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when in doubt, choose (b). when in doubt, wear black.

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Leapfrogging

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A device-independent protocol for more efficient random number generation

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VS Code is now available for M1 / Apple Silicon

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What to do when you have a bad boss

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What Is Mathematics?

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Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker

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The Mobile Native Foundation

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You can now beam Steam games from your PC to anyone, anywhere, for free

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‘Deep Nostalgia’ Brings People in Old Photos Back to Life

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Kalman Filter

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Optionality

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Being a Polyglot Programmer

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Documentary project about surveillance and micro-politics of neighborhoods

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The context in which we build software

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Notes on Achieving and Maintaining Mental Wellness as a Stanford PhD Candidate

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Well, the article’s focus is on asynchrony. Naturally then, it talks about closures within the context of asynchrony and to the extent that it is relevant.

The author could have made the topic about closures, but that’s not what they wanted to talk about.

I know what you’re saying, but at some point you could argue we “ARE eating the wrong thing”, considering our population size.

Said differently, I hypothesize that it would be more practicable to create policies that influence what we eat and how that food is produced, compared to creating policies that try to reduce population size. If anything, it appears that more advanced countries are competing to gain population so that the machinery of their societies can keep chugging along in the name of growth.

EDIT: elsewhere in the thread I see people comment on multi-use of animals vs plants, and the consequent implication of increased use of undesirable synthetics/plastics if we raise fewer animals. Systems get complex, and their behavior can change drastically in surprising ways if you start fiddling. But fiddling we must.

But i assume that if i ever wear a skirt, nobody would give a damn.

Really? Give it a try for a month.

I would be highly surprised if you don’t get called names, ridiculed, or worse, physically attacked.

And that is if your employer even allows you to wear a dress in the office.

Love the audacity of building back better multiple dimensions of our internet experience.

However:

end the debate about search engine bias by turning search result output over to a community-run filtering system called Goggles

Not sure why something "community-run" would automatically/necessarily solve bias... So looking forward to deeper thinking by the Brave team.

One of the comments on the article:

“ Banks create money out of nothing. Where does the real wealth in the economy lie?

It’s easiest to see when people get it badly wrong Weimar Germany and Zimbabwe had created far too much money compared to the goods and services available within the economy causing hyper-inflation. States can just create money, and the last thing you want is too much of the damn stuff in your economy. They had made so much money it lost nearly all its value, and they needed wheelbarrows of the stuff to buy anything.

States can create money out of nothing as well. You need the right amount of money in the economy for the goods and services available within that economy. The real wealth lies in the good and services available with the economy and is measured by GDP.

Central bankers actually look at the money supply, and expect it to rise in line with the new goods and services in the economy, as it grows. More goods and services in the economy require more money in the economy. This is the problem with gold and Bitcoin, they are not really flexible enough.”

Coinbase S-1 5 years ago

(1) Fed policy as well as (2) economic growth and corporate profits (or lack thereof). The argument is that (2) is an inevitability of the market, whereas (1) is political.

The market is influenced by politics more than you might expect, and, conversely, the Fed’s actions are less political that you think.

The article had this but that stood out to me:

“It isn’t possible for everyone to live on principle; as a practical matter, many of us must make compromises in asymmetrical relationships, without the control or consent for which we might wish.”

Even if you could just “go off on your own into space”, you will likely need to transact with other humans in order to survive. Put differently, I think while it is an “option” in principle, it isn’t in reality.

oppressive societal forces is personal space travel and colonization

Why do you think colonies in space will be different and not see “societal forces” emerge?