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by snarf21 2y ago
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The first 90% of this box is awesome (I think the last part is a little too hand wavy). However, it helps you understand so much of how people think, including you. I think it also explains much
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by snarf21 2y ago
You are exactly right, money isn't (essentially) free right now. There are better returns elsewhere.
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Serious question (I'm not a biologist): How did the nitrogen, etc. get released when the plant material (that became oil) first died and got buried? Is this fundamentally different?
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by snarf21 2y ago
On paper, you can test out the balance and math of all the "action" more deliberately. So taking a "fast twitch" game and pretending it is turn based for testing. Of course, you can math out the win/lose percentages
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by snarf21 2y ago
I agree with this other advice. Do "tabletop" first. It doesn't have to be fancy, even just notecards or paper. You can iterate very quickly on the core game loop and "finding the fun". If you do want something fa
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by snarf21 2y ago
I despise SP too. I have come to the conclusion that all estimates should only ever given in terms of magnitude. "Some small number of hours/days/weeks/months/quarters/years". If product or leadership want
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by snarf21 2y ago
A friend of mine has designed an award winning board games about this Victorian practice. Check it out here: https://ludoliminal.com/diatoms
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Because healthcare (and banking and ....) are horribly behind on tech. We have life saving devices in hospitals still running Windows 95 as an OS. Also, the main problem in healthcare is misaligned incentives. As said elsewhere in this thre
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by snarf21 2y ago
Fair enough, but we also know that an index fund beats "professional investment managers" over any reasonable time horizon. Warren Buffet bet a million dollars that this is true and won. The big problems with a pension is the rent
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I assume not but that could become tied the ability to import and the western countries could try to drive that. Again, not an easy thing to even get your head around let alone implement.
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by snarf21 2y ago
Given that ~80% of the GPGP is from commercial fishing, I don't know how we ever stop them or catch them. A factory can be checked at its outflows. We'd have to monitor and catalog everything on every fishing ship and that just do
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by snarf21 2y ago
It is also extremely powerful for mental health. Having something to look forward and that anticipation has enumerable benefits. Also, every hobby has people who LOVE to help newbies and will talk infinitely about all the minutiae of all
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by snarf21 2y ago
I think you are missing the point that this is the way you get equal numbers of men and women applying. Mechanical engineering is currently 90/10 in the US. It takes extraordinary measures to create change and change is a pendulum. Y
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by snarf21 2y ago
This was a consequence of WW II labor shortages and the government froze wages. So companies used benefits like health care instead. It should have been outlawed after the war. It is very anti-worker and many people won't change jobs f
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by snarf21 2y ago
I see that this is a US versus Europe issue. It is also a problem with "normal". People grow up eating overly sugary foods and that becomes normal to them. A lot of the US "whole grain" breads have more sugar than the wh
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by snarf21 2y ago
Some of this is the byproduct of the world's industrial food complex. Foods are being processed and manipulated for maximum addiction. And most of the most addictive foods are the cheapest. Healthy and fresh unprocessed foods are more
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by snarf21 2y ago
I think the issue is that we don't really want or need UBI. We need to take a step back and think of the goal. Is that to help people that need it most? We can start with something to try to achieve that. Then continue to roll that for
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by snarf21 2y ago
Or.... "The amount of abuse within the [phone manufacturing, shoe manufacturing, textile manufacturing, palm oil harvesting, lithium mining, etc.] industry is immense. Anyone with any decent of ethics would refrain from consuming these
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by snarf21 2y ago
Taking a break can be very helpful. I design board games and that is what I do. Go do some other hard thing for a week and see how you feel. For me, if one project stalls or doesn't excite me, I switch to one that does. Design and deve
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I also think that if you look at the regulatory environment in the last 20 years and the lack of monopoly oversight from the SEC and FTC, you can just ride the regulatory capture. I can't see anything beating S&P500 + N100 over any
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by snarf21 2y ago
I mostly agree with you. I think there is one thing you are hand waving a bit though. When you bought version X, you could use that forever if that was sufficient and your cost basis and value proposition to upgrade was known and you could
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by snarf21 2y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
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It will be called Formica but I have a lot of work yet to do on it. It is set to be quite heavy and complicated, 2+ hour playing time. If you are interested, you can follow all my board game design stuff via @RoscoSchock on Twitter.
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by snarf21 2y ago
I forgot to mention that woods ants also create their own medicine. Wood ants will combine resin from evergreen trees with formic acid (from themselves) to create a substance that is anti-microbial and the rub it all over themselves. [Sourc
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They don't just protect them as a food source. Some wood ants will literally farm them. If a they expand or a tree isn't producing enough sap, they will move aphids to new trees putting them on a new sap source so that they can &q
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by snarf21 2y ago
Well said. It is much of the "the harder you work, the luckier you get". But with most things, blind execution won't work. Reflection and introspection are needed to shape your ever evolving journey. Do whatever works for you
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ELT are geniuses and deserve their $400K bonus package. Regular workers are replaceable cogs that can be found anywhere and have no skills. It is a perspective issue.
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100% agree. I don't want to converse with Alexa. I think the miss was not thinking about it as a media delivery platform with some utility. I use Alexa in the Kitchen and Bathroom when I'm doing other things. Hands free timers w
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I agree and healthcare (US) is a major factor. However, companies push the envelop too far. The cost of filling replacements, lost domain knowledge, decreased velocity during ramp up, etc. are far more costly that leadership admits. The mai
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by snarf21 2y ago
I don't think domain knowledge is issue. The issue is that SAAS apps or Twitter or w/e scale infinitely in an extremely short time. What is the time horizon for drilling geothermal all over the world? There are environmental facto

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