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What is wrong with modern times(theschooloflife.com)
2 points by spyckie2 6y ago|0 comments
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by spyckie2 6y ago
It's a hard article to comment on to contribute. It's a nice informative article that doesn't try to stir up debate or be contentious but rather just has really sensible advice from someone who is obviously more experienced t
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by spyckie2 6y ago
From a random article discussing Zenefits' rise and fall: > This institutionalized cheating finally caught up with the San Francisco-based Zenefits last week, when Parker Conrad, the 35-year-old co-founder and CEO, was forced to res
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by spyckie2 6y ago
I agree that the view layer has not been Rail's strength. It's largely handlebars era inspired and has never really changed. In some ways I think rails never really needed to change because the view layer worked without issues. I
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I remember this era like it was yesterday. Ruby on Rails in 2008 was on 2.1 or 2.2 (before it was merged with merb) and was 70 or 80% of the way there before it was mature. I think rails 3.0 is when the framework matured and stopped changin
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by spyckie2 6y ago
it is the kid's responsibility... until it becomes the robot's.
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by spyckie2 6y ago
A maid can do much more things than this robot can do. This robot is actually quite limited. It's trying to work within the limitations of the robot and figure out what value it can bring that is the interesting part.
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by spyckie2 6y ago
I would hesitate to use this robot for dishes. Maybe sorting laundry but not folding them. And I don't know if it can actually set the table fast enough. You'd be surprised at how much dexterity and precision all these things need
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by spyckie2 6y ago
Yes, this is the point. The market is replacing housework, but with its capabilities it can only replace a specific subset of housework currently. However, if there is just one really valuable thing it can do, then it may be worth it even i
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I think you have to think beyond equivalencies. We pay for 4 hrs/week because we can't afford more. But what if you could have 15 times or 50 times a day kind of cleaning, just not as thorough? That's what I think the value i
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by spyckie2 6y ago
Things it can't do: - go up stairs - get up after a fall / reset itself - pick up heavy objects - precise motion (so no cooking) - interact with buttons or touch screens (so laundry might be hard) The one use case I think it might
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by spyckie2 6y ago
This is pretty cool, pardon my limited understanding, trying to see if I get this correctly: 1) they train a model to do sorting, it actually sorts correctly. 2) they optimize the model on efficiency and it becomes better than many custom s
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by spyckie2 6y ago
sorry if I explained it poorly. Here's an article about it. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/08/310477497/ri...
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by spyckie2 6y ago
There's a theory (known as rice culture theory) that states that rice farming requires cooperation from your neighbors to farm successfully, which solidified a culture of collective values. Wheat, the Western staple, has no such requir
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by spyckie2 6y ago
You don't see behind the scenes, but the sacrifices of quality for speed are very apparent if you eat it all the time.
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by spyckie2 6y ago
I think the title and vocabulary used should be centered more on resource utilization rather than the build metaphor. This is because we have a lot of capability (which is stated multiple times by many authors). We just have a poor system t
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I think its pretty attractive if it reduces risk on the founder but gives the founder freedom to do whatever they want with the company at whatever time frame. After experiencing it myself, I think that the push to grow big is a very big de
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by spyckie2 6y ago
I think it's a bit short sighted to say that the high risk high reward model is superior to this model. While that may be true in a theoretical sense, you have to take into account market conditions and competition. As an analogy, you
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The Ghosts of Asia's Past(medium.com)
1 points by spyckie2 6y ago|0 comments
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by spyckie2 6y ago
I love stuff like this. I've always wanted to find a community that collaborates to determine as much as possible the rough range of the total cost, either in man hours, dollar amount or other metrics, of things we see, know, and inter
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by spyckie2 6y ago
really cool to hear insights from package creators, thanks for sharing
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by spyckie2 6y ago
The founding fathers of the US did not write the US constitution with practical freedom in mind. They wrote it with the principles of freedom as sacred. The battles they fought weren't for being able to buy groceries or walk the street
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by spyckie2 6y ago
The narrative for UBI is strong enough, the details on its policy and implementation isn't. I think there's a couple of major initiatives that people need to take: 1) Give UBI to a small county / city for 1 year and study its
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by spyckie2 6y ago
The author is probably referring to a general trend in Japan where simple, cute, slice of life ambience is becoming very popular in various media like video games and anime.
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by spyckie2 6y ago
> A 2019 study found "a 14% increase in substance-abuse incidents the day after the [Alaska Permanent Fund] payment and a 10% increase over the following four weeks. This is partially offset by a 8% decrease in property crime, with
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by spyckie2 6y ago
> then everyone with the means to do so will leave and the tax base collapses. This answers it. thanks. > I guess in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter if some nonviable communities die while others grow/sta
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by spyckie2 6y ago
Everything you said was reasonable and even corroborated by other posters, don't know why you are downvoted.
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by spyckie2 6y ago
There's an interesting article (i forget the title, would love if someone could link it) where the author makes the claim that the true modern wealth gap is between the super rich and the upper middle class. What the article says is th
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by spyckie2 6y ago
just wondering, what's wrong with letting the infrastructure crumble?
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by spyckie2 6y ago
Seeing all these styles, I can't help but get the feeling that we're heading towards the aesthetic minimalist ideal of mixed text media.

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