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The lines at the pump only happened because of rationing rules, which led people to hoard and buy gas when they otherwise wouldn't have.

Claude Fable 5 1 month ago

Just wait until that other company hard-codes Fable into silicon and then it will be cheaper.

I don't know if most people would dismiss the sentence "all matter has a sort of proto-subjectivity very different from ours but which gives rise to ours". And it solves some problems (introducing others).

I like the idea, but I'm curious where to draw the boundary. If only I can read it, it can be my full recollection of everything. If I add my siblings, parents, cousins, etc, then some articles become painful or controversial (e.g. divorce, disease). Or I just ommit all the unhappy parts.

Is it a pint? 4 months ago

One thought I keep coming back to is the immense consequences of how our units of length, weight and volume were defined. Products are often sold with round numbers (1 liter, 0.5 liter, 1 kg, etc). If you could go back in time and fiddle with e.g. the definition of a pint, you'd see that reducing its volume would lead to people drinking less, until it's so small that people just order two pints.

Chest Fridge (2009) 4 months ago

You could just have a vertical fridge with "tub" drawers which individually contain the cold air.