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Some of the controls are a bit disorienting. All observations below are from the demo: 1) When I create a goal, theres no obvious way that the goal is "created". I just press the b…

Thanks for reminding me. I planned on doing "cycles" between my favorite substackers (buy, cancel, read the backlog, switch to a new author), but i ended up with 5 concurrent subsc…

I was just reading a blog complaining about commenters not reading the article, and the next comment I read on a completely different article did not RTFQ. > got some kind of shall…

It should be reassuring to know that most of the things you interact with are actually too bandwidth constrained to care about those things, and the algos you interact with are fai…

Don't get nitty about saying "my X". People say "my plumber" or "my hairstylist" or whatever all the time.

I would be willing to bet money they use the same tool.

A person yelling "fire" in a crowded theater gets in trouble, but a person yelling "there is no fire" in a crowded theater in a theater definitely on fire is... being silenced?

You say this but it still feels gross to do.

Consider that maybe the space shuttles exploding _was_ our thing. Boomers got to see the surface of the Moon. Zoomers got to see cheap flight and robotic victories. Millennials wer…

I think there are reams of people living in cities like SF, NYC, and DC that are retired and make do without a car. In fact, I would bet that the elderly live better lives on all m…

Bicycles for the minds are only useful for minds that have a good idea of where they're biking to!

Are the disabled and elderly supposed to be able to wield two ton death machines better and safer than an electric wheelchair or walker?

How much of Wahhabi not being a global caliphate is that they just can't right now?

You are ignoring the article and attacking the publisher. Indeed, the article itself invites scrutiny.

If you get disposed of in 9 out of 10 companies, then 50% of the time it takes about five disposals to find a job where you do get promoted. Seems like the strategy to take if you …

People that play zero sum games only get to play with other zero sum players. There is some risk they will lose. People that play win-win games get to play with other winners (and …

Are you responding to the parent comment? Do you not see how "I'm a mercenary" is as toxic as "I hustle 12 hours a day everyday"?

The Big Bang has physical evidence for its existence that you can personally verify.

Serialized fiction is basically how many many classics came to us. Today, lots of online fiction, like Andy Weir's The Martian or Scott Alexander's Unsong, starts out as serialized…

If it were a hedge against inflation, it would behave like a hedge against inflation, and yet it shows no similar characteristics to preexisting inflation hedges? hmmmmm

I don't see why you're lumping in IUDs with electroshock therapy and chiropractors? Sure, the CCP is awful and has awful policies, but IUDs are strong indicators of a healthy healt…

They are being sarcastic so as to parody the OP

One thing to consider is that NASA missions are basically always using older technology, because by the time the mission gets approved, designed, and built consumer/business tech h…

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This was a useful comment, assuming it is true, and even though it is a "debate on definitions" quibble.