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The Artisan of Glimmith is so good! Biggest surprise of the year for me so far.

I got 12/18 on faces as an American-born Caucasian living in Japan for over 10 years. Since the subjects were photographed in New York City (and from the other comments, at least a…

I won't ever put my name on something written by an LLM, and I will blacklist any site or person I see doing it. If I want to read LLM output I can prompt it myself, subjecting me …

I studied poker a lot in high school, and it still influences how I think today. Probabilistic thinking about the EV of your decisions is a good framework, but "Just keep making go…

There is a bit too much emphasis on the relationship between the manager and individual subordinates as the only thing a manager does. It's certainly the relationship that programm…

I've seen it work in a few ways; these are not mutually exclusive: * You have someone whose job or as part of their job is to it is to discover these kinds of internal organization…

RTS has always been my preferred competitive genre. Yes, basic build orders are pretty well mapped out. In Starcraft 2, for example, the first 1:30 or so for beginners, the first 3…

This article, like Duke's book, has a solid premise, but fails to provide any actionable advice aside from a simple risk/reward framework. When I read the book, I was hoping there …

There's a kind of vicious cycle here where people feel disconnected from their surroundings and communities, and attention-stealing apps make a business of providing a surrogate th…

I like the feature of being able to select what equipment you have available. Lots of us lost access to a gym with COVID and don't have the ability to put a power rack in our abode…

Many companies implemented work-from-home policies very quickly, almost all public events (sports, standardized tests) were canceled, schools and sports gyms closed, and some compa…

All the extraneous ads, tracking, etc in Windows 10 has made it so I have never bothered upgrading from 7. It seems like it would be a huge pain to go through and disable or blocki…

There are certainly a number of factors, but the prevalence and addictiveness of entertainment technology is without a doubt a major factor. Plenty of hikikomori in the safe, walka…

Your great-grandparents were right, it's just hard to imagine listening to radio with family being "destructive", when today people have less friends than ever and are literally ch…

Mass extraction and consumption of oil and coal will happen until these resources are too sparse to warrant building new plants or maintaining existing ones. I don't really see any…

This sounds a bit like Bill Gaede's Rope Hypothesis, but I'm not very well-versed in the topic to say for sure. Can anyone confirm/deny?

Humans are complicated creatures, and just replicating the macronutrients (and even micronutrients) into an ingestible substance is not a replacement for real food.

Can we stop trying to replace every last natural source of calories with some combination of soy, corn, perfume, salt, sugar, and vegetable oil?

Peer pressure is stronger, that’s why it’s important. Sure, it’s evolutionarily adapted to benefit the group, which may sometimes go against your individual interests. Overall, how…

I don't doubt that you can do it, personally, but you only have to look at American obesity rates to see that a lack of self-control is a system-level problem, not just an individu…

A big part of it is the cult of individualism. Do you really think that you, by willpower alone, are going to be able to resist all the temptations of multinational corporations wh…