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nice, "ultracrepidarian" is going to be getting some use from me, looks like I'm late to the game though: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ultracrepidari...

There are a lot of baked in assumptions here. For instance, as an extreme example, betting on nuclear war or climate collapse happening and then "winning" doesn't really provide yo…

While the idea in the post is an interesting one, the analogy to planing is terrible. The difference in results from a power planer and a hand plane (even with a pretty basic blade…

I took a boat ride in Maine on a lobster boat once that was owned and operated by a man in his 90s. Someone else in the town told me that he was being pressured to stop working by …

The phrasing in the article shows very strong bias towards Israel in general

It's about how the taxes are spent too. If the government cuts welfare and gives handouts and subsidies to special interests, that is not an effective redistribution.

I'm a European living in the US and my sense is that perceptions towards AI are generally more positive here than in Europe if anything (I do work in tech though which skews things…

Check out forum.woodenboat.com to read from a lot of amateurs taking on the project, just be warned that the rabbit hole is alluring and very deep. It's typically not recommended t…

Same, specifically boat-building for me because it just draws me in. But more generally, I would like to commit my time to making the built world more beautiful and sustainable. I …

Taxes used to be based only on property rather than labour, maybe we should go back to that. Of course this won't happen as it is a force of wealth-deconcentration.

Most left wing movements and organisations in the West drew strength from the existence of strong socialist states, both materially and ideologically. These kinds of groups were a …

Wouldn't really be to my taste either but this whole story just reminded me of how much more interestingly the wealthy used to spend their money. What legacies of high craftsmanshi…

Duration of the signal, along with intensity variation, is consistent with the duration of any possible point source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal#Time_variation

Location: NYC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: perhaps but unlikely Technologies: open to any, have lots of experience in ML with python/pytorch, some C/C++ and Julia, on the edge …

The right time would have been when the going was good some years back. Tech workers could have put together an unparalleled strike fund and commanded unprecedented political power…

It's definitely an under-explored area of business but I don't see why there couldn't be a scalable "co-operative" form of banking that could serve this need. Something like a cred…

Well if only we put as much energy into thinking about how to scale this model rather than the get-rich-quick startup/corporate model that typically just benefits investors, maybe …

I am a member of the local food co-op. While not a perfect model for society, I think it's a good example to provide some alternative to the system of work we all take for granted.…

This "mutually beneficial" transaction only seems so simple and obvious if we refuse to investigate the many unstated assumptions here. It would require far less labour to secure t…

I think OP must have grown up in a pretty affluent neighbourhood. (How many schools have programmes with epidemiological institutes?) If I had done TY in the school I went to with …

The book "fom winde ferfeelt" is basically a book-length version of the joke, written by a brazilian who was frustrated with the inconsistency in the rules of the German language.

This reminds me of an interesting video I saw of someone making garum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZww0DtQKk His description of the flavour is so intriguing.

I think rope, at least of any appreciable length and strength, is a much more modern technology.

I've spent the last couple of years researching and building my own timber frame structures and I have come to be of the opinion that aesthetics exist for a reason. A functionally …

While this might be true on the technical level you mention, I don't know the details, I think the general pattern holds true even for larger cities. Think of NYC, where many subur…