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I wasn't around for the second millennium versions. At some point, doesn't there exist a kind of activation energy threshold where enough money/promise etc is gained from the proto…

Yes ... However. Most car manufacturers manage to deal with this without it becoming too common, with standard engineering controls ( proper fasteners, torque specifications, QC et…

You do realize averages don't imply anything about local conditions?

Oh, I see. I must have misread, my bad. That makes a lot of sense.

Don't your rule and corollary disagree? This is one of those things that's incredibly context dependent. There are lots of fat cat small companies out there who do easy tasks with …

I'm all for safety and health at a reasonable cost, but yeah, seems like it doesn't matter how good things are. We gotta have something to worry about.

This reminds a little of the paperclip simulator, but this seems about 85% less likely to cause me to skip an entire day of work while clicking furiously. It's really good though!

People willing and able to do this probably have a few things going on at a time. Plus they're not necessarily at the high end of living expenses. A couple grand haul for a couple …

Would be nice if you would stop expecting the whole web to have stopped developing at your preferred point in time.

Physical shorelines instantiations of a true fractal are always limited. I'd go so far as to say that there is no such real object in the world.

Exactly. The coastline paradox is a mathematical curiousity, not a practical objection to measuring things. Coastlines are not infinite length in practice. You define a system of m…

You could say the exact same set of objections to shoreline paradox.

This is an interesting point of view, and I think it intuitively makes sense. But it breaks down when considering people who block the flow of traffic by running red lights and clo…

Maybe honkery?

I think this is something that's very difficult to learn. It's a set of attitudes more than anything, and it's very countercultural (and not in a cool way). Mr money mustache isn't…

To be fair... Lots of people just never close their tabs. So there's very real resource limitations. I've seen my partner's phone with a few hundred tabs open.

Good tools are very important. Especially for things like woodworking, metalworking, sewing. A good machine has decades or centuries of trial and error and has systmatically elimin…

Mostly annoying network configs and token expirations etc. Not saying it can't be set up well, but in my experience some security guru gets a hardon for making my life miserable.

There's a lot of timeless, good analysis. But there's also somewhat dated concerns (like the energy crisis stuff) where it's clear that he's responding to the issue du jour.

Good news! You can't perceive the electrons in sunlight, only the photons.

When purchasing durable goods or bulk supplies, the difference is minimal. It might require saving before purchase, or gradually moving to the bulk model to preserve cash flow. But…

You don't need klarna for this. Credit cards already fill this need, and with careful use are free. Most people (in my circles) already do this type of thing

Sure, this would probably work with nice handmade paper. But you won't necessarily get a clean fold with thicker or uneven paper, and depending on fiber length and distribution you…

One of the underappreciated causes and effects of the industrial revolution is the precision that's around us all the time. To make that piece of paper required thousands of precis…

This really isn't that different than many software tasks, just a different set of basic tools and jargon. When non computer people read a Haskell article that's how it sounds to t…