ErikAugust

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by ErikAugust 2y ago
The biggest bettor is French, apparently: https://www.reuters.com/world/polymarket-says-mystery-trump-...
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
“ The NYT and Perplexity aren’t exactly on the best of terms right now. The Times sent Perplexity a cease and desist letter in October over the startup’s scraping of articles for use by its AI models.” Just trying to smooth things over now…
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
Check out the Thermonator robot on this site: https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
Is there ROI for paying $105 for a single backlink on a blog?
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
Can’t Type 2 diabetes be reversed with a change in diet? That’s at least possible. I’d also think someone who avoids sugar as an adult would be at a far lower risk. It might be good to start avoiding sugar at any time regardless of past hab
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
The opening line: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel".
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
Does Bezos have uber-intel, and knows Trump is going to win?
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
It’s not a coincidence that Facebook started out as a college-only social network. That was the real barrier to entry.
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
“ Judge and Tunbjörk were depicting the same kinds of spaces, but Tunbjörk’s work proved the more perceptive. Part of what separates them are their respective theories for why the office had become hostile. In “Office Space,” Judge suggests
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
“Page had always wanted to digitize books. Way back in 1996, the student project that eventually became Google—a “crawler” that would ingest documents and rank them for relevance against a user’s query—was actually conceived as part of an e
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
Aren’t the people who make the bulk of what Walmart sells remote workers? It’s not like they go into the office…
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
They call that a "BQ" or Boston Qualified. But it actually doesn't guarantee you entry because for that age group (Male 18 - 30?) there ends up being too many qualified entrants so they have to shave down the actual time requ
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." - Muhammad Ali
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
They are a private equity firm. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/opinion/private-equity.ht...
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
I have no idea why my startup Halo failed.
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
There is a reference to Inferno here: https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
One additional book recommendation: HTML and CSS, the Good Parts.
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
“According to their twitter, they’re doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.” A special place in Hell…
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
A mockumentary on crypto would be much more interesting at this point.
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
Someone needs to invent a “for humans, by humans” web. Possibly a future luxury.
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
I'm a software idiot, but why couldn't you do the Goodwill of Cloud Infrastructure? Build affordable cloud services out of "junk" electronics?
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
First thing that comes to mind is Radiohead’s “Idioteque”.
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
I wonder, how many among us here are bots?
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
File under: Things that can exist in a big enough city.
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
So, the solution to legal problems is… money? Lots of money?
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
I’ve heard of status updates every 15 minutes. Huge contractor.
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
It’s just one more place to stick an ad.
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
Running it through Readability: https://github.com/mozilla/readability
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
“Many media outlets mistakenly reported that the National Public data breach affects 2.9 billion people (that figure actually refers to the number of rows in the leaked data sets.)” The media is kind of dumb, eh?
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by ErikAugust 2y ago
I’ve definitely heard this in distance running, though never attributed to the SEALs. I use a quote from Lydiard on my homepage [1] that’s similar: “It’s much better to go too slowly than too fast.” 1: https://eaj.io

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