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Except it ain’t satire!

Cue argument about non typed scripting languages with garbage collection not belonging on long running server processes, etc… “There’s this thing called the stack, a request response cycle fits inside it and actually http is stateless probably due to contemporary stack limits”

I agree, and found the article funny.

The parts about accessibility, data portability, and alternative interfaces are very relevant: protocols instead of software, open standards.

Remember the various messenger clients and then stuff like Trillian Pigeon etc?

The federated stuff as well as web rings, remember those?

Remember life before Google?

Organic discovery of links is often quite ideologically and teleologically relevant, in terms of the people and minds that connect.

It’s somewhat ironic that web forums such as HN are actually how we discover human filtered links.

Stretching/yoga constantly. Keep the mat unrolled and while something builds, stretch.

Walking. A lot. As I’ve not been able to dance all night since COVID, I’ve started “dance walking” . It looks pretty ridiculous and keeps people guessing.

I like to ride my bicycle, bicycle…

But there’s a multifaceted you there.

It’s pretty hard to reach your potential as a surf champion if you stay where you were born in Minnesota.

It’s pretty hard to become a social butterfly in a culture that disapproves of your sexual orientation.

It’s pretty hard to become a nuclear physicist if you only stay in the farm and study animal husbandry.

Nothing against animal husbandry or Minnesota

Also true. Mental boxes are mental boxes.

I wouldn’t discount alternative environments for stimulating latent or dorment parts of a person, but you certainly have a good point about the perennial capacity for self transformation

1) is this novelty curve, when the thrill is gone etc.

2) happiness. In my understanding it’s a decision about how to view life in general, which couples to endocrine system responses

3) the opportunities and relative merits of different places. I heard said that XYZ is a good/bad place to do PFQ activity

Nice article and all, especially the cute drawings. I don’t agree with their conclusions.

It’s pretty hard to become a surf champion if you grow up in Minnesota and stay there. Each new “reality bubble” or “box” I created in response to different circumstances in a different environment. I changed, or rather, different sides of my personality had to develop to adapt to a different environment.

I’m not speaking as a vacationing cubicle worker, but as someone who completely reinvented himself after age 30, learned a half dozen languages, visited 50 countries usually on local peoples sofas, and then finally changed countries of habitation several times and am now a dual national and feeling both mental boxes quite strongly attempting to box me in.

The part where I agree with the author is that part in which our reality is limited by our own mental box of perception and acculturation.

Our choices and responses to external stimuli determine if we fold or adapt to new opportunities. Will we hide in our shell or will we come out and be molded by new experiences?

Please note, the instagram vacation model is accurate and hollow as outlined by the author, I just think that they copped out with their lame trite conclusion that I have personally found to be untrue.

You would make an EXCELLENT moderator or facilitator. You gave fair shrift and explanation to the various perspectives anc concerns this thread is full of. I will happily vote for you if you ever run for public office.

Downtown Saint Paul Minnesota has the “skyway system” but I’m not sure it provides any lateral stiffening, rather more movement between buildings above street level in inclement weather

Good point, I wonder if light shafts ameliorate that sufficiently, or altered internal topologies, like cutouts

Skyscrapers are disproportionately tall for their width. This leads to the mentioned lateral movement issues discussed. The great pyramid of Giza does not have such issues due to its literal pyramidic shape with its wide base. It would seem to me, purely based on common sense, that skyscrapers are unnecessarily tippy and flexy due to the bizarre interest in making a thin needle-like building with a small base section.

Why would we not consider simply making tall buildings proportionally wide instead of this obviously flawed tippy needle thingy?

Problems with tippy needles include: foundations and their connections to bedrock, simple physical fulcrum principles, and the obvious inability to spread forces over a larger area. It’s a bit like trying to hold a large Christmas tree up with a small stand with low mass… doomed to problems

Wait, are you saying that there is recourse for reversing blockchain transactions?

There’s a difference between one kid, two kids, three kids, and that guy who had 150 kids or somesuch.

There isn’t an infinite carrying capacity to any planet, nor is it reasonable to have excess of a singular species for it is at the expense of others.

Some may have hurt feelings if you explain that more than 2 kids increases the population, but then “go forth and multiply” is probably not currently sound guidance, given what we now know, vs what we knew, say, 5 thousand years ago. It was arguably bad judgment to completely finish the great grazing herds and the Mastodons but try telling that to a hungry lot of humans.

The more we come to grips with the human as another animal species, one of many on earth, the easier it is to see how our own hubris is the issue everytime.

To the person above who thought 7 billion humans above wasn’t pushing any planetary limits: while no individual human wants to feel like excess, and certainly homicide is never what is being suggested, the fact remains that a wise human race that wishes to have a healthy planet and lots of resources per capita will steer their population over generations to be healthy.

I’m rather convinced that the same way a rabbit population without predators will suffer disease if it blooms too much, that this is what we are starting to encounter as we brush with the limits of our host in terms of our reckless dominance and destruction on the only known home to life so far…

No one wants to hear about limits or rules but hey, reality called…