> the underclasses who are routinely beaten, robbed, and killed, with no consequences for the attackers Most of the people I know have been beaten or robbed at least once, or narrowly escaped being beaten or robbed. In…
It's also how you get a list at all. I don't like EA's "Jeremy Bentham solved philosophy forever" worldview, but at least it gets them thinking big, you know? Is anyone else making these lists?
AI safety isn't an EA "preoccupation"; it's just weird enough and noticeable enough that it's easy to mistake existence and prevalence. It's also not even their weirdest position. The first question on their list is…
As other people have said, they're different sorts of thing; but the sort of thing React is wasn't as big a deal in 2010. Backbone and AngularJS, two frameworks that are practically Precambrian at this point, both had…
> Because the fact that China has not engaged in non-local applications of violence Yet. The PRC has been internationally relevant for a few decades. The US has been internationally relevant practically since its…
What about a spreadsheet program that can be scripted with Javascript? JS is nice because all you need to write it is a text editor and a web browser, both of which just about all computers have. I had an entry-level…
Major gay cities aren't necessarily major lesbian cities. The Castro happened because the military discharged gay men from the Pacific theater and a lot of them ended up there - was there a comparable dynamic for…
What's the problem with existing ones? And why do social networks draw so much attention relative to other social platform patterns, like forums? I've been thinking for a while that there should be something like a…
Be careful with Montessori. I went to a "traditional Montessori" school for a few months when I was very young. Long story short, their educational method insisted that we needed instruction in how to play with toys…
IME, workplaces are all HP or Dell. Nobody in America uses Huawei anything - I was a little surprised when I went to Europe and saw signs for Huawei phone accessories. Americans who have even a vague understanding of…
Also, in many dialects of Dutch, including the standard, the long e in the first syllable of Scheveningen is pronounced closer to the English long a than the German long e, and the final -n is silent. So a typical Dutch…
Pear juice doesn't taste like much but sugar water, so it's often used as a sweetener in things that already contain fruit.
Most of the paleo junk food I've seen has been variations on a theme of dark chocolate and coconuts. I don't have any nutrition labels to hand (paleo junk food is expensive), but I wouldn't write it off as unhealthy…
Does that mean Americans deserve to be subject to the cartels and MS-13?
From the ads I got on Tumblr, it felt like one of the things they were trying to do was build the leftist millennial equivalent of Glenn Beck's email lists or whatever. I'm not sure how well that would mesh with a porn…
Didn't Tumblr lose about a third of its traffic after the porn ban? And I don't think the site's culture veering off into Puritanism as it is now will be good for it in the long run. If there were a better site, I'd…
Some gun vloggers were talking about moving to a porn site after Youtube banned them, but I don't know if anything came of it. There's also a Pornhub meme community. Brightly colored videos of dancing Shrek heads and so…
I'm in Massachusetts and when I got a grunt job at an Amazon FC a few years ago I had to sign a noncompete. I don't know if it's enforceable and doubt it'd be enforced, but technically I think I'm not supposed to take a…
Flash. The transition to JS + canvas wasn't too bad for games, although JS games can't be distributed as single files, but for animation I don't think there's anything like it anymore. And we forget how much of early…
Most of the computational methods stuff I see in historical linguistics is about trying to put a computational gloss over lexicostatistics, which I don't think is a very promising field. Preliminary surveys of probable…
Not even close, but it's an unusually easy field to follow from outside academia.
Yes, modafinil. The majority of the people I know use it. (So do I, but that's because I work an overnight shift... maybe once I finish this side project I'll be able to land a nice 9-5 software job.)
I live in Boston. The Orange Line mostly runs through neighborhoods you wouldn't want to go to at night (or even in broad daylight), but recently they put in a new stop with a lot of development aimed at the upper…
Here: https://i.imgur.com/IOenPsu.png
I grew up in a suburb filled with Bradford pears. Every spring, the whole neighborhood smelled. It wasn't exactly a barren area -- there were plenty of native trees. We had to rip out a lot of maple seedlings that were…
> the underclasses who are routinely beaten, robbed, and killed, with no consequences for the attackers Most of the people I know have been beaten or robbed at least once, or narrowly escaped being beaten or robbed. In…
It's also how you get a list at all. I don't like EA's "Jeremy Bentham solved philosophy forever" worldview, but at least it gets them thinking big, you know? Is anyone else making these lists?
AI safety isn't an EA "preoccupation"; it's just weird enough and noticeable enough that it's easy to mistake existence and prevalence. It's also not even their weirdest position. The first question on their list is…
As other people have said, they're different sorts of thing; but the sort of thing React is wasn't as big a deal in 2010. Backbone and AngularJS, two frameworks that are practically Precambrian at this point, both had…
> Because the fact that China has not engaged in non-local applications of violence Yet. The PRC has been internationally relevant for a few decades. The US has been internationally relevant practically since its…
What about a spreadsheet program that can be scripted with Javascript? JS is nice because all you need to write it is a text editor and a web browser, both of which just about all computers have. I had an entry-level…
Major gay cities aren't necessarily major lesbian cities. The Castro happened because the military discharged gay men from the Pacific theater and a lot of them ended up there - was there a comparable dynamic for…
What's the problem with existing ones? And why do social networks draw so much attention relative to other social platform patterns, like forums? I've been thinking for a while that there should be something like a…
Be careful with Montessori. I went to a "traditional Montessori" school for a few months when I was very young. Long story short, their educational method insisted that we needed instruction in how to play with toys…
IME, workplaces are all HP or Dell. Nobody in America uses Huawei anything - I was a little surprised when I went to Europe and saw signs for Huawei phone accessories. Americans who have even a vague understanding of…
Also, in many dialects of Dutch, including the standard, the long e in the first syllable of Scheveningen is pronounced closer to the English long a than the German long e, and the final -n is silent. So a typical Dutch…
Pear juice doesn't taste like much but sugar water, so it's often used as a sweetener in things that already contain fruit.
Most of the paleo junk food I've seen has been variations on a theme of dark chocolate and coconuts. I don't have any nutrition labels to hand (paleo junk food is expensive), but I wouldn't write it off as unhealthy…
Does that mean Americans deserve to be subject to the cartels and MS-13?
From the ads I got on Tumblr, it felt like one of the things they were trying to do was build the leftist millennial equivalent of Glenn Beck's email lists or whatever. I'm not sure how well that would mesh with a porn…
Didn't Tumblr lose about a third of its traffic after the porn ban? And I don't think the site's culture veering off into Puritanism as it is now will be good for it in the long run. If there were a better site, I'd…
Some gun vloggers were talking about moving to a porn site after Youtube banned them, but I don't know if anything came of it. There's also a Pornhub meme community. Brightly colored videos of dancing Shrek heads and so…
I'm in Massachusetts and when I got a grunt job at an Amazon FC a few years ago I had to sign a noncompete. I don't know if it's enforceable and doubt it'd be enforced, but technically I think I'm not supposed to take a…
Flash. The transition to JS + canvas wasn't too bad for games, although JS games can't be distributed as single files, but for animation I don't think there's anything like it anymore. And we forget how much of early…
Most of the computational methods stuff I see in historical linguistics is about trying to put a computational gloss over lexicostatistics, which I don't think is a very promising field. Preliminary surveys of probable…
Not even close, but it's an unusually easy field to follow from outside academia.
Yes, modafinil. The majority of the people I know use it. (So do I, but that's because I work an overnight shift... maybe once I finish this side project I'll be able to land a nice 9-5 software job.)
I live in Boston. The Orange Line mostly runs through neighborhoods you wouldn't want to go to at night (or even in broad daylight), but recently they put in a new stop with a lot of development aimed at the upper…
Here: https://i.imgur.com/IOenPsu.png
I grew up in a suburb filled with Bradford pears. Every spring, the whole neighborhood smelled. It wasn't exactly a barren area -- there were plenty of native trees. We had to rip out a lot of maple seedlings that were…