Mastema

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[–] Mastema 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Typically wildflowers in an area are synonymous with weeds. They shouldn't have any trouble growing if you break the current grass monopoly even a little. Most people have a hard time getting them to NOT grow in their yard. I had good luck including Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) in my yard. They are HUGE when fully grown and you will basically need a flame thrower to get rid of them but the birds and bees love them. They also spread risomatically by sending out root runners, so they break up compacted soil. A combination of those and sunflowers would basically be a 2 meter tall flower bed. I don't think you would even need the cardboard.

[–] Mastema 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have not seen this film, and on your recommendation I'm not going to, but I have to say this is the best film review I've read in a long time! The movie might have been boring, but I happily read the entire review!

[–] Mastema 2 points 5 months ago

I'm also interested to see how these hold up in the long run. I have a 2017 BMW ev and really the only maintenance has been tires and a cabin air filter. One of the main reasons I have avoided buying cars like a Porsche ICE vehicle is that, once you have purchased it, there are large, ongoing maintenance costs and it feels like I'm signing up for a subscription service for my vehicle. If these are fast, cheaper, and also have low ongoing costs I might be in. I'm also mildly concerned about all of the telemetry they gather. I would really rather have a dumb car that I can hook to my smart phone and display Open Street Map or something on it. Then I get to make my software choices to a greater extent.

[–] Mastema 4 points 6 months ago

I think one of the keys is that they have to be able to be constructed relatively cheaply and with off-the-shelf components. If it costs $5000 and you need an engineering degree to build the final product it isn't really a leveler, more of a toy for wealthy land owners.

[–] Mastema 4 points 6 months ago

Solidly agree on all points.

[–] Mastema 1 points 6 months ago

I also recommend their cover of, One Raga to a Disco Beat!

[–] Mastema 11 points 6 months ago

He's right, though. The reversal DOES make the situation more uncomfortable...

[–] Mastema 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I generally like this idea, although I think calling it, "mentoring", might attach an unnecessary connotation. I'm also not sure what else you would call it, so that might just be my own bias talking. I'm interested in working out the logistics of using Shapley Values to distribute profits fairly in a cooperative company and want to work through some messy, real-world examples. If this sounds like fun, let me know and I'll sign up. Thanks for doing this!

[–] Mastema 2 points 7 months ago

I was recently researching Shapley Values as a way to distribute profits fairly in a cooperative organization. The same calculation can also be used to determine the amount that an agent contributes to any group effort (think AI agents, solving a problem). I THINK this could be applied to reputational systems, provided you could define what you meant by reputation well enough that it could be calculated. Shapley won a Nobel Prize for the work because his method is provably the most fair way to allot responsibility for work.

[–] Mastema 2 points 7 months ago

I'm going to recommend, in addition to meditation, that you look into IFS Therapy. You can see an actual therapist about it, but you can also just read a book on the subject and do it yourself unless you have really deep trauma or addictions to deal with. The guy who invented it has several books, but I recommend Self Therapy by Jay Earley as it is based around working on your own and is basically like meditation with the purpose of resolving your inner issues. My ADHD brain has improved a ton since I started doing it. Feel free to message me if you have any questions. This is my current Hyperfocus, so I'm already way down the rabbit hole on research. 😁

[–] Mastema 6 points 7 months ago

And a very happy Void-Scream to you as well!

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