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by strken 7mo ago
I think civil servants and military planners in the US were aware of the threat of a global oil shock if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. This is a well-known enough scenario that the Battlefield games have maps on Kharg Island. Everyone k
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by strken 7mo ago
The AITA social consensus is a specific kind of groupthink which differs from nearly everyone I know in real life. I assumed yard2010 meant the specific AITA social consensus and not general human agreement. Even the premise of deciding who
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by strken 7mo ago
The US is a net exporter of crude oil and is positioned to meet an oil crisis better than nearly anyone else. What do you think the US government expected from this?
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by strken 7mo ago
Before AI, there were also stories of people who had no background in software engineering who wrote entire applications using their fingers. This was called "learning to be a software engineer". I don't mean to snipe at AI,
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by strken 7mo ago
Sure, but a VPN makes it hierarchical by rewriting packets.
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by strken 7mo ago
Osmand is great, but it's difficult to use, it doesn't have good place search, and it doesn't plan public transport trips very well. My experience trying to get it to find a route to work just now involved finding my street n
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by strken 7mo ago
Google maps works okay on slow connections if you download the tiles for the city you're in beforehand (not that non-technical unemployed people should be expected to do that). The worst thing is load balancers with a 10 or 20 second t
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by strken 7mo ago
Can you elaborate? The metaphor is a good description of how a VPN works, if not plain old TCP/IP.
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by strken 7mo ago
I mean, there's also 3: once everyone knows something then they're all fighting with the same sword.
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by strken 7mo ago
Yeah, it's absolute nonsense. I'm paying $34/kg for direct-to-consumer beef in Australia, a country with some of the lowest agricultural subsidies in the world, including delivery and at a premium markup, during a time that b
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by strken 7mo ago
This seems like a description of why you, in particular, aren't afraid to look stupid. I appreciate the perspective but believe that it's specific to you, your culture, your friends, your employer, and your life. The social conseq
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by strken 7mo ago
Well, he could have done what Pasteur or Koch did and become a pivotal figure in inventing germ theory. He could also have just lived out his life in obscurity and made things a little better in his hospital, doing what he could and quietly
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by strken 7mo ago
Fair enough, but if you remove the evo psych explanation you're still left with "people don't want to look stupid in front of their peers because it might have consequences". This seems plausible to me regardless.
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by strken 7mo ago
> There might be a good reason why smart people want to avoid looking stupid ... The only plausible explanation is that our egos are fragile I disagree with this, at least in how it regards ego as pointless. Humans are tuned to win a del
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by strken 7mo ago
This is a really interesting example because, to me, it reads as AI- or corpospeak-influenced human. I can't imagine anyone writing the text in the year 2000, but I believe you when you say you wrote it, and the actual information seem
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by strken 7mo ago
I'm less concerned about "justified" and more about "useful". If you behave offensively to everyone around you, then you have become your own worst enemy in the war of ideas. Ignaz Semmelweis was right. He also died
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by strken 7mo ago
Do you have to care about fixing something in order to feel deeply sad about it? Do you even have to agree it's a problem? I am deeply sad that my profession is turning into Claude-whisperer, but there's nothing I can do to stop i
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by strken 7mo ago
The problem we've got is that 10-20% of the population are speculating while another 50% of the population have almost their entire net worth stuffed into their family home. We're finding it difficult to rein in the top without ru
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by strken 7mo ago
Do you firmly disagree with all of it, or just the clothes and gym part? I don't have any objection to suggestions like "help people" or "be [a] good friend" or even "cook" and I think they're a core
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by strken 7mo ago
I don't have any advice for being alone, but I want to remind you that you can open up your phone right now, start messaging people to say "want to come over for dinner at my place next Sunday?", and keep going until you have
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by strken 7mo ago
And yet they're going to be better in a decade, which will require understanding why they aren't perfect today.
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by strken 7mo ago
I don't argue that thinking and attention are missing. I argue that they are trying to do the job of human executive function but aren't as good at it.
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by strken 7mo ago
Human behaviour is goal-directed because humans have executive function. When you turn off executive function by going to sleep, your brain will spit out dreams. Dream logic is famous for being plausible but unhinged. I have the feeling tha
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by strken 7mo ago
82%[0] of Australian utilities' water comes from surface sources, so you'd need to look at only the section of the population who drink exclusively groundwater. [0] https://www.bom.gov.au/water/npr/docs&#
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by strken 7mo ago
I love hiking, but I always encourage people to start with short walks in nice places. You need a solid foundation of nice, normal, fun times before you start thinking about walking 17km a day through a freezing leech-infested mud pit, and
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by strken 7mo ago
This is entirely normal. I think jet skis and French arthouse cinema should be legal, I just don't want either of them anywhere near me.
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by strken 8mo ago
Cottage cheese is quite low in fat for cheese. The one at my local supermarket is 11.3g protein, 2.4g fat, 6.3g carbs, and it's not a diet version. It's still very salty and most of the carbs are in the form of the sugar lactose,
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by strken 8mo ago
I feel like we're due for something really ridiculous next. I've been paying attention to macros, fibre, salt, and having a reasonably varied diet for years; we've done salt, fat, carbs, protein, and now we're doing fibr
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by strken 8mo ago
Does Australia have any landmines? I was under the impression that we had some areas with sea mines which had been swept but still weren't guaranteed safe, and that was it.
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by strken 8mo ago
This seems like it's reading too much into things. I'm sure driving an ambulance slower vs faster doesn't make a difference to survival in most cases, but on the margins it absolutely does. Startups are also quite different f

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