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I like the humility

Started reading this series last Monday, on book three now. Fantastic sci-fi, enjoying how optimistic and not grimdark it is

This doesn't seem unambiguously legal - it seems like the backup part is the legally grey bit.

Blockchain is good for one narrow thing most people don’t care about: reconciliation in multiparty transactions.

LLMs appear to have myriad uses, today, no Twitter .eth con men required.

Yeah, I think identifying into roles is unwise in the long term. In addition to the benefits author cites, it also tends to distort one's thinking in bad ways: if you identify into something, threats to your status in that thing matter. It's obvious in political identities, but more subtly true in other ways.

I haven't been on the internet much this week - what happened?

Are we starting to understand that? In what ways?

I don't understand what you're saying:

> people pushing the idea that diet / food restriction alone is sufficient for weight loss

Diet/food restriction alone is strictly sufficient for weight loss: I'm pretty sure this is uncontroversially true, but it sounds like you're saying it isn't. Am I misunderstanding you?

i'm shocked that 50% of people are willing to do it. I wouldn't do it simply for the hassle, setting aside any ideological opposition to mass surveillance by my dishwasher.

Having stuff in my friend's "smart home" stop working because there was a hurricane and it couldn't connect to servers far away was also vindicating, tho.

This is silly hyperbole. I was paying honest attention to crypto and I was continually surprised that it didn’t crash. Eventually I gave up and stopped guessing it was going to crash. Then it did :shrug:

Whether or not something is worth polishing is context dependent, so the context you’re giving here is pretty crucial, and the essay suffers without it.

When I write docs for my small team, I’m pretty lazy about it. If I write docs for a new joiner, I put in more work. If I write docs for external users, I’m both careful and I seek external review!

They're making a general statement about perception. This is markedly true and an important human dynamic. There's even a meme that plays on this: "How do you do, fellow kids?"

The linguistic patterns (including jargon but also more than that) peg us as part of various subcultures, as educated or not, rich or not, from Florida or not. I was interviewing with some random dude who went to Duke and he said "You remind me of my college roommate." I'd known this dude for 15 minutes: what else could there be, really, other than linguistic cues? Naturally, I was offered the job.

Jargon _can_ mean that the explanation is shallow; it just depends on which jargon employed when. Take any jargon filled non-sense - you can say equally shallow things entirely without the jargon!

yes, you can now legally torrent metropolis. You can also make derivative works (e.g. you personally could make Metropolis 2: The Reckoning!) without fear of consequence.

> So not really different to what it was before.

The hyperbole here. Functioning infrastructure + corruption is a lot better than destroyed infrastructure + corruption

more like university press

Right. You can only imagine the amount of fury that would drive a person to follow through on a thing like this. I mean, kudos to him for his success here against professional depravity, but litigation is awful, and often it’s better to just let the bastards win.

Sure, but it’s a race condition that could happen in a functional language, too. FP has an analogue to a class called ADTs, and you could have the same bug using those

My relationship with Chinese people is great. I have a chinese ex, whose mom is hyper critical of the CCP and hates communism. They’re not Han chinese, they’re one of the less desirable ethnicities, and they didn’t feel well treated. Anyways.

Authoritarian regimes are bad. The fact that this authoritarian regime has mongoloid/asiatic facial features is irrelevant. I hated GWB’s expansion of the security state and two senseless middle eastern wars, I hated Obama killing American citizens without trial, and I hated Trump’s… everything, basically, but admittedly withdrawing from Afghanistan was p cool. Stopped clocks etc.

Anyways it’s totally consistent with wanting a just world to also hate the largest authoritarian regime in that world. This “but what if it’s because you’re racist?!?!” line is an absurdity

I gotta say I personally felt insulted when I was doing contracting and my hiring company bought me a 5 dollar starbucks gift card. They were making $25/hr off of me for the privilege of having introduced me to employer. Found it pretty galling.

Legit point

i think it's the word "scam" they were taking issue with

i felt that way until i read the article, then i realized it was the first really good use of "disproportionately affects..." i've seen in a while.

But in the US at least antibiotics require a prescription from doctors. So you need the doctors to play along, too, and in my own experience I’ve never received antibiotics unnecessarily

You don’t make more cuts there

> Most uses antibiotics on their kids with slightest fever

People in my vicinity generally understand that antibiotics don't help viral infections. What doctors are they getting these antibiotics from? I doubt this claim.

Ah, didn’t understand that. Thanks for clarifying!

I did, his name was Quincy, he died of cancer

Honestly I was tempted to quote the five remembrances from buddhism: “everything you love will come to change.” We put them up on gravestones for Halloween one year.

Buddhism decidedly doesn’t say “ergo, don’t love things.” It’s more “love things (people) as they are, without attachment and in full knowledge that they are ephemeral.”

Everything you love you will lose. Avoiding loving things because of that seems like a painful life strategy.

Tho upside is they sometimes have good self knowledge and insight into other people. Naturally YMMV on all points