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There's a great recent documentary on Netflix called My Octopus Teacher about an octopus which displayed some of these behaviors (interspecies bonding, tactile drive, play). Anothe…

Most planets don't have life.

My issue with microtransactions is that the cost of making the decision seems like it outweighs the currency cost. Like, I used to buy computer games (e.g. from Steam) when they we…

>Say you flip a coin a few times and only get heads. Your maximum likelihood (frequentist) estimate is that the coin will always land heads. In a Bayesian setting, if you have a (s…

>The training algorithms for deep learning are also the hottest algorithm research area in machine learning, and are certainly applicable beyond deep learning. The lore I've heard …

Why is mean reversion difficult to trade?

Dalio admits in this that he didn't see the pandemic coming.

What poor hiring practices does Google have?

Most startups offer equity to their employees. "the company is owned by tyrants" Citation needed.

Graduating from Yale Law sounds like it's for suckers. Let the elites have their crazy working hours and stressful hoop jumping--I'm not envious.

Drones which plant trees seem pretty exciting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkNdrTZ7CG4

>The way forward for us is developing and owning our own locations together with customers, neighbors, service providers etc, and that in unusual but really interesting locations (…

That's why you need better roommate matching: to find roommates who are cool with a cat + overnight guests.

Why not have the common space on the bottom floor and make it an actual coffee shop? Then you're no longer working against developer incentives. I guess it would need to be mixed-u…

>"never choose friends for roommates" was a common saying - you spend too much time around roommates and have too many petty disagreements with them In my experience, great convers…

>I'm now in a complex where we all hang out in the parking lot most afternoons. Sounds like you have something rare and valuable. Anyway, you make good points. From the point of vi…

>if you’re not knee deep in a community with a strong sense of values and culture (like EA), finding matches can be challenging. Another comment in this thread expressed the opposi…

What issues have the coliving companies been running into?

What issues did Roam.co run into?

I had some really nasty RSI a few years back. This website saved my career: https://www.painscience.com

I've seen some extremely toxic political discussion on metafilter.

Another possible takeaway is if you want a clean codebase, you should hire a woman to write it, since women apparently care about clean code more.