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A few hundred thousand dollars worth of tech replacing what used to be a massive industrial investment is amazing. And I thought enriching uranium is something that counties with nukes go to extreme lengths to make it not accessible.

What about unique patterns of wealth redistribution across the economies they participate in? Surely this is a value to society.

> There is one other use case for identity, and yes, it is decentralized and bottom-up, because it is about dividing into secure, self-sovereign affinity groups, and the reasons for doing that are on a very short list of uses. Super fun, but basically a weapon.

A weapon against who? A self sovereign affinity group could just be a community trying to self organize without relying on non-owned infrastructure. Aka prepper stuff.

Everything is already automated if you consider the universe’s noise to be an organizing force.

There’s a tragedy of commons problem in engineering. The engineering orgs collective ability to handle complexity is the community resource. Without safeguards in place this resource is squandered by engineers because the easy solution to a problem often paradoxically leads to higher complexity in the code base. Why? Because it’s easier to make ad-hoc new connections between things than to abide by a larger plan. And connections are the complexity.

One thing I’ve noticed that sometimes leads to this idea is using a “survival of the fittest” approach to percolating ideas.

Interesting parallel to this article perhaps.

This probably mirrors the concentration of power that’s happening.

The what list?

This makes the whole US a debtors prison of sorts. Not sure if this is a useful way to think about it though.

Does anyone else remember being taught in Econ 101 about globalization and comparative advantage and how great it is? Either the educators didn't know this would happen or it was a campaign to sell the public on the idea. Or maybe it was just bad teaching. I wonder which one it was.

Strictly focusing on minimizing risk to life imo leads to practices that neglect quality of life. Imagine if keeping your baby isolated at night meant that later in her life she would have trouble trusting the world and would as a result be handicapped when it comes to making and keeping healthy relationships. That's what some folks believe will happen.

The constant skin to skin contact between baby and mom from cosleeping and breastfeeding is believed by some psychologists to contribute to baby's healthy psychological development. Humans are highly social animals. I'm amazed and sad it's common practice to isolate babies for such a large portion of the day.

We coslept with our first and are now doing it with our 2nd who is still a newborn. We're 3 weeks in and are already close to getting enough sleep each night.

Fat vs glucose being the energy source depending on diet? Where can I find more info about this?

My therapy involves periods of getting in touch with my body, e.g. tension in my forehead or tightness in my chest, and then as I focus and try to be present with the sensations, words tend to pop into my mind that often yield insights into suppressed feelings and ideas. There's a book that nicely presents the therapy technique named body centered psychotherapy by Ron Kurtz.

I wonder if focusing on ones heartbeat employs the same underlying mechanisms that help self-insights happen.

I wonder how long until a critical mass of people get fed up with the resource hogging of the ultra rich. Seems likely to happen at some point if current trends in wealth inequality continue.

A lot of journalism is basically PR. I forget who, but someone did a study showing that a large percentage of journalism source material is basically press releases.

Edit: typo fix

Can we keep age discrimination out of this discussion please?

Run the examples to see what it does, try to build something with it to get a deeper understanding of the depth of its capability, then finally dive into the code itself by fixing a bug or adding a feature or even just playing around and changing stuff. Join the developer channels and ask questions. People usually love it when you show an interest in what they've built.

Skycoin is interesting. https://www.skycoin.net/whitepapers/

Maybe this is the "make a favorable impression with rich people at LA parties" PR tactic.

Can you share more about your interest in this? Eg just cryptocurrency or for something larger?

How is the time dimension modeled?

> As an aside, has anyone else noticed how new posters are overwhelmingly pessimistic and reliant on dubious anecdotes?

New posters are the next generation of old posters, that is unless they are driven off e.g. by being stereotyped.

The upper middle class is apparently a minority that is politically safe to do economic harm to.

He means speaking commands (to a shell I presume) rather than type them.

You may not know this but a primary purpose of Mensa is to help "smart" people find other "smart" people to socialize with. In that sense it succeeds (I'm a member).

What? Holy smokes! This is the first I've heard of this. Can you share any more info? Sources?

These aren't mutually exclusive scenarios. Anecdotally I have friends who are investing in bitcoin because they've seen the price go up so much that they want in on the action. At the same time there are legit demand reasons for the price to go up (e.g. in Venezuela I think people use BTC because their currency is so unstable).

This is just industry self regulation in the face of otherwise impending "doom" from the ad blocking trend.

Is there any commercial software that lacks an EULA? Not having one would I think expose the company to risks that any for-profit company is incentivized to minimize (i.e. It wouldn't make sense to not have one).

Does all that complexity limit the amount of price competition airlines engage in?