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by t_mann 4y ago
Not defending their Bitcoin decision, but I think an important bit of context that is easy to miss is that small developing countries with not too many relevant exports (besides tourism) or financial sector, especially those close to the US
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> I am just waiting for the people at the public library to tell me I'm not supposed to talk on a "phone" and then I'll tell them I'm not talking on a phone. Must be fun sitting next to you.
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by t_mann 4y ago
> Perhaps you would be better off exercising the self-domination of finding a middleground Frankly, I could imagine that for a lot of people that ship has sailed already. I wouldn't be surprised if the brain chemistry patterns were
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by t_mann 4y ago
We could ask the reverse question: how many industries aren't vilified in some social circles? Heck, even the people who gave us Covid vaccines received death threats.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Looks like an amazing resource, thank you!
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by t_mann 4y ago
Do you seriously want to go down the 'This is not art' path? That battle has been lost so many times for different forms of art that are much harder to 'get' for most people. Also, since you like to emphasize the &#x27
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by t_mann 4y ago
I wouldn't call that a successful roll-back unfortunately, they've been somewhat contained at best, but they're still being produced and more powerful than ever. Those discussions aside, what I meant by social reasons was peo
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by t_mann 4y ago
Can you give examples of when technology was successfully rolled back for social reasons (not because it was found to have dramatic side effects, like asbestos eg) and that didn't coincide with a massive drop in HDI (like the fall of t
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by t_mann 4y ago
This. People thought that photography would make artists obsolete, then Picasso came round (simplifying here, ofc). Who knows what crazy creative things humans will do in the presence of those tools?
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by t_mann 4y ago
Probably not exactly an extension of your current app, but you could try to build sth like a TikTok for extreme sports. I'm sure there are plenty of people with an urge to share their GoPro videos with friends.
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by t_mann 4y ago
> probably most people don't use [WSL] for regular development environment I know quite a few people who do, I actually wouldn't be surprised if their number was higher than pure Windows users for web dev.
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> assume a spherical cow on a frictionless plane It's even worse than that. In physics, we know in principle what's wrong with that model and how to fix it. Macroeconomics would need to ditch its entire modelling paradigm, exce
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by t_mann 4y ago
They also did lock people up, no worries.
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I wasn't actually saying anything about outside academia. Makes me wonder, is there a name for that sort of reasoning where one person asserts 'A is associated with B', and the response tries to turn it into an argument about
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by t_mann 4y ago
> « You will like any subject once you get to know enough about it. » this is a really important observation And unfortunately false, as I've witnessed on multiple occasions. Don't underestimate mental health problems in academ
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by t_mann 4y ago
Not easily, unfortunately, and battery performance has dropped noticeably over the last year. But it still easily goes for a full day with reasonable screen use (reading on the commute,...), so my pain for looking into how to replace it was
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by t_mann 4y ago
My current phone is a major brand flagship from 2016 (bought in 2016), the one that that one replaced was probably older than that at the time. Your question seems to start from a wrong premise, maybe ask yourself why you replace phones eve
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by t_mann 4y ago
> Calling git a blockchain to rebrand bad tech Does he have any examples of people making this claim? Otherwise the post just seems like a lengthy strawman (or what's the name for an argument based on defeating a made-up statement?)
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by t_mann 4y ago
> browsers started prefixing "www." and suffixing ".com" whenever one typed a bare word in the address bar Your browser does that? Mine opens a (hard to change) default search engine.
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by t_mann 4y ago
that they tried and failed is not evidence for transactions being reversible at the technical level, that's an extremely misleading interpretation on your part. we could build interbank payment systems with reversibility built in, bu
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by t_mann 4y ago
Perhaps that's why LinkedIn seems to be doing better: it has some selection of connections built into its premise, plus the information shared there is the minimal set that you usually wouldn't mind too much sharing across most of
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by t_mann 4y ago
There's also a need to be filled to let your friends know which college you're going to, how awesome your last vacation was, what job you got,... LinkedIn seems to be filling the void left by Facebook. I don't know if many pe
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by t_mann 4y ago
Do I get this right? Meta is turning Facebook into a TikTok clone just after rolling back a similar change to Instagram? What on earth is their strategy?
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Minor grammar point: I assume the engineering professor was consulted by Tesla. 'Consulting with' would mean that he asked them for help, which would be somewhat less remarkable.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Yeah, the whole 'life-hack' mindset can be quite toxic. But frankly, my other procrastination habits (mostly browsing comment sites like HN) aren't much better (actually quite bad [0]), so if this one comes with a timer and a
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by t_mann 4y ago
> Especially if you have any thoughts like, "I learn some really interesting stuff, so if only I could retain what I learn..." I'm not sure I follow, is that a risk factor or a positive indication in your opinion? My goal
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by t_mann 4y ago
Cheers. One last question, how well does Anki work for LaTex/equations, code blocks and image/video files?
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by t_mann 4y ago
Yeah, the whole thing is probably easy to overoptimize. Any recommendations wrt to the software? My preference for these sort of things are maximally compatible/portable solutions based on simplistic file formats (I keep a lot of perso
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What you're missing is that the proof only shows that memory diverges as time goes to infinity . According to the laws derived there, a finitely-lived human would have a finite memory throughout their entire lifespan. You could even u

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