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economics weeb, reluctant Malthusian, applicant for social license to be horny
Seattle, WA Sumali Aralık 2021
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@NathanpmYoung There is never a justification to kill children. Sorry.
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Don’t kill kids seems like the easiest and most defensible position someone can ever take and yet it’s an inescapable mystery to some people. Could they explain why? Who knows.
Nathan 🔎@NathanpmYoung
I find it wild how strong young women's views are on Gaza. And if pushed, will they be able to explain their position in detail?
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@captgouda24 Distinctly funny to see this collusion often shooting itself in the foot by paying the seller more, and getting their internal mechanism abused even as they try to collude to abuse the auction mechanism.
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Did you know that collusion between bidders can harm not only the seller, but also other bidders who were not in the cartel? This is a beautiful demonstration of how to empirically estimate auctions, applied to a cabal of stamp dealers in and around New York City. 1/
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something i hadn't thought about til now is that on the moon the earth basically doesn't move around in the sky, which means if you had a moonhouse you could have a window that always perfectly framed the earth
i suspect that most moonhouses, once built, will have that
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I interviewed at Netflix and regret that I was so deeply traumatized by other companies that I couldn't believe them when they offered exactly what I wanted.
Billy Easley II@billyez2
This is both my favorite slide in the deck and accurate to the culture from what I’ve heard from folks there
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I'm in big email & task debt. I talked to my partners about the ugh field, got encouragement, started making a todo list, and felt so disgusted and sleepy I stopped.
This is atypically bad of me. I wish I could somehow pay myself $5000 to do it – I tend to do things for money.
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@captgouda24 Imagine a hypothetical carbon cap-and-trade (or tax) scheme with zero administrative costs. This would convert a fixed cost to a marginal cost (carbon offsets bought per ton of cement made).
Do you think that would avoid this concentration problem?
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Emissions are commonly regulated by requiring that the polluter take steps to reduce the emissions at their own expense -- in effect, a fixed cost on entry. This can actually increase producer profits, at the expense of the consumer. 1/
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An excellent time-lapse of the crowds from two concerts at Olympic Park being taken home by train.
North Americans obsessed with stadium parking please take note
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@lydialaurenson I look at it as "this board game kinda sucks, but they sure love paying me to play it."
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in recent years I have kept myself relatively sane during tax season by contemplating why it is my True Will to be doing my taxes
this year I think I shall instead try a hardcore reframe such that I'm playing an adventure game of Bureaucracy Skill and Charisma/ Manipulation/ Int
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@GarrettPetersen @eternaltxts Ugh, the people I dated in my late twenties + thirties have been way better for me than anyone I dated in my early twenties.
Plausibly this was a skill issue, of course.
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@eternaltxts Your dating pool will never get better. The best partners in your age group will pair off in their early twenties, get married a few years later, and then stay married until they die of old age. Pair off now, or get someone who is less attractive/more flaky/divorced later on.
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I’m 21. Give me oddly specific life tips. No general ”surround yourself with positive people” tips. I want the most random, specific advice possible.
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@Lib_Development My mentor at Google jokingly referred to such processes as "oral tradition".
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My long arc of realization has come to the conclusion that “indigenous ways of knowing” in leftese translates to “unwritten process knowledge” for us progress studies types
One of my bits is now to refer to poorly documented processes as “indigenous ways of knowing”
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@astridwilde1 huh, what's your beef with ETH? Seems like you could reasonably claim that the whole smart contract thing has not amounted to much despite immense amounts of effort, sure, but "scam"?
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Regular reminder that crypto is not real
Everything is a scam
Bitcoin and two MAYBE three other zero-knowledge proof of work protocols are interesting experiments in stateless money systems
Everything and I mean EVERYTHING else is a scam. Including ETH. And all "stablecoins"
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@patio11 @TheStalwart @heyitsnoah or implements a whole complex feature yet leaves a glaring but trivially fixable UI deficiency in place with the reasoning "it's just cosmetic" 🙃
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@TheStalwart @heyitsnoah For example, sometimes after developing a new feature it does the obvious things and extends the test suite, sometimes it runs a smoke test only in an ad hoc fashion forgetting it has a test suite, and sometimes it just says "Well this is done and has no bugs whatsoever."
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Do engineers who use Claude Code (et. al.) worry about the obsequiousness problem?
When we talked with @heyitsnoah he pointed out that "pair programming" has long been a thing in software development.
But presumably in a pair, one human isn't just there to validate the other.
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baby often stands in front of a surface (eg coffee table) and smacks fervidly. when bf commented on it, I said, she died in a nuclear attack in her past life. her job was to send all the retaliatory strikes in the short time left. she still remembers, that's why she's so frantic
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@GarrettPetersen @TrueSlazac @actsmaniac Also that domestic production means it's harder for trading partners to cut off trade to force diplomatic concessions / wartime surrender.
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@TrueSlazac @actsmaniac Steelman is that having more redundancy in the global food system makes it more robust in the case of some kind of catastrophe.
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The one thing uniting stupid people both on the left and on the right is their irrational hatred of international trade
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@carl_feynman @SOPHONTSIMP @drethelin Roughly where does "40 hours" come from? Are you just assuming that cellular division goes at the max speed we observe in human embryos without any pauses?
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@SOPHONTSIMP @drethelin I ran the numbers on this a few years ago. IIRC, it takes about 40 hours to go from an ovum to an adult at maximum speed. You need several hundred pounds of nutrient slurry, a big tank of liquid oxygen, and a circulating water chiller that can sink several hundred watts.
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Elephant cells aren’t larger than human cells, they just have more of them. Yet it only takes two years from conception to produce a baby elephant that masses more than many adult humans. This suggests that if you can relax certain constraints, you could produce adult sized humanoid bodies much faster, which offers a lot of utility.
Más Ciencia@MsCiencia2
Aunque probablemente ya pesa más de 200 kg, este bebé elefante sigue queriendo dormir con su humano como cuando era recien nacido 😍🐘
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This is the first insanely expensive flight upgrade I might actually pay for. Finally! A bed!
United Airlines@united
The entire row is alllllll yours. Welcome to United Relax Row, three adjacent United Economy seats with adjustable leg rests that can each be raised or lowered to create a cozy lie-flat space for stretching out... You'll also get a mattress pad, blanket and two pillows. If you’re traveling with kids, a plushie too! United Relax Row will be available starting next year on more than 200 of our 787s and 777s, each with up to 12 of these brand-new rows. united.com/Elevated
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@GarrettPetersen As an addict for this type of game: please, I crave a clock that really does 1 second per second with all the systems running at realistic speeds.
With a speed control that goes up to like 10,000x or 100,000x, of course :-)
(may not be tractable, but I can dream)
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Me to the AI agent setting up my railway game: "Is the default clock speed 1 real second per in-game second? It's a bit much to expect a game session to last 89 years of real time."
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I KNOW NOT WITH WHAT WEAPONS WORLD WAR III WILL BE FOUGHT, BUT WORLD WAR IV WILL BE FOUGHT WITH STICKS ON DRONES.
Status-6 (War & Military News)@Archer83Able
Russian FPV interceptor drone impales a Ukrainian Darts-type low-cost strike drone on two metal rods, causing the UAV to catch fire and lose control.
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