Ambolia

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Weapons contractors hitting Department of Defense with inflated prices(cbsnews.com)
20 points by Ambolia 3y ago|35 comments
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by Ambolia 3y ago
I think sports, or martial arts, or just letting kids run free in a playground are better environments for that. Sitting in a class with a teacher setting the rules will ensure that only the most scheming or socially machiavelian kids have
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by Ambolia 3y ago
Public school is one of the few places and times in life where people are forced to be closed in a room with people they don't like at best, or suffer systematic violence at worst, with no chance to just leave. Would be funny to see wo
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The Disappearing White-Collar Job(wsj.com)
3 points by Ambolia 3y ago|0 comments
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Total tech layoffs in 2023 officially cross 190k, surpassing the 2022 total(twitter.com)
4 points by Ambolia 3y ago|0 comments
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ChatGPT just destroyed a public company in 24 hours(twitter.com)
3 points by Ambolia 3y ago|0 comments
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by Ambolia 3y ago
Twitter threads summarizing the speech: - Play-by-play: https://twitter.com/toddntucker/status/1651634719031795721 - Overall summary: https://twitter.com/jennifermharris/status/1651698131
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Remarks by National Security Advisor on Renewing American Economic Leadership(whitehouse.gov)
1 points by Ambolia 3y ago|1 comments
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America’s Empire Is Bankrupt(unherd.com)
2 points by Ambolia 3y ago|2 comments
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Twitter needed constant input from government money to run disinfo campaigns. Dropping $44 billion on it and using it to antagonize the main client that kept the whole company afloat was a bad idea. Now Elon is panicking because those $44 b
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The Dollar’s Decline–and America’s(compactmag.com)
3 points by Ambolia 4y ago|2 comments
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Give Up Seventy Percent of the Way Through the Hyperstitious Slur Cascade(astralcodexten.substack.com)
3 points by Ambolia 4y ago|1 comments
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How to Understand the Well-Being Gap Between Liberals and Conservatives(americanaffairsjournal.org)
8 points by Ambolia 4y ago|11 comments
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by Ambolia 4y ago
This is used in the programming book Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics [1]. With some of the same authors as the famous Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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Manual for Monarchy(asylummagazine.ca)
2 points by Ambolia 4y ago|0 comments
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by Ambolia 4y ago
They may also run out of data if they already consumed most of the internet. Or start producing so much of the internet's content that LLMs start consuming what they write in a closed loop.
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GPT-4 learns about Roko's basilisk(twitter.com)
3 points by Ambolia 4y ago|0 comments
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Here an article in spanish claiming that Argentina, one of the countries with biggest pastures for livestock, gets one of the best CO2 ratings, challenging the common belief that meat is bad for the environment: https://www.clari
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NASA Space Mission Takes Stock of Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Countries(climate.nasa.gov)
1 points by Ambolia 4y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Which are some good repositories of organized knowledge online?
4 points by Ambolia 4y ago|5 comments
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Option 4., Twitter was always bad and had strange bugs and outages, but now it's political and people care.
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ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker(aspi.org.au)
3 points by Ambolia 4y ago|0 comments
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by Ambolia 4y ago
I only use one monitor and use virtual desktops and side-to-side windows for context switching. But it's the external monitor if it's available, it is more ergonomic to work on a big screen, at the optimal distance and height from
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by Ambolia 4y ago
I suppose this is trolling, but if it's not everybody doesn't really "get a change", you are just turning an english major into a different thing while keeping the name and trying to keep the prestige, though that won&#x
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by Ambolia 4y ago
>“The last time I taught ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ I discovered that my students were really struggling to understand the sentences as sentences—like, having trouble identifying the subject and the verb,” she said. “Their capacities are diff
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Not the same guy, but many cloud providers take care of ssl in their load balancers.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
I think it may be difficult to find small tasks building infrastructure. Most companies probably want somebody that is on top of it for the long term and takes care that everything is running ok. Maybe if you market yourself as a consultant
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US parents turn to Russian mathematics to give their children an edge(thetimes.co.uk)
7 points by Ambolia 4y ago|0 comments
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The Growing Cash Pile in Moscow That Investors Can’t Touch(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by Ambolia 4y ago|0 comments
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Well, you are not so far from the truth, according to the BASF press release[1]: >Closure of the TDI plant and the precursor plants for DNT and TDA: Demand for TDI has developed only very weakly especially in Europe, Middle East and Afri

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