theobreuerweil

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by theobreuerweil 2mo ago
This happens as well, no? If you pay for anything in instalments that is effectively a loan.
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by theobreuerweil 4mo ago
How can you describe something as “objectively” horrible-looking? Your opinion on the way that something looks is precisely that: an opinion. I’d add that neither the Arabic nor Latin alphabets were designed for anything. They both evolved
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by theobreuerweil 4mo ago
I guess the argument would go that your income is significantly higher in the sense that the quantity and complexity of stuff that you can afford now is vastly greater than 100 years ago (e.g. washing machines, cars, clothes, computers). I’
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by theobreuerweil 5mo ago
It would be really interesting to take a model like this and see if you can get it advance the frontiers of science, maths or whatever else in directions that we now understand but that it wouldn't based on the state of the art at the
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by theobreuerweil 7mo ago
I’m sure that he/she would ride a lot more if it cost nothing, but I think the point is valid: even if Uber could 10x or 100x productivity, they could not do the same with income, because there is a limit to how much people actually ne
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by theobreuerweil 8mo ago
I do think about this a lot. On the one hand, you might be right, and it may not matter at all. On the other, we often do that kind of stuff because it makes it harder to slip up by accident and/or makes the code easier to read and und
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by theobreuerweil 11mo ago
Even if the information is technically available, a business can sit there optimising for a specific problem while individuals have to deal with tens or hundreds of separate problems every day. We have to satisfice and finer details like th
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by theobreuerweil 11mo ago
It’s very possible that things were always this way, you’re right. My own perception is that politics has become more divisive and less respectful in my own lifetime, and I happen to think that social media makes this worse, but that’s admi
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by theobreuerweil 11mo ago
There is indeed a difference and I don’t think we’re disagreeing on that.
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by theobreuerweil 11mo ago
This is exactly what I was trying to point out. You've made some reasonable points here, but that doesn't offer any evidence for the hyperbolic statement that Israel is pure and undiluted evil. Israel could be a bad place without
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by theobreuerweil 11mo ago
That might be true but, even if it is, it's a far cry from the statement that the Israeli government is singularly evil.
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by theobreuerweil 11mo ago
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by theobreuerweil 1y ago
Wow skimmed that part - yeah I guess fair enough
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by theobreuerweil 1y ago
I personally think it's unfair to accuse this person of sexism. I didn't even know he was talking about a woman until you pointed it out. It's possible that this comment comes from a place of sexism, and it's possible th
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by theobreuerweil 1y ago
The models may be writing the code but I would be surprised if they were contributing to the underlying science, which feels like the hard part
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by theobreuerweil 1y ago
If that’s a pun, it’s next level
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by theobreuerweil 1y ago
To the extent that a character makes a joke about his relationship getting serious enough that they started sharing an iCloud account
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by theobreuerweil 1y ago
I understood it to mean properties of large-scale systems that are not properties of its components. Like in thermodynamics: zooming in to a molecular level, you can reverse time without anything seeming off. Suddenly you get a trillion mol
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by theobreuerweil 2y ago
I think the comment is referring to “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”.
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by theobreuerweil 2y ago
This seems not to be an opinion that other people hold, but I never saw social media as “free speech” given that some third party can decides which parts of what you say get promoted. If you sent letters to people via a middleman who decide
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by theobreuerweil 2y ago
It’s funny, I always thought it was obviously egg. Assuming evolution, the first recognisable “chicken” must have been the product of a mutation, hence the egg from which it hatched was the origin of the first ever chicken.
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by theobreuerweil 2y ago
You may be right, I’ve no idea. For me it’s the principle more than the specific amount. I can’t understand why a manufacturer is entitled to charge you to use something that you supposedly own. Car manufacturers charging to unlock seat hea
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by theobreuerweil 2y ago
When you pay for goods or services, you should expect to receive something. If you pay extra for leather seats, you’re getting leather seats. If you pay for DLC as part of a game, you’re subsidising the cost of the developer adding more stu
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by theobreuerweil 2y ago
There is a middle ground between woodworking and TikTok, no? People enjoyed talking to each other and had fun before we had technology. It’s easy to see social media as harmless, and maybe it is, but it also has the potential to act as a po
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by theobreuerweil 2y ago
I have a take on this. As technology makes it cheaper to distribute things (I'm thinking all the way from printing press to VHS to streaming) the target audience grows. Each revolution in distribution broadens the pool of consumers. A
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by theobreuerweil 3y ago
Out of interest, why are electric vehicles a waste of time and money in your opinion?
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by theobreuerweil 3y ago
I’m not 100% on this but the way I understood this is by analogy to the 2D surface of the Earth. The surface of the Earth is finite yet has no reachable edge. The universe is the same in 3D. Like if the Earth grew then there would be more l
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by theobreuerweil 3y ago
Got it cheers
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by theobreuerweil 3y ago
It wasn’t mentioned on the landing page (I think) but is this a concatenative programming language?