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What comes to mind is how the cure for scurvy was simply… forgotten, causing it to come back.

> but don't look "reproducible" or "repeatable". IMO, "ish". You can reliably and repeatedly produce good teams _if_ you reliably and repeatedly invest in your people. IMO, what's …

I remember (the one time I snuck into NIPS) a buuunch of papers on "fairness", and it was basically: "We have decided that this input should not affect the outcome. Does it? If so,…

Mostly agree, but I’d advocate for a carve-out for DropoutTV; maybe; exempt if (1) only hosting your own content and (2) that content can be licensed by other services?

I don’t know how much of this paper I can understand but I find it pretty interesting that, AFAICT, the dominant engineering paradigm of an era is also the dominant “this is what r…

It’s more than twice(1) as easy to make a rocket-propelled bullet than a rocket-propelled vehicle! 1) It’d be exactly twice as easy but for Tsiolkovsky!

Consider that context heavily impacts how you show up, and in a therapy context, you’re likely to be a lot more relaxed. So I’d bet it’s not that you’re masking that terror when yo…

I think this means you didn’t read the piece, as it addresses this concern of yours in perhaps the simplest way possible: it’s about why each prior modality has issues.

Yes, survivorship bias is probably happening here; but I’m not doing anything like “sorting by paid”. Each of these authors I discovered “organically”; generally through Reddit or …

Maybe it’s a semantics thing (if we have different definitions for “gate keeping”)… but, I’ll fight you on that hill: Gate keeping is one of the primary means by which a community …

looks at Patreon Depends what you’re writing about. The chicken xianxia is something like $10k/mo, a Friren-inspired fic is a whopping 30k (and like 3mo old from a complete unknown…

Am I missing something or is this literally just Ruby? Like - it doesn’t list Ruby as a supported language, but, it also looks like fully executable Ruby code? (To be fair, I’m in …

It works better if you “split the axis”; (imo) good code is easy to modify, bad code is hard to understand. Everything else is, as you say, trade offs, and so only evaluatable with…

"At last, we at Unicorn Startup, Inc have built the Torment Nexus from the famous sci-fi story Don't Build The Torment Nexus"

IMO - There's a few games that match it, but nothing "in the same category". Braid, Portal, Stanley Parable come to mind. (Also what I hear about Baldur's Gate 3, but I haven't pla…

Do you know if anyone has ever sued to either not pay taxes while not allowed to vote, or to be allowed to vote? Ye olde "no taxation without representation"?

Huh. I wonder if part of this is that, when you make a globe, you’ll pretty much always look “down” on it. And as another poster said, most of the land (and thus peoples and nation…

What’d you do after that?

Eh. While that might be true in the course of say, governance - where IMO it’s important and worthwhile to use scientific methodology (statistics, etc) to establish “importance” - …

AFAIK, you cut off shitty relatives… …and you usually find out they’re shitty because of how they handle (or don’t) “political” conversations. Pro tip: You don’t get to decide for …

Because notionally, the “game” isn’t supposed to be winners-take-all. And democrats believe in the game even when they’re not winning.

No, no, a thousand times no. The package file (whatever your system) is communication to other humans about what you know about the versions you need. The lockfile is the communica…

Haha. No. I spent hours before hand talking with involved other people, and then I spent hours talking with these people, and then hours more processing the conversations (on my ow…

I've seen four "in person", one very public (just purely IRL public). I didn't see anyone (with one exception) pick sides immediately; although most people's "picked" side was "not…

> It's clear as mud. NGL, love this phrase for this situation; I'm reading it as: "utterly opaque but also clearly what it is (mud)"