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by viburnum 3y ago
A few years ago a great book came out applying these themes for the current age: https://thenewpress.com/books/freedom-from-market
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by viburnum 3y ago
Good FT article on Ecuador's experience: https://www.ft.com/content/b2ce1c18-1786-40eb-b741-a173756f2...
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Citi to Pay $25.9M for Discrimination Against Armenian Americans(consumerfinance.gov)
10 points by viburnum 3y ago|2 comments
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by viburnum 3y ago
Is it really space when it’s only 200 miles up? You can bike that far in a day if you get up early.
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by viburnum 3y ago
This is maybe the worst-written article I’ve ever read. So much random detail about dresses and Canadian hometowns and almost nothing to say about the actual topic.
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by viburnum 3y ago
They have. Ticketmaster eventually buys them up.
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by viburnum 3y ago
I’m confused, this is about taxes, but welfare benefits are spending, and there’s no discussion of that.
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by viburnum 3y ago
I know a woman who was a programmer in the 1960s. When people would ask her to do “women’s work” she just said “I don’t know how” and carried on writing software. Even when they asked her to type something for them (everyone could see that
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by viburnum 3y ago
I wanted a mini but the ergonomics of the SE 3 are so much better for me.
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Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction (2019)(papers.ssrn.com)
23 points by viburnum 3y ago|20 comments
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by viburnum 3y ago
It can be very draining.
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by viburnum 3y ago
Every tech company I’ve worked at has been run by Ivy people but all the actual code is written by Cal State graduates and high school dropouts.
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by viburnum 3y ago
I’m confused, play is something small children do, not teenagers. Do they just mean free time in general?
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by viburnum 3y ago
Better to not have “elite” colleges at all.
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Damage Functions(lpeproject.org)
2 points by viburnum 3y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 3y ago
What usually happens to me is 2/3rds of the way through he rushes through seem keep points and it goes from feeling like a clear explanation to feeling like a magic trick.
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by viburnum 4y ago
I love how Tesla reviewers always say, "Now to be sure there will be continuous improvement," even as the product quality is decreasing.
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by viburnum 4y ago
Logic has been absolutely fantastic but they’ve recently switched owners/editors so it may not be the same in the future.
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by viburnum 4y ago
I used to be a fan of The Economist but after a while I figured out that it’s better at sounding smart than being smart. If they ever write about a field you know we’ll you’ll see what I mean.
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by viburnum 4y ago
I love it! "In Our Time" is the first podcast I listened to, way back in 2004, and I still listen to every episode.
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The Fed Is Trying to Engineer a Recession(employamerica.org)
4 points by viburnum 4y ago|2 comments
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Do Interest Rates Drive the Economy?(barrons.com)
2 points by viburnum 4y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 4y ago
This is good advice. Many therapists are one-trick ponies. For example, talking about trauma for three years won’t help you if your real problem is undiagnosed ADHD. Some challenges require ongoing help from a therapist (borderline personal
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by viburnum 4y ago
It is so satisfying when you can simply delete a bunch of code rather than fix it.
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by viburnum 4y ago
It’s fine. The other stuff I would be doing is way worse.
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Someone is always doing the work(lauratanenbaum.substack.com)
2 points by viburnum 4y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 4y ago
The article was about Britain. As a matter of historical fact there's a link between the slave trade and industrial development in Britain. Maybe you're trying to defend capitalism or whatever with your hypothetical counterfactual
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by viburnum 4y ago
It was the profits from the slave trade that financed the initial capital investments in mining, factory, railroads, etc.
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by viburnum 4y ago
An F1 wheel only goes slightly more than 180 in either direction. Regular cars typically go 540 degrees in each direction.
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by viburnum 4y ago
I feel like I've done it all but the only thing that has made a difference for me is the amount of time I get to spend with friends. When I have mental stuff now I don't take it seriously, instead I treat it as a generic signal to

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