If you have sound mental health and are extremely driven, are able to focus despite the courseload and competition, and you are confident you'll graduate on time, then pick MIT. You minimize debt by graduating as soon…
Meanwhile I love the word "deliverable." Sometimes it's hard to think of an umbrella word for all the things you produce. It can be anything from a stack of pamphlets coming hot off the printing press, or those pin…
Not OP but I also looked into it and agree: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnint.2019.0001...
Technical writer looking for contract or part time opportunities Location: UTC-5 (NYC) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Elbow grease Résumé/CV: https://ceruulean.github.io/cvage/ Email:…
I think it's helpful to distinguish between "authors" and "publishers." We can see this play out in the traditional publishing industry. Authors are supposed to submit a manuscript with the least amount of formatting.…
Here's a Pocket article explaining it: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-irs-already-has-all-y... > Consequently, of the more than 100 million taxpayers eligible for free help, 35% end up paying for tax preparation…
A relevant essay: "No More Creepy Crawlies" by Anthony Pearce https://reckoning.press/no-more-creepy-crawlies/ The magazine also has a lot of cli-fi stories posted for free, so I recommend checking it out.
I think it's really funny that fantasy and DnD artists draw taverns as spacious inns with tons of rooms, when in reality most ancient people were sleeping together in the same room, peeing together in the same bathroom,…
According to this article, if you get accidentally declared dead in the US, companies and institutions make their own copies of the death records and they aren't kept in sync with the governments. So even after you…
For prep work, you can store pizza dough as little balls, or pre-flatten them and put them on racks, freezing many more pizza doughs than bread doughs. Preparing a pizza crust is as easy as using a press, but to make…
Yeah, everyone conveniently forgets what is the second sin of Adam from the Bible (if they're subscribed to that belief system)
This is awesome. I wished they taught something like this in high school instead of God knows what's being taught nowadays.
First of all, there's plenty of whores if you think sex is a human right. Prostitution is the oldest profession. If we normalize sex work, people can meet demand without getting shamed. Who's trying to do that? Mostly…
Monero is so underrrated. It's always "bitcoin this, bitcoin that" as if that's the only currency which matters. For now, since fiat onramps are pretty obvious, people report their taxes like normal. Record each…
There's a time and place for visuals. Geometry is a form of visual math, but how do you "visualize" models that go beyond the 3rd dimension...? For most people, trigonometry is enough to build stuff with. And for many…
How is email more accessible than Usenet? Grandma isn't doing SMTP
Just because your friend misunderstood and jumped on a bandwagon doesn't mean that they're wrong. They have the right idea. Even non-technical people understand that cryptocurrency can solve real problems. However, not…
Now this is why I don't feel like buying new hardware
Bitcoin is a 1.0, a beta version that caught on. Anybody who knows better wouldn't use Bitcoin as money, that's true. They've moved on to Monero.
It can't be much worse than relatives claiming you as dead so they can have your house, and then every government system denies you any service because you're "dead"
It's inertia. Why would an "account" be any different from a "wallet?" Or an "secret key" from "routing number?" And yeah the UX is not quite there yet. It gets better depending on the project. Crypto.com for example…
You don't invest your life savings, just enough to where you can let it sit. Convert small increments to fiat when it's high, or purchase using crypto directly.
I think there was a study that showed psychopaths don't get addicted to drugs. Something something brain reward centers something. Or maybe it's anecdotal, a drug dealer's one customer who's "like a machine" and can…
I can't remember where I heard about this, but isn't there some kind of "surgeon model" where you have one star player do the majority of work, and everyone else is support staff? It's a pattern that emerges, and not a…
Write good, unbloated code that doesn't wear out parts faster, so that people don't feel like throwing away their perfectly fine laptops because it's gotten "too slow"
If you have sound mental health and are extremely driven, are able to focus despite the courseload and competition, and you are confident you'll graduate on time, then pick MIT. You minimize debt by graduating as soon…
Meanwhile I love the word "deliverable." Sometimes it's hard to think of an umbrella word for all the things you produce. It can be anything from a stack of pamphlets coming hot off the printing press, or those pin…
Not OP but I also looked into it and agree: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnint.2019.0001...
Technical writer looking for contract or part time opportunities Location: UTC-5 (NYC) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Elbow grease Résumé/CV: https://ceruulean.github.io/cvage/ Email:…
I think it's helpful to distinguish between "authors" and "publishers." We can see this play out in the traditional publishing industry. Authors are supposed to submit a manuscript with the least amount of formatting.…
Here's a Pocket article explaining it: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-irs-already-has-all-y... > Consequently, of the more than 100 million taxpayers eligible for free help, 35% end up paying for tax preparation…
A relevant essay: "No More Creepy Crawlies" by Anthony Pearce https://reckoning.press/no-more-creepy-crawlies/ The magazine also has a lot of cli-fi stories posted for free, so I recommend checking it out.
I think it's really funny that fantasy and DnD artists draw taverns as spacious inns with tons of rooms, when in reality most ancient people were sleeping together in the same room, peeing together in the same bathroom,…
According to this article, if you get accidentally declared dead in the US, companies and institutions make their own copies of the death records and they aren't kept in sync with the governments. So even after you…
For prep work, you can store pizza dough as little balls, or pre-flatten them and put them on racks, freezing many more pizza doughs than bread doughs. Preparing a pizza crust is as easy as using a press, but to make…
Yeah, everyone conveniently forgets what is the second sin of Adam from the Bible (if they're subscribed to that belief system)
This is awesome. I wished they taught something like this in high school instead of God knows what's being taught nowadays.
First of all, there's plenty of whores if you think sex is a human right. Prostitution is the oldest profession. If we normalize sex work, people can meet demand without getting shamed. Who's trying to do that? Mostly…
Monero is so underrrated. It's always "bitcoin this, bitcoin that" as if that's the only currency which matters. For now, since fiat onramps are pretty obvious, people report their taxes like normal. Record each…
There's a time and place for visuals. Geometry is a form of visual math, but how do you "visualize" models that go beyond the 3rd dimension...? For most people, trigonometry is enough to build stuff with. And for many…
How is email more accessible than Usenet? Grandma isn't doing SMTP
Just because your friend misunderstood and jumped on a bandwagon doesn't mean that they're wrong. They have the right idea. Even non-technical people understand that cryptocurrency can solve real problems. However, not…
Now this is why I don't feel like buying new hardware
Bitcoin is a 1.0, a beta version that caught on. Anybody who knows better wouldn't use Bitcoin as money, that's true. They've moved on to Monero.
It can't be much worse than relatives claiming you as dead so they can have your house, and then every government system denies you any service because you're "dead"
It's inertia. Why would an "account" be any different from a "wallet?" Or an "secret key" from "routing number?" And yeah the UX is not quite there yet. It gets better depending on the project. Crypto.com for example…
You don't invest your life savings, just enough to where you can let it sit. Convert small increments to fiat when it's high, or purchase using crypto directly.
I think there was a study that showed psychopaths don't get addicted to drugs. Something something brain reward centers something. Or maybe it's anecdotal, a drug dealer's one customer who's "like a machine" and can…
I can't remember where I heard about this, but isn't there some kind of "surgeon model" where you have one star player do the majority of work, and everyone else is support staff? It's a pattern that emerges, and not a…
Write good, unbloated code that doesn't wear out parts faster, so that people don't feel like throwing away their perfectly fine laptops because it's gotten "too slow"