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That's fair, it actually has nothing to do with money. It's just saying that if $IN is more efficiently converted to $OUT, more $IN will be consumed. The original paradox was $IN =…

A huge coal power plant belching smoke probably looked pretty cool, maybe even majestic, the first time you saw London back in the Victorian Era. That's before the entire city beca…

Well consuming more jam per unit time would still be supply and demand, you have to spend more on jam overall because you can buy a cheaper jar.

Supply and demand says when something is cheaper (or produced more efficiently), people will use more of it. But the critical part is that it doesn't say people will spend more on …

Yeah, once you dig into economics, technology and science of the era it often feels like the big discoveries were inevitable. That doesn't make these people any less great, it's ju…

You don't even need add blocking for most open source software: the threat of forking backs a culture where the software is just there to to its job and not to sell something. I st…

> Nobel prize winners are the smartest people on the planet I wouldn't go that far. They are not dumb and they like to promote their ideas. They can probably give an above-average …

Yeah and I should say it's still awesome! I just used the "share offline" feature to get it on my friend's phone last weekend (we were trying to chat on a mountain with no internet…

David Graeber goes into this a lot in "Bullshit Jobs". Farming will keep you very busy (as a few people have pointed out), but it's mostly caring for projects you personally own. A…

Maybe it's not going to get any better. LLMs were trained to do two things: - Mimic human language (and logic, since that's part of what we express with language). This includes co…

They had this in Korea when I was there a decade ago! It works fine, but people's reaction on hearing this is always interesting, ranging from: - enthusiasm: that's awesome everyon…

I would really love to see a regular a blog that details all the ways the world will need to adapt to furries. There are endless engineering challenges here! Also, any spiritual su…

I seem to remember something about the scientist being distraught because physics didn't make sense, not because she was having trouble getting clean data. That also stuck with me …

It's more about the indirection, but it's a matter of taste. Whales blow bubbles to sleep. Humans stink to thermoregulate. We blow air to metabolize. Cars rumble to propel themselv…

Indeed. This isn't a particularly bad case. I think both are often useful, and this headline isn't wrong, I just assumed the bubbles had some direct use and found the scientific ti…

Oof, sorry if that was misleading. Maybe I'm overly fixated on the "to" in "to achieve": the whale doesn't care about the bubbles, they serve no important purpose in helping them s…

> Jack Dorsey is now using his clout to share about this app and bring some light on the situation Failed attempts at censorship are the best thing that could ever happen to Bitcha…

The title of the original article [1] is a lot more clear: Buoyancy regulation through modulation of onboard gas volume by resting sperm whales They don't "blow bubbles" to sleep v…

Is there any evidence that individualization of responsibility works better than government policy? Personally I see no contradiction in using a product despite wanting policies th…

50m shells seems pretty optimistic. I thought some alarms would fire when things are within 1 km.

I feel like LEO is a convenient speed to know if you are someone who often asks "how fast is that". At Mach 23 it's a lot faster than sound, and on the slow side of "how fast space…

Yes! I meant local issues that don't concern 100M people. Local issues that concern a few thousand people can be (and often are) resolved by direct democracy. I guess I could argue…

Personally I've always appreciated talking to nurses I know. The respectable ones know they aren't doctors, but they've seen a lot more recoveries and cases where minimal intervent…

I think everyone can agree that having O(100M) people vote on every local initiative is absurd. But a lot of countries are somewhere on the "direct" vs "representative" spectrum. T…

If you have a photocopier and a few currencies you can have a lot of fun with EURion: - look up your local laws! usually you can photocopy money as long as it's shrunken / enlarged…