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by walleeee 4y ago
Entire businesses (e.g. Yext) exist to milk this model, if indirectly
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by walleeee 4y ago
Peter Watts' Rifters series is premised on the development of this sort of technology for human use and goes into uncomfortable detail about the (false) feeling of drowning
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by walleeee 4y ago
my programming career started when my friend convinced me to help him build a minimal redstone calculator
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by walleeee 4y ago
the idea that there's nowhere to put capital without a ballooning or nosediving market is a thread in the mental straitjacket that untethered us from reality in the first place there is an ocean of opportunity, it's just that inve
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by walleeee 4y ago
the constant ad hom against him is especially pernicious because it distracts from substantive critique of the company and related social phenomena
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by walleeee 4y ago
> semi-anonymized and immediate human-to-human interaction why are optionally anonymous forums like HN not sufficient for this? why do we need virtual avatars, content markets, gamification? if people want these things there are always v
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by walleeee 4y ago
good points also related to circular economics is the principle that tools should be easy to supersede when we discover undesirable side effects or invent new techniques we build software to be easy to refactor, we might benefit from buildi
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by walleeee 4y ago
> it raises the standard of living for those who aren’t yet born assuming by standard of living we mean quality of life: to accept this one must ignore or rationalize the ways our pursuit of GDP growth is making the planet a less hospita
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by walleeee 4y ago
> the natural components driving the economy are quite abundant defined narrowly, yes, most of them, but consider ecosystem services as equally important economic inputs and the picture looks very different on this view things like stabl
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by walleeee 4y ago
consider first determining exactly what kind of impact you would like your work to have looking for something "positive" without principled and reasoned motivation to prefer any particular outcome is a great way to get yourself ta
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by walleeee 4y ago
mittelstands!
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by walleeee 4y ago
hopefully the dip we're toppling into will do a number on this kind of incentive
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by walleeee 4y ago
horizontal transfer via memetics is not guaranteed to be a productive or stabilizing force in the long term, it could be convincingly argued many of our nastiest problems today derive from immaturity in handling novel forms of information f
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by walleeee 4y ago
maybe it will compel us to build stuff that's more substantial, less deliberately disposable, and more easily repaired :)
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by walleeee 4y ago
hilarious and super convenient, assuming there are no side effects nastier than inhaling and ingesting plastic as we all inescapably do now honestly sounds like a potential best case scenario
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by walleeee 4y ago
> a functional currency should, by definition, not be a good investment yeah, I've seen it said a currency that's a better investment than the economy it serves is a self-defeating abomination exactly because it incentivizes pe
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by walleeee 4y ago
> quantum computers are almost real now in what sense is this true? practical quantum computers seem almost as far off as they were decades ago and NISQ appears to mean not large or reliable enough to do much with one consequence being p
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by walleeee 4y ago
> weapons research disguised via a friendly sounding problem many such cases
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by walleeee 4y ago
it's possible, but as far as I can tell enough of the quantum computing literature is overblown to make the anecdote plausible
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by walleeee 4y ago
similar experience with an applied quantum computing course in my own program
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by walleeee 4y ago
> Education and skills are an asset like any other, and can also be devalued though good point some skills will fare better or worse than others, the question is which
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by walleeee 4y ago
I wrote it to try to appeal to traditionalists and progressives and people of all political persuasions! spending time building a religious or spiritual community is fine by me, especially if it provides material services to the locality an
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by walleeee 4y ago
instead of pursuing speculative gains consider investing it in yourself or in your immediate locale or region, in the economic and ecological transformation we all sorely need devaluation of everything is a consequence of unsustainable econ
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by walleeee 4y ago
agreed, it's necessary and good in some quantity, although compromise in personal relations seems distinct from the sort of compromise demanded by e.g. social pressure or professional or political circumstance, and in any case finding
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by walleeee 4y ago
the fact that SV companies are getting 50,000 applicants while other more or less critical sectors struggle to field any talent at all points to a (the?) deeper problem at the root of the leetcode fiasco
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by walleeee 4y ago
my sense is there are defensible reasons you might not want to be assertive or entirely transparent to everyone around you doesn't necessarily mean you're letting yourself be trampled
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by walleeee 4y ago
> every company's interview process has become like Google's although the leetcode hiring model is too often cargo culted by orgs trying to emulate faang this is not representative of the industry at large. if it seems true you
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by walleeee 4y ago
Imposition and compromise need not derive from a transactional relationship model One can just as well feel compelled to constantly compromise if one's acquaintances don't share one's needs and values, for instance
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by walleeee 4y ago
Right, its always a good idea to have short term reserves but it's way more important to build out local and regional resilience and a less vulnerable, more robust, diverse food supply
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by walleeee 4y ago
Ah, somehow I missed that.

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