and the wi
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Then also, learning trains the mind to think. Dewey, J. (1910). Natural Resources in the Training of Thought.
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https://archive.ph/mMicW
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There's been massive investment in ventures related to AI. This is no-doubt coloring the picture. Because tech hiring and retention is way down, there have been massive layoffs. Some parts of the economy associated with investment are
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A nice summary of an idea similar to Multi-Agent Systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-agent_system
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> “I’d expect heightened attention to ongoing due diligence around the financial condition of these kinds of middleware vendors, none of which are profitable, and increased focus on business continuity and operational resilience for bank
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> twice as likely to become problem gamblers than the general population Well, if I wanted to have a way to turn military personnel for secrets and power, I'd buy up their debt. Or better yet, make gambling that's tailored to a
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I came to the same conclusion. Some additional context which may be helpful to make the point a bit clearer: > that McKinsey & Company was "the most well-known, most secretive, most high-priced, most prestigious, most consistent
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Some helpful resources: https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/1584/is... https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are-there-any-examples-of-...
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> When thought overwhelms the mind, the mind puts it into the world, notably in diagrams and gestures And in song and words. > Some ancient outpourings of thought ... And oral histories. So, using media to help with cognition. Odd tha
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Similar to how thought is organized, as a collection of items, rather than a singlar that it appears to us to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought#Computationalism And then the "Selector" they talk about
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> a new academic area Research papers and books then. I use Google Scholar for searching, and libgen / scihub for the stuff I can't get access to easily. > I inevitably lose track of papers. A tools I used in graduate school

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