wallacoloo

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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> The Cardboard Box Reform - Nixon's Ghost Bill & A Crucial Flaw in Democracy video title, for those without a magic youtube url preview device.
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
so… what are these house rules?
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> Labor is the only kind of value and any "worth" (eg money) has to be translatable to that. Crypto and gold is not. crypto and gold can be exchanged for labor products in much the same way that other wealth can be (a house, st
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> I don’t think you’re wrong, but is society better off when wrong-doing is exposed and not condemned or when it is hidden but broadly condemned? the third option: broadly exposed, and also condemned. there’s no reason that increased exp
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> If we had done half the stuff people had suggested we do because “everyone does it” we would have had a much worse time in that audit. you have to mentally remove this paragraph from your story. the scenario is that there are zero repe
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
Elizier Yudkowsky is just a really good author. can’t speak for HPMOR, but i love his other series, The Sequences, which per my understanding communicates the same ideas via more succinct, nonfiction writing. https://www.readthe
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> light does not follow a straight path through fiber it bounces around. this is only relevant for multimode fiber, right? in singlemode fiber the light must propagate parallel with the fiber. even in multimode fiber, some light is par
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> The autocratic corrupt spying apparatus gov? replace “autocratic” with “unelected”/unaccountable and you get the NSA.
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> Linux machines make up only a bit above 1% of all Steam users. to my knowledge, this number has remained remarkably consistent over the past 5-ish years, even as Proton/Wine become more and more reliable. it seems that library c
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
what exactly did they simulate? from the scant details on the article, this sounds more like a training exercise than a simulation, to me.
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
AWS has its Outpost product for on-prem hosting. not 100% self-managed, but maybe enough to satisfy the execs and make your market a bit smaller.
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i think it’s just bad UX. my understanding is that Citadel acts as the market maker for Robinhood. if it ever can’t provide liquidity for a trade, you need to handle that case explicitly. make it clear to the user where liquidity comes fr
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> This is what happens when you "sow beans", the protocol burns them and in exchange you get a locked-in interest rate (in pods), and you get paid out when all the lenders in front of you (the pod line) get paid out. ohh, i mis
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> Though you can pick up the gist pretty fast, relationships need time to blossom. a lot of the arguments make me think of two different approaches to a task: breadth-first v.s. depth-first. for most tasks, you almost always want a balan
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
so when the price of beans is low -- i.e. when there's more bean supply than there is demand -- the protocol tries to spur demand by increasing bean-denominated yield for beans ("weather"). the downstream effect of this is t
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
or not, if the overlap between AWS and crypto devs/users is small.
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i imagine most market holdings follow power laws. or is the stock market different in this way because of more widespread pensions/retirement accounts? either way, a $2T crypto market (i don't know where GP got $3T from: CoinMarke
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
well, coinbase claims to have 73M verified accounts [1], so, quite a few? and anecdotally, yeah, seeing crypto go up has similar impact on me as seeing stocks go up: i feel more comfortable making larger purchases whenever my wealth goes up
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
leaving the caves was an individual- or tribal-level decision. in fact, many groups did not leave the caves, only some did. it’s a poor metaphor for climate change because we don’t have the option of exploring both paths simultaneously as a
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
is it the generalization you take issue with (i.e. the implication that reading of any kind in enough volume can teach critical thinking)? or do you actually take issue with the voracious readers of epistemology/philosophy of science
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
go visit an arcade. crazy enough there are still companies out there making new arcade hardware and the benefit of being out of your home, in a place dedicated to gaming, will help you concentrate.
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
the quality of any body of work is incredibly subjective . take a look at any best-sellers list and pick a random book off it: chances are (if you're like me) that you'll think it was a waste of time after having read it. so then
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
adding to this: if your issue is one of focus , try a pomodoro timer. it's a great way to shut off that voice nagging you about all the other things you need to remember to do, because you can forget about all of those and know that
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> I think its mostly a financial problem, not a physical labor problem. what does this mean? i assume in your picture, the taxes (finance) are paying for the labor. if not, what is it that we’re struggling to finance?
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i seriously recommend anyone downvoting this to read the actual IPCC reports [1]. not denying that climate change is happening and causing harm, but the proximate effects due to climate change (i.e. extreme weather events, loss of biodivers
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> I could imagine either dirt cheap labor in well laid out warehouses or some form of automated picking solution. i'd love to see a proper dive/writeup from someone in-the-know. lacking that, here's a third, completely spe
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. the writer (who appears to be anonymous?) shamelessly omits citing or linking to any source for this, and i can'
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> Instead the general trend seems to be that single/child-free people despise any privilege or help parents may recieve in the corporate world, or by the government (coming out of their taxes). i don't disbelieve this, but this
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> This is why the Reddit AntiWork subreddit is interesting right now, we are seeing a country wide revolt which could spread to neighbouring Western countries. how big is this movement, actually? personally, i quit my job without knowing
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i think the complaint is not giving status reports, but being forced to listen to others’ seemingly irrelevant status reports.

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