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by superb-owl 4y ago
While I doubt there's a lot more Twitter could be doing to combat bots, it would be great to see more transparency. I hope the government (either state legislatures, congress, or the FCC) is able to drive some progress there.
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by superb-owl 4y ago
As an employee, I would happily take a 20% pay cut for 20% fewer hours of work. Granted this is coming from a highly paid tech worker. As an employer, I would happily hire 20% more people to do the same number of hours of work. There's
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by superb-owl 4y ago
I think we need to start differentiating between a "4-day, 40-hour workweek" and a "32-hour workweek". I've been calling the former "four tens" - i.e. four 10-hour days. While four-tens is definitely prefe
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by superb-owl 4y ago
There's definitely a trend where large corporations/institutions push risk and liability down onto individuals, who have a hard time quantifying it properly. They make promises about "independence" and "entrepreneur
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by superb-owl 4y ago
After my current gig, I'm going to do everything I can to land a 4-day workweek. https://www.newsweek.com/every-us-company-4-day-workweek-ful...
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by superb-owl 4y ago
The meta-lesson here is that considering certain truths to be "absolute" is harmful. The greatest asset you can have as a programmer is flexibility. Understand the tradeoffs (e.g. tech debt vs over-engineering, thorough testing vs
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by superb-owl 4y ago
> A team at the University of Tokyo created a special device that can deliver 10 diverse odors in a way that is accurate and timely I've always wondered how far off we are from being able to "3D print" tastes and smells. I
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by superb-owl 4y ago
Anecdotally, I absolutely believe the results here. I went from rarely remembering my dreams to recalling 5-6 dreams per night, and regularly lucid dreaming. While I shy away from any distinct interpretive framework (e.g. Freudianism) takin
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by superb-owl 4y ago
This was a common objection to the notion of Lucid Dreaming for a long time. Scientists accused lucid dreamers of making up a post-hoc story about being in control. Finally Stephen LaBerge did a study where he was able to move his eyeballs
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by superb-owl 4y ago
I missed that! Good catch. Michael Pollan points out a few of the factors that make studying psychedelics hard in How to Change Your Mind. For macrodoses, there's the obvious problem that you probably know whether you got placebo (he m
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by superb-owl 4y ago
Very true! I'd be curious to learn why they failed to make the shift to digital. I imagine having to support hundreds of storefronts was a huge distraction.
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by superb-owl 4y ago
This was fun to read. Anyone know where I might find the relevant equations/math?
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by superb-owl 4y ago
Sadly I think broad funding for non-commercial OSS might be an unsolvable problem, or at least a problem that can't be solved by a startup. I'd like to see the government try and step in (a common solution to Tragedy of the Common
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by superb-owl 4y ago
Everyone seems to be focusing on the crazy assertion that the Roman Empire collapsed quickly. But what stood out to me was citing Blockbuster as a complex system. They didn't die because an interconnected web of dependencies started to
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by superb-owl 4y ago
Environment and expectation play such a large role in psychedelic experience that placebo-controlled studies are not well-suited to measuring their effects. For instance, there's a huge experiential difference between hearing "you
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by superb-owl 4y ago
In the article, they mention that two different species of electric fish evolved independently, by two separate genetic pathways. For a long time I believed that if two organisms were phenotypically similar, they must have a nearby common a
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by superb-owl 4y ago
Robert Sapolsky talks a bit about how Electric Fish communicate via electricity in this lecture on Ethology [1]. It feels like we're just beginning to discover the extent to which non-human communication blankets the earth. Sounds, col
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by superb-owl 4y ago
Really slick! But the tutorial is way too hard. Give me some basic quarter notes so I can catch the rhythm
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by superb-owl 4y ago
It seems like every new communication channel follows the same basic pattern (phone, email, SMS, push notifications, ...). It starts with friend-to-friend communication, but quickly commercial entities realize there's an opportunity to