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I was about to say something similar: OP talks about how in office days support their routine but adding the office to my day would do more to disrupt a routine than solidify it. A…

I very much like the idea that tolerating discomfort and inconvenience is something we have to actively train ourselves to do.

"We'd been floating on inner tubes on the river for 8 hours, drinking beer, and I realized that not once had any of my friends gotten out of the river to pee." ---ron white, upon e…

the rising tide that's supposed to lift all boats? also piss.

it really does trickle up, and the greater percentage of their income the beneficiaries spend on consumables the greater the upward benefits.

this. the problem with HitL is that there are so many decisions to make that decision fatigue is inevitable. Beyond a certain number of approvals most people are going to switch to…

> > not one dependent on "costly subsidies". > While paying out 1.2 billion dollars. for nothing. to literally replace some energy with no energy.

so as my energy bill is going up 50% we're giving people my tax dollars in exchange for them not making more energy to ease demand? winning winning winning winning winning winning …

one of my favorite youtubers but I feel like if you're linking directly to a reading list the title of your post should reflect that

I can go out today and pay $50 for a thick cut ribeye at Ruth's Chris that has been visually inspected for marbling then hard seared in a special high temp over to temp by someone …

We used to say computers can't make decisions because they can't meaningfully be held responsible for those decisions. Now the vibe seems to be that computers should make decisions…

I recently bought far cry 3 on steam and spent 20 minutes post-install trying to log into my ubisoft account between forgetting an old password, 2fa across multiple devices and a b…

stockholders? no. stakeholders? absolutely.

engaging with the identity of the arguer rather than the argument. 5 yard penalty, loss of down.

>I mean, instead of investing so much effort to get glutamate into your food, why not use MSG directly? Because the various uammi sources also add other flavors. I like being able …

this is a great metaphor precisely because (outside those with paradoxical stimulant response) everyone thinks they're more productive on amphetamines and there's some naive eviden…

tbf rephrasing the output in my own words has become the best and most important tool in ensuring quality from AI. Whether it's an answer to a question or an implementation of some…

the article talks about AI books winning awards and AI books on bestseller charts, but can any one of us think of a book they genuinely enjoyed that was written by an AI? this feel…

anyone in the thread old enough to remember when we trusted the tobacco industry to run its own studies on the safety of tobacco which found that tobacco was definitely safe, then …

the crypto hater mantra from day one was "this is just for drugs, bribery and money laundering". the only word I object to in that statement is "just".

like so many corrupt organizations lately, FIFA has been getting away with it for a long time and they overplayed their hand. this was a long time coming and i'm really glad to see…

them is nasdaq and we is us. you know this, i can tell because you said it right after you asked me.

we watched them change the rules in the US to force indexers to provide exit liquidity for the spacex IPO blunder via your dad's 401k. capturing the regulators is just part of what…

it does. because insurance is a bet. but it also has legislation and organized investigators behind it to drive up the risk of committing fraud (and, therefore, the necessary rewar…

>Alcohol is still lobbying hard to prevent recreational weed. It's wild how using the drug I make is freedom and using the drug someone else makes is slavery