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by swalling 3y ago
“The enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming” https://youtu.be/QhMo4WlBmGM?si=RLmmOCX43l0nOq_q
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by swalling 3y ago
The population-level version of this is the Dutch, who only relatively recently became the tallest people on Earth through natural selection. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2015.021...
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by swalling 3y ago
One interesting fact is that Darwin directly referred to Bakewell in the first chapter of On the Origin of Species: “a kind of Selection, which may be called Unconscious, and which results from every one trying to possess and breed from the
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by swalling 3y ago
The board governs a mission-driven nonprofit, not a profit-focused enterprise where Microsoft has board-level influence as investor. This tension (operating as if it is a startup when it is not) is why Altman was fired.
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by swalling 3y ago
You can't escape it, but if you pay for an enterprise plan you typically have huge amounts of advance notice (monthly or quarterly roadmap updates, plus an account team at your service and the ability to demand face time / feedbac
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by swalling 3y ago
"One of the two "slacks" I'm a member of recently got a UI update - and the other didn't." This is because major changes at basically all business software companies are rolled out on a team-by-team basis, rath
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by swalling 3y ago
"While Pathfinder 1 can carry about four tons of cargo in addition to its crew, water ballast and fuel, future humanitarian airships will need much larger capacities." For context, a C130 can airdrop 21 tons of cargo. So if the us
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by swalling 3y ago
Deregulation to allow building more of all housing types is the only answer. Funding more public housing will just add a trickle of liquidity to a market that has been in drought for decades. Take San Francisco. A huge proportion of the hou
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by swalling 3y ago
Your entire framework is capitalist voodoo. The US education system can stand to spend way more money compared to other budget areas like defense that are massively overfunded. Teachers are paupers for absolutely no good reason. Furthermore
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Education is not a market, efficiency is not the primary goal. Quality and equity of outcomes for students is the goal. The system today is optimizing for standardization federally in order to try and fight the natural entropy toward a high
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by swalling 3y ago
Not only is it a hot button issue, but the US still has a large number of creationist "museums" you can tour with your kids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationist_museum
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I deeply crave the ability to create finished software like the author talks about, but he skips over a major cause of never-ending updates: business model. The web and mobile both enable a cycle of extreme optimization where ad-based or su
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Some engineers and designers simply cannot stomach the idea that they aren’t actually geniuses. This guy comparing great visionary engineers to Picasso immediately sounds like one of those people that pretty much anyone (in any role) hates
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Yes. My root comment is not giving medical advice, but stating the unspoken truth in the original article that people are reaching for psychedelic therapy because existing standard medications do not work for everyone. Real medical advice s
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by swalling 3y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. I think in my part my negative reaction is, like many people, having observed the effects of SSRIs on young people. It's well known that risks like suicidal ideation are actually higher among those u
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by swalling 3y ago
What's missing from this article is that people are reaching for this because the standard medical treatment for these disorders, SSRIs, are pretty terrible. In the mild case, the common side effects are blunting of your emotions and s
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by swalling 3y ago
It really sucks, but the reason why review happened is because there is an onslaught of people who show up to write promotional articles, many of them paid by PR agencies and reputation management firms. The previous system of doing post-pu
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by swalling 3y ago
If it is moral fashion to acknowledge and measure the obvious racial and economic discrimination in America then that’s a fashion which is morally good.
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All too frequently laws in the US are completely out of step with the culture. For instance despite broad support for many reforms (abortion rights, term limits in Congress, marijuana legalization) nothing happens just because the culture
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One important thing that the NPR story completely glosses over is the component of race and class that permeates this issue. It’s not an accident that the prototypical mom of the “free range kid” movement is white and lives in a relatively
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by swalling 3y ago
Loom does not have a moat, which is why they were purchased by a platform that does have one. It’s a very well-done feature, but there are increasingly other platforms (Slack, Dropbox) that offer features 80% as good for free.
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by swalling 3y ago
This is a key assumption of the classic book (and box office bomb movie adaption) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Princess_of_Mars
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by swalling 3y ago
Many of the plants mentioned in this story are no longer rare or expensive, depending on how easy they are to propagate. For example, the article mentions a “Pink Princess” Philodendron. These are not difficult to grow, but the pink varieg
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by swalling 3y ago
Given that the $100 Timberlands only last a year or two, the Red Wings already have lasted 5X longer.
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by swalling 3y ago
There are several brands of boots like this. I have a pair of Red Wing boots that I purchased new in 2013 (I don’t remember the price but today they are $350). Unlike most other modern sneakers or boots, they are made so that the soles be r
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by swalling 3y ago
Seems obvious that the reason bagged liquids are less common is because it's awkward as hell to hold and carry, especially at larger sizes? Even with some kind of handle, a soft, floppy bag is less ergonomic to carry than a hard-sided
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by swalling 3y ago
This is a solved problem. When using an icon that isn't universally understood on a given computing platform (desktop, web, or mobile OS) you have to use a text label. When it doubt, don't use an icon alone. https://www
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by swalling 3y ago
The models not only were trained on copyrighted works, but when prompted will substantially and repeatedly reproduce copies of creative work (not just facts). That's infringement. https://www.theverge.com/2023/7&#x
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by swalling 3y ago
Fair use only covers very limited circumstances which probably does not include selling a subscription (ChatGPT+). If you’re selling a repackaged reproduction of someone else’s copyrighted works, that’s never protected by fair use.
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by swalling 3y ago
Yes, big government is bad! Unless it’s federal deposit insurance and bank bailouts. Or the space program. Or the interstate highway system. Or a universal social safety net. Or food and drug standards preventing adulterated foods and fake

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