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by yboris 4y ago
I've watched some Japanese video creators on YouTube and so often when they film streets they frame their shot so as to cut off the faces of those in public (whether by tilting the camera, or shooting a crowd where everyone is walking
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I think you're right about the assessment that the world is better now (at least on average) than it has ever been. Though small caveat about your claim "hunger is almost gone, living standards are high". I hope you're a
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by yboris 4y ago
Brilliant quote from the abstract: "Most laypeople do not organize information in ways that provide reliable monitoring of social change over time, which makes their views on progress susceptible to memory distortions and high-profile
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Thank you for sharing more. I don't take Last Week Tonight as a thorough even-handed presentation of ideas, but more as a spotlight, trying to point attention at some ongoing problems in today's world. I think the representativ
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Thank you very much! I really appreciate the amount of thought and care you put into all your responses. You're probably right that were it not for Europeans taking some artifacts from around the globe they would have perished; and so
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The Precipice by Toby Ord https://theprecipice.com/ An amazing nonfiction book that at times reads like science-fiction. A grand overview of various existential risks humanity faces and what we can do to decrease the chan
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Radical Markets : Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society - by Eric A. Posner and Eric Glen Weyl https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177502/ra... The book recommends radical chan
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I suspect we're in some serious philosophy territory now. I find it problematic to insist that since governments make laws, they then are exempt from moral criticism. Just because a government can make a law doing something doesn'
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I wonder why you wrote "stealing" with quotes. Presumably this is exactly what they did in numerous (majority?) of cases.
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I tried to post the link to this particular post (article?) on Twitter and it claimed there was an error: > Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Twitter is not letting me share this information!
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by yboris 4y ago
Somewhat on-topic: an excellent book where a philosopher, psychologist, and technologist attempt to provide a cohesive theory of humor and jokes. I love the book: Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Daniel Dennett, M
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Tokyo will require new housing projects to install solar panels starting in 2025(engadget.com)
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JPEG XL is the winner - .jxl for life!
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Using ChatGPT to generate good prompts for AI image generation(twitter.com)
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by yboris 4y ago
The point of the law is to prevent anyone born after 2008 from buying cigarettes. Hardcore users that are older than that can continue to purchase tobacco.
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Pandemic Prevention as Fire-Fighting(worksinprogress.co)
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Advancing Antivenom(worksinprogress.co)
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Alfalfa farming is 0.2% of the Utah economy but uses 68% of available water(sltrib.com)
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A short essay that made me notice other people's mistakes when talking about beauty (and numerous other topics): 2-Place and 1-Place Words by Eliezer Yudkowsky People use "beauty" as if it's a 1-place word (objective
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I sincerely doubt any folk belief around sexuality - given the history of humanity. I grew up (in Russia) with my mom literally telling my 6-ish y/o self "don't touch your pipi or it will turn black and fall off". Give
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You may be right with respect to "what works for me" - because you can literally experiment on yourself and tell (if you're keeping honest track of effects using various good practices from science / experiment design).
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Sorry about that -- I meant that my recommendation was made with a friendly attitude. I have been giving 10% of my income to charities recommended by GiveWell for over 10 years now. I am very serious and think more people should know of G
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I hope you've heard of GiveWell and their more-than-a-decade of research trying to find the most cost-effective organizations - ones that try to do as much good per dollar given ;) https://www.givewell.org/charities
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by yboris 4y ago
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33867039
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The Big Thing Effective Altruism (Still) Gets Right(nytimes.com)
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"Carry it or tie it to your bike" ... wouldn't it be possibly stolen if you left it on your bike that you chained up on the street? And carrying it doesn't sound comfortable at all -- where do you put it? The amount of d
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I'm baffled by continued hate on Electron. The option isn't between Electron and a lean OS-native application, but between Electron and nothing. I can build an Electron app in under a day with a pretty UI. It would take me several
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Good news coverage from this week: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/business/4-day-work-week-resu... https://www.livemint.com/companies/people/want-a-four-day-wo... > Not one
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It's 4 days of 8h each (32h total) with no loss of pay. https://www.4dayweek.com/ > The 4 day week is a reduction in the work week from a standard 40 hours to 32 hours for the same pay and benefits. I think this is
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by yboris 4y ago
Could we make `4DWW` an explicit tag? Four Day Work Week is the most alluring feature for a job for me (besides 100% remote). It's the only feature that could pull me away from current employment.

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