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Took a break and have been thinking and researching idealized/better/pure ways of doing things. E.g. exploring alternative: - number systems. Base 12 would be nice. - systems of measurement. Adjusting the SI base unit to be even powers of Plank Units seems ideal. - calendar systems. 12 month years, 5 week months, 6 day weeks (with an extra 5 or 6 day week at the end of the year) seems nice. - time system. A new time…
> It seems all these sites are updating very slowly; or am I checking too frequently? Congratulations, friend. You have arrived at a kind of limbo that in all likelihood you will end up at again in the future. I congratulate you, because you have arrived at the point where you have "synced" -- that is to say, you have processed material from your desired channels from the post to the present moment such that this fee…
This is beautiful in a weird way. To go further, when you've browsed so much the website you're reading is giving you a recaptcha prompt....you've hit a Buddhist like Nirvana.
I'm kind of feeling like I reached the end of the internet the past few days. I'm sure I'll find another rabbit hole soon enough, and I really need to get outside more right now anyway so it's not a bad thing. Might have to do more with having a pretty long spell of rainy days.
Hey, can you email me? (Email on profile.) I also get to that "saturated" place a lot and am not satisfied. I know there is more interesting content out there. I'm trying to solve the problem, so would love to chat to you/see if you eventually want to beta test.
So, for me, it is;
- (Desktop): HackerNews, Twitter, Email mostly
- (Mobile): Photography / Videography. Text mostly. Phones calls are rare.
If you want to fill in, try starting a reading habit or even better, writing. I've 2 stickies right in front of me on the wall just above the monitor that says "Read anything today?" and "Wrote anything today?" I'm failing on the writing part and struggling to make it happen.
Also, historically how drugs went through clinical trials, experimentation, production etc. The anti-HIV drug AZT is well documented, and there's a great article here [2] by TIME if you're interested.
[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-gilead-remdesivir-co...
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I'm very weary of resistor self-reported "data points". They don't often reflect real life for most people, or worse, don't even reflect really even for the commentor. I seriously doubt the person saying he makes $35-$40 an hour doing uber eats is any sort of real average even for him. On top of that a thread like that is more motivating to respond to for people who want to give a "fuck you" to Amazon or who want to…
I'm with you about not drawing firm conclusions from potentially biased anecdata from that one post. Also we don't know if that number is gross or net. That said, I have been reading this sub daily for the past 2 months now and yes there's variability but in general, most agree the work is paying (check out the sub's history in the last 2 months). It sounds like customers are tipping better, traffic is reduced so tri…
I've been trawling subreddits to get a ground-level view of common narratives that we hold on to but have never thought to collect data on. For instance, there's a common and oft-repeated notion that food delivery apps are screwing over drivers, not just restaurants. So I've been reading the Couriersofreddit sub to get the story from the horses' mouths: https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/ It turns you can make…
It's the paradox that has been in popular debate since "Uber can't make profit" narrative got started 5 years ago. It's absolutely bonkers, and even smart people join in on this fallacy. A consumer complaining about Uber not paying their drivers well is usually the same one that's choosing their ride based on what's cheapest.