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So that your escape money doesn’t get eaten away by inflation. You could put it in a low-ish risk portfolio composed of some bonds, indexes, etc so that it continues to make some a…

Outcompete in what sense? Certainly more working can lead to more of something, but I’m not sure we all agree on what that something is, and whether or not all of it is valuable (o…

I did biphasic sleep in high school (1.5h nap at 16:30, 4.5h sleep at 2:00) for my junior and part of senior year, and it was incredible. It allowed me to do nearly all of my homew…

I was thinking it’d be something more like this: http://www.windytan.com/2015/10/pea-whistle-steganography.ht...

I have often wondered what the best way to communicate things like that is, because of this exact problem. It seems like you really can’t win, if you’re the one doing the messaging…

The implicit threat of loss of funding and/or access is often enough to sway editorial decisions in a way that could appear like direct control.

This sounds like a healthy perspective and I appreciate you acknowledging that having kids might not be for everyone, as someone who is leaning that way myself. Thank you.

Found the video where he says this: https://youtu.be/PRQVzPEyldc

Linus Sebastian from Linus Media Group has said somewhere that a YouTube premium viewer is worth several times as much as an ad-supported viewer apparently. Apologies for no citati…

Link seems to be broken ?

I understand you don’t agree with the cheaper cars argument, and I don’t either. To the people that would seriously make this argument though, I ask them this: If the location or o…

It seems like consequences are the only language that bad actors understand, unfortunately.

You’d be surprised what modern neodymium drivers in a well designed enclosure can accomplish bass-wise. Though you are right in that the laws of physics have not changed, and somet…

I’m not sure this idea is all that they’re marketing it as. Here’s a video discussing the drawbacks [0], the guy doing the video can be kind of abrasive at times but worth watching…

Another great reason I want to continue working remote: Why would I want to leak any information in my body language to coworkers or management? I have no idea what they are going …

Agreed. I'm not having kids and trying not to get too down on the daily about the future of our species. Based on what I know about human nature I see almost no realistic way out o…

Before I turned that on, watching BBC documentaries in 25 FPS the judder was very noticeable on panning shots. Definitely worth enabling if your device supports it.

Your tax dollars as a wealthy individual also pay for the police forces to keep the less wealthy people from coming and just taking your property, as they might in a state with zer…

I saw an insurance company claiming that it uses satellite imagery (among other things) to “provide cheaper insurance” to homeowners. Not sure if what they really mean is that they…

The market is also distorted by us humans' inelastic demand for food and housing, which means sometimes sellers can charge higher prices for things such as these that people cannot…

Though transformers only work with AC.

This is called Ripple Control, for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_management#Ripple_control

Mildly related, here’s another instance of harmful things you can buy on Amazon: “negative ion” trinkets that are actually radioactive [1]. [1]: https://youtu.be/C7TwBUxxIC0

Sounds about right to me. The book The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris discusses this phenomenon r.e. people need to feel the best at something so they pick ever smaller niches or hobb…