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by solomonb 3y ago
I think you are largely correct but I don't think it was always this way. When I first heard about Bitcoin the price had just hit $5 and everyone was either a hardcore libertarian or they thought the idea of a digital currency was very
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I can't speak to the article as its paywalled, but professional artists absolutely need and utilize studio management services. I worked in the art world for years before entering the tech industry and it was common, at the professiona
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I think its totally reasonable to move the goalpost when it turns out the original goalpost didn't actually get you anything more then a 'gee-whiz' demo. If those old goalposts actually helped solve engineering and product ne
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Sounds like a good quality lumber. Do you happen to know the price you paid for it? Last I got a quote was before the pandemic but it was around $6 to $7 per boardfoot which at the time was very comparable to hard maple. I'm out of the
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by solomonb 3y ago
Or any of the countless lower income offenders who end up with years of jail time for crimes of desperation? If were going to make a radical policy change in sentencing then it has to be done for everyone all at once.
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Many young people or those cheering for minimum wage/child labor laws/workplace safety do not seem to understand that this does more net harm than good... /s
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by solomonb 3y ago
How did you like Accoya? I've been thinking about using it for a few projects.
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by solomonb 3y ago
Another interesting option is Accoya lumber. It is acetylated softwood performs as well as traditional hardwoods in exterior applications. It looks nice too.
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ASTs
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The Sovereign Individual gives us another perspective on the so-called 1990s California Ideology. Where Wired Magazine and The WELL find their roots in the 1960s back-to-the-land communard movement and the social application of Cybernetics,
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The Sovereign Individual (1997)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by solomonb 3y ago|1 comments
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I agree 100%. Its the California Ideology through and through. I just wish more high profile leaders today had a bit of historical perspective.
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I thought re-visiting The Long Boom would be interesting given the a16z manifesto. In addition to simply being better written, I find The Long Boom to be far more consistent of a vision and far less self serving.
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The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 (1997)(wired.com)
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The Whole Earth was never really anti-capitalist. Rather Brand and company leveraged the ideas early cybernetics research to build loose networks of engaged individuals with the goal of creating their own centers of power and authority in s
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No problem! Lucky for us they uploaded all the issues of the catalog. : ) If you look on the Wikipedia page there were a few related physical stores over the years: > the Whole Earth Catalog was preceded by the "Whole Earth Truck St
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You can look at the Spring 1970 issue and see the price, the seller's contact info, and the "or WHOLE EARTH CATALOG" statements: https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-catalog-spring-1970?fo...
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Maybe they didn't maintain their own inventory, but it pretty clearly gives you contact info and pricing for ordering all the various products. A ton of items also say "OR Whole Earth Catalog" which I think implies you could
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It was a mail order catalog for back to land communards.
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A Rape in Cyberspace (1993)(juliandibbell.com)
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Thats too bad. We all lose out when everything becomes transactional.
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Oh Meetup. I miss you. I first started using Meetup in the middle to late 2000s in the Bay area. It almost kick started my tech career after meeting a ton of people at a computer music event. I wasn't quite ready yet and made a detour
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by solomonb 3y ago
Why would I get down voted for this comment?
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Not all software but by the curry-howard correspondence you can arrive at programs as proofs.
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Hey you might be interested in this work-in-progress type theory for Poly: https://github.com/toposInstitute/polytt
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I don't know the paper you are talking about but the author of this one (David Spivak) does a ton of research on Polynomial Functors and he has a whole book on them: https://topos.site/poly-book.pdf Poly is an incredib
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by solomonb 3y ago
here you go: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.1166.pdf
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Coyoneda comes up with algebraic effects systems as the "Freer Monad." `Free (Coyoneda f)` gives you `Freer` which allows you to build Monads without even a `Functor` on `f`.
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This is one of my favorite dishes. It only takes a couple ingredients (ground meat, fish sauce, peppers, basil plus optionally palm sugar and maybe some garlic) and only takes a couple minutes on the wok. Really cant be beat!
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Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk (1991)(nytimes.com)
2 points by solomonb 3y ago|0 comments

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