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> For the first time ever, I wasnt counting the days until retirement or a long 7+ day vacation. That sounds rather positive. Still 'it was not the dream'?

I instinctively want to agree with you, but isn't it possible that throwing orders-of-magnitude more engineers at these kinds of problems will eventually get them solved, but right…

Have you? Because the rationalists I know are genuinely well-adjusted people. It's cheap and easy to make fun of the lesswrong community as a cringy cult of AI-obsessed neckbeards.…

Most proposals in this direction (e.g. Glen Weyl's "Radical Markets", [1]) make reasonable exemptions for basic personal needs, so people don't get thrown out of their (modest) hom…

"Second most popular language in the area" is a gross distortion of reality. It would make zero sense for a local police officer to choose to yell at local protestors or local coll…

The latent space of type design choices is large but very much finite, and concepts like "warmth" consistently refer to features like large curves, low stroke contrast, deliberate …

Nice, Tai Le looks really close! I first thought it might be Deseret Cursive [1], but I don't think that's it either. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet

No, but RH knows, and could make that distinction if they wanted to. RH is punishing margin and non-margin users alike until it has enough cash again to resume making orders. To be…

Well, in a world where users had to have fully funded their accounts before making any orders, the clearinghouse would have nothing to worry about. So it's not exactly independent …

I'd like to add: org-mode is overwhelming, so just take it easy. Set up a notes folder, sync it to the web, and just use org as a plain markdown/todo list editor for a while. Perha…

It is being funded – at a small scale, but growing nonetheless. Just yesterday the NYT wrote about $3M from Silver Lining and $4M from NOAA. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/…

Yes, and that is impressive! But he has also set several cold exposure world records that these people probably couldn't replicate that easily, or perhaps ever.

I haven't listened to them but can recommend the Medlife Crisis episode [0], in which he reviews the scientific literature around the effects of cold exposure, blood oxygenation/ac…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial

I don't know about vimagit, but vim's org-mode support is very barebones. Give doom-emacs a try though. You really can have the best of both worlds nowadays.

That's not quite right. Even if there were no gravity or other forces, there would be no incentive for matter to go in one direction vs another, regardless of the distribution of m…

As another commenter pointed out, the victim is the public's trust in the financial market. With transactions between private entities, information asymmetry is a normal part of li…

Please provide credible evidence for this claim.

Radiolab has a wonderfully deep episode on this topic: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/post-... The main issue is the sheer volume of content. Four seconds –…

That's not Kentucky you linked to, that's west of Cologne ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinisches_Braunkohlerevier )

Yeah, sorry. I should be clear: I didn't in any way mean to imply that a carbon dividend would come close to being a UBI, just that it works the same way: a fixed chunk of money fo…

Everyone gets back the same amount. You can't even know how much carbon tax you paid, because it's levied at the source. It's a redistribution scheme at the expense of polluters.

Not if you make it revenue neutral – HR763 is basically a mini-UBI funded by carbon taxes: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/energy-innovation-and-carbo...

> fried his brains from LSD This, too, is an armchair diagnosis and unnecessarily sensational language. According to Wikipedia: > Asked if Barrett may have had Asperger's syndrome,…

You're right, changing one's worldview is difficult, and we certainly shouldn't force anyone to endorse views they don't hold. That said, hitching one's identity to unfalsifiable b…