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> At the end of the day, these communities don’t care if your code works at all... I think the key word to all this is "communities." If you can make something alone, just do it. I…

I mean... they're called "agents," they must do what they're told and they don't get paid. Sounds pretty slavey.

> Thus, anyone who wants to corral that kind of entity and make it do their bidding? Yeah, they want slaves. That's the horror buried underneath all the tech, policy, and gloss. Th…

I cannot express how much I drank this kool-aid. When there were still updates every 2-3 years I would scour google maps to try and find the site. Based on Long Now promo images an…

banging on the door like a madman where's the clock? where's the clock we all donated money for? tell us about the clock you cowards!

Such a great synopsis. The things that are easy to signal (landing page, presentation deck, logo, etc) have never been the make-or-break aspect. The part that's always been hard, t…

In terms of removing friction, I think of moving a boulder. Wheels = good. Ice slide = bad

you'll have to take that up with the folks from worldnuclearwastereport.org

Footnote has the backup. 2-3x is guesstimate, but it doesn't really matter. The answer is there's just not much waste to store

Europe has about 60,000 tons of nuclear waste storage[1], so lets say the global nuclear waste quantity is 2-3x or 120,000 to 180,000 tons. That sounds like a lot, however it's les…

In english this is called pollarding a tree. Historically it has been used for smaller wood pieces (firewood, etc). It's fuctionally different [from daisugi] because you don't get …

If you want good checks against a government, one dude rich enough to field an army has historically been a bad way to keep the government in existence

Made $1 billion? Throw 'em a parade, put their name on a plaque on Wall Street, and never let them touch a new penny from here on out.

Gotta keep in mind that "you control what you can destroy" was expressed as the crux of a single-planet guerrilla group's maximalist negotiation strategy with an interstellar gover…

> do children have personalities if we left them in a dark room with no interactions with other humans? Short answer: yes. generally speaking, personality traits range between 30% …

Maybe there's some technical definitions for the words used to describe the films, but match between archetype and movie is incomprehensible to me. I'm not seeing a single one wher…

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> But it boils down to having the vision, the belief and the strength to follow through over many years And importantly, that vision being correct. The graveyard of history is full…

By that example, PostgreSQL itself is a form of intelligence relative to a physical filing system. It doesn't seem like your working definition of intelligence has a large overlap …

"being yourself" means choosing to believe that the you that is true is competent and capable of growth while the awkwardness is a temporary barrier between that is not reflective …

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regarding #2: how many serfs came home after re-digging the toilet hole to eat a meal of hand-milled grain bread and old vegetables with the members of the family that survived inf…

Magawa cleared 1,517,711 sq.ft of land. He could work at a pace of 2,808 sq.ft (a doubles tennis court) every 20 minutes. If he maintained that pace, he worked 180.2 hours. Let's a…

Money is the sledgehammer of incentives. Above a reasonable amount of pay, it's overkill and makes lots of collateral problems. The really effective incentives are status based and…

i just actually read that and it is possibly the most morally abominable screed I've come across in a long time. Shocking that its acceptable to share in polite company