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by tomp 3y ago
> ’s so much easier to be sitting next to someone, pointing at their monitor, and discussing what and why you are doing something. Instead, you need to hop on a call and awkwardly screen share on a call or write out paragraphs of text to
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by tomp 3y ago
The problem is even deeper than lack of trust/privacy. It's that Meta's business model optimises for the wrong thing. M$ optimises for pleasing employers. Meta & Google optimise for pleasing advertisers. Amazon optimises
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by tomp 3y ago
Probably because it’s not just the screen/goggles, but the whole ecosystem, i.e. the OS (input, touch, scrolling, mouse, widgets, …) Imagine building this on Windows. It won’t suck less, it’s just suck in 3D.
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by tomp 3y ago
No, many people had concrete suggestions (no lockdowns, open schools) substantiated with concrete arguments & facts (e.g. children are least vulnerable, the virus isn't that severe except in elderly) and pointed out concrete failur
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by tomp 3y ago
Do you have a real argument (i.e. attacking the author's claims ?) or just ad hominem ?
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by tomp 3y ago
This is a bit of a stretch. Congress is divided over divisive issues, and unified over other issues. E.g. the first COVID legislation was passed in like 2 weeks. Hardly a sign of "dysfunctional legislators".
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by tomp 3y ago
Why would averages matter when talking about extreme outliers?
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by tomp 3y ago
It’s actually pretty easy to argue for “equality of opportunity” (i.e. reducing or even making up for an unequal start of life) from a meritocracy viewpoint.
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by tomp 3y ago
What’s the practical difference though? Someone still decides the book is not gonna be there, mostly for ideological reasons. I guess if you agree with those reasons, it’s “curation”, if you don’t, it’s “banning”.
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by tomp 3y ago
That is not how the real world works. If a car kills someone (e.g. it explodes, or burns down, or brakes fail) but the manufacturer took all legally required precautions & followed all the rules & regulations, then they're not
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by tomp 3y ago
Well some people in the UK, and myself, disagree. The purpose of a “brand” is to reduce confusion. So that customers know what they’re buying. So I don’t want to buy “an artificially manufactured food in the category of milk”, I want to buy
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by tomp 3y ago
I don't see how this is controversial. Imagine Pepsi selling a drink called "not Coca Cola" or Google advertising "not ChatGPT" or "not Outlook". Literally the only purpose is customer confusion and piggy-
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by tomp 3y ago
If it's so clean and pure, why not just reuse it?
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by tomp 3y ago
I’m not worried of dying of Alzheimers. My grandma had dementia, she was “gone” way before she actually “died”.
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by tomp 3y ago
As an employee, I face exactly the same risks - psycho boss, unproductive team members, stupid leadership, fraudulent CFO, company about to die, market crash... a lot of these are impossible to know before starting the job. The difference i
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by tomp 3y ago
I'm not a ML expert but I know a bit about math. It's "differentiable" in the same way that e.g. the "jump function" ( Heaviside step function ) is differentiable (not as a function from real numbers to real
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by tomp 3y ago
Do you know of a bullet-proof sourdough Ciabatta recipe? All that I've made either didn't rise, or were too weak so they spread out a lot before rising...
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by tomp 3y ago
Really? I'd love to get less sour flavour, but proofing overnight (in the fridge) looks like it's really hard to avoid it...
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by tomp 3y ago
Ah, the Bread Code guy! Engineer + chef, definitely my type of person. I was recently following some of his YT videos, the invaluable tip that I got from him (and I haven't seen elsewhere) is to take a sample of the dough and obser
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by tomp 3y ago
> openly anti-communist organization You say that like it's a bad thing. Most organisations worldwide, are openly anti-communist, except those that explicitly support dictatorship and human rights abuse. I guess that's a good t
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by tomp 3y ago
It's not about belief , it's about facts . https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better
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by tomp 3y ago
"Geeks will figure out cars before car people figure out computers." Heard this quote a very long time ago, it took a while before I fully believed it, but it just keeps coming more and more true.
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by tomp 3y ago
Methane breaks down into CO2, which is a part of the Carbon Cycle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle CH4 -> CO2 -> grass -> cow -> CH4 |
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by tomp 3y ago
Transportation emissions are caused by fossil fuels. As for agriculture, check the rest of the page. Besides CO2, there's also methane and NO2 emissions, both of which are part of a cycle, so they have no long-term impact. The entirety
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by tomp 3y ago
I disagree. Most of climate change is caused by fossil fuels. The rest are caused e.g. by factory farming (plant & animal - e.g. pesticide rundown), plastic pollution, etc. If we had boundless nuclear energy, not only would fossil fuels
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by tomp 3y ago
General non-discriminatory carbon tax. Investing heavily in nuclear. Just 2 obvious ideas that noone is even trying.
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by tomp 3y ago
Not really. As far as I understand, the booster is only for launching from Earth. From elsewhere (moon, Mars) Starship can launch alone. Then maybe it would also require that much less thrust?
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by tomp 3y ago
Electricity is also a centralized protocol, prone to catastrophic failures.
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by tomp 3y ago
Are you a doctor? This one doctor (whom I probably trust the most of online doctors) disagrees. https://peterattiamd.com/putting-out-the-fire-on-the-gas-sto... > For example, the analysis included multiple studies that
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by tomp 3y ago
This sounds like an interesting intro, but tell us more! What exactly do you offer / sell / solve? How are you different from “VC-backed vertical indoor farming companies”? It’s unclear from your message.

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