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by teucris 6y ago
I appreciate this. I’ve had arguments about how automation is replacing jobs - most people I discuss this with are thinking automation needs to be something out of the Jetsons, but the reality is that technology replaces jobs in a more mund
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by teucris 6y ago
Outsourcing house matters has been a slow, bumpy journey for our family. It all started with cleaners - hiring someone to clean the house every two weeks was well worth the seemingly significant cost. I’d say outsourcing house cleaning took
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How Circular Is the Circular Economy?(lowtechmagazine.com)
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by teucris 6y ago
I agree with your post but it’s worth noting it does not apply to dolphins. Dolphins are not pacifists[0]. [0] http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160204-cute-and-cuddly-dolp...
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by teucris 6y ago
This mirrors my experience. My theory is that YouTube falsely equivocates a video’s relevance to you with your desire to receive notifications about it - e.g. whether you clicked the little ‘bell’ when subscribing. This isn’t what we expect
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Protocol Verification Finds Holes in Contactless Payments(arxiv.org)
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My favorite insight: > “[...] tenancy conditions tended to be more favorable in rice-farming areas than in wheat-farming ones, with a lower portion of the total harvest going to the landlord. Thus the irony that precisely because labor w
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Mask Fitter Improves Effectiveness and Keeps Your Glasses from Fogging(making.engr.wisc.edu)
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Missing: Working Class Founders(sifted.eu)
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by teucris 6y ago
Thanks. The comment I replied to seemed to be lamenting issues with an open market insurance system, which to my knowledge, Medicare for All is not. Am I missing something?
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I haven’t done a ton of research - do you know of any big healthcare bills have been proposed that resolve these issues?
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by teucris 6y ago
Focusing on the rare cruel cases has meant we aren’t funding preventive measures which could prevent the vast majority of other crime.
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by teucris 6y ago
Or, people are intentionally misinterpreting so they can dismiss the message outright and not have to deal with it.
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by teucris 6y ago
Such a great breakdown - thanks for this. Will you up an essay or blog post about this so I can link to it and share it? All the articles I’ve read don’t really get down to brass tacks like this.
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I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment, but of all the dreams to pin your critique on, I’d recommend not using travel or public service. While there is definitely consumerist travel of the Instagram variety and plenty of misguided philan
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by teucris 6y ago
To venture into the more poetic/artistic realm, I really recommend Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. It’s quite short, but so layered that I actually have a hard time describing it. Framed as a conversation between Marco Polo and Kubl
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Antifragile Love(lovelifepractice.com)
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by teucris 7y ago
He states in the article that the themes he wanted to explore in this novel aren’t worth exploring now that COVID-19 is making us deal with them right now. I wouldn’t say this is a “all zombie literature is over” post as much as a “my zombi
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by teucris 7y ago
Great article but the title is a little misleading. I was expecting analysis of the fact-checking culture in the modern day, the “fall” part in particular. The article ends up mostly being a history of facts in journalism.
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Situated Software (2004)(web.archive.org)
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Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb(electronupdate.blogspot.com)
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by teucris 7y ago
> Its a classical example of government waste and corruption. I agree on the corruption part, but elected governments had very little to do with this. To me that’s a double edged sword - the caucus process could be an independent express
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by teucris 7y ago
Sure, but it seems to me that most can afford roughly one iteration at most. I would argue that being able to roll fair dice multiple times is still better than having weighted dice that you only get to roll once.
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by teucris 7y ago
Interesting! I have seen that supervillain, but I had always interpreted the amorality as the flaw, not the justification they use.
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by teucris 7y ago
> Re: systems optimization....I've found it often DOES help guys, mostly engineers, to think about their dating attempts as an equation. That’s great! I think there’s just concern that people tend to easily forget that a model is an
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by teucris 7y ago
> I think people who say this kind of thing have a fundamental misunderstanding of how a certain type of people think. I honestly can’t deduce from your comment what the misunderstanding is. Is it that certain people see optimizing syste
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by teucris 7y ago
In your hypothetical, what if the 5% tax was presented (with significant evidence) as a way to correct for market distortions that, if left unchecked, would be exploited by those at the top, politically and financially? Would you still want
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by teucris 7y ago
Operator error
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by teucris 7y ago
Again, this feels like a strawman argument. Nobody is advocating that we outlaw cars altogether! Urban reform advocates are (correctly) pointing out that car-centric cities promote a self-fulfilling prophesy. In my book, changing that is re
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by teucris 7y ago
HN is definitely not a representative sample of the world population. But HN is definitely not all single, young people trying to start their own businesses.

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