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by viburnum 4y ago
They won’t. Space problems are not earth problems.
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by viburnum 4y ago
You know that conquering territory on earth was profitable for the winners, right? There’s no profit on Mars.
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by viburnum 4y ago
Remember that somebody is going to have to pay for it.
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by viburnum 4y ago
I had the same experience (and then I had to unlearn it all because it only applies to trivially narrow examples. MF’s trick is to hide the assumptions well the same way a magician diverts your attention).
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by viburnum 4y ago
I can't put my finger on it exactly but there's something about this story that isn't making sense.
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by viburnum 4y ago
About ten years ago I switched to saving pages as PDF into my dropbox folder. Works a charm and on my Mac spotlight search works with it remarkably well. I still use browser's bookmarks bar for sites I use frequently but I deleted all
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by viburnum 4y ago
That doesn’t work on iOS 16.1
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by viburnum 4y ago
I can't figure out how to get the controls to recede so that the app only shows the book text.
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John Carmack Leaves Meta(facebook.com)
1875 points by viburnum 4y ago|1169 comments
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by viburnum 4y ago
Is it safe for children to live with cats?
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by viburnum 4y ago
Parenting?
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by viburnum 4y ago
“Loved by founders.” Who cares? I’m not a “founder” or any other kind of boss. Seems smarmy.
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by viburnum 4y ago
You could also just make SUVs illegal.
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by viburnum 4y ago
I feel like ADHD is just normal for a huge percentage of people but the people gifted with an abundance of concentration are extremely overrepresented in medicine and management positions.
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by viburnum 4y ago
On the other hand, don’t worry about reproducing the class system. Maybe join a union or something.
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by viburnum 4y ago
It’s not the fedora, it’s the utter shallowness of it
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by viburnum 4y ago
I get the baffling Turkish videos too. It’s a shame, instagram used to show me landscape architecture photos that I was genuinely interested in. And it doesn’t matter how much I flag it as not interesting, the random videos never stop.
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by viburnum 4y ago
“In other words, Instagram is giving us the ick: that feeling when a romantic partner or crush does something small but noticeable—like wearing a fedora—that immediately turns you off forever” This was so ridiculously judgmental that I coul
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by viburnum 4y ago
Can't find the source now but I read somewhere that in Estonia anytime somebody accesses your info you get notified who it was.
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by viburnum 4y ago
In America maybe but not so much elsewhere
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by viburnum 4y ago
Article didn’t mention the best part: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once-only_principle Basically the government isn’t allowed to ask you for any information more than once. They already know!
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by viburnum 4y ago
A union.
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by viburnum 4y ago
This stinks but there's not much one person can do about it. Workers need solidarity to protect themselves from this kind of abuse.
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by viburnum 4y ago
This is way too complicated. All you have do is show up to the same place regularly to places where other people also show up regularly. School, work, dog park, gym, etc.
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by viburnum 4y ago
the author: "in the context of climate change, it is only through the continued development of our technological powers that we can hope to arrest and reverse the immense damage we have caused." homer simpson: "Here's to
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by viburnum 4y ago
“Gold standard” is funny because gold standards have rarely worked and haven’t been used anywhere for years now.
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by viburnum 4y ago
I don't think this is really from 1998.
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by viburnum 4y ago
Milk comes in paper cartons.
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by viburnum 4y ago
When this happened to me I called the investor relations number and the next day a VP called me and said it was sorted out.
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by viburnum 4y ago
LOL. GDP is fake to begin with.

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