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> The other is that, and this especially applies to people that live inside their head, are very smart, very analytical, etc...the body itself provides a pathway out. Without even getting into somatic psychology, the act of doing things where one is experiencing felt sensation in the body provides a ground for consciousness outside of the grey hazy thought world.

I second this. To me it makes a big difference but it has to be kept up; it's not a "done and you'll feel better for a few weeks" but a daily step to take. If it works for you and you haven't explored Peter Levine and somatic experiencing, that can be a good next step to see what your body responds to.

Unfortunately none of this helps with my seasonal depression which hit last week. Tried light boxes and vitamin D in previous years - no relief through any. Only 4-5 months to get through...
Wait a second, how sure are we that the bird was not chillin on cargo ship?
I can't wear earbuds. I've tried a variety and they cause excruciating ear canal and inner ear pain for me within 15 minutes. I have to use around-ear, open-back headphones to not feel like I'm free diving 15ft under water. I particular, Beyer Dynamics DT 990 Pro https://north-america.beyerdynamic.com/dt-990-pro.html
I just finished reading it last week. I feel he could have shortened the initial 30 pages of the Austrian geopolitical environment, but otherwise really enjoyed it. It was a smooth read.

Was not aware of the previous biographies, thanks for sharing those. It is interesting that you’re saying the mental health story is not universally accepted.
The whole point of conceptual art is that reproduction of figurative art is trivial now, so we move up a level. It's easy to reproduce the dot, but it's the conceptual move to dotness that's non-trivial. These ideas are 60 years old (Walter Benjamin) and you're doing a bit of a Two Cultures in reverse by being this simplistic about it.
The web page must be served from somewhere, even if the server it came from really wasn't involved in file transfers. It would be nice to have HTTPS for the client to rule out MITM attacks or the like.
For once I agree with Paul Graham.

I expect his post to be surprisingly unpopular with this crowd, as it sleights a core tenet of our postmodern age. Namely, he's arguing for a form of objective truth and of "the good". A statistical derivation of this good for sure (and qualitative as opposed to a Benthamist, quantitative utilitarianism), but a good nonetheless.

But I applaud PG for taking this stance. Truth is not like your favorite flavor of ice cream. Software isn't either, and certain software either works or doesn't. Human culture and beliefs—our ideological software—has objectively superior results depending upon what your measuring stick is. Some beliefs are objectively better.
Is "good taste" a universal property or is it specific to different cultures?

Is there art that is overwhelming appreciated by people in one culture, but does not resonate at all with another culture?

If that is the case, to what extend does good taste transcend cultural barriers?

Perhaps the right model to think is that art interacts with the ideas and culture of a people. Good art exposes these ideas and cultures to the surface for humans to appreciate.
It's a record of historical claims of effectiveness, posted in response to a claim of effectiveness.
> Those "slow to ramp" plants are necessary to provide the base load. The cause of the overload is the volatility of renewables.

Sure, that's true. But what I'm saying is that negative prices don't impact the rollout of renewables because renewables never have to pay them. And in a market with lots of renewables and no distortions, prices won't go below zero anyway.
Not sure why article needs to redefine what is decades old knowledge - 'successful psychopaths' are what others call 'highly functioning sociopaths'. Take ie any corporation old enough, and its top (and often middle) layer is composed almost entirely of them. They sure can talk nice especially on camera, but they are ruthless inside and not somebody you can have as true friend. Its a spectrum which gives certain bonuses is used right (or destroys life/lives if not).

One needs to be an exceptional leader, smart, hardworking and other virtues to thrive in such an environment if not having this trait. And play politics hard. Now why would somebody so talented cause it to themselves, when starting a company these days might be a much better idea.

Its so frequent I would claim its coming from who we are as humans, I presume similar things were to be found in medieval kingdoms and earlier too.

I don't see it inherently as necessary evil, as long as these people have the right carrot at the end of their stick and not just power for the power itself or some messed up kicks from being on top regardless of the collateral damage. The reason is, these people often tend to deliver and deliver way more than average. Steve Jobs was one. Gates is another. Bezos too. And many others.
Shiny discs need a laser in a dark, stable space with lots of cache and a purpose-built lens and sensor to read them reliably. I don't see a camera or a scanner having that reliability.

Every new pixel you want to render from a lens reveals more and more flaws. That's why older lenses often perform poorly on newer digital cameras: the designers didn't have to contend with 24, 50, 100... megapixel sensors. Even the 24 baseline already pushes what the film they make 4K remasters from can support and that's twice as big as what most film still cameras use.
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Reminds me of the iMac that hosted the main file share of the history department at the large university I worked at
There is good taste.
Good taste is my taste.
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What about pecan farms? A new farm takes 20+ years to start producing and a lot of people would rather have Christmas trees than pecans.
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Those are not a pipes though, they're redirections. This common mistake surely means your expertise on this matter is lacking and therefor your opinion is worthless.

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The context of art extends beyond the artifact. I image both PhDs would have trouble contributing meaningful novel work.
that combination system i've been talking about is for proper road bikes.

> And of course on a proper road bike you'll still want a double chainring.

why? the IGH replaces the front double chainring. weight and price might be a bit higher but it's probably more robust, less maintenance and you can shift under full load.

https://cyclingtips.com/2020/07/this-rear-hub-has-2x-wireles...
> Well, I've flown that far in a day

To be the nitpick: You have been flown that far in a day. On a species-level perhaps an equally impressive feat, but on an individual level I’m more impressed by the birdie..
> To be in a constant state of satisfaction and euphoria is unrealistic

I've read the accounts of near death experiences in The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying, and I recall many people being exceedingly euphoric, as if they have been freed of the grasping and attachments of life, like a river joining back to the sea if you will.

Temporarily we wear this meat-suit and then rejoin the spirit world / etheric world, and many people call this 'heaven' or other words. Imagine being permanently on MDMA or something.
Pure guess, but maybe they recognise position of stars in the sky? that could provide both calendrical and navigational utility
they sleep during flight, I think some/many fish/birds can switch off parts of brain to be esentially sleeping while autopilot works, sharks for instance, I guess for lowly humans closest comparison would be sleep walking
It is absurd to pay to increase the value of a property I don't own and will not live in after a few years. Should I just spend this money every time I move?

My work doesn't have EV chargers and I'd need 20 hours of slow charging a day to make up for my commute. Relying on superchargers is reasonable though.

I had not heard of portable RO systems before. I'm definitely hopping on that. Cheers.
If there's no such thing as good taste, then there's no such thing as good art.

Unless good art is defined as one that appeals to more people's taste.

I agree with the premise that there is such a thing as good taste, but this is not the knockdown argument it's presented to be.
I answered above - looking at their site it appears there is much more documentation. It was hard to wrap my head around what it was doing / the APIs when I wrote this
"how do we decide on that?"
That's the point. There is no current calculus to compute this but I find Paul's argument pretty convincing still.
My go-to "I'm a smart computer guy because I know what the acronym is short for" acronym was PCMCIA.
they are just switching between parts of brain, essentially running autopilot, sharks do same, soe it's not really THAT impressive for bird to stay in flight for extended periods, 10 days is nothing spectacular
Oh yes. There is no question about this.
Precisely true. Especially when you have co-founders who are irrational. They will drag you down before competitors even have a chance.
The wood textured patch is a nice touch. More electronic components should feature wood paneling.
yes, i meant combining an IGH with a rear derailer (instead of a front derailer). afaik there's only one supplier of those currently (and the system is a bit half-baked, i.e. no DI2 compatibility for reusing the existing shifters).
No experience trying this myself, but there are people who do "light therapy"
Having poor social skills != mental illness. Some people with poor social skills have no mental illness, and some mentally-ill people have excellent social skills.
Only 10% of workers said they don't work overtime. Wowza.
Lots of people trying to compare our 10k-year old technology (200 years if we talk about machines, even less if we talk about robots) with something that evolved basically with billions of trial/errors in millions of years.

At this point we should check which animal can travel as fast as a shuttle and go back and forth to the moon.
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I was expecting this essay to mention novelty. What we appreciate in art really comes down to novelty and therefore good taste is the ability to recognize it. Which in turn requires the observer to have a solid background in the genre (i.e. having seen a lot of it already) to judge how novel and original a work of art is. That's why art critics, collectors generally agree on things more often than not: they've dealt with enough of previous samples to identify novelty.

The rest, pretty much all the other aspects of art other than novelty are debatable and subjective, I think.
Thanks! Yea, they were, as I commented, it's all just web-app, which works in Safari
The last mile problem here is the jump to people's brains and it isn't easily solved by technical means. It goes beyond UX or UI and is really an empathy issue.
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How did they make sure it didn't rest on a a ship or something?
There are wireless headphones with a good TCO. I have a Logitech headset that cost me $80 or so. Changed the battery two times over the last 7 years. Each battery was like $12. Battery replacement was trivial.
I think "simple" refers to the user's perspective:

"Now, anyone can buy a lens, put the coating on and use the lens without worrying about dispersion," said Ossiander.
Ever think how deep our ignorance here is? I do. I like to imagine life forms with molten iron bloodstreams; magma amoeba debating whether life could exists in the near vaccum conditions of the vacuum transition zone where "everything vital to life" is cold and crystalline and dead.

It goes the other way, too. Solar system scale forms comprised of what we might perceive to be electrostatic ripples across the face of the heliopause. I can make arguments for signs of this in our atmosphere, even.

I'm not saying they exist and are telling us to mend our ways or buy Reebok shoes or anything, but I think we dismiss the possibilities implicit in what we don't know because we don't like to think of them. HP Lovecraft was right; but the existence of the nightmare abyss is not a reason to fear, its an invitation to go skinny dipping.
Nit: Benjamin died 80 years ago. Time flies!
I would argue that you can write something poor and/or confusing in any markup language that is sufficiently powerful.

Conversely, if a markup language is strict enough to prevent every inconsistency, then it's not powerful enough or too cumbersome to use to be generally useful.
IBM and Oracle were early Java adopters, and IBM repurposed all their Visual Age products on top of Java.

I doubt that was the reasoning from upper management.
Yeah I do this with files/links/notes/numbers on Signal, where I have myself pinned to the top (Signal calls yourself "Note to Self" in the chat list).
Can move somewhere it’s always sunny? Not that that really helps if my experience is any indication, but I’m only one person.

I tried a sunlight lamp at 10000lm, which was impressive while it was on, but stepping out of my room in the evening messed with me so hard that I never used it again.
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The client can be sent encryption keys, generated by the server, and use them for P2P encryption, so the MITM can be avoided.
A human can fly on their own lift provided you accelerate the human fast enough (bricks fly too after all). Not very comfortable though.
Can you self host these workers? Otherwise you get vendor lock in which is a no go.
Is it ironic or is it consistent with the message?
On par with Allegro and Lisp Works it isn't certainly not.
It isn't universal healthcare if you exclude anyone for any reason. It still can be public healthcare with alternatives for private insurance schemes. It would be most unwise to kill universal healthcare because of the threat or costs Covid poses.
At my company we've been using workers extensively for routing, specific auth logic (including integration with Auth0) and more -- I guess moving towards an api gateway pattern. I loved it at first but its becoming very cumbersome to maintain. I'm currently migrating away from this pattern and try to keep logic closer to the application/code that leans on it.

tl;dr: Orchestrating many cloudflare workers at scale has not been a great experience.
Is the explanation in the article relevant to ultrashort laser pulses which are more like wavelets with smeared frequency spectrum (uncertainty principle) than something where "red light" to be "speed-bumped" exists?
Essentially its ok to sell your soul for 40 hours (likely more) a week as long as it allows you to pursue your own interests outside of work.
I think I've recently read that the amount of Akkadian/Sumerian material is vastly more, than anything the Latin period has produced. Yet almost nobody is able to interpret it, in comparison to Latin.
At least there is no cert which expire. And no authority to obey.

Pieter was my best friend, a great loss.

But his writings are here to stay, i guess he started to write some books after 2009, when he got his first duct bill cancer.
Of course, the heart is a muscle many animals possess, that never rests.
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I'm was expecting him to mention "Of the Standard of Taste" by David Hume [0] which makes a similar and I think better (though maybe not as easy to read) argument and which I thought this piece was inspired by at first.

[0] https://home.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361r15.html
This made me laugh, too. I have never been less certain about whether something was meant to be a joke or not.
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Yes, and then they had to replace the batteries that suffered “irreversible damage” and that took several months to fix. These birds just keep on going.
I did this once as I like to understand the processes that go into modern everyday items. Without a grinding mill I wasn't able to get the cacao to the smoothest consistency (it was grainy as the article describes), however it still came out as delicious pieces of chocolate. I did not add any cocoa butter, just sugar (and not much, I like it dark).

The process of shelling, toasting, grinding, conching, and tempering wasn't as difficult as one might think; I recommend curious minds to order some beans and try it out! It makes for a fun (and tasty) afternoon.
Wish there was an easy tutorial for developing and deploying a web app on Linux.
People might be interesting in some research from NASA about how Birds fly compared to planes and why they are more efficient.

Albion H. Bowers was the Chief Scientist at NASA's Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center published some fantastic research:

On Wings of the Minimum Induced Drag: Spanload Implications for Aircraft and Birds

(https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20160003578)

but here are some videos that get the message across:

2014:

NASA's Albion H. Bowers - "Why Birds Don't Have Vertical Tails" - AMA EXPO 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoT2upDbdUg)

2018:

"Prandtl Wing Minimum Drag Update" - Al Bowers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCwtcDNB15E)

2021:

Fly with Birds: Meeting with Albion H. Bowers
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oVXPkTnss)

We could massively improve our efficiency by adopting this. Its a shame that we are flying as much as we do and using so much unnecessary fuel.
I think this is in the right direction but critical that it’s not interpreted as more novel = more better. There’s some sweet spot of novelty, which I actually would say is closer to surprise. In order to surprise someone, you must first build expectation (e.g. use elements other artists have used), then violate it.
Why not just use Cloudflare Access for this? It’s the same thing for even less work (and it’s free for personal use).
The evening of that talk had another speech that led to events of more import. On the side of Paul Graham (at least in the debate) Andrew Graham-Dixon gave a speech[1] that was against fascism, against racism, and against anti-semitism and yet Cambridge Union put him on a list of speakers that will not be invited back because of their racism and anti-semitism.

Why? Because he did a satirical impression of Hitler.

I know, I can almost hear your jaws dropping to the floor.

> The Union’s Equalities officer, Zara Salaria, said that Graham-Dixon’s impression was “absolutely unacceptable” and “utterly horrifying.”

There's more of this idiotic hysteria to be found in this article[2] with quotes from students and alumni of one of the world's top universities (supposedly).

What is the world coming to when you can't take the mick out of Hitler? No, what is the world coming to when you take the mick out of Hitler and "top students" think that is somehow support for his views?

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/hitler-row-andrew-gr...

[2] https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/22398
I don't know whether Georg Cantor's investigations into higher infinities were related to his psychiatric difficulties, but I would surely have struggled with my sanity if I had been doing that work.
Open up Google Maps and switch to satellite mode and then look around the midwest. There are many states that appear to be 90% farmland, but nearly all states have a large percentile of farmland.

https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/2020-us-agricultural-exports
Carbon fiber is much more difficult to iterate on though. Using accessible and cheap materials is beneficial for adoption by hobbyists or other researcher.
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This seems incredibly clunky compared to Signal where you by design can message yourself without any hassle (and you're called "Note to Self" in the chat list).
Yeah I'm happy I have a nice home but we also have some annoyances (minor compared to yours), we have been ready to move on to a bigger property for about 5 years now, very little comes up though. And when it does, we are often too late (they cap at 80 viewers for example, this is talking about 500k+ properties, I swear, 10 years ago you got a couple of viewers for each property, the realtor told me back then he negotiates with 1 person/couple at a time (unimaginable now!) and I think the number of properties for sale in my city easily dropped by 60% over the last 10 years).

Recently we finally got to view a nice property with some land (more rural, 545k) and someone overbid by 105k without and further reservations on the contract. So we are also pretty stuck.

Still it baffled me that when I talked to my bank I can probably sell my 2012 bought house (195k, modernized for 50k) for 330k! And then, I can repurpose my old mortgage to make it repayment-free ("overgangsregeling"), bla bla bla, and I can move to a 600k property with an increase of only 250 euro net per month. It's crazy!!! Yeah your generation doesn't pay transfer-tax but that's a drop in the bucket. Add to that that increasing a bid by 20k only costs you about 60 euro net per month (low rent, 30 years mortgage) and you get into a crazy bidding race really easily.

I feel like we need to build many more affordable houses ("starterswoningen", 200-300k). But I guess that 400-700k properties are where the money is at.

I'm now thinking about buying land and putting a prefab or standard house on it. Still, land is also not easy to find.

Edit: Oh a nice fact about my house: The woman living in it before us bought it for 19500 Guilders (~9k euro's) in the sixties...
> ...operate on people...
> ...work on people...

It follows, then, that we need to know the effect the author was trying to have on people in order to know how well it "works", right? Without the intention, we can only measure magnitude, but perhaps the author intended to have a small, subtle effect?
Paul did not discuss the merits of academic art versus modern art. He simply attempted to proof that it is "less wrong" to say there can be good taste, than that there is no taste.

The argument works in any recognized genre or art - the claim is "In a particular chosen genre, a person can be more skilled than an 8 year old who has no idea what they are doing".

The genre can be whatever that has no known established numeric metric. I.e. sports do not generally qualify for this argument as they most of the time have a metric that is more or less objective, and you can say based on numbers who is better without the need for "taste".

To my understanding, Paul is familiar with academic art so he feels confident in using it as the example genre as he is comfortable in discussing it's nuances.
Like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair
I don't know if there's such a thing as good taste, but there is definitely such a thing as bad taste.
That's a really interesting attribute to focus on. Never thought of novelty as a standard.

I think there's an argument to be made for culturally convergent "taste" as a measure of value.
We like what others like, we're all trying to predict what others will like to increase our own status, etc.
These forces should result in a convergent "good taste" to win.
In most countries mortgage rates are variable and go up with the central bank rate.

And nothing will save you if your salary doesn't keep up with inflation
Self hosting would pretty much defeat the whole purpose of workers. The point is that you don't need to self host.
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A lot of large corporations are basically real estate companies. You know, companies like McDonalds.

It's actually funny how the efficient market hypothesis makes no sense once you consider the role that land has played in human history. It's the biggest unsolved problem in economics that no politician really acknowledges.

Even anti government or extreme free market ideologues still insisted that land should be heavily taxed or regulated in the name of efficiency.