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> you should quit your comfy corporate job (and perhaps create a startup

That's not what he's saying. That's just one possible interpretation of it. You could also keep the job and pick up an interesting hobby, or just change jobs. It's not like it's bad advice only given out to serve his own interests. It's actually obvious sounding advice.

If you notice this often, maybe it's because in an essay that long, there will likely be some passage that can be interpreted as "quit your job and start a startup", especially considering PGs usual topics.
I don't have a clue what any solution looks like or even what problem is trying to be solved.

Growing up in the USA home "ownership" is always touted as an investment but for example in Japan, it's often more like buying a car. The moment you buy it it's a used house and the price goes down just like a car would. The point being home ownership is viewed differently.

Also, the recent episode of the Flash Forward podcast pondered the idea of guaranteed housing. They complained that 60% of people on minimum wage can't afford a 2 bedroom apartment in the USA but coming from Tokyo my first thought was "why is the standard a 2 bedroom apartment?" There are 100s of thousands of studio apartments all around Tokyo and it's normal to live in one. From $400 a month and up. I'm sure Hong Kong it's even more normal.
Maybe I missed it, but none of what you said actually supports this claim:

> For technology to be truly sustainable, it must be globally available and independent.
This is exactly wrong. Ammonia and its precursor urea are the chemicals used in SCR to reduce NOx.
Your theory requires us to believe that low status men are more capable of starting wars than the high status men who actually run society.

Incel anger is a real thing, but incels are not building warships or running munitions factories.
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I sadly can't google a video, but that reminds me of the scene in "American factory" in China:

https://ubiquarian.net/2020/01/film-review-american-factory-...

> American supervisors invited to Fuyao’s homeland are subjected to performances by Chinese workers from the local factory. A young woman sings about productivity and hard work to generic C-pop.. A dance troupe does their thing with neon-silhouetted products from Fuyao Glass. Americans, all wearing red scarves like their Chinese associates, try not to recoil in horror as little Chinese girls dance in near-perfect formations to yet another pop number about company loyalty. Later, young couples rapidly become man and wife in groups at the celebration.
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“...which begins with the singer’s original video for the song and, with the help of AI, has synced up thousands of covers...”

Isn’t this just a timestamp sync for certain search parameters? What has artificial intelligence got to do with this?
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I find reading this article a very uncomfortable experience. It's just assertion after assertion without evidence to back them up. Do people believe this guy because he's rich?
To truly appreciate the beauty of such mirrors, one should take care to examine both sides...observe thousands of the conversations of not just the "excessively" open-minded who obsess over topics like The Great Reset and similar, but also of those who are the ideological opponents of these types. Observe how they talk about their opponents. See if any patterns (in talking, and thinking) emerge, and whether some of the patterns are the same in both communities.

From TFA:

> You can also take more explicit measures to prevent yourself from automatically adopting conventional opinions. The most general is to cultivate an attitude of skepticism. When you hear someone say something, stop and ask yourself "Is that true?" Don't say it out loud.

Or, sometimes, do say it out loud, and watch hilarity (to the unconventional, at least) ensue.

> Treat it as a puzzle. You know that some accepted ideas will later turn out to be wrong. See if you can guess which. The end goal is not to find flaws in the things you're told, but to find the new ideas that had been concealed by the broken ones. So this game should be an exciting quest for novelty, not a boring protocol for intellectual hygiene. And you'll be surprised, when you start asking "Is this true?", how often the answer is not an immediate yes. If you have any imagination, you're more likely to have too many leads to follow than too few.

> More generally your goal should be not to let anything into your head unexamined, and things don't always enter your head in the form of statements. Some of the most powerful influences are implicit. How do you even notice these? By standing back and watching how other people get their ideas.

> When you stand back at a sufficient distance, you can see ideas spreading through groups of people like waves. The most obvious are in fashion: you notice a few people wearing a certain kind of shirt, and then more and more, until half the people around you are wearing the same shirt. You may not care much what you wear, but there are intellectual fashions too, and you definitely don't want to participate in those. Not just because you want sovereignty over your own thoughts, but because unfashionable ideas are disproportionately likely to lead somewhere interesting. The best place to find undiscovered ideas is where no one else is looking.
"Trois-Rivières" does sound French, but it also totally sounds "rum", not wine ;)
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It just says LOADING...

I tried with chrome and same thing.
A drop in deaths across all diseases is highly suspect. a part could be explained due to doctor visit restrictions caused by lockdowns and personal considerations yet death doesn't wait for a doctor's visit and would only come sooner. in 1-2 years time we'll have a proper graph of all deaths totalled and we'll know what the approximate impact covid had regardless of cause of death.

The mangled graph shown in the article was edited by the original authors, not the journalist.
We "always" had been the point of no return.

Or at least for the least 20-30 years. Sure theoretically there was long term a way to salvage it. But it was always unrealistic given the large change in economics and society it requires.

But there is a difference between a bad and a even worse situation.

So just because we can't reach a perfect outcome doesn't mean we shouldn't try to reach a better outcome.

Because of this I really don't like arguments like "we are at the point of no return" as it's often used as a argument that supposedly any improvement is pointless. (Through I think you do not mean it that way).

I mean the way we are heading will like not directly lead to a extinction of humans, but it might make live unbearable for most of humanity and it also might prevent us from reaching the necessary tech to survive other extinction events.

But this also means that "just making thinks a bit better" can in the long term have a major difference even if it won't prevent a climate catastrophe.
I want to think for myself but I also want to have opinions that others will like . Thinking for yourself in a vacuum sucks.
It's possible that smart managers will prefer people who get their work done while minimising these metrics.

I can dream.
I wonder whether the migration to Chez Scheme will improve the performance of Dr. Racket which consumes a lot of memory and feels very sluggish.

I have been experimenting with Racket for quite a while and I appreciate the effort that went into making the language extensible. That being said, I wish that the community would have embraced "object-oriented" techniques for building the VM - Ian Piumarta's COLA (Combined Object-Lambda Architecture) comes to mind [1]. I think this would have saved them a lot of performance troubles (but this is mere speculation) and would make the system far more flexible and pleasant to use.

While it's comforting to have a very powerful macro system at your fingertips to change the semantics of the language when needed, many of the macros in the base language and libraries could be eliminated with a more convenient default notation for closures and message-passing (to objects simulating control structures like in Smalltalk).

Racket has one of the best module systems I have worked with but modules cannot be (easily) parameterized. Research on systems such as Self and more recently Newspeak [2] gives ample of demonstration of the benefits (conceptual integrity, security) of having modules as objects.

What Racket also lacks is a good meta-object system with highly reflective capabilities (of say a CLOS or Smalltalk system). This makes it difficult to build tooling such as inspectors or browsers.

I hope that in the future these issues will be addressed.

[1] https://www.piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf

[2] https://newspeaklanguage.org/
I'd like the opposite essay, how to be more conventional-minded. It's exhausting feeling continually unable to accept conventional wisdom and go with the flow.

Questioning everything is absolutely not all upside; there isn't time or energy available to do it, so you've gotta either tune a huge chunk of the world out, or cynically reject it, both of which are alienating and unpleasant.
The Nintendo Switch store also. I can't convince it to give me game descriptions in the system language rather than the language of the country where my account is registered.
"You don't want to start a startup to do something that everyone agrees is a good idea, or there will already be other companies doing it. You have to do something that sounds to most other people like a bad idea, but that you know isn't — like writing software for a tiny computer used by a few thousand hobbyists, or starting a site to let people rent airbeds on strangers' floors."

Probably true more often than not, but Google and Facebook both started off doing something that everyone already thought was a good idea, they just did it much better.
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I'll give you some answers:

1) Carrying an entire 75ft tree in pieces from my backyard to my front yard.
2) 10 hours maybe
3)wood needed to be moved
4) when looking at the pile of wood I have to move
5) the resulting stack of wood in front of my house
6)yup, been stronger ever since those few days a few months ago
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I had a captcha asking me to identify taxis. But their color change throughout the world.
Doesn't even need to be private, it's usually a combination of strong moderation and/or a niche topic.

(though if it's too niche it might just be not that lively)
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This is very wrong. Most complete IQ tests contain a lot more than just progressive matrices, because there is such a thing as verbal IQ that can't always be measured well by progressive matrices.
No, only when it’s being used to dismiss and distract.

Diamond mines in the Congo seem like a genuinely bad place to work, but that has no relevance to whether Amazon is mistreating its workers.
The best solution to the housing crisis ever discovered thus far is widespread remote work. This allows people who don’t want to live in major cities the ability to live anywhere, reducing the cost for those that do want to live in a city.
Don't give anyone ideas!
Check your power supply. I just replaced a power supply on a pc I built in 2012. The system was unstable and shutting down after five minutes of being on
If you reference it to the world and its inherent chaos it is an invention. If you reference it to a structure with labels and a finite number of alterations it is a discovery of a part of that structure
Was pretty decent till I got to "I have a particular line of questioning around this"

Now we equate "giving a shit" to how many hours you put in. Should we just go back to counting lines of code to view effort?
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>The same is true for investors. It's not enough for a public market investor to predict correctly how a company will do. If a lot of other people make the same prediction, the stock price will already reflect it, and there's no room to make money. The only valuable insights are the ones most other investors don't share.

That really depends. Tesla and Amazon stock are widely followed and have optimistic projections yet continue to deliver massive shareholder returns.
That's energy efficiency, which is not the same as reducing demand - it's Jevon's paradox all over again. Decreasing the cost of various energy uses results in people being less worried about using them, and using them more as a result. Plus, saving money and improving the economy increases energy use in general (not to imply that improving the economy is in itself a bad that).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Some would call marijuana dangerous. I don’t agree, nor do I agree labeling most or all other drugs as hard drugs + dangerous.
And plain old overlapped I/O can lock pages in memory. With Direct I/O devices can directly DMA into these buffers, so theoretically any device can provide similar functionality and use completion ports for notification.

(or polling, since the possible high "interrupt rate" bottleneck of completion notifications is one of the things that motivated RIO)
The Overton window is real, but it's fairly wide open.

I could post a pro-socialism argument and get upvoted, I could post a pro-capitalism argument and get upvoted. I could criticize GMOs, or praise them. I could probably defend Trump if I'm thoughtful about it, or decry him.

Can I say "Capitalism/Socialism/GMOs/Trump is dumb" and get upvoted? No. Can I point out problems (or benefits) of them? Yes--so long as I'm not inflammatory about it.
I agree with the gist of hiring people that care about their craft, but asking them to care about the company is harder.

That really requires some sort of reciprocal "company cares about you", and that's hard to guarantee. Especially when you're hiring the generation that saw their parents lose out on the things like pensions vs 401k, layoffs as regular events, etc.
"beware the selection bias in internet comment sections. Positive comments get upvoted and praised, negative experiences get dismissed with a mix of victim blaming (usually "set and setting" comments) or explained away as exacerbating pre-existing underlying conditions."

What you describe is pretty much the opposite of what this thread was like.

Negative comments (including your own) got upvoted, and there are hardly any positive comments in this thread at all.

Yes, there were some who talked of negative experiences being due to set and setting or exacerbating pre-existing underlying conditions, but plenty of other comments did not.

Which isn't to say that those explanations are wrong.

You say explaining negative experiences as being the result of set and setting is "victim blaming". Do you deny the enormous role that set and setting play in what experiences one has on psychedelics? If so, you're flying in the face of pretty much all research done on psychedelics for many decades -- which is huge amount of research, especially in the early years, before they were made illegal, and the more recent research supports it.

If you take psychedelics with the wrong set and setting you are pretty much guaranteeing you'll have a bad experience. That is as close to an incontrovertible fact as anything we know about psychedelics.

Educating people on the role of set and setting should be encouraged, because it can help lead to better outcomes. Trying to silence it by branding simple education "victim blaming" would just lead to more people having negative experiences due to ignorance, which we really don't need any more of.
> “Oh come on! Everyone underlines links!” Some who don’t: the New York Times, New York magazine, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, Google, Amazon, Apple, GitHub, and Wikipedia. Even eBay, paragon of ’90s website design, has relented. Are underlined links dead? Maybe not quite. Dying? For sure.

I don't know when this paragraph was written, but right now checking the first four on that list (New York Times, New York magazine, the Washington Post, Bloomberg) all publications underline links in the bodies of their articles.
People who see government not as a way to (hopefully) better society through good implementations of good policies, but rather see government as source of power to wield for their own benefit.

> Friends of the government win state contracts at high prices and borrow on easy terms from the central bank. Those on the inside grow rich by favoritism; those on the outside suffer from the general deterioration of the economy. As one shrewd observer told me on a recent visit [to Hungary], “The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.”

* https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-...

* https://archive.is/ZIzCm
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There is no housing crisis. U.S. has more than plenty of good quality, large, and more than affordable houses (many of them are probably beyond repair but this is a consequence of their abundance and lack of demand).

Housing crisis is only about the very few already overpopulated spots being hyper-attractive for people to move in because that's where opportunities are. There is no way to "fix" this because even if housing is by some magic affordable, so many people will flock there that commute times will increase beyond survivability and people will pay with their time instead of money (that works in exactly the same way as home prices rise when mortgage fall: this is a free market).

If you want to fix it, you need to stop these places from being attractive, or prevent people from moving. Both sound like a Soviet Union-style dystopia.

It's better to just concede to the fact that housing in attractive areas is a scarce resource for which there is always a competition and most people who are there, simply shouldn't be there, them being there is just a result of their Dunning-Kruger effect.

There is a middle ground of "regulated rental" but this is precisely a compromise, a middle ground between buying and market renting. Buying a place in attractive location is winning a lottery: if place is ALREADY attractive, the rental yield there is low because price to buy is sky high due to countless trillions of printed money sloshing around, so it makes no sense buying, it only makes sense buying before it gets attractive, but it can't be predicted. Regulated rental gives you same opportunity: rent now and if in 30 years the place became attractive, you are renting at a small fraction of real cost, you won. This is not a solution, it is just a step halfway to the Soviet Union where the Party decided where you should live.
You forgot to use cowsay.
To be paired with:

"I can't run Arm in the cloud because I haven't got an Arm development machine"

You have to break into the vicious circle somewhere :)
1-why would anyone (other than you) give a shit about your company?

2-intellectual work does not translate to how many hours you put in.
> If someone is applying to Scale and has never been deeply obsessed about something before, then it’s a bad bet to think Scale will be the first.

So you mean that you're looking for unbalanced people? I don't get how being obsessed about a product equates to long term success for an employee in your company. To me it's more like a recipe for burnout.

What's the employee turnover at Scale?
One important difference to note in your Japan comparison is that Japan is experiencing population decline, which would explain weak demand and decreasing prices. Home ownership as an investment in North America has been driven by demand exceeding supply, among other factors, which make a difference from an investment perspective.
The idea that tiny homes are the solution to the housing crisis ignores the fact that the housing crisis is really a land-in-desirable-places crisis, and a result of a natural pyramid scheme which has emerged due to population growth and increasing popularity of cities (amplified by low interest rates). Tiny houses don't fix that problem.
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I would imagine groups like ISIS are numbered by such men.
Thank you, dang. HN wouldn't be what it is without your moderation. So often I see threads on sensitive topics threaten to spiral out of control before your interventions, which are always calm and well-chosen. You have somehow managed to keep a growing internet forum consistently respectful, and I can't imagine how difficult of a task that must be.
I'm skeptical of this excuse, considering megacorps don't seem to be this zealous about defending their trademarks. For instance, Mcdonald's doesn't seem to mind people making youtube videos on how to make big mac sauce[1]. There's plenty of videos that don't even have the "style" qualifier and even go as far as claim it makes the original sauce.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=big+mac+sauce
Over the past decade, our economic system has been rewarding zero-sum capital concentration at the expense of productive innovation and this has rewarded conventional thinkers at the expense of independent thinkers.

Conventional thinkers are better at concentrating capital because they want what everyone else wants - This allows certain things to become and remain highly overvalued or undervalued. Conventional thinkers have a sense of value which is grounded mostly in social approval/reinforcement; their sense of value is mostly detached from any underlying utility.

Independent thinkers are better at innovating since they don't value social approval/reinforcement and so they are more capable at identifying real utility value.

The problem today is that there are many conventional thinkers and they have been reinforcing each other's arbitrary decisions (not rooted in utility). This arbitrariness which is only rooted in social convention has been terrible for independent thinkers. Independent thinkers have been competing with large groups of conventional thinkers; on a ratio of maybe 1 to 100 or worse.

A lone genius is no match for hundreds of fools. History has demonstrated this time and time again. Socrates, Galileo... Successfully persecuted for being independent thinkers. It doesn't matter that they were right.

Our society just seems to be breeding conventional thinkers by the millions.
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> Why did Chez and Racket embrace R6RS, a standard widely rejected by the rest of the Scheme community?

Why wouldn't they? The usual rationale for rejecting R6RS is that it's somehow "too big". But Racket already has a library whose size blows R6RS out of the water. So this rationale is irrelevant in this context. Also, Chez Scheme is an implementation detail. R6RS is only one of many languages that you may use through Racket.

And what is this "Scheme community" that rejected R6RS? It's always been my impression that it was rejected by authors of toy implementations. Is there actually any data on what portion of people who use Scheme (as opposed to write another implementation of it) reject R6RS?