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by walkabout 1y ago
Layers aren’t viable as a meat crop anyway, you’d spend more trying to engineer some one-off effort like that than you’d make and nobody would want the resulting meat. Your competition is freakish mutant birds that get so big in a few weeks
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by walkabout 1y ago
Never bought eggs before covid, or never shopped the sale ‘fridges at the grocery store and/or regular-priced eggs at Costco? Under $1 wasn’t uncommon.
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by walkabout 1y ago
Not quite that fast, but not too far off. Certainly a lot faster than building a new factory. Laying chickens start producing in a matter of weeks. Time for breeding to scale is also needed (but very fast), and they’re not producing at ma
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by walkabout 1y ago
> Let me just add I don't think backyard eggs are cheaper, even at the height of price spike, because when externalities like feed and enclosure are calculated the resulting product won't have the economies of scale The math ch
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by walkabout 1y ago
They’re trolls. They’ve been doing this for years. It’s just trolling.
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by walkabout 1y ago
I would have to think a really long time to come up with an answer to “describe a hard problem you’ve solved” at all. I might have to consult notes. After that, to make it an interview-friendly narrative, I’d have to fill in a lot of detail
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by walkabout 1y ago
The largest tech companies could also implement a shared cert program via some kind of industry group, with periodic re-certification requirements. This’d surely be far cheaper than all of them running multi-stage leetcode and system design
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by walkabout 1y ago
Yeah, I’ve seen those criticisms before and been convinced-enough that it’s contributed to my not bothering with that podcast. IBCK has been accurate enough when they’ve covered books I’m familiar with that I’m less worried about that being
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by walkabout 1y ago
I mean, a bunch of his book is stoic epistemology, physics, and metaphysics, all of which is of dubious value. Anyone reading him is definitely going to be picking-and-choosing what they pay attention to, almost nobody today is going to go
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by walkabout 1y ago
Stoicism specifies that one needs right acts, in addition to right thoughts. It’s far less passive than e.g. Russell (though I love Russell, and I even love The History of Western Philosophy in which he levels these criticisms, while many
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by walkabout 1y ago
Notably, Aurelius (at least—I’m less well-read on Epictetus and others) allows that there are automatic reactions that we can’t, realistically, control. It’s the unintentional, but controllable, maintenance of negative feelings that Sto
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by walkabout 1y ago
One of a couple varieties of books covered by the If Books Could Kill podcast is this category, the Surprising Truth That Explains Many Things type. They do indeed seem to almost always be bullshit, including the very-popular ones (and in
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by walkabout 1y ago
They’re basically markov chain text generators with a relevance-tracking-and-correction step. It turns out this is like 100x more useful than the same thing without the correction step, but they don’t really escape what they are “at heart”
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by walkabout 1y ago
Oh, agreed, they don’t get points for failing the task but accidentally reporting something more-correct in the process.
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by walkabout 1y ago
They’re intended to derail every thread that includes them into discussions about this stupid date format, thus wasting lifetimes of person-hours. It’s surely an effort by misanthropes who want the worst for humanity. If it’s coming from an
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by walkabout 1y ago
I’m pretty sure the loyalty-card thing has become so big because they’re selling the data. So many things are like that now. Like Roku sticks and TVs are subsidized by selling user data. You want to make a Roku competitor that doesn’t spy?
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by walkabout 1y ago
Calling out shitty behavior doesn’t mean you felt “entitled” to anything. Not all shitty behavior is governed by contracts and licenses. You can be an asshole without violating the terms of a license.
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by walkabout 1y ago
I have relatives who’ve been concerned enough about the “[democratic candidate] will take your guns!” thing that they’ve made and displayed signs about it. For multiple election cycles. That these same candidates, when elected, haven’t ev
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by walkabout 1y ago
The good news for our collective investments in stupid technology is we’ve apparently decided never to let the market drop significantly in absolute terms ever again, even to let the air out of an obvious bubble. The bad news is we’re accom
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by walkabout 1y ago
I decided about a decade ago that McLuhan was a prophet, and that the “message” of the Internet may not include compatibility with democracy, as it turns out.
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by walkabout 1y ago
Relatedly, I wonder if we count misrepresenting a misleading news article such that it becomes more-accurate as misrepresenting news content…
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by walkabout 1y ago
Kinda… but between credit cards (and any cards serviced by them—debit cards aren’t safe) and widespread facial recognition with cameras everywhere in stores these days, and things like “loyalty cards” being required to just get what should
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by walkabout 1y ago
This would be a pretty hilarious board for anyone who likes the em-dash and who has had many fairly active accounts (one at a time) on here due to periodically scrambling their passwords to avoid getting attached to high karma or to take oc
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by walkabout 1y ago
K. But from what I’ve seen most people have to be taught your way of thinking.
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by walkabout 1y ago
Oh, some ideas can be crazier than others—I just didn’t get why a misinterpretation is necessarily evidence that a belief based on the Bible is crazier than one that’s not a misinterpretation. I can easily imagine misreadings or misinterpre
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by walkabout 1y ago
Why is a misinterpretation of the Bible any crazier than a non-misinterpretation?
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by walkabout 1y ago
Nope, it works both ways, at least for lots of folks. The other attitude often (in my experience, most of the time) has to be explicitly taught or conditioned in from getting fucked enough times and deciding you may as well be fucking peopl
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by walkabout 1y ago
“Their own” can and often does mean something hosted on a major cloud provider (whether they manage it in-house or pay a vendor for their system)
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by walkabout 1y ago
> Isn't it everyone using multiple cloud providers nowadays? Oh yes. All of them, in fact, especially if you count what key vendors host on. > Why are they affected by single cloud provider outage? Every workload is only on one c
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by walkabout 1y ago
My experience is that kids have to be taught “‘fair’ is what the market will bear” because they start out feeling quite strongly that it’s not true. Tons of kids aren’t taught that, some of them start businesses, and they may struggle to

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