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I think it might be better to get rid of the organ *donation* system entirely.

Organ transplant surgery costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, yet donors get zilch, which is completely unfair when everyone else in the value chain gets paid.

If instead it was "allow my organs to be sold for my estate" I think the supply of organs would greatly increase, which would be win/win.

One man's eduction is another man's indoctrination and your comment is a prime example of that.

I think novelty-seeking is a symptom rather than cause of procrastination.

If you're in an impulsive mode, that's what causes procrastination. Being impulsive will obviously lead to novelty seeking.

Here's how I model the action loop (image at the top): https://wisedayplanner.com/blog/action-loop-impulsive-vs-eff...

There's a post that says illness killed some important leaders (who were friends) on both sides of the camp. Once these leaders died, the two groups realized they didn't have anything in common with each other so they're fighting.

There's a balance to be had between introspection and taking action. People tend to have a bias for one or the other (action bias vs thinking bias.)

Those who act would do well to think a bit more, and those who think a lot need help taking action.

I recently launched an app that can help in either case (Wiseday on the app store.)

It lets you print a daily page that can both be used to introspect, as well as an execution aid to help you actually take consistent action towards your goals.

What happens if a natural (massive volcano eruption) or man made disaster (e.g. nuclear war) darkens the skies for weeks? Don't hitch your energy needs on one technology.

What a stupid thing to call a paradox. When infrastructure is better, you'd expect it to be used more.

Ah yes, managing people, science, and research and development are well known to be very predictable and stable, easily modeled even by a teenager.

This looks neat, not exactly sure how useful such a tiny space for each day would be by itself.

I took the complete opposite approach with Wiseday, giving each day its own page (and each waking hour some space too.)

Example: https://imgur.com/a/LjSDPw9

V1 releasing on iOS as soon as Apple finishes reviewing if anyone wants to try (waitlist at https://wisedayplanner.com/waitlist/)

You don't understand that news item. The police didn't search a specific person's account, they asked Google (who gave it to them voluntarily) anyone who searched the victim's address in the past week. Nothing unconstitutional about that.

Anthropic had to pay $1.5 billion recently so you're incorrect. I'm sure more of such cases will come up against big tech too.

The world's marketplace is alibaba.com, or aliexpress.com for individual orders.

You can find 99% of the junk on amazon on aliexpress for a lower price, though without prime shipping.

Does anyone know whether it makes sense to setup solar arrays closer to users or to concentrate them in sunny places and send them throughout the country?

e.g. an analysis of whether we should setup all the solar farms in Nevada for the whole country... set them up in the general south and transmit north... or will each state have their own farms?

Isn’t Rockwool the unwoven version of this?

IPv6 wouldn't solve this, since IPs would be too cheap to meter.

People absolutely can control quality. A simple example is handwriting, I can write chicken scratch or something neater if I slow down. Working longer on many creative pursuits will improve the quality, by experimenting with ideas.

If there's a one word takeaway of the article it's attitude, and I'm curious if someone with as foul a one as yours can compete as well. Let me know if you write something!

The reason you feel that way is because social anxiety correlates with anhedonia. The person doesn't engage in playfulness which is the basis of social connection across mammals. Because they aren't playful, you perceive this as "deepness."

This cognitive fallacy connecting deepness / seriousness to substance, and connecting playfulness to triviality and frivolity has unfortunately affected me (I remember arguing it in high school English class!)

Consciously adopting a "playful" attitude fixes my social anxiety, and adds charisma and humor to my character.

So HN is upvoting AI written ad slop now?

3d printing is not the approach that will yield organs. My money is on the work Michael Levin is doing on bioelectronics, where you essentially “command” (/convince) cells to turn into the organ you need by talking with them in cellular electronic language.

I never said get rid of cash, CBDCs and cash can coexist.

Also it would make welfare more efficient, as you can garnish earnings from citizens to repay back the debt, whereas now it's just a gift.

CBDCs and cash dollars can coexist. If you don't like borrowing from the government, no one is forcing you, you can earn and spend as you do now.

Interest is not always fulfilled by usury.

For example, friends lend each other money without usury simply because the "interest" comes from helping a friend.

Similarly, the central bank which is an agent of the government fulfills its interest by having healthy citizens. So there probably wouldn't be usury.

Instead, earnings from the citizen would be garnished if they had debt.

UBI is the wrong approach.

Once CBDCs become a thing, citizens should have the ability to have direct credit relationships with the central bank.

We can then transition from a cash based monetary system to an accrual based one (similar to how businesses do their accounting.)

Public benefits, then, rather than being given out like it is currently (e.g. you get $200 for food stamps) will instead be based on allowing you to draw credit.

So, the eGovCreditCard would for example always allow any citizen to draw $200 per month for food expenses.

Potentially, if we want to do more generous policies a la "UBI," we could add e.g. $1000 always being allowed per month for rent.

Health care similarly, instead of if the archaic and very inefficient system we have now where those on the dole often go to emergency rooms, money is funneled through "insurance", etc... would allow you to draw money for regular doctor care. Maybe at a set maxiumim limit per citizen, e.g. $1M.

But calling it homelessness is pretty insulting to the actual homeless

I'm sure homeless people have more pressing thoughts than what words nerds on the internet use to describe outdoor living

More likely he learned the algorithm to create fake coupons himself. If I recall correctly it's literally just the UPC and how much to take off. There was NO security to the system.

Based on the blog post saying they're able to use their fleet (i.e. owners of comma) to train their models, it's probably to send footage back home. Tesla does this too btw.

If you were going to give an example, Switzerland would have been a good one. But they have elements of exactly what I'm talking about, considering there are French, Italian, German quarters of the country.

Nordics have only recently become democracies, <100 years ago.

To clarify, the context of the discussion was the resiliency of democracy, not some dick measuring contest of which country is presently more democratic.

Turkey bought Russian weapons and wasn't kicked out. They were barred from buying more US weapons for a while.

Neither concept nor plan are appropriate alternatives for scheme. Let's not argue with the inventors of the language on word choice.