Handprint4469

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by Handprint4469 2y ago
Sure, being part of a democracy means I'm giving implicit consent for the government to do things like raise taxes. It does not mean I'm consenting to the government injecting whatever they want into my bloodstream.
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
> It seems reasonable for a government to consent on behalf of its governed for something like public health. Does it? How can you guarantee that your government's interpretation of "public health" matches yours?
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A Small Adventure in WebAssembly(qntm.org)
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
If only. The replication crisis means a lot of scientists have written books about their area based on bad research. Not only they were trained in their area, some of them even invented it. I'll give you one concrete example: "Pre
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
100% I used to be a sucker for this type of books: non-fiction, "science-based", feel-good, insight-porn pamphlets inflated to 300 pages with shoehorned anecdotes and a very distinct flavour of extrapolative slop. They are usually
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
> a problem is the people involved in The Arts are more interested in being prescriptive about what people should like instead of discovering what we in fact desire. The thing that grinds my gears is that they do this by trying to redefi
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
awesome, thank you so much!
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
I was curious about the techniques, but if you have any introductory reading about the whole thing that'd also be cool
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
Any books you'd recommend for someone curious about this?
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
Don't engage, this is clearly some sort of ragebaiting, trying to get people outraged about Epic in a completely unrelated thread
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
Interesting! This is the second time I see a strong recommendation for that product (first one was [0]). Seems pretty expensive ($300) for a vibrating bracelet. Couldn't you emulate the effect with an Android smart watch and a custom a
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
> But when Western companies load up their hardware with spyware and adware they are smart and savvy at business. I have never met anybody (online or otherwise) that believes this.
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
Almost as if this whole thing was the output of an LLM, rather than an actual human... gasps
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
It's open source[0], you can just self-host it [0] https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
lol no, that's a sterile self-help blogpost written by some VC. This is The Mentor's original manifesto: https://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
I don't get the point of this comment. Was it ChatGPT-generated?
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
And miss out on ad revenue? No, they'll just silently mark your warranty as void and continue to force feed you and your family targeted advertisement while siphoning out all the private data they can gather from your living room and y
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
Yes, the problem is not the self-reporting, but rather the lack of details on how they measured it.
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
> on average, 48% of workers from eight countries indicate that they are currently grappling with burnout. > Based on a survey of 11,000 desk-based and frontline workers in eight countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India,
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
> Each Agile Dating experiment is called a Sprint, beginning with a Kick-off and ending with a Check-in. I found that two weeks was a good length for a Sprint - just long enough to get a decent sense of a partner. After years of working
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
https://andymatuschak.org/
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
getting things done, first edition Is the first edition better than the newer ones?
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
I bought an iPhone a couple of days ago, and was planning on using the weekend to finally migrate from my old Android phone. Luckily, I haven't even opened the box so I should be able to return it for a full refund. No way I'm spe
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by Handprint4469 2y ago
> That’s what Substack was in its original form, but now they seem to be focusing on growth for growth’s sake. They also seem to be evolving into a social media platform that thrives on the kind of conflicts and divisiveness that has dri
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by Handprint4469 3y ago
...in rats: Subjects were young adult (3–5 months) and aged (22–24 months) male F344xBN F1 rats obtained from the National Institute on Aging rodent colony managed by Charles River. F344xBN F1 rats are particularly useful for the study
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by Handprint4469 3y ago
ding ding ding! Exactly . If the commercial enshittified web bothers you to the point of trying to fix it, at some point you'll realize that it's a quixotic crusade, and that you don't even want to engage with the content of
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by Handprint4469 3y ago
Isn't this the case for most programming languages' package indices? crates.io for Rust, the NPM registry for Javascript, etc. They are all public in the sense that anyone can just create an account and upload a package.
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by Handprint4469 3y ago
From the article: > Sarah was, in fact, changing. She felt herself getting smaller, constantly appeasing. She apologized, again and again and again. “I have been selfish, childish, and confused,” she said. “As a result, I need your prote
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by Handprint4469 3y ago
do you have a source for that?
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by Handprint4469 3y ago
This is the most terrifying exchange I've read on HN in a while

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