My experience has been almost entirely wonderful, but of course it's a single annoyance that motivated me to write this post. My single annoyance? I can't enter a phone number and have my phone automatically tell me the matching contacts. I can't even figure out how to search contacts by phone number.
It sucks to lose a feature you didn't even know you loved.
At the 1955 stock-market hearings, Galbraith was followed at the witness table by the aging speculator and "adviser to presidents" Bernard M. Baruch. The committee wanted to know what the Wall Street legend thought of the learned economist. "I know nothing about him to his detriment," Baruch replied. "I think economists as a rule—and it is not personal to him—take for granted they know a lot of things. If they really knew so much, they would have all of the money, and we would have none."
All threads begin somewhere
And each one somewhere ends.
Voices unheeded crying out
against the life we, heedless, spend.
Counting, dying, watching, waiting,
for life we hunger never sating.
I modified this recipe as follows:
Just combine everything and mash the avocados – I used a spoon and that worked just fine.
It's a little spicy, particularly when you get a jalapeno seed (or several) in a bite. The cucumber provides an extra coolness lost often otherwise lost in the creamy textrure of the avocados, but the original recipe was pretty solid to begin with.
It was (and still is) delicious. And four avocados makes a surprisingly large amount of guacamole apparently.
On superuser.com, a question and answer site for general computer topics (i.e. installing programs, troubleshooting devices, etc.), there are 4029 questions tagged 'windows' and there are 3335 questions tagged 'linux'.
It wasn't quite easy enough the last time I tried. Windows was far better for Internet than any Linux setup I could configure.
But maybe it's better now.
Prices provide signals to make possible the continuous provision of something desired.
Subsidies, tariffs, and all the milder distortions too, merely mismatch our aggregate desires and our own incentives to fulfill them.
and I've been using it to do calf raises – it's a fine sturdy surface for such activity. On a whim, I decided to look thru it for something to try my hand at, and lo and behold I am inspired by the very first recipe – guacamole.
: Compassion and Burnout in the ER – by Paul Austin. It wasn't particularly surprising or eye-opening – it's common knowledge that medicine is difficult and stressful. It wasn't outstanding, but it was readable.
How nice it is that this person, and his wider community, can coordinate the exchange of information about all this activity – it's important that someone is paying attention; someone is fact-checking the numbers; someone is watching all the moves of all the players – it's great that there is now more of a connected audience for this little piece of the universe.A lot of smart people I know are pessimistic about the world. Their actions betray their true beliefs, but this is what they maintain rhetorically.
I was just struck by the realization that I value providing specific experiences to people. Yes, I could give simply give my friend $5 – but I much more enjoy buying him a graph-paper notebook for his song lyrics, laundry lists, and engineering diagrams. But am I just acting selfishly, paying for the chance to know or say that I contributed or caused these 'wonderful' experiences? Would it be better to simply give $5?
The inevitable feedback-spaghetti of signaling games makes my head spin. What a precarious balance and never really achieved!
[If none of the above makes sense, go read Robin Hanson @ Overcoming Bias. He's always providing great examples of signaling in action.]
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