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Working on mainframes and with computers was considered secretarial work by almost everyone around that time. The role of computers in work, and the status of working with computer…

Where I live, there's just a growing sense that rent and homeownership are wildly more expensive compared to what you get. Lack of development in the urban core has made moving any…

> With AI we do have the chance to return to meritocracy No, you've identified the real issue: all the CEOs come from Harvard/Yale. There is a very large wealth class divide betwee…

I've found my sleep regularity to be pretty malleable. It can become a habit. When I was in grad school I went to bed at midnight and woke up at 7am. Once I started running more in…

Berklee Press has some excellent books with what you're looking for, one in 3 volumes by Will Leavitt. There's another that's more barebones but covers the basics well by Hal Leona…

The only benefit is, long-term, hopefulyy, the people ejected from this model can often end up forming their own indie teams and creating their own games. Indie games are at an inc…

Even if you ignore the, frankly, incredible impact of this ruling on the very idea of a modern independent civil service, it is crazy to see this opinion come alongside another tha…

It's kind of useful to only think of these things as "particles" in a nominal sense. You need to adopt a "quantum imagination". I tend to think of them as a wave or field of probab…

If you have a good external reference point. But it's also pretty easy to have your tuning drift quite a bit away from E standard if you solely rely on the strings. Getting a stand…

They are very practical for travelling. I love reading physical books, but also read fast and love reading 3-4 books at a time. An e-reader is basically half the weight of 1 book c…

If you use Anna's for everything, essentially all of the available e-readers work just fine as a usb-stick-with-a-screen-attached. None of them in my experience handle PDFs well, b…

I do the same thing with a kindle. I've never had it connected to the internet or used any amazon services with it. All my books were just moved over via usb. The weird thing is ho…

What is shocking about youtube's advertising is just how bad the supposedly "targeted" aspect of it is. The entire original advantage these tech companies had over traditional ente…

In principle there is nothing wrong with it, as long as the FDA or other testing body retains an appropriate impartiality or lack of bias (perceived or real). The issue, however, w…

> I’ve worked in a place like this that was well past its prime and though uncanny, it’s certainly not creepy. That's kinda more what the german concept of "unheimlich" is like. Ev…

I took one class in the business department while I was in university and it felt like basically "business" anthropology without any of the reflection that the field of anthropolog…

> Genuine questions: what can be done in a democratic setting to stop him? Thiel is only "relevant" because he's wealthy. In a system that allows wealth to equal political power, s…

A lot of city governments no longer really focus on the day-to-day living experience in their city. Instead, they focus on property value and the discovery of increasingly palatabl…

If you take a "brisk" 20 minute walk every day, you'll meet the recommended weekly amount of aerobic exercise for Americans. (I think people should do more.) The actual amount you …

Maybe I'm unique in this experience, but the "actually more relevant to me" part is just never true. Most of the ads I see that are delivered via these auctions are just garbage or…

If one guy can make it, then another guy could probably too. That's how cities used to have sometimes 3 or 4 competing papers.

Looking at the ingredients list on Wonderbread white bread, could you make that at home? You can make bread with salt, flour, yeast, and water. Most breads in the grocery store, ho…

Unfortunately, that's kind of already the case. The standard of care for wealthy people, who often purchase "Personal Medicine" services, can be astoundingly better than what is av…

Using samples is not the same as AI or creating AI videos. Nor is using photoshop or an editing suite. "Creating" AI art is analogous to commissioning a work of art from someone el…

This is not hitting the problem. Most students in universities are completely fine with awful grades or expect comical levels of grade inflation. Ask a professor or TA and you'll h…