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by wcarss 2y ago
I do want to stress that I didn't suggest any major cash transfer above -- for one reason, most 30-40-something "million dollar" couples probably haven't had their 20-30 year-older parents pass away and leave them any &q
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by wcarss 2y ago
> Having an internal rather than external locus of control leads one to be both richer and more Libertarian Believing this statement certainly makes one more libertarian. I wonder how many people have internally locus'd their way in
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by wcarss 2y ago
drones already / are gonna have this issue too -- funny how these two technologies fill both roles, each in very different ways.
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by wcarss 2y ago
just out of curiosity, do you have any countering authors or schools of thought to suggest? I'm somewhat familiar with Larson from having read some posts of his over time, but I can't recall much of his specific ideas, and had nev
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by wcarss 2y ago
> The important part of creativity is being able to apply it while achieving adult-level goals. That may be the important part for you, but for others, the important part is to not make that the important part.
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by wcarss 2y ago
To carve any niche in a space like this, one needs extensive personal connections, money of their own to apply and put in the game, time to spend on it, and the belief that this is the best use of all of it. It may well be that far better a
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by wcarss 3y ago
from googling the word just now, > accountable 1. (of a person, organization, or institution) required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsible. "parents could be held accountable for their children's actions&qu
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by wcarss 3y ago
I visited in 2018, not to build any parts but just to see the sprawling markets. I had no idea about the original guide then -- very neat to learn about it and see that it has a successor!
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by wcarss 3y ago
> As you land, the fuel tank depletes significantly which shifts the center of mass towards the top of the vehicle Genuinely asking because I think I might learn something: wouldn't a depleting fuel tank above the engines shift the
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by wcarss 3y ago
It can be more than one thing, and no that does not necessarily follow, e.g. a smaller set of larger homes may be most efficient for a development company in terms of cost and potential revenue, regardless of whether or not material cost ri
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by wcarss 3y ago
By contrast, in 2009 the several hundred interns were bussed in a police escorted motorcade along the closed down highway from Redmond to the Pacific Science Center for a special showing of some Harry Potter film and catered dinner, after w
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by wcarss 3y ago
IIRC, below freezing also isn't generally good enough -- I forget what the specifics are from when I cared a lot about it 5+ years ago, but it's something like -20C consistently for a few whole days for all the stages of bedbug an
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by wcarss 3y ago
That seems to be the other Arctic Adventure, for DOS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Adventure_(video_game... (I also enjoyed the DOS game, and thought the article might have some relation to it -- but appear
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by wcarss 3y ago
This is the specific kind of thing I want to use LLMs for. I want to describe "what I'm looking for" to an LLM and have it go out each week and digest the most recent 100 papers, and occasionally pop up to tell me when there&
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by wcarss 3y ago
When I saw a paragraph starting off, "In essence, Indiebackers is a..." I internally started reading it as LLM output. Thank you for confirming that my AIdar is working :) (Totally a reasonable thing to use it for, in my opinion!)
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by wcarss 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the Effective Altruism school of thought is rather popular in today's grand halls. One lens into Effective Altruism might suggest that the best path to a good outcome is to gather as much power and wealth in the ha
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by wcarss 3y ago
I've learned a great deal from him over this time. Thanks Tom!
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by wcarss 3y ago
Imagine if your radio wouldn't let you turn the volume back up for the next song set if you happened to turn the volume down during an ad break.
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by wcarss 3y ago
I really respect the effort you've made here to communicate with some empathy and to try to be a help.
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by wcarss 3y ago
From your original comment, I learned some new things about a movie I enjoyed but haven't thought about in a while. I felt it connected fine to the topic, and made for a really interesting contribution to the discussion. I've alwa
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by wcarss 3y ago
personal somewhat-pedestrian list: Pilot, Detour, Reunion, Propeller, Phil and Sebastian
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by wcarss 3y ago
I may be wrong, but I thought we were discussing how many regularly-heroin-using people die early, not how many people try heroin once and subsequently become addicted.
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by wcarss 3y ago
Personally, this is where I hope the costs are going to come down with time. I'm content for this to be something we try, and we can measure its costs and efficacy after some real time and investment. The initial outlay and efforts are
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by wcarss 3y ago
That's a little bit like the football-betting-sequence fallacy -- if I send a thousand letters out, with 50% predicting team A wins and 50% predicting team B wins, and do so successively for 10 weeks, at the end of the 10 weeks a small
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by wcarss 3y ago
It's a weird false dichotomy you've set up. I don't think it's fair or true to ascribe "drugs are harmless" as the generalization of the position, "drug use should not carry criminal penalties". If I
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by wcarss 3y ago
I think the problem comes down to: I have no faith that any for-profit journalism institution presenting a paywall will perform like a good actor in return, because the well of advertisement and content for money has been poisoned for so lo
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by wcarss 3y ago
It's really cool to see something like this in the dedication, as one of a few "hardest things about writing these guides": > - Putting myself out there as a so-called authority, when really I’m just a regular human trying
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by wcarss 3y ago
It's just what you want. Continuing to misuse the metaphor: Do you want to try to go to space/the moon or whatever, for reasons like the personal glory and (mild) fame, the satisfaction of building the thing, the importance of bei
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by wcarss 3y ago
It's easier to verify what's currently in use than what has ever been in use. I know I'm not holding any radioactive monkey wrenches right now. To be sure I've never held one will require some investigation.
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by wcarss 3y ago
I'm using a phone right now that I bought in 2016. The battery lasts me the day more or less. I bought a pixel just recently because Slack told me my phone is too old for them to support, and I need it for work. The camera is messed up

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