Viewing profile — q845712

In all fairness it's really hard to make money off of "reduce" and "reuse," and we've decided to use money as the system for allocating all of our resources.

in my experience it is how both real and imaginary Canadians talk

> the growth obsession is a product of the Reagan-era I hear you, but uncle Karl names and shames the growth-obsession in Das Kapital which predated Reagan by over 100 years. It's …

It feels a little inevitable though, given the other rules of the system: Companies don't become more valuable by having a steady earnings forecast, they become more valuable by ha…

if it helps, that's just the stars and galaxies we're capable of observing. There's probably more :)

I mean like the incentives aren't aligned. So maybe you're giving an example but i'm honestly not sure. :) in the space of cve or malware detection, the user wants a safe/secure co…

I could be wrong as I was young and not yet in the field, but my impression has always been that sometime in the 80s/90s as the whole "networking, world wide web, wowie!" moment ha…

I have no specialist knowledge in this subfield, but after reading the article's arguments that basically if you could sic the entire bitcoin network on 2048 RSA it would take 700+…

I said this elsewhere too -- while in general I like things _like_ the poignant guide, and appreciate its existence, I never actually finished reading it. To me it's an interesting…

Honestly at the time I remember getting weird twee/precious vibes from the Ruby community and I wasn't particularly interested in it or Rails. I only discovered _why's poignant gui…

it's probably a good starting position to assume that since we all the share the same closed-ish system called planet earth, there's interconnections between different systems. Cer…

"animal models" is a fairly standard phrase in research: When people research depression, alzheimers, cancer, etc., they generally start with mice and work their way up through mon…

but there's a premium on our youth -- The people who complain that it's harder to find a job in their 50s and 60s can't _all_ be wrong or mistaken. I feel like we like to imagine t…

if they have money they can buy a gopro; I've known many cyclists who list having the record of a potential accident as one of their reasons for buying and using a gopro.

I'm not sure it's exactly "what customers want" so much as it is the sweet-spot or intersection of the two curves: "what customers want" with "how much cost and risk owners and man…

Geocities HTML chat was my first chatroom experience. IIRC my friend found it because they had purchased "chat.com" and had it forwarding to some chatroom? But I could be wrong abo…

as someone else is already saying -- Arizona basically already has this for DMVs. There's a parallel system of privately owned and operated offices where you can make an appointmen…

check section 3 of this review: https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/golubitsky.4/reprintweb-0.5/o... or for a narrower slice this paper is reference [6]: https://www.researchgate.net/pu…

:) it is also a big part of buddhism. IMO the intersections between several systems are very interesting as they tend to be the most fruitful even if pursued without the context of…

Just sharing my own experience, but the more time I've spent contemplating death the easier time I've had with it: Every beginning implies an end. Every birth and growth implies a …

Their language is "Tibetic" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetic_languages

depends on the situation but generally most people aren't that enthusiastic to be your UX guinea pigs, and it isn't that much fun to administer the same test so many times in a sin…

I was hoping you were going to link to a DIY tms, so i will: https://www.instructables.com/Transcranial-Magnetic-Stimulat... Note the disclaimers, especially "TOUCHING THE DEVICE W…

in the interest of pluralism and live/let-live though: I've found it more rewarding and interesting to learn and participate in some relatively ancient rituals than to track and at…

I'm not a proponent of either, but as I understand creationism there's a "divine plan" and as I understand simulationism there's just a "vast parameter search" so imo being inside …