The key risk when turning hobbies into a business is that the core focus area of the hobbyist's expertise will likely have to shift dramatically, and it's often that shift that may cause a loss in enjoyment and fulfillment.
A hobbyists can focus on extremely uneconomical aspects of a thing, precisely because they don't need to think economically about it - a business person doing so will likely fail at both their business, and tragically, their hobby...
For anyone interested in a deeper exploration of this theme, I will shamelessly plug my podcast on deep, obsessive hobbies, "When The Work is Done":
https://www.whentheworkisdone.com/
Only managed to put up one episode yet (an interview with a very successful neuroscientists who spends almost all his spare time tailoring...), but am hoping to have many more episodes in the works soon.
Yes, there is some level of binge drinking in Germany, but it's not the same as the binge drinking that is common in the anglosphere, and especially in British culture, which is quite a bit more extreme.
Hmmm. Personally, I would much rather have a lofi hologram that is capable of moving around, as much as I lack technical implementation specificity here :)
Starline seems amazing, but there's a black mirror quality to the ultra pristine resolution.
Really depends on the context, but I would mostly disagree with folks saying you need a "landing page" for this. It would probably be enough to just have an email that isn't your private one, and give yourself a relevant title such as "CTO" or "VP Partnerships". Also, if in doubt, call the companies.
I fear there is a curious feedback loop on the horizon, where stuff like this accelerates flight into decentralized crypto which then again accelerates further regulatory scrutinity, including bans.
I found this way of thinking - where you pool risks across the entire population - never particularly useful.
For example, the risk of drowning, here quantified as "1 in 1,128" is actually pretty much 0 for people who don't go swimming, and probably vastly higher for people who frequently swim in lakes.
Similarly, your risk of getting eaten by a shark - as miniscule it may be in the grand scheme of things - is profoundly higher when you're actually in the water somewhere in South Africa or Australia.
So in order to truly understand risks, one really needs to take one's personal setup and situation into account..
I don't have the table but the conclusion of the relevant authorities in the EU is basically that the risk of the vaccine-induced mortality is at least comparable to the risk of COVID19-mortality for younger women under 60 specifically. Norway saw an incidence vaccine induced serious side effects of 1:25k in younger women. It's unclear if the gender bias is due to the bias in the vaccinated group of HC workers.
It doesn't work like that alas - the AZ thrombosis is a pretty serious condition and the best theory we have right now suggests it can't be just treated with an aspirin.
Curious: there is an unbelievably huge wealth of this type of "content" that lives almost exclusively in history books, or at least seems profoundly difficult to find on the internet.
Then there's the insane illusion that virtually all knowledge is accessible within the first Google search result page, so I'm always pleased whenever articles like this one find their way to the surface...
Incidentally, if anyone is interested in the general topic of making cloths / tailoring, I just recorded a podcast episode on this - the show is about deep, obsessive hobbies and the first episode is about a neuroscientist who transforms into a tailor at night: https://www.whentheworkisdone.com/
That's not how music works. My bet is we will see crappy music for ads replaced with AI generated stuff, but NFTs etc may actually mean a much more interesting market for real musicians moving forward..
Meh. This is an extremely basic drum machine / step sequencer with a larger number samples, and I'm pretty sure I've seen the "sample cloud" approach lots of times by now in various VSTs. Probably still fun for folk with zero exposure to music production!
Not sure...if "total collapse" is the test case that something must survive in order to hold any value, virtually nothing that we consider valueable today would be valueable in the first place. That said, maybe you're right, but it's a bit of harsh reduction ad absurdum.
Really cool. One thing the most boring part of my mind is wondering about when seeing these is related to the legality of stuff like that: many of the drone videos this is trained on are obviously copyrighted, and the system has used them to learn how to come up with novel ones. The same applies to GPT-n, which is trained on massive amounts of copyrighted material, no?
Does anyone know anything about this; there must be a couple of dissertations on this topic by now?
The clotting with AZ is very different and more serious than what the thrombosis associated with the pill - about half of those who get it die even with best medical care. It predominanctly affects folks who would have a miniscule risk of death by Covid19, so this absolutely needs to be investigated.
Looks like this may be a bit more relevant than many of the snarky comments would suggest - the relevant German authority on this said that they have seen a unexpected increase in a specific type of blood clotting issue that usually is very rare: https://www.pei.de/DE/newsroom/hp-meldungen/2021/210315-voru...
Germany has a "homemade" vaccine (BioNTech), in fact it was the first reliable vaccine on the market, and pioneering an entirely new medical paradigm at it, but the EC botched the process of acquiring it.
My completely unscientific perception is that companies that focus too much on getting the perfect domain name from the get go are doomed to fail, and especially so if they buy a domain for more than $1k..
Yes, but if the error consistently results in you getting paid more than you should have, it's not really an error, is it? No, we would in fact call that fraud.
No, in fact you should consider it a relevant signal contributing to the UX of a site: if you're appalled by seeing this on a site, you are vrey very likely not a good fit for them and vice versa.
No offense, but you do sound a little triggered, and I completely understand why (in some sense). That being said, there are many different types of wrong/right, and the way in which the self-vaccinating Rationalist is "wrong"/"right" about the world is somewhat inverse to the way in which decorated science commitee can be wrong / right.
Not a lawyer, but in German labor law an agreement to hire usually already constitutes a contract that you can't just cancel - they should have probably paid a lot more to get out of this!
The absurdity of the American health care and insurance system will never not amaze me. It's just sad and weird, and even weirder that you will always find a bunch of intelligent folks to defend it.
Wishing the author, who btw is a better writer than most writers, a speedy and complete recovery.
Back in the Web 2.0 days, I started a "users' union" at the then largest German social network StudiVZ. It was only half-joking, and to my surprise quickly attracted the attention of the network's founders, who reacted in the best possible way, trying to utilise it as a feedback channel for the product.
Ultimately, this fizzled out (just like StudiVZ after its acquisition and subsequent demise vs Facebook), but I still believe there is merit to the idea.
This is to be commended, though I wish the market itself would provide this value as an emergent feature as it does in some other areas (e. g. Leica cameras and lenses, hundreds of thousands of which are still being used after _decades_ - I'm not sure if it's true, but read somewhere that the used market for Leicas is several multiples of Leicas revenue on new stuff)
This reminds me of the very fun and oldschool tracker paradigm for music production. Incidentally, this is experiencing a bit of a renaissance due to the wonderful Polyend Tracker hardware - I also recommend Renoise / Redux, which is probably the most powerful tracker available right now.