Diego Basch
@dbasch
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Imagine you have been looking at the Earth from space, for millions and millions of years. It always looks the same. All of a sudden it lights up, in a matter of decades. The blink of an eye. Could you have predicted that? Of course not. Humans love to predict things. People…
I haven't seen it, but a sequel to Spinal Tap MUST be sad. Or do you imagine they became the Rolling Stones?
I saw the trailer for the upcoming SPINAL TAP sequel yesterday afternoon. And it made me feel sad.
Teachers are paid fairly, and they should not be paid more relative to other jobs.
What’s an unpopular opinion you believe is genuinely true?
Saving 10k a year may actually increase your quality of life. It depends on what you were doing with those 10k. Maybe you were spending them on unnecessary status signals, and you feel more virtuous now. Maybe you were paying for the upkeep of something you didn't really like,…
I had a weird realization about saving money. Say you start saving 10K a year, you immediately reduce your quality of life by that amount. After 15 years of reduced QoL, you have 200K, which yields you 10K annually in interest. But even if you start spending your 10K in…
Figures vary. The consensus is between 0 and 3000.
How many times do u have to get lunch with someone before you can tell other people they’re your friend
I spent 30 years in tech working to change the world. But I recently realized that the real change in the world was the friends I made along the way.
If Amazon doesn't need to open and close, why do stock markets still open and close?
I really hope the video below is staged. I hope the three kids she mentions don’t really exist. Please let this be fake.
She's getting divorced bc her marriage doesn't meet her fantasy expectations, then claims that not only can't she "be herself" around her husband but at 32 she doesn't even know who she is yet. Send the meteor. This is why we can't have nice things.
There should be an app like Tea but to discuss developers who did horrible things. For example, upload unencrypted data to a publicly viewable Firebase bucket.
Fuck, the Aztecs were the good guys. Why did all the history books lie? Thank you WB.
A new legend rises. AZTEC BATMAN: CLASH OF THE EMPIRES is coming to Digital 9/19.
There is an assembly line where people grab time slots from a conveyor belt, assemble them into grids and place them on another belt that takes them to the internet. The average employee inserts 1500 slots per day.
Out of curiosity what do the 500+ employees at Calendly do over the course of 6 day work week? I have a clear picture of the tonnage of weldments that can be shipped per week with that headcount but it is unclear to me how this translates to a software business. Genuine question
If you want to cook a meal at home, you first need a home. If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
This could have been written at pretty much any time during human history. It could be Cicero, it could be a postwar journalist lamenting the nuclear age, or a random boomer after 9/11.
Mental illness plays an important role in US homeslessness, precisely because of the lack of support for the mentally ill.
A reminder: framing homelessness as a problem of mental illness or addiction has been politically manufactured to divert attention from its *actual* causes—skyrocketing rents, poverty wages, gutted social supports—and to justify the removal of homeless people from public space.
“Eating at home” and “eating outside” are not comparable without more context. But if done correctly, cooking for 100 is more efficient than cooking for 4.
eating at home costing $60 with time and labor and eating outside costing $56.78. alright.
This is because the UX of most of the US is awful. They just don’t know better.
Car ownership is nearly universal in the US, and in 2023, the average annual cost to own and operate a new vehicle climbed to $12,182. For the 37% of American households with two cars, that’s nearly $25,000 per year. Household fleet management is expensive.
What kind of psychopath uses Chrome on iOS. Let me know so I can unfollow you.
I think by now it's safe to say that AI hasn't made anyone more productive (in the corporate sense), and has had virtually no economic impact outside of itself. It's still a promise to be fulfilled.
This is cope. You don't know the counterfactual. You'd need to meet bored immortals whose lives are so meaningless that they have spent most of them trying to become mortal again, because they don't want to wait for the heat death of the universe.
"I hope we never do discover immortality. A hundred years, give or take a decade or two, is enough. The constraint is part of what gives the duration its meaning." world.hey.com/dhh/memento-mo…
From the point of view of someone who lived 200 years ago, most developed countries already have a form of UBI. The fact that most people won't starve to death no matter what would be incredible to a random European from 1825.
Hi there! I’m from a country with a form of basic income, and our economy has been stable for decades. People don’t just sit at home, they still want to work and contribute. Funny how some say UBI defies human nature, yet it works pretty well in reality. Odd, isn’t it?