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Today I finished replacing my CenturyLink-provided router with a “homebrew” router, a small Dell desktop with 2 NICs and an SSD running Untangle.
With a i5-2400 running at 3.1Ghz and 8GB of RAM, it might be slightly overpowered for a home network. But there’s 1Gbps fiber on the other side of it, and now I can use all of it without overheating (or even slightly heating) anything.
And I can do so much more with it: permanent VPN tunnel to work, detailed port forwarding rules, etc.
Reciprocity is hard
Teens: “If I do someone a favor, they’ll like me”
18-25: “If I do someone a favor, shit it becomes my job”
25-30: “If I do someone a favor, they’ll hate me”
30-35: “I need favors, I better get good at accepting them with grace”
30-40: “How do I create openings for people to return favors and feel like they’re even?”
40+: “Who do I trust enough to initiate favor trading and unsettled carried balances with?”
If the US’s toxic online culture should be quarantined from the world, we seem to have the right leaders. However, an economic quarantine without a cultural firewall would be exactly backwards.
Compare with China’s strategy of cultural and marketplace isolation, but deepening economic ties.
The entire game that’s been playing out on the grand stage of evolution is “Can I see you before you see me?”
A hobby, especially one with a subculture attached, is the consumption equivalent of economies of scale:
Experience curves = taste acquisition curves
Industrial process jargon = subcultural slang
Tastemakers = lean six sigma process bureaucrats
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Reality is yours.
The world is your perception.
Bring your will to bear and make it so.
There is not bbn one world we share, there are 7 billion worlds on earth. We experience only ours.
Make yours yours.
I'll make mine mine.
Day one of the experiment. Symptoms of withdrawal already setting in. As I shiver and sweat, my cracked lips beg for tallied likes and shares, though I do not mean for them to speak.
There is nothing worse than a cover of John Cage's 4'33".
What should I write a story about?
Complete the thought: There’s more to life than __________________
Complete the thought: There’s more to life than __________________
Anyone here familiar with plasma physics / fusion reactor design?
I'd like to know how useful it would be for fusion reactors to be able to make geometrical complex carbon/carbon composite parts (5-axis 3D printed, with continuous fibers)
"...'under realistic conditions, i.e. at a high temperature of the plasma ions'...
This is all down to the graphite tiles, new as of September 2017, which let the reactor reach higher temperatures and longer plasma discharges"
#introductions Hi I'm a software developer / startup founder with a math / stats / finance background and an unhealthy obsession with old maps and land use documents.
starting this off...
Oakland.
NYC.
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
#introduction
I've worked in software on and off for a few years, done some research getting reinforcement learning agents to play well with humans ("AI safety"), and am currently learning math & meditation.
I started playing chess in college, and found @vgr's book Tempo through amazon recs. It's been a rich source of insight, and followed that to ribbonfarm.
Other interests: cities, narratives, far-future-tech, global risks, econ/social systems, sounds and music
Evolution: what was context becomes content.
The dark side of digital-nomadism is digital-nobodyism. Who have built skills which might command a relatively rich, low class living in digital-nimbyism. But is instead living in digital-povertyism.
Hey guys, on a test basis, I've changed the admin settings so anyone can invite people to this instance.
If you want to invite friends who might be good additions to this instance, please use the feature. But for now, please do so sparingly and via 1:1 invites only. Ie create an invite link for yourself but don't mass email/tweet it; send it to specific people.
cc: @zacharius
I am becoming convinced that "rationalism" is a disease that makes smart people even more susceptible to the Dunning-Kruger effect, and makes the outcomes of DK even more intense & harmful.
To be very impolitic, rationalism is the HIV of the mind, lowering auto-immune defenses & making otherwise benign issues a major problem.
(This isn't a perfect analogy bc rationalism also has some benefits, but best I got right now.)
