That small minority seem to have disproportionate power (at least in the case of Lia Thomas).
I’m not sure how small it is and I don’t want to enable it.
There are people forcing/pressuring participation in the public display of pronouns/say your pronouns thing (you may just live somewhere insulated from it).
I’ve had it happen in Silicon Valley interviews and I know some groups at Stanford require it.
I don’t do it because I think most of the time it’s more about signaling political affiliation than actually solving a problem.
It also tends to then extend to things like pretending there are no sex differences and that everything is socially constructed (which I think is nonsense). I used to think this was a strawman, but the Lia Thomas story shows it isn’t imo: https://overcast.fm/+vpWbPtN0o
This is obviously a third rail internet topic and people can do what they like, but I won’t put pronouns in my bio and I won’t submit to pressure to do so in order to pass some sort of political morality test.
I love that I can be pretty 'wired in' to HN, tech twitter, etc. and still find cool stuff like this that's been around for years and I've never heard of before.
It looks like a pretty cool game, I'm surprised I've never heard of SS13 given all of I've seen about Dwarf Fortress.
It'll be interesting to watch this space and it's cool that someone is working on building this out - I hope they leverage some of the staying power of the web by leaning on protocols for a true platform, but that'll be hard to do.
There's a ton of interesting potential if lightweight AR hardware works out. I think it'll be pretty interesting.
I think Austin is better about building too, meanwhile in the Bay Area they just rejected units desperately needed in the tenderloin because they might become a "tech dorm".
Tao has gotten a lot more public media attention for the most part (Netflix, shows, TV, news, etc.) than any of the others which remain more niche. I'd guess as a result the audiences of the others are better selected to lean more high quality.
I think the brand isn’t toxic because of the state of the competition.
Even with this hack, their stuff is still the best available for home use. Netgear or Linksys consumer routers are awful. The mesh devices are okay, but serve of a different market.
The other stuff people recommend is often 2-3x the Unifi price and 2-3x more complicated to setup and configure.
Any ex-employees want to start a company making this stuff that doesn’t suck?
I also liked the HD version - when I was watching it (I think around 2014?) about half way through the HD was pulled and everything switched to SD on the streaming service. I googled at the time and found others noticed this too.
It was jarring enough that I stopped watching it as a result, might be time to try again (I was on Season 3), it was a great show from what I saw up to that point.
You're still taking in input and experiencing the world.
I was really young for the grade I was in which made things harder than necessary. It would have been easier to be a year older.
You'd still get the socialization anyway, you'd just have one year with a little less (and I'm not really convinced that remote socialization via remote learning is particularly helpful, whatever alternative socialization outside of remote learning is probably just as good or better).
I’m not convinced any of this remote learning stuff matters that much as long as parents have money to feed their kids and house themselves.
Canceling remote learning to spend time with the kids and giving them space to let them learn about something they’re interested in for a year probably does zero harm and might even be beneficial. I would have loved it.
Obviously bad family situations, and poverty are not helped by this - but those things are probably made worse by throwing remote learning on top of it.
Wealthy countries should have a vaccine and distribution done by end of 2021. Waiting that out is what I would do if I had kids.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CqyJzDZWvGhhFJ7dY/belief-in-...