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I'm sapiosexual, so really hot and not all that clever can't co-occur from my perspective. But education is orthogonal to intelligence and really not a factor. I'd probably find e.…

10 000 hours is the number observed among elite performers (Olympic athletes, chess grandmasters, concert level musicians and the like) - I don't think most people complaining abou…

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I think you're onto something. It seems like thinking about 'meta-relationships' tends to depersonalize the individual interactions and devalue the individuals involved. It's as th…

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Spending more to reduce recidivism is like insulating your house - if you think you can't afford it, you probably can't afford not to do it.

Canada's internet companies are basically crown corporations. Squashing competition doesn't help the consumer as much as you might imagine.

I'd guess there is still more interest in moving to London proper than space for additional housing within the city though.

I'd say Jo Zayner's the closest to Tesla due to the showpersonship and self-experimentation in public.

I wish I knew whether I was actually better at erotica than other genres or people are just more likely to pay for erotica. I suspect it's the latter...

didn't know that. Are they massive by European standards (significantly above 75 acres)? I'm sure they're small by American standards given the size of the landmass...

This field has its own version of Pascal's wager - if magic isn't real, knowing that puts one in a minority of people correct about the matter globally but only reduces social fric…

as always, it depends on practices. Here's a pretty good presentation on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z75A_JMBx4&t=783s&pp=ygUbY2...

I think the comment about dutch farms was that they were getting along fine with high labour costs and small footprints.

direct to consumer seems like a huge growth field to me actually, there's much less need for a middle man (grocer) now that everyone can buy and sell via their preferred marketplac…

Specifying technical books is interesting - my first book was fairly technical (though the spiritual theme which probably reduced the target market significantly) but my most succe…

At the end of the day, intermittent renewables and nuclear are both low-externality energy sources chasing the same public funding. Neither competes with high-externality energy so…

I don't have the numbers with me, but I've seen convincing discussions that it can work with some caveats. The main issue being that spot prices are extremely volatile, so it's pos…

reasonable statement. I think of programming as a discipline with three core skills, those being choosing what problem to solve, writing a solution, and debugging the solution. I s…

Batteries are currently following their own version of Moore's law, though they double in quality (or halve in price) every 48 instead of every 18 months. Of course, that isn't a t…

Well, yes. Permaculture seeks to adopt practices from the kind of long-running success stories you're describing. For historical reasons it does so much more with respect to paleol…

Fewer, I'd assume? What I'm curious about is whether anyone has advice for people getting into programming now.

I agree, but I'm worried about where that leaves junior devs - what are the entry level jobs for coders in a post-LLM future?

It is a fair amount of work even with forest gardens (I grew up in a permaculture project that began a few years before I was born). I think the economics are only appealing to the…

I'd really like a citation on the 'big ag has less environmental impact' claim.