> This is the same argument for casinos but states don’t run those. In most (or at least a lot of) countries states regulate casinos _so much_ than it becomes almost a technicality that casinos are privately owned. Also…
... I haven't been thinking about inflation ... But less jokingly, "you're wrong about X"/"you're doing X wrong" is quite clickbaity
imagine a writer writing more books than they read. imagine a film director directing more movies than they watch. imagine a software engineer writing more code than they read. imagine a musician writing more songs than…
(As an atheist who found The God Delusion to be one of the most important books I've ever read, as it gave me a solid framework of arguing in what I already considered to be true) It's okay to read more digestible…
Personally -- I couldn't get past the first 2 chapters of the book. The notations it introduces are pretty unfamiliar for a newcomer and it quickly becomes really hard to follow. I genuinely would like to hear from…
I was asking myself the same question. The conclusion I came to is that the getting your mind blown phase doesn't keep you coming back again and again -- it's why games like Minecraft/League of Legends have much higher…
> I think less people are interested in actually owning their housing. How do you reconcile this impression of yours with the fact that housing prices are shooting up in all major cities, and have been so for decades?…
What I meant is that making fun about how silly he was is elitist, meaning people like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert did nothing to help the liberal cause. George Bush himself does indeed come from political royalty,…
> He's just lucky that President Trump came along to steal the title of "greatest criminal in the White House in the last 50 years" from him. Pretty hard to make the argument than in terms of kill count Bush doesn't win…
(a) & (b) definitely. But I think that looking at it in context, it was a piece that maybe liberals should have read. During the Bush years everybody liked to point out the gaffes Bush was doing as if intelligent…
> I agree that it's very obscure but I take that for Swedish with the silver lining that learning an obscure language will be, in the worst case, a good party trick. It takes years to become conversational in a language…
I expect it to become significantly less fun the moment one of them gets fired / lags behind the others on work performance / gets into a long term relationship and wants to move out and suddenly finds out they're not…
> One observation I'll make is that although adoption is considered a noble act in the US, many other countries consider it be throwing your baby away to be exploited. Adoption is considered a noble act in Romania
At the time there were two issues: - (I think) school teachers were better paid than now, relative to the average population - People in communism mostly knew the US through Hollywood films, which portray a way more…
My dad was salty during communism that he didn't get more "respect" for his labor (highschool teacher) than your run of the mill factory worker. I remember during the early 90s how he was hopefully saying that once the…
I don't know man, I tried to use it two weeks ago and I couldn't even get the chat to work. Neither could I try out their functional programming language.
Actually I'm European. Though on European powers winning land wars in Asia -- I think it's a question of what are the boundaries of Europe, both in time and in space. And Kevin Kelly was wise not to get into that debate.
I will make sure never to get myself in a land war in Asia
This reminds me a lot of that "wear sunscreen" chain mail https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen These folksy wisdom thingies, especially from accomplished people, come off as patronizing to me.
I have been using #lang sicp in Racket to go through (most of) SICP -- and it's been mostly a smooth ride. DrRacket can get very slow on Linux, so eventually I switched back to vim+terminal once exercises started to…
I've been going through SICP for a year and a half now on and off. At this point I don't feel I've been getting back all the effort I put in it. I think it's mostly recommended by people who didn't do all the exercises,…
Any examples?
I think the point was that these studies aim to make a serious statement about serious topics, but they rarely get to be properly reproduced and tested. And when they're not challenged they can creep into our official…
A bottle of wine has 8 standard units of alcohol, and the British NHS recommends keeping the intake to < 14 units per week, so a bottle of wine per week should be well within the perfectly fine area.
I'll patiently wait until I see more physician consensus around this issue https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/08/24/john-ioannidis-aims-his... Given the recent 180 degree turn on "eat fat => heart attack", I think some…
> This is the same argument for casinos but states don’t run those. In most (or at least a lot of) countries states regulate casinos _so much_ than it becomes almost a technicality that casinos are privately owned. Also…
... I haven't been thinking about inflation ... But less jokingly, "you're wrong about X"/"you're doing X wrong" is quite clickbaity
imagine a writer writing more books than they read. imagine a film director directing more movies than they watch. imagine a software engineer writing more code than they read. imagine a musician writing more songs than…
(As an atheist who found The God Delusion to be one of the most important books I've ever read, as it gave me a solid framework of arguing in what I already considered to be true) It's okay to read more digestible…
Personally -- I couldn't get past the first 2 chapters of the book. The notations it introduces are pretty unfamiliar for a newcomer and it quickly becomes really hard to follow. I genuinely would like to hear from…
I was asking myself the same question. The conclusion I came to is that the getting your mind blown phase doesn't keep you coming back again and again -- it's why games like Minecraft/League of Legends have much higher…
> I think less people are interested in actually owning their housing. How do you reconcile this impression of yours with the fact that housing prices are shooting up in all major cities, and have been so for decades?…
What I meant is that making fun about how silly he was is elitist, meaning people like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert did nothing to help the liberal cause. George Bush himself does indeed come from political royalty,…
> He's just lucky that President Trump came along to steal the title of "greatest criminal in the White House in the last 50 years" from him. Pretty hard to make the argument than in terms of kill count Bush doesn't win…
(a) & (b) definitely. But I think that looking at it in context, it was a piece that maybe liberals should have read. During the Bush years everybody liked to point out the gaffes Bush was doing as if intelligent…
> I agree that it's very obscure but I take that for Swedish with the silver lining that learning an obscure language will be, in the worst case, a good party trick. It takes years to become conversational in a language…
I expect it to become significantly less fun the moment one of them gets fired / lags behind the others on work performance / gets into a long term relationship and wants to move out and suddenly finds out they're not…
> One observation I'll make is that although adoption is considered a noble act in the US, many other countries consider it be throwing your baby away to be exploited. Adoption is considered a noble act in Romania
At the time there were two issues: - (I think) school teachers were better paid than now, relative to the average population - People in communism mostly knew the US through Hollywood films, which portray a way more…
My dad was salty during communism that he didn't get more "respect" for his labor (highschool teacher) than your run of the mill factory worker. I remember during the early 90s how he was hopefully saying that once the…
I don't know man, I tried to use it two weeks ago and I couldn't even get the chat to work. Neither could I try out their functional programming language.
Actually I'm European. Though on European powers winning land wars in Asia -- I think it's a question of what are the boundaries of Europe, both in time and in space. And Kevin Kelly was wise not to get into that debate.
I will make sure never to get myself in a land war in Asia
This reminds me a lot of that "wear sunscreen" chain mail https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen These folksy wisdom thingies, especially from accomplished people, come off as patronizing to me.
I have been using #lang sicp in Racket to go through (most of) SICP -- and it's been mostly a smooth ride. DrRacket can get very slow on Linux, so eventually I switched back to vim+terminal once exercises started to…
I've been going through SICP for a year and a half now on and off. At this point I don't feel I've been getting back all the effort I put in it. I think it's mostly recommended by people who didn't do all the exercises,…
Any examples?
I think the point was that these studies aim to make a serious statement about serious topics, but they rarely get to be properly reproduced and tested. And when they're not challenged they can creep into our official…
A bottle of wine has 8 standard units of alcohol, and the British NHS recommends keeping the intake to < 14 units per week, so a bottle of wine per week should be well within the perfectly fine area.
I'll patiently wait until I see more physician consensus around this issue https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/08/24/john-ioannidis-aims-his... Given the recent 180 degree turn on "eat fat => heart attack", I think some…