1. ngvrnd Aug 19, 2024 parent

   The City Fathers from cities in flight
2. ngvrnd Apr 29, 2024 parent

   While I think it is true that mistakes cannot be undone, it's also the case that most mistakes (even fairly bad ones) are not a sentence of doom. There are still choices to be made in the future (if you think there are choices) and you can always take the stoic route which is imo quite useful regardless of the question of free will.
3. ngvrnd Apr 28, 2024 parent

   what were the conclusions? I skimmed it but did not see any.
4. ngvrnd Apr 23, 2024 parent

   No, the high school project is talking about this.
5. ngvrnd Mar 24, 2024 parent

   There is no "why" -- it happened and was not selected against; it may have been adaptive and that is a kind of why, I guess. I think it would be better to be clear about this in science communication.
6. ngvrnd Mar 17, 2024 parent

   rapa-nui-cin
7. ngvrnd Feb 28, 2024 parent

   neurotoxic? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22130466/
8. ngvrnd Jan 26, 2024 parent

   Daughter recently told me: "that was a very chatgpt explanation."
9. ngvrnd Sep 27, 2023 parent

   https://youtu.be/3vUPhsFoniw?si=L-c0aOqeyP4rvOLg
10. ngvrnd Jul 20, 2023 parent

    Celebrity death match: Olin Shivers vs. Derek Sivers
11. ngvrnd Jul 10, 2023 parent

    Managers are a form of government; that is to say, a necessary evil. Companies should spend as much energy reducing the number of managers as they spend worrying about useless employees. But it never seems to be that way.
12. ngvrnd Jun 25, 2023 parent

    Orson Welles voice "Do you have a favorite kind of cardboard?"
13. ngvrnd Jun 23, 2023 parent

    He's just got a lot of energy.
14. ngvrnd Jun 17, 2023 parent

    Can we get the Guided By Voices logo added to unicode? http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7087/1132/1600/rune.1.jpg
15. ngvrnd Jun 6, 2023 parent

    I have this feeling that all of Musk's comnpanies are technology development ventures intended to support his primary goal of getting humans to live off-earth. Note: I am not defending his goal, or idolizing him. But consider: boring company: finance learning about tunnel construction; tunnels needed on moon or mars for habitation; solar cells: very useful on moon or mars; hyperloop: finance learning about vacuum seals and related technology. My explanation makes much more sense for each of these than the ostensible goal of the company. which brings me to the point in Cthulhu's post: tesla is selling cars to understand the techne of energy storage for use in space habs.
16. ngvrnd Jun 6, 2023 parent

    cells are not the same thing as batteries; it's possible tesla is making batteries with cells from Panasonic or whatever.
17. ngvrnd Jun 5, 2023 parent

    Never trust anyone who says things like "never trust anyone who ..."

    Ok, yes, I get that he's got a larger point under that clickbait-ey slug but ehhh.

18. ngvrnd May 24, 2023 parent

    If Chomsky is right(), then what is to be done? () I am inclined to think he is fwiw
19. ngvrnd May 24, 2023 parent

    there is no fault; there is no guilt trip. There is no "cannot publish acceptable trustworthy etc.". These are observations and a proposed explanation that the causes described are resulting in the observed phenomena. You are not an island, or else the rest of society is your sea. You may be uninterested in your milieu, but your milieu is in[terested in] you.
20. ngvrnd May 19, 2023 parent

    Everything is edible; many things only once.
21. ngvrnd May 19, 2023 parent

    day lillies, I think, are also completely edible.
22. ngvrnd Apr 11, 2023 parent

    “That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”
23. ngvrnd Apr 3, 2023 parent

    I wasn't arguing against it. I was commenting on it, sharing a thought. Peace.
24. ngvrnd Apr 3, 2023 parent

    This reminds me of "all models are wrong, but some models are useful." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong)

    Outside of formal math, all we have are models, so there will often (always?) be an ordering of "less wrong" on model-based knowledge.

    So "wronger than wrong" is putting a heavy spin on the truth. More wrong models might still be useful.

25. 4 points Mar 8, 2023

    Black holes eventually (?) decohere all entangled systems

    0 comments ngvrnd quantamagazine.org
26. ngvrnd Mar 6, 2023 parent

    extremely relatable.
27. ngvrnd Feb 9, 2023 parent

    Laid off 10 January, had a few interviews at startups but no offers yet. Seems like there are positions in the robotics space.
28. ngvrnd Dec 21, 2022 parent

    well put.

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